DVD love

First up, I've been delighted with the ratings coming in for  These Magic Moments.  They're up to thirty and averaging four and a bit stars. I am so relieved that readers are liking the story enough to rate and even review. You just never know if it will hit a chord or not.

I sent out my newsletter today and I mentioned the movie, Murder on the Orient Express. Here's the cover of the DVD, the actual DVD I found in a charity shop.

While I do subscribe to a couple of streaming services and love them, I still love collecting DVDs of movies I want to see more than once. One of my kids reckoned there was no point when you could watch movies on Netflix. But I don't trust anything. What if Netflix goes down, I said. What if we lost internet access? More to the point, movies don't stay there forever, they often go to a different service, and then what? Plus I rather like seeing the DVDs on the shelf, like books, and browsing through them when I feel like a movie to watch. I usually watch the streamed movies on my laptop. We don't have a smart TV but I can hook the laptop up to the X-Box to watch them on the big screen. 

It's always been a bugbear of mine that most laptops these days don't have disc players any more. Or maybe the more expensive ones do. My last two laptops haven't and I ended up buying a USB plug in player, but even that's a bit dodgy now.

But it's all good. I've commandeered the XBox for DVD viewing on the big telly, since the playing days for now are over.

I'm in a strange kind of heaven.

~ Maddie.









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