How many DVDs should you buy? : Movies

[admin]

We live in an era, in which it us quite popular to buy DVD copies of movies we have always liked. DVDs are a new way to keep our movies and it is a worldwide tendency to seek our favorite movies in DVD format. DVDs can be obtained from the video shop in the next street and accumulating a personal DVD collection is a popular hobby.

There are several DVD features. When buying a DVD – no matter if this is done over the Internet or locally – people usually take into consideration factors such as regional settings, special editions or other similar features. The movie is essentially the same, no matter how it is presented and shot but people look for DVD extras. For the majority of movie fanatics, the most common extras are unedited copies, longer versions, wide screen adaptations or supreme sound. It is no surprise that special editions with such extras are sold momentarily. Usually such special editions are offered one time or until the supplies are over.

Collecting great movies on various media is a hobby because this way you gather a whole collection. A collection is a collection no matter if it is movies, stamps or postcards. DVDs can be a slightly more expensive hobby but it all depends on the which movies you are after.

Many classic collections came into being before the advent of the DVD era and there are films, which are really incredible and deserve to pass up. To put it briefly, getting these rare films is difficult and the only possibility is to make a personal copy of them. However, you can rip only the film itself, rather than the whole package of extras that comes with the original DVD.

For movies, DVDs offer high-quality storage. The quality of a DVD movie is comparable to that in the movie house. Many people regard DVD quality as inferior but the truth is that DVDs are certainly quite good, if the original picture was of high quality. So, all you have to do is, monitor carefully what DVD movies become available and get the ones you are interested in.

As a rule, DVDs are released after a hit movie has been shown in the movie houses because then people desire to get their personal copy of the movie. Basically, films are automatically released on DVDs. Usually this happens a couple of months after the film has been released to the theaters. Don’t worry – once it is announced that a movie DVD is released, movie maniacs will attack the stores.

Most DVD maniacs know in advance when a new DVD will hit the market. Such alerts are available on the Internet and in the specialized video shops and this way one knows when a new DVD is supposed to be released. The most dedicated collectors go to extremes, like making a reservation in advance. A reservation is the way to make sure that if a limited number of copies arrives, you (and not the other collectors) will get one of those precious pieces.

[mom2manyboyz]

I know a lot of people do buy a lot of DVDs. Personally, the only DVDs I buy are kids shows. Most adult movies, I only want to see once unless it is a favorite. Kids never seem to mind watching the same movie over, and over, and over...

[vpmraika]

My sister collects DVD's and displays them all on a bookshelf. She can watch a movie hundreds of times without getting bored - it 's amazing to me, I can't watch a movie more than once every 6 months or so. I don't really buy very many DVD's since they are just going to be sitting around, not being watched. If I really want to watch something the better option is to either see it in theaters, rent it, or go raid my sister's collection for free!

[mysticfire.fly]

My mother in law started a DVD collection for us several years ago. Before that I only had a handful of DVD's, I never really saw the point in buying them. Now we do! At last count we had over 2000 in our collection. We have a big catalog that we update once a month or so, and numbered, etc. This may seem excessive, but my husband and I are always a hit at parties. Our friends will call us and ask if we can bring a few over for get togethers, etc.
I have to say that once we started doing this, I do enjoy it. It's nice to be able to run over to the book shelf and grab a movie for a weekday evening when we don't want to go out. It's having instant entertainment in our home with out the lines at the movie rental store.

[lamexicanita86]

I can understand the benefits of having such a large DVD collection. It's easy to find something "different" among 2000 DVDs and yes, it would be popular with the friends. In-store movie rentals are not cheap. Personally, I prefer not to invest money in buying DVDs, and could care less about the special features they include. It can be interesting to see deleted scenes once in a while, but they're usually not very interesting or funny and don't add much to the value of the DVD, in my opinion. The only feature that I am willing to pay more for is additional languages--particularly Spanish. Not subtitles, either, but actual dubbing of English movies in Spanish.

[munian]

The quality of a DVD movie is comparable to that in the movie house. Many people regard DVD quality as inferior but the truth is that DVDs are certainly quite good, if the original picture was of high quality. So, all you have to do is, monitor carefully what DVD movies become available and get the ones you are interested in.