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[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> The one thing I'm not ripping are movies. Netflix has changed everything 
> for me. With so much available to watch, I don't care to rewatch any old 
> movies. There's no reason to buy, own, archive, or collect a DVD anymore.

I don't buy DVDs anymore, but for different reasons: PUOs, DRM, and 
Libraries.

I don't know how it is in other parts of the country (or other countries), 
but Ohio's libraries are good enough to make Netflix look slow, overpriced 
and pointless. I can order whatever I want from almost any library in the 
greater Cleveland area, or any college library in the state, have it shipped 
just down the street (yea, not to my doorstep, but I like having a reason to 
actually get out of the house, so that's a *plus* for me). I can have a 
whole bunch of them out at one time, 10+, etc, no problem. If I want 
something *now* I can just go and pick something out on-the-spot and not 
have to deal with high-compression or high-latency streaming or give up the 
DVD-bonuses or multiple language/subtitle tracks (*not* something you want 
to give up with anime). There's no regular fee, and you don't have any 
problems with late fees as long as you're actually responsible. And even 
with occasional late fees, it's still far cheaper (and can have far more out 
at one time) than Netflix - and that was true back when the late fees were 
$1/day. Now they're around 10-20 cents a day. You'd have to be insanely 
irresponsible for that to even start to compare to the price of Netflix. 
Plus most stuff goes out for 3 weeks at a time, with up to 20 renewals as 
long as no one else has it on hold (and popular stuff they have a ton of 
copies of). Oh, and messed up discs aren't a problem as often as you'd 
think.