Are they talking about DVD or Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD? When people use DVD as a catch-all, any distinction around video and audio quality gets muddied, since you can’t even know what format they’re actually referring to.
If someone wanted to start a DVD collection in 2023 (as in the actual 480i/480p DVD format), I’d have the same reaction as the author’s wife. Blu-ray or especially 4K? Go for it.
I suppose the thing is that you can’t buy every film on Blu-ray, let alone 4k - I recently bought a bunch of DVDs because that was the only format they are available in. So you can set out to start a home video collection but getting stuck on any one format is going to mean you miss out.
That said, when they clearly refer to a 4k disc as a DVD, it makes my teeth itch.
Right, I wasn’t saying you have to be a fundamentalist about it. I was saying seeking out DVDs exclusively in 2023 would be bizarre.
Maybe 5-10% of my collection are DVDs that have never and likely will never be released on a newer format; that’s fine.
