DVDs -- where do you get the time?

[Twoback]

So many of you listed on the Christmas gifts thread that you received this or that DVD boxed set as a gift.
So as someone who owns not a single DVD but has owned a player for most of this decade, I ask -- where do you people find the time to watch them?
Between the movies I'll watch for the first time, shows I watch regularly either live or Tivo'd -- maybe a dozen or so -- and the sports I watch for business or pleasure, I couldn't imagine cutting myself loose to watch, say, Season 1 of 24 -- even though I've seen the other seasons beginning to end. And some of you have kids!
I'm asking seriously -- where do you find the time?

 

[User 1019]

I don't.

 

[zeke12]

I don't for a long time, and then I'll take a day and a half and basically watch an entire season of something and never leave my couch except to meet the deliveryman at the door.

Not having kids works wonderfully for this. But I would guess I won't get to any of mine until after March. My DVR also contributes to that, because I'm sure I'll need to watch things on there to keep it from filling up.

 

[Webster]

By making Netflix rich. I could have bought the Lost Season 1 DVD twice in the time that it took me to get through the six main DVDs.

 

[Bubbler]

So many of you listed on the Christmas gifts thread that you received this or that DVD boxed set as a gift.
So as someone who owns not a single DVD but has owned a player for most of this decade, I ask -- where do you people find the time to watch them?
Between the movies I'll watch for the first time, shows I watch regularly either live or Tivo'd -- maybe a dozen or so -- and the sports I watch for business or pleasure, I couldn't imagine cutting myself loose to watch, say, Season 1 of 24 -- even though I've seen the other seasons beginning to end. And some of you have kids!
I'm asking seriously -- where do you find the time?

I'm with you, I rarely watch DVDs, but I'll bet if I didn't have my DVR I would.

 

[KJIM]

I watch no other TV and don't usually see first-run movies, especially if I know I'm going to own the DVD shortly anyway.

I rarely just watch DVDs without doing something else, and for movies I've seen before, I just leave them on for background anyway.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Flights, dead time waiting for flights, dead time in places like Cincinnati, baseball rain delays. Having a DVD player on the laptop is huge.

 

[Freelance Hack]

So many of you listed on the Christmas gifts thread that you received this or that DVD boxed set as a gift.
So as someone who owns not a single DVD but has owned a player for most of this decade, I ask -- where do you people find the time to watch them?
Between the movies I'll watch for the first time, shows I watch regularly either live or Tivo'd -- maybe a dozen or so -- and the sports I watch for business or pleasure, I couldn't imagine cutting myself loose to watch, say, Season 1 of 24 -- even though I've seen the other seasons beginning to end. And some of you have kids!
I'm asking seriously -- where do you find the time?

I'm with you, I rarely watch DVDs, but I'll bet if I didn't have my DVR I would.

I've stockpiled my DVR with a crapload of movies, some six months old. Most are old classics that aren't yet in my DVD collection. Others have movies I want to see when I have the time.

I've yet to find the time, however.

 

[Starman]

I get home at 2:30 in the morning. Can't go to sleep until 5-6 a.m. WTF else is there to do?? : :

After Christmas, I now have Northern Exposure, Seasons 1-5. Season 6 (the final season) will be released on March 7, so if I start now at Episode 1, I ought to finish up Season 5 just about when Season 6 arrives.

In the meantime, I'll get to work on the Rockford Files.

 

[leo1]

i've seen a couple articles over the past few years in which they've done studies showing that people generally don't watch the boxed sets. the so-called experts are damned if they can figure out why they sell like hotcakes even though no one really uses them but studios are elated. i'm too lazy to google any of these articles citing the studies but i swear i've read this in more than one place.

 

[murciélago]

I own few DVDs. We rent several. We watch them at night after the daughter has gone ti bed.

I know people who have dozens of DVDs. No idea why that's necessary. Dog428 is the king of watching TV series on DVD. I have no idea how he does it -- guy writes a lot.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Let's see ... Mortgage, wife, two kids, two cars, two car payments, two jobs and SportsJournalists.com. Nope, I don't have time for DVDs.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Flights, dead time waiting for flights, dead time in places like Cincinnati, baseball rain delays. Having a DVD player on the laptop is huge.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

 

[Crimson Tide]

Easy for me.

1. I cover high school sports. 40 hours per unless it's tournament time.
2. No kids.
3. My wife and I have no social life.

 

[Angola!]

I only watch two TV shows, so the rest of the time I watch DVDs of TV shows and regular movies. My wife and I also don't go to movies because it is cheaper and easier to watch them at home.
The only thing that keeps me from watching more DVDs is watching sports on TV.

 

[BYH]

We usually watch boxed sets on the weekends, particularly Saturday nights. We've watched the first five seasons of Gilmore Girls over the last two years and we're about halfway thru season six. My wife is TIVOing season seven so I can watch it when we catch up. (lighting myself on fire)

After I got hooked on One Tree Hill last year, my wife bought me the first two seasons so I could catch up. We're now in the middle of season two.

I got My Name Is Earl this year, but that's a half-hour comedy so it should be easy to race thru that. And 90210 is just a classic of my youth that I had to have.

 

[Pringle]

Treadmill.

 

[cougargirl]

Because prime-time television is just plain atrocious, I signed up for Netflix and watch DVDS instead of suffering through network shows. I'm also slowly going through the first two seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street on DVD.

 

[buckweaver]

First of all, I have a lot of DVDs because I get them so cheap (usually $3-5 at Half.com, or $5-7 at Target, or $7 used at Hollywood Video.) Only once have I paid full retail price for a DVD, and that was for a set. But I also use them a lot, too, so the DVDs pay for themselves.

I'm weird in that I can pick up any movie that I like, at any point in the film, and still not get tired of watching it over again. I was that way with books as a kid, too.

I've popped in my Indiana Jones DVDs at least 20 times apiece (well, maybe 20 for "Raiders" and "Crusade", but about 2 for "Doom" : ... btw, the Indiana Jones set is the one that I paid full price for, the day it came out. Couldn't wait any longer for that one. ) I'll regularly pop in a bunch of movies I like: "The Untouchables," "The Rock," "Fight Club," "Matrix Reloaded," "Bull Durham" ... all depends on what kind of mood I'm in.

For instance, "Gladiator" is my movie to fall asleep with. If I want a good night's sleep, but I'm too restless after getting home from work, I'll pop that baby in, turn the lights off, and be crashing in half an hour. That music just does something to soothe me.

But the thing about DVDs is:

I like to use my seen-'em-a-hundred-times DVDs as background sound. Helps me concentrate on what I'm actually supposed to be doing. I get more done that way than with just music playing. That's just me.

Again, I don't have to watch the movie from beginning to end to enjoy it. And I don't have to see a movie I've never seen before in order to enjoy it. (I'll make time to pay attention to a new movie I want to see -- like "Good Night, and Good Luck" when that came out -- or wait for it to come on one of my movie channels instead of spending money on it.)

But usually, I get started writing or I'm on the computer or doing stuff around the house, and I get a lot done while the DVD's playing. The time's not the issue for me, because of my style of watching movies. Doesn't work for everybody, but it does for me.

 

[spup1122]

I'm the same way buckdub. Familiar dialogue will center me and I will usually get what needs to be done, done.

When I was living alone, my fall asleep movie was always Center Stage or A Cinderella Story. I know, they're stupid and girly, but the memorized dialogue helped me fall asleep very quickly.