Why not just burn DVDs with whatever content one wants to fetch and re-encode to SD MPEG2? It's not like kids are super critical about picture quality anyway.

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herpdyderp 13 hours ago | parent [-]

DVDs are significantly more fragile

	▲	WorldMaker 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Which can be a useful lesson sometimes (as the article mentions teaching that lesson with accidentally destroyed floppies). With burning one's own DVDs you potentially balance that fragility with easy replacement (just burn another copy).