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I can't watch DVDs in most of the places I want to consume media any more, and that's increasingly common. Other DVD suppliers are also seeing a big drop in revenue, not just Netflix.

Can you even get a 15" laptop with a dvd drive these days?

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It's 17", not 15", but I recently bought one of these

https://junocomputers.com/product/nyx-17-v3/

for watching DVDs.

Oh sweet it also has a VGA output.

You can get an external blu ray drive powered off the USB connection for not much, maybe $50 but I haven't checked recently. I was recently in a vacation rental and easily plugged my laptop via HDMI cable to the large screen TV, worked great for watching disc-based movies.

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