Waiting. It's quite possible that if you race out and but the first version of the DVD to hit the shelves that in 6 months, when the "special edition" is released with the extras you really wanted, that you'll then have to buy the other edition. Waiting will save you money this way.
Dodgy. Many of my friends have bootleg copies of various DVDs. I know one industrious chap who is converting his videotape collection to DVD. Now much of the stuff he has I'm not interested in having a copy of but some of it is very nice. Some very short run series are unavailable on DVD and this may be the only way of getting them.
View first. Borrow a copy of the DVD. If, after watching it, you think you still want it then by all means go and get a copy. But if after you've watched it you think "meh" then don't bother.
Space. I've found that replacing many of my older VHS tapes with shiny new DVDs means that I can fit two DVDs into the space formerly occupied by VHS. So the incentive is to only buy new DVDs once you have replaced and old VHS one. You can offer the old videos to some-one else.
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Date: 2006-01-23 12:22 am (UTC)Waiting. It's quite possible that if you race out and but the first version of the DVD to hit the shelves that in 6 months, when the "special edition" is released with the extras you really wanted, that you'll then have to buy the other edition. Waiting will save you money this way.
Dodgy. Many of my friends have bootleg copies of various DVDs. I know one industrious chap who is converting his videotape collection to DVD. Now much of the stuff he has I'm not interested in having a copy of but some of it is very nice. Some very short run series are unavailable on DVD and this may be the only way of getting them.
View first. Borrow a copy of the DVD. If, after watching it, you think you still want it then by all means go and get a copy. But if after you've watched it you think "meh" then don't bother.
Space. I've found that replacing many of my older VHS tapes with shiny new DVDs means that I can fit two DVDs into the space formerly occupied by VHS. So the incentive is to only buy new DVDs once you have replaced and old VHS one. You can offer the old videos to some-one else.