Thread: Digital Renting? Or Ownership?
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Old 10-09-2014, 07:49 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by pidgeon92 View Post
I vastly prefer renting, especially now that it is so easy to do. I've gotten rid of the majority of my CDs, DVDs and paper books. I scan all of the papers that I need to retain, and shred them.

Now if I could just get rid of all of the rest of my junk. I have so much stuff that I don't want to burden anyone else with when I die.
I gave much thought to purchasing some favorite movies rather than renting them, and decided even there I will just rent them. It is around $9.99 to buy a digital SD movie, and about $2.99 to rent that same digital SD movie. If I watch that movie again every 2-3 years, let's say 3 times in 10 years, it still is only the price of having bought 1 digital SD copy. In 5-10 years it will be in a different, maybe better format, and I figure why buy it in a format now that is useless in 5-10 years? I've already been down the VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray road. 4 K or whatever will be next, making anything we buy now useless in a few years. I tried to watch a VHS Christmas movie on my HD TV awhile back, it looked really bad.
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