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This is one that I have been meaning to get around to for some time. Last December, a CNET writer proposed that most of us who buy DVDs and Blu-Ray movies are just wasting our money. You can check out the full skinny from the original article here.

Follow up:

This particular hypothesis on consumer habits is based on some pretty gross assumptions. Assumptions that, in my case, do not hold true. As soon as I read this I thought it necessary to propose a counter-perspective for those of us that do see the point of buying our movies and TV shows on optical media.

Everyone knows that I stockpile entertainment media. I always have unread books, unread magazines, unplayed games, and yes, even unwatched movies. I save all this stuff for rainy days (or injured days), or weeks when I might be imprisoned in a hotel room with nothing to do. There are always movies in my binders that I have not watched. That way, even if I don’t buy movies for a while, I always have something fresh to watch if I find myself at home for a day or two.

I tend to specifically buy movies that are worth re-watching. I buy very few thrillers and/or mysteries since once you know who dunnit, there is little reason to watch it again. But The Lord of the Rings? Army of Darkness? Those kinds of movies can be watched over and over again. In the case of TV shows, some of those I revisit once a year. In fact, I would contend that if people are not re-watching the movies they buy, or if they never watch them because they saw the movie in the theatre, then they are watching and buying crappy movies.

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