Re: How Soon Before Everything Worth Watching is On A DVD

"Lincoln Spector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message:

 I watch a lot of stuff on satellite that's available on DVD.
Recording
>  it on
> > > my Tivo is easier and cheaper than renting it (to say nothing of buying
>  it)

Did you include the monthly cost of your Cable/Dish service???

Before I dropped the Cinemax and Showtime packages (I kept
HBO,Starz/encore and the indie package which includes IFC SDC FMC TCM)
mine was over $100.00 a month

> > > at the local store.
> >
> > You don't have to purchase or rent from a local store, plus you don't
> > get all the neat extras from a "broadcast" version,

Extras???From a recorded off of TV program?The only extra I can think
of is that stupid little logo all the channels now seem to include at
some point (usually during the best scenes) during the broadcast of a
show or a movie!

As for the price of dvd's 95% of all the hundreds I own I purchased
for under $10.00! With the last two dvd's that I just got this
weekend, The Doors and G.I.Jane (solid B-list movies) I picked up for
$4.99 each.

 it may not be in
> > OAR, you have to wait for it to come on.
> If I'm going to watch a DVD I don't own, I have to purchase or rent from
> SOMEONE, local or otherwise. And if it's a movie I don't love enough to own,
> or have never seen, maybe the extras aren't all that important just yet.

Some people like extras some do not! Thats up to the individual!
Frankly A lot of the older movies I have on disc are without many (or
any) extras so the point is mute as far as they go!

As for the incovenience of renting or buying well look at it this way
once you buy it you have it for good! And as for renting ever heard of
Netflix or ne of the other many clones that are springing up monthly?

 
> And between TCM, FMC, and IFC, 

Which do not always use the cleanest prints of movies available, as
compared to a DVD which in most cases use the best available print!

my TiVo is always filled

And thats the primary problem with it, as it only holds a very limited
amount of data!

 without commercials.

REALLY??? OK tell me when did you ever record the TV show MASH without
commercials? Nevermind find it anywhere on any network that has not
been cut up time and time again in order to add more and more
commercials (as well as compressed) not to mention having the option
like I have on DVD to turn off that stinking rotten laugh track!