You ever happen across one of those blog posts that makes so much sense that you think, why didn't I write that first? Well Brian Watson does a great job of summing up why I never really watch DVDs anymore.Before we got our first PVR, we had a Netflix subscription. But over the past 2-3 years, I could probably count on one hand that number of DVDs I've watched -- and that's including DVDs I own.
Here are some of the advantages a PVR has over a DVD player:
- A PVR will save your place in as many programs as you want. As soon as you pop a disc out of a DVD player you've lost your place.
- You can store as many movies as your hard drive will allow on a PVR, giving you a large library of videos to choose from.
- You don't have to get up from the couch and take a DVD out of its case and load it in the player every time you want to watch a movie on a PVR.
- You don't have to wait for a PVR to boot up or for a movie to go through an FBI warning screen before you can start watching.
- DVD discs can get scratched up if you leave them lying about. I guess theoretically your hard drive could get damaged if you left it lying about... but what are the odds of that happening?
- You don't have to pay for DVD purchases or rentals. Depending on what type of PVR you have, you may have had to pay a 1-time fee to set it up, or you may pay a monthly fee. And depending on how many movies you watch, this may be cheaper than renting DVDs.
- Movies come out on DVD sooner than they do on cable, especially if you don't subscribe to premium channels.
- DVDs don't take up any space on your hard drive, leaving room to record other shows.
- Umm... that's all I've got.
1. Another plus for DVD is higher quality sound and picture. Unless you are watching HD HBO or Showtime.
Posted at 1:53PM on Dec 20th 2006 by Brian Hoyt