Anyone really buy DVD's anymore

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propologist

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I was looking through our modest dvd collection of a few hundred yesterday and maybe 40 are still sealed. we got off on a tangent of why buy them anymore. I mean how many people actually re-watch them after they buy them.
I'm not talking about special ones like i have the BG cylon version, the POtA set etc. I'm talking about just the basic Dvd's .
I still have my Robotech cartoons I recorded on VHS, yes VHS back when it came on the BOZO show many years ago. Now I can pull up the complete series and download them for free.
I remember the days of going to the video store on Tuesdays and waiting in line to rent a copy of the new release. man i miss those days.
 
I do. I've cut down quite a bit... mostly due to trying to budget myself (and the realization that I really don't watch that many).

I Netflix - but even a lot of those movies I don't watch.... or they just sit around until I finally send them in for a new one.

With Red Box and now Blockbuster rentals for a buck a piece, there are other option.

....and I bought the Robotech: Macross DVD set years ago. :lol
 
I stopped from day one. I bought my first DVD player back in 1997 for $700.00. They had a deal that if you buy one, you get 5 movies free. The downside, there were about 7 movies on the market, so I picked out five and ook them home.

Well, i learned quickly that I did not rewatch movies that I wasn't completely in love with. So I proceeded to only buy classic films that I loved as a child. Movies I knew I would watch again... along with a few TV series that I loved as a child as well. If I fall in love with a new movie, sure I will pick it up, but that has been few and far between.
 
I do. I have a very meager collection of just favs that I know I'll watch from time to time. Could be years in between for some, but when I'm in the mood, out they come. Sometimes I just need a John Wayne/Humphrey Bogart/Cary Grant/ Cagney film, a horror film, The Godfather, etc.
 
I do, as well. I won't watch TV on my computers, because I'm on my computers all day, so the last thing I want to do is Baron Harkonnen into my office chair. I have five good ones on my iPad now, though, but that's when I'm out and about.
 
I learned back in the VHS days that I rarely ever watch anything from my collection except for a very select few of the most favorites...

So even when DVDs rolled out I had already stopped making the purchases, there has never been a shortage of video stores by me to grab just about any movie I wanted on a whim to watch that night... And with Netflix and on demand downloads and PPV it has even become easier...

I do browse the clearance racks ever so often, I did it the other day at Big Lots they had a bunch of DVDs for $1-$3 and for that price it's worth the purchase vs even a single rental...
 
Usually when I can get them cheap... say on sale after they've been out a while or picking them up used. The only new movie I bought was Zombieland when it first came out. The reason was because there wasn't a copy available to rent anywhere and I really wanted to see it.

Also when I compare the prices at Blockbuster or my local, privately owned video store, it's not that much cheaper to rent it.
 
I don't watch TV since without cable or sat I get 2 channels and ones in spanish so yes I watch my DVD's over and over again.
 
I still buy them.
I'm always looking for bargains on the good stuff, but even pick up some not so great titles if they're cheap.
Haven't had cable for almost 4 years and just moved into a place that includes DirectTV. But since most TV shows still suck, pretty much every night is "movie night".

Many of the older titles I pick up are to upgrade from the VHS copy I've had for way too long.

Some of the ones I picked up in the last few weeks:
- a perfect used copy of Season 1 of The Soprano's for $6.50 in a second hand shop. Not even any signs of shelf wear.
- Heat for $3 shipped
- Outpost new for $3.99
- Get Shorty SE new for $3.99
- Exiled for $3 shipped
- Scanners new for $2.50

I'll still even pick up VHS if it's cheap and something that isn't cheap or readily available on DVD.

Picked up 4 pristine anime tapes in original Japanese w/ subtitles for a total of 2 bucks when I got the Soprano's.
 
O yea I still buy DVD's since I love watching movies. Though I constantly go through and weed out what I'm not watching anymore. Really I should since sometimes I go back and see said movie I sold off and start liking it again and end up buying it again.

Once I'm out on my own again I probably won't even get cable. the few shows I do watch I'll either watch online for download them if there isn't a place to watch them.

I mostly just buy them used on amazon.
 
I haven't been buying as many DVDs lately, since I'm going to be switching to blu-ray relatively soon. But I rewatch stuff. Plus, I like having an available library of films and TV shows to suit my mood or to show to other folks when they come over.
 
Jeez... I bought a few VHS videocassettes just the other day!!

I still watch all of my (approximately) 500 DVD movies.
I also watch all the TV series DVD box sets.

I have a few downloaded films.
Half of them I have on DVD too, but want to be able to watch them on my phone :lol
 
In 2009, the average price of a used dvd at the trade-in store was 7.99 to 12.99. Now it seems, it's 3.99 to 7.99. Even at Best Buy, they have numerous new dvds for sale at 3.99. While I like those prices, it's been my ipod I'm most concerned about filling up. I still have 92 gigs of room on it and I know I'll listen to music over and over.
 
I don't hold onto any DVD's unless they have re-watch value to me, and in most cases I use my wife's 'fashion' rule: if I don't watch it in a calendar year, out it goes (actually, I usually donate it to a children's hospital or library).

It leaves me with around 100 DVD's I rotate all the time, because I cannot - and WILL not - watch television (except for LOST). :) any new films I buy 9and they are few) are Blu-Ray.

We use Netflix for the curiosities and transient interests and also to catch up on obscure foreign films or classics, but our own stash is very modest.

:)
 
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