Floating DVD Logo in Butter

Sir, you are a gentleman of refined taste. Neatorama t-shirts always convey refinement and elegance.
I have some old cassette tapes from the 90s. But I also have CDs and a CD player. It's prudent to have at least one backup plan.

My +/-600 album collection (vinyl to the younglings) and JVC turntable hoot in your general direction. Earlier this year I bought a 6 disc CD changer to replace the 5 disc player from the 80s that finally failed. And very recently I replaced an equally old failed DVD player with a new one. Each was under $100. I'm thinking if they last half as long as the old ones they'll outlive me, after which the collection(s) are someone else's problem. When they stop making DVDs/CDs is when they'll stop making the players. For a time I guess. Also: My equally old RCA VHS player still works and you should ditch the Mac and get a Dell.

And I digress:

I just read somewhere that for whatever reason, tape cassettes are making a comeback. A whole new generation of smurfs and smurfettes are having to learn a new use for the common pencil (you're not an expert until you can visually fast forward to the song you want to hear). Anyway, one of my favorite Neato T-shirts has a black caped cassette holding a red-tipped bic pen and saying to an I-pod "I am your father!". Amazing the number of people who don't get it. Woot!

I have all of Star Trek on DVD just in case civilization collapses. Just pop a disk into my battery-operated DVD player, which is charged by my portable solar cell panel.
The problem that I haven't solved yet is preserving Star Trek after an EMP strike.

That's why we need backup players.

Collecting DVDs is a fine idea until they quit making the players. I don't think DVD players will hold up as well as cast iron antiques (although probably better than VHS players). I'm still upset that new Macs don't have a disc drive, what with all the family pictures I spent hours burning to disc.