Help Me! Reservations about new MacBook. Specifically DVD drive and lack of other features.

I don’t know anything about computers or laptops and I’m hoping someone can help me with this dilemma. I want to purchase the new Macbook ‘13inch laptop but I have reservations about it not having a CD drive. I don’t play video games or anything like that where I would need a drive every day, but I would need one for the occasional DVD or TV show I want to watch. It is more of a slight inconvenience. I mean, every once in a while you need a CD to install something onto your laptop or upgrade something, right? 
If I were to by an external CD drive would the retina quality still be projected through the DVD? Would the type or brand of the external drive matter?  
All my previous laptops have had a DVD drive so it is hard to imagine not having one. Overall does it really matter that there is no DVD drive?
And, what else doesn’t the new Macbook have that most laptops do? I am a university student who uses it for normal use. 
Thank you!

Image quality is determined by the source, DVD, and then the display.  An external DVD player will achieve the same image quality as internal one.  Blue Ray disks and players have better picture quality but Apple does not support that format.
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