wizwor
"There is no way I put on a pair of pants and venture out to rent a movie. Am I alone in this?"
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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
You are not alone in this. I can't remember the last time I sought out a movie by leaving the house.
I, too, have antenna tv, both to my regular tvs and to my media center PC via a network tuner. I have a few of my favorite tv shows and several movies on DVD & also ripped to my media drive. I use Netflix for both streaming and DVDs but most of what I watch is on broadcast TV. My media center PC is my pride and joy.  |
First wizwor, I must say that I always have on a pair of pants unless I am going to bed.
1. No Netflix, cable, satellite. Not home enough for those to be worthwhile. Seldom watch sports or the news in real time. Not there and too busy
2. My last good big analog TV blew the power supply last year, and I have a 13" digital CRT I got for $100 at Walmart when my two converter boxes from the government hadn't come and we had the change over I have a couple of 5" b&w analog tvs from HR-Gregg for about 10 to $12 each. I now have them hooked to the old converter box, and an old VCR/DVD player and watch the 5" when tread milling. Usually recorded stuff, news or docs. Why nothing bigger in the TV line. Well I could easily get a biggie, but these days I live on a houseboat and am planning to move to a converted trawler when I finish it. I will wait and make a final judgement as to what I can put in the boat when I am living there. I estimate only a 26' to 30" LCD will be needed. The new TVs are great in that they don't take up any room in a cabin fitting right against the wall. I don't know yet how to handle that treadmill on the new boat.
3. For broadcast TV, I have 2 antennas, 1 for the 13" digital set and the other for a whiz bang Panasonic DVR with SD and USB2 and digital tuner. I can watch something and record something else though that doesn't usually happen.
The only broadcast shows I watch besides an occasional movie are series like GRIMM, Lost Girl, Falling Skies, Game of Thrones. Usually sci-fi related. Sometimes I will record a Nature type documentary. I watch those on the treadmill too. If I can't get episodes of the series on the DVR, I download them, and just swap them to the DRV with the USB2 and watch them when I feel like it. Easier than WiFi or an HDMI cable.
4. As for both your comments about not making the effort to go pick up a video, I agree wholeheartedly. I never go OUT just to get a movie.
However when I am going home or to work or elsewhere, I go to the grocery store at least every other day, and to the drug store or Walmart at least once a week, and other stores as well.
The Redboxs or other video boxes are in the Ingles and Bilo grocery store just past the checkout, and in the Walmart by the door, and just outside each of the two drugs stores I go to.
Unless you guys are having all your food delivered to your home, and never leave for work or anything else, I doubt that I am leaving the house any more than you are. Usually out once a day and back in once a day. Occasionally I get a call and go out again but that is not for the video machine.
5. I too have old movies. I probably had 500 VHS movies, 95% or better copied. I seldom watched them. I have gotten rid of maybe all but 40. Getting ready to move to that boat. I would like to convert the last to DVD or an external drive. I have already on external drives a bunch of movies and docs from various places. I am culling them too as I can. Thank God, I didn't copy a bunch of movies to DVD. I learned my lesson with the VHSs.