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Since I only have the time to watch a movie or two a week. I now only buy movies and have quite a collection, over 700 now. It may come in handy for when I retire.
We'll have to agree to disagree about human caused global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along.
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I had a roommate that used to rent a lot of movies, rip them and return. I don't watch that many usually, so the occasional torrent works just fine for me.
Movies I'm madly in love with I buy. Some TV mini-series titles. I never buy something I haven't seen. I've got around 150 titles, and I'll probably be replacing some of these when and if a BD versions comes out.
I watch 2-3 movies a week, sometimes more, unless I'm deeply into a good book.
I rent the rest from Netflix.
We watch about 4-5 movies a week. We rent using Netflix. Any movie that IMDB ranks in the top 250-500 I will usually buy. Our collection is about 700 dvd's. Normally I try to buy from Netflix at about $5.95-$7.95 including shipping.
I like collecting things.
I have about 1,200+ DVD movies,
50+ TV series.
200+ Anime series,
And have been finding Honk Kong action flicks ... adding about 100 or so to the pile.
All of these carefully researched.
And, I COULD borrow nearly all the movies etc. I own, for free.... but do not.
I just do what I do....
And nearly all are repackaged into thinner containers from Sleeve City.
I watch about one movie a week... (ha ha hah)
I only buy concert DVDs because I can watch them many times. I own a few films (less than a dozen) but they were gifts. Over a period of 10 years maybe they will pay for themselves. We rent 5 DVDs for $6.75 for a week, so rent 20/month. Most of those films I'd watch once or twice tops. Even renting them three times costs less than buying them, and I don't have to store them!
I rarely watch a movie twice. Very rarely. So to me there's no point in owning many. To me the exceptions are three:
-A movie I really like and KNOW I'll watch again
-A movie I've never seen and want to is on sale within a couple bucks of a rental price
-Kids movies for our daycare; kids will watch movies over and over again (sometimes back-to-back the same movie!!??)
That said we have probably 40-50 kids movies in that room, I maybe have 25 or so (?). Probably 3/4 of those are movies I like and the remainder were cheapies. And I doubt I've watched (m)any of the 15-20 movies more than twice. I've owned a DVD player since almost day one and currently have three, so it's not a lack of interest in using DVD's. I rent on average once/week (excluding movies my wife rents for the kids).
If you've followed the various schemes being offered to *proactively* reduce the fanciful "global warming", you'll see that they could easily have the, ah, unintended consequence of... well, of Newsweek republishing its infamous Global Cooling cover of 1974.
clark
...I could never understand why people buy and collect DVDs.
Like you, I see a movie or two a week.
But rarely do I want to see one I've seen before - there's always something new to watch.
Rent exclusively.
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