[bob47]

Originally Posted by Toymeister

Yes it's RAGBRAI. This year is the 50th seven day ride across Iowa. 28,000 registered participants.

I did it once and it was fabulous. Have a great ride. Are you doing this on an ebike? If so, what's the longest distance you can go, and what are your nightly charging plans?

[VillagerNut]

Ye’ole thrift store on old Dixie near 441 has a bunch of DVDs. Goodwill‘s carry a bunch of DVDs. Also, the military warriors thrift store on 44 near 301 has a bunch of DVDs.

[DrHitch]

The best way to share a movie etc with a small group is to pre-load the media onto a laptop or micro PC and get a long HDMI cable. You can all sit around a hotel TV and watch together that way.

[MrChipster]

Key Thrift, Restoring Hope Thrift, Bargains and Blessings all have DVD’s very inexpensive

[Keefelane66]

I have a subscription to Apple Music Purchased a program to convert to mp3 and store on phone this way if I am in an area with no cell coverage I can still listen.
Originally we had XM radio but after a cross country trip much of the music is replayed over with no new content similar to over the air radio without commercials

[daniel200]

Marion market has tons of DVD’s for sale. I got rid of all my DVD’s about 10 years ago after loading them all on to a hard drive. I can easily stream any of them to a TV using a google chromecast. Used my chromecast a lot during my travels throughout asia, but rarely do that now that internet streaming is available.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Keefelane66

I have a subscription to Apple Music Purchased a program to convert to mp3 and store on phone this way if I am in an area with no cell coverage I can still listen.
Originally we had XM radio but after a cross country trip much of the music is replayed over with no new content similar to over the air radio without commercials

Music is easy to download to a cell phone or even a flash drive. Bluetooth speakers provide music for everyone in the room.

But the OP is asking about DVDs - movies. It's a bit more complicated.

[Toymeister]

Originally Posted by bob47

I did it once and it was fabulous. Have a great ride. Are you doing this on an ebike? If so, what's the longest distance you can go, and what are your nightly charging plans?

My wife has an ebike, I've found that I just can't match her pace without one. I can go 55 miles on the lowest assistance, we'll just bring a spare. There are charging stations at the nightly stop

[Gsorace]

I have a ton of them you can borrow.

[Gsorace]

Originally Posted by Toymeister

Is anybody getting rid of DVDs?

We're going on a multiday bike ride across Iowa with a few enthusiasts. Internet will be unreliable. We're hoping that someone has a dozen DVDs that they would be willing to donate.

We've checked some second hand stores. Apparently, they are not worth selling.

There is a small group of us setting up a free library of sorts for this event for our immediate group.

I have lots of them you can borrow.

[macawlaw]

Have you tried Goodwill? They usually have a shelf of DVDs and CDs.

[bob47]

30,000 riders on the first day of RAGBRAI this year. Hope you have a great week.

[shut the front door]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Music is easy to download to a cell phone or even a flash drive. Bluetooth speakers provide music for everyone in the room.

But the OP is asking about DVDs - movies. It's a bit more complicated.

Not complicated at all to plug a chromecast into the tv and cast from the tablet or even a phone.

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

You /can/ download to a USB but it's a really bad idea, it'll run way too slowly on whatever device you plug it into to play back.

That would completely depend on the "speed" of the USB device and the device it is being played on. I have no problem watching HD Res and even QHD res on a 6 year old laptop with a $30 USB stick or even an iPad. 4K downloads will sometimes stutter. One can also get a USB portable SSD drive for cheap that works just as well and can hold a load of vids.

One can get a pack of 6 USB drives on Amazon for under $50 that will handle just about anything under 4K native res without issue. The only possible issue is getting the movies to put on them. I try and use "one" rather than "you" because "you" aren't the person looking for the flicks.

[retiredguy123]

I tried to play a movie dvd from an external dvd drive to a tablet, and it didn't work. It works on a Windows laptop because the laptop has the correct media player software, but the tablet does not. I was surprised by that.