Do you fit the norm on DVD watching and purchasing?

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-01-08-dvd-success_x.htm

"More than one-half of all U.S. homes now have a DVD player. "If the average home buys 15 movies a year — and the more avid consumer buys 20 — and on average you watch them twice, that is 80 hours a year, a couple hours a week gone to watching DVD movies," says Tom Adams of Adams Media Research. "Throw in an extra feature, and it\'s well over 100 hours a year."

15 movies seems extremely low, or I buy way too many. Do you guys go above or below this average. I would say on my very slow weeks I tend to pick up atleast one, and some weeks 4 or 5.

15 movies sounds incredible high.  Yes, you buy a retarded amount of movies.

I don\'t buy dvds anymore, but I do aquire about 3-4 dvds a week.

*Kicks LIC in the nuts

I Netflix everything now.  I only buy what I think are classics, such as LOTR and About Schimdt.  No reason to build up a DVD collection with blu-ray on the horizon.

I get one every 2-3 weeks probably.  Let\'s face it, there isn\'t that many good newer movies out there.

THX I have my doubts about blu-ray. Only time will tell though. I thought about netflix, but I go through stages where I want a specific genre now, and not 2 weeks from now. My own personal video store. I will continue when Dvd\'s replacement comes down the road. I doubt I would rebuy most for HD, but I definitly would for quite a few of them.

Most people I work with that are an average age of 50 buy around that many dvd\'s a year. I figured it would be a bit more here.


Theomen the MPAA will track you down, and cut your left testicle off for acquiring movies without paying for them.

[Jumpman]

I DON\'T HAVE A DVD PLAYER SO SUCK IT.

Suck it hard, and suck it long.

Edit-am I 4000 posts yet?

I\'ve bought one DVD for myself ever.  The Ric Flair DVD set.  My family combined owns like 6 DVDs. We\'ve had a DVD player for a couple years.  We rent, if anything.

-Eik

Capcom just fyi you can rearrange your Netflix queue anyway you want, so if you want 3 Stooges next you\'ll get it in 3 days.  But yea I know what you mean, the wait can be a pain, especially on a snowy weekend.

About blu-ray I see it as a seamless transition, where the players will be compatible with DVD.  You can buy the player + HD movies if you want, or stick with DVD.  Either way, low resolution mpeg-2 is a less than desireable way to spend my hard earned dollars, I hope it comes soon.

Originally posted by Eiksirf
I\'ve bought one DVD for myself ever.  The Ric Flair DVD set.  My family combined owns like 6 DVDs. We\'ve had a DVD player for a couple years.  We rent, if anything.

-Eik

I started off renting years ago. i ran into the problem of scratched disks. I would be playing it, and then when I was interested. It froze from the hundreds of small scratches on it.

I don\'t own a dvd player and I don\'t have any dvd\'s.  I can\'t watch movies more than one time.  Renting is the only way to go for me.

I almost never get movies anymore. Last movies i/family got were the pirates of the carribean and a volume of Danger Mouse. Those were for christmas and the last movies we have purchased since reloaded and before that.... man i cant even remember.

I used to buy about 60 DVDs a year.  Now I\'m down to around 5-10, although most of those will be box sets.  I also burn about 3-4 DVDs a week.   ALL HOME VIDEOs of course

Didja know that downloading mp3s is now fully taxed and legal in Canada WHETHER OR NOT YOU OWN THE ORIGINAL?  Too bad they didn\'t go that way with sharing too.

Originally posted by THX
Capcom just fyi you can rearrange your Netflix queue anyway you want, so if you want 3 Stooges next you\'ll get it in 3 days.  But yea I know what you mean, the wait can be a pain, especially on a snowy weekend.

About blu-ray I see it as a seamless transition, where the players will be compatible with DVD.  You can buy the player + HD movies if you want, or stick with DVD.  Either way, low resolution mpeg-2 is a less than desireable way to spend my hard earned dollars, I hope it comes soon.

I could not agree more about the low resolution. It\'s hard to believe blu-ray or any other format is going to catch on for a few years. HD is coming, but most consumers in the U.S. seem to be behind the times. I know of quite a few people that purchased their first dvd player this year. I doubt they will not want to move on too quickly. The difference between dvd and vhs was somthing you could see quite easily.

EDIT: I did hear of a service that rents import dvd\'s. I may give that one a try. I have been on a asian kick for a bit now. IMHO the only newer movies that are somewhat creative. The U.S. is doing way too many remakes for my taste.

The general public may have more problems with HD because to get the best picture, you want that puppy calibrated. Not to mention not wanting to abandon somthing that is new to them.

I\'ve been slowing down a bit this last year or so. But I tend to buy in bundles... I\'ve just got Seven Days in Tibet and Legend of Bagger Lance (both were really cheap ). And then I figured I should also get Pulp Fiction (2-disc version) and Jackie Brown while I was at it. Before that my last DVD purchase was TTT: EE version.