I spent 15 years living very nomadically, and once laptops stopped having CD drives that could play a DVD, I donated my meager (but lovingly curated!) collection. As my life becomes less nomadic, are there good choices for a compact player that can be plugged into the projector I have?
I'm going to date myself here, but as much as I love …
I spent 15 years living very nomadically, and once laptops stopped having CD drives that could play a DVD, I donated my meager (but lovingly curated!) collection. As my life becomes less nomadic, are there good choices for a compact player that can be plugged into the projector I have?
I'm going to date myself here, but as much as I love movies, by enthusiasm for collecting them was dampened by my family collecting Laserdiscs as a child. The laser rot phenomenon was real, and the degree of degradation I noticed in my most-watched movies did dampen my enthusiasm to ever really invest in a collection. The degree of change in physical media made me hesitant to collect anything too. VHS and Laserdisc were childhood staples, we got a DVD player when I was about 12. For a while it seemed like the ability to play DVD's was ubiquitous; players were cheap and you could also use a laptop or game consul. Then came Blu-ray. And then the ubiquity of CD drives really began to drop. For someone who is not an expert, that's a dizzying evolution in a span of 10-15 years.
I spent 15 years living very nomadically, and once laptops stopped having CD drives that could play a DVD, I donated my meager (but lovingly curated!) collection. As my life becomes less nomadic, are there good choices for a compact player that can be plugged into the projector I have?
I'm going to date myself here, but as much as I love movies, by enthusiasm for collecting them was dampened by my family collecting Laserdiscs as a child. The laser rot phenomenon was real, and the degree of degradation I noticed in my most-watched movies did dampen my enthusiasm to ever really invest in a collection. The degree of change in physical media made me hesitant to collect anything too. VHS and Laserdisc were childhood staples, we got a DVD player when I was about 12. For a while it seemed like the ability to play DVD's was ubiquitous; players were cheap and you could also use a laptop or game consul. Then came Blu-ray. And then the ubiquity of CD drives really began to drop. For someone who is not an expert, that's a dizzying evolution in a span of 10-15 years.
A friend of mine takes this one camping for movie nights. He seems relatively happy with it. Hope this helps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFvXDX0XLsI
I don't have a great suggestion for portable players, unfortunately.