Quote Originally Posted by Davey
The thrill of victory, and all that.
But then there's the realization that comes after 5 or ten years that you spent a bunch of money on stuff that doesn't hold up, leading to what Troy calls a "Stalinist purge". I love that term because that's what it's really like. It's part of the price of staying on the hunt and it's a cycle I've backed away from for years now. This issue creeps into other formats also. I have about 220 laserdiscs that jump off the shelves and scream "Take me to the landfill" every time I walk into the room. They have no value whatsoever after being the cutting edge among videophiles for so many years. In the 90's I avoided the urge to buy a lot of DVD's because I could see NTSC was a dying format and I didn't want to go through the laserdisc thing again. I think that was a wise move. Also in the 90's I thought it was insane that my movie choices were restricted to what Blockbuster had or cable was showing. What if I wanted to track a director or cinematographer's career or explore films from a particular country? It seemed to me there should be some kind of huge database that had all these films and you could access them somehow. Guess what? That database is here and it's called Netflix. If I can have it in my mailbox within 2 or 3 days then do I really need to have a huge collection taking up shelf space? It's going to be the same with Blu-Ray for me except for a few concert flix and a small collection of movies. I'll keep the games and vinyl but the laserdisc experience has cooled me a little on the need for physical ownership of tons of stuff. That's a good thing because I've got a collector's habit really bad. With music it's different because there's no viable rental scheme so I can understand the convenience of downloading, I just think mp3's sound like crap. I mostly listen to older music or bootlegs anyway. When it comes to new music I want Uncle Dave on that wall. I need Uncle Dave on that wall.