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ficbot · 09-05-2010, 06:59 PM

I have some fitness dvds (about 100) and television boxed sets, but I don't buy much anymore. I rent from a Netflix-type service and only buy fitness dvds and the occasional TV show if I love it.

I worry about keeping things all electronic because I don't want to max out my Dropbox account on large movie files and then have to pay for an upgrade. So the only things I have ripped to computer are things I teach with (so I can transfer them to my iPad for use at school) and the fitness dvds I have from the 'Ten Minute Solution' series. Each segment is only ten minutes long, so the space commitment is not huge, and the design of these workouts is for mixing and matching. So having them in digital form is better because I can mix and match across different disks, which is hard to do in physical media form (i.e. I can program a 30-minute routine in 3 seconds using my iTunes library and include 3 sections, each from different original disks).

But for things like a two-hour movie, I don't want to devote the time and effort to rip to computer, and I would probably just watch it once anyway, so I am happy to rent.

09-05-2010, 06:59 PM	#29
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	I have some fitness dvds (about 100) and television boxed sets, but I don't buy much anymore. I rent from a Netflix-type service and only buy fitness dvds and the occasional TV show if I love it. I worry about keeping things all electronic because I don't want to max out my Dropbox account on large movie files and then have to pay for an upgrade. So the only things I have ripped to computer are things I teach with (so I can transfer them to my iPad for use at school) and the fitness dvds I have from the 'Ten Minute Solution' series. Each segment is only ten minutes long, so the space commitment is not huge, and the design of these workouts is for mixing and matching. So having them in digital form is better because I can mix and match across different disks, which is hard to do in physical media form (i.e. I can program a 30-minute routine in 3 seconds using my iTunes library and include 3 sections, each from different original disks). But for things like a two-hour movie, I don't want to devote the time and effort to rip to computer, and I would probably just watch it once anyway, so I am happy to rent.