Frances Ryan laments the passing of DVDs in the age of streaming (The hill I will die on: Streaming is rubbish – take me back to the golden era of DVDs, 16 March).
May I then commend my own preferred time machine, the disc-by-post service, Cinema Paradiso, which replicates those glory days. I cancelled all my streaming services and now get, on average, four films of my choice delivered to my door a month, each with its own postage-paid return envelope.
The catalogue is, basically, everything. I only watch the good stuff now: current hits and ancient classics. Backed up by ridiculously cheap box sets bought secondhand, my viewing quality has improved immensely. And I will not be funding Mr Bezos’s next yacht.
Tanya Murray
Lancaster
We’re with Frances Ryan. Our new Sony DVD player was about £40 and secondhand discs are usually cheaper than streaming, which we don’t do anyway. Many charity shops have shelves of DVDs that produce the occasional gem for as little as £1 and at the weekend we watched the Coen brothers’ classic Fargo, which was £2.09 online, postage free.
Jim Hatley
Brighton
Frances Ryan doesn’t need to “set aside plenty of time” to search through Netflix, Prime and Disney+ to find the film she wants. Just Google the title and “streaming UK”. Takes seconds. She’s right about the costs and adverts though.
Caroline Ewans
London
And Frances Ryan doesn’t even mention buffering, or messages that “Your TV is not connected to the internet”.
Neville Goodman
Bristol