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Phil Smith
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| kal wrote: | Basically on-demand movies.
This is why I own movies... I know that I'll never watch all 500-800 movies again (no way in hell) but we have people over quite often, often spur of the moment, and the movies they pick are really all over the place. It's sort of like having your own rental store at home in a sense. |
Say you average having guests over once very two weeks to watch a movie--26 times a year. Say you have 800 DVDs that you bought at an average of $15 each (I don't buy DVDs so I really don't know, but I'm guessing that's a very conservative figure). That's $12,000 for 800 DVDs of which guests select 26 to watch in a year's time. 12 grand to watch 26 movies a year. I know I'm twisting things a bit (ok a lot  ), but still, while not as high as I tried to make it seem, your cost per movie viewed is astronomical.
Plus, you talk about knowing that you'll never watch all of them AGAIN. How about watching them for the FIRST time? Can you honestly say you've seen them all Kal? At 2 a week, it would have taken you almost 15 1/2 YEARS to view them all ONCE!
I have to agree with you on an earlier statement you made, "Hey, to each their own I suppose! "
As I've mentioned many times, I rip rented movies on to hard drives for time shifting. I keep the ones I REALLY like and delete the rest. Even though I have room for about 700, I currently have about 110, which is down from the 135 I had a couple of months ago. I've been doing this for about 3 years. I don't make a conscious effort to maintain any particular number, but never been as high as 140, and I've never been below 100 (once I initially reached that figure).
According to perisoft, the 4TB of storage I currently have should hold 120 HD DVDs, covering my HD ripping needs just fine. 
I think it's obvious I'm not a collector, which what this is really about. Just like Beanie Babies, people go to great trouble to proudly display their DVDs. Nothing wrong with any of that, but unlike Steve, who readily admits it, you're in denial Kal.
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Phil Smith
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| kal wrote: |
$4000 USD to store movies to save a few seconds is no big deal??!? C'mon! I'm not a cheap bastard by any stretch of the imagination (I have some pretty expensive equipment), but $4K just for a subtle convenience factor a little bit of 'wow' factor doesn't seem to make sense to me.
Think about it, that 4K can buy you over 200 HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movies too!
Which would you rather have: 200 *NEW* HD-DVD/Blu-Ray movies on disc, or *ZERO* new movies but instead being able to play them 10-30 seconds faster than before.
Kal |
No you're definitely not a cheap bastard Kal. $12K for DVDs? Definitely not a cheap bastard.
However, I am! This of course doesn't include my HTPC, but for storage alone, my 8 500GB hard drives and a firewire drive case cost me under $1,200, and I think it could be built cheaper! If I'm industrious, I can rent about 26 DVDs a month. This will eventually include high def DVDs. My online Blockbuster membership cost me $20 a month. That works out to a per movie cost of $0.78 each. It cost me $156 and a little work to own 200 DVDs! I don't choose to keep them, but I have plenty of storage, and could if I wanted to. Just for grins let's throw in my $2,000 HTPC in the mix, and my total cost to own 200 DVDs (or high def DVDs), an HTPC and a drive case is $3,356. And the HTPC and drive case is paid for. If I want to add another movie it cost me $0.78. For you to add a DVD it cost you $15-$20.
Now which would you rather have? I know what I would choose.
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