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In Reply to: curious question posted by Dmitry on July 18, 2004 at 21:19:13:
i stopped buying dvd films when i realized that most films i'd watch only once or maybe once every few years. it'd be cheaper to rent two or three times than to buy ... and who knows if some better medium (like blu-ray) might be available by the time i get to watching certain films the third time. still, i usually prefer to rent something new than watch one of the films on my shelf. my modest dvd collection is maybe 80% concert or music programs.the curious question is when people look at my record collection (or yours maybe) and ask, "can you really listen to *all* those albums?"
"HO, HO, HO!" - Santa Claus
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I thought about that question too, at one point. A lot of the movies we watch a few times, sometimes just to catch things we missed the first time. Rental? A growing percentage of my collection isn't available to rent. Many I have are imports.
Blu-ray? Geez, I'm still waiting for some old movies to come out on DVD-odds are the bulk of my collection will never make it to a new/better medium. I just hope blue-ray doesn't become the SACD of video.
Jack
...that I had not started collecting the movies much earlier.I used to think like what you are describing, but not any longer.
Part of enjoyment comes from lending them out to my friends - I do it all the time. Then next time we meet there's always something to discuss instead of the boring Bush - Kerry kaka and next month vacations.
Having amassed a colllection of 1500 movies in 12 years (900 on laserdisc and 600 on DVD) I never rent and only occasionally borrow films from the local library. And yes, technology will improve but so what? I still enjoy movies on laserdisc and many of these will never be issued on DVD or won't be for quite some time. I love being able to watch a favorite at three in the morning or when I have visitors. And I often watch just parts of films, like the Christmas sequence in "Grand Illusion" ot the pool sequence in "Sherlock, Jr"
or the chariot race in 'Ben Hur", etc.
--the curious question is when people look at my record collection (or yours maybe) and ask, "can you really listen to *all* those albums?"Don't even ask. :)
My music collection probably cost me 10x more than I paid for my stereo components. At least that is somewhat comforting.In my book spending money on music easily beats spending money on dvds. I'd much rather buy a record or two than a dvd. Looks like you're the same way.
That's a hobby/addiction, just like dvd collecting, so there really are no rights and wrongs here, just personal choices, even though for me personally paying $30 for a Criterion dvd that I will probably watch maybe twice would be almost unthinkable. I do have a couple of those, though.This could develop into an interesting thread.
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Gunga-Galunga
I have 3000 jazz records and CDs and about 1000 classical. I have been collecting since I was 13, almost 50 years now, and I listen every day to at least one lp or CD.
Good man!
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Gunga-Galunga
very, very much the same as you, Dimitry. what is not comforting is that right now i probably have over 50 sacds in my home that i bought in the last two years but haven't listened to yet ... somehow, i was only rational enough to make myself stop buying dvds and books.i will probably put those sacds up on the (now free) classifieds at some point. with all the good new titles coming out, i don't think i'll ever get around to listening to those discs.
here's another question -- do you prefer to go record shopping or listen to the records you own? i think you can guess what my answer would be. for any collector, i think the *idea* that you're going to enjoy what you buy can be more exciting than the act of enjoying that thing. i suspect that it has something to do with our primordial urge to HUNT ... ;-)
"HO, HO, HO!" - Santa Claus
I'm at a stage now where our small 1-bedroom has something relating to jazz in every room, including the bathroom.
I probably have 400 lps I haven't played yet, but the hoarding stage is finally over and the cataloguing stage has started.
I just bought a record cleaning machine my records deserve, and the weeding out process started about a month ago. I am slowly building a "for sale/trade" pile and doing a lot of critical listening/note taking and entering my records/cds into the wonderful catraxx database.
I doubt I'd ever be as anal with dvds. They are a disposable commodity for me.It actually feels liberating to sell the unwanted stuff. Looks like you're ripe for that, man.
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Gunga-Galunga
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