Christmas!

[Mina Synd 0]

trust me, a movie collection is definately fun... it's always a bonus to have if you have friends/family/partners visiting... the larger your collection gets, the bigger the chance you have a movie they haven't seen. what i'm doing is generally getting movies that i love. you just have to look at my collection to see my tastes. i've got less then 1/3 of the movies i LOVE but i'm slowly working on it :3

 

the good thing is that dvds are a much better medium then VHS casettes. the VHS was a good system but it was too easy to horribly destroy the 'tape y'know? you could spend 20 years saving it and when you get around to showing it to someone, a crappy VHS recorder tries to play it and eats the tape. but you can't really do that with DVD's... though they still are quite delicate. although they are made from mainly plastic, if you keep them in bad conditions they will deteriorate.

 

but if you are keeping them all on your bedroom wall or something and you save them for a long time, it really doesn't matter if the system becomes defunct. chances are blu-ray will take over, but dvds still have a good 5 - 20 years left in them. and after that, everyone will still have dvd players, games consoles and pc dvd drives which run dvds... they are a good system and there are MANY different methods to run them on. if you keep the dvd and case in good enough quality, when you're an old person they may be worth something :3

 

well. maybe not... chances are the whole collection will become pointless within a decade. but so long as -YOU- still have at least one type of DVD player, dvds will be around for a long time even if they stop being made. chances are a lot of movies on dvd nowadays just wouldn't be made into the next-gen movie system y'know? all of those b-movies or whatever. a lot of movies simply won't be made because there was no public outcry for them...

 

i've already noticed this happening with kid's tv series i used to watch. they exist on VHS (scantly) but because the VHS is such an unreliable system and there weren't that many players for them, they have vanished into history. thankfully some are being saved and advanced... such as C.O.P.S (not the reality show, the animation. it was awesome), and Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors. that was excellent but at the moment the full series dvds are only in french... you can only get like, 5 episodes in english now :\

 

aaaaanyway. yah, find a genre that you like, get all the movies you LOVE then start searching for other movies of the genre that you have not seen or heard of and get them. sometimes they are bad, sometimes they are good. it's always worth getting though...