Honestly, streaming easily wins when you consider the entire family can stream on any screen in the house and Disney DVDs are actually pretty expensive.
You could always buy them from a thrift store for $1-2 or borrow them from the library, and rip them to a jellyfin server. My kids don't know Disney exists yet and I don't see that changing for a few more years, but if they did, they'd be watching Homeward Bound or something.
That'd be a neat legal detour. However for those who don't care, simply downloading requires less effort once you got the framework (usenet, torrent, sonarr, radarr) set up. Personally I am done with the silly streaming fracturing, except for my kids. So I will keep Disney+ at least, Prime cause it is cheap, and likely will ditch Netflix (not enough value)
It's worth it to not be spied on. Kids who grow up on streaming will have surveillance-advertising profiles before they're old enough to understand what they're consenting to.
May I humbly suggest that VHS is superior to DVD for young children, because you can manually censor naughty bits out of “too adult” movies by scratching the magnetic coating off the tape
You can do the same thing with a DVD if you have a needle and a steady hand.
Thank you for this, it was a great laugh.
That's too hard. Just use C-x M-c M-censordvd in emacs.
A magnet works as well and doesn't affect the lifespan of the tape as much.
It would be VERY hard to erase just a small portion without damaging the rest.
I have not done this myself, but I had a friend who did. You just pull out the part you want to erase, run a magnet past a few times, then wind it back up.
This sounds like creating an unauthorized derivative work, which is punishable by no more than life imprisonment!
Or record something else over that moment, bonus points if it's related to an in-joke you already have about the movie.
Plus, VHS players are better for holding sandwiches.