subject: Tv On Dvd: The Affordable Hobby [print this page] My partner and I decided four years ago to get rid of our TV set. It was a distraction as well as we found we were viewing far too much of it. Nevertheless, over time, we recognized that there are some good shows on TV and that we have missed them. Yet we didn't want to go back to having the TV set there twenty-four hours per day. What are we going to do?
Fortunately, we learned that many TV shows are now compiled on DVD, with total seasons within a box and sometimes more. This became a great boon for all of us. These are relatively inexpensive. Brand new ones cost around sixty dollars, but used shows sell for well under twenty or thirty dollars per season. Since seasons of shows normally have about twenty episodes, we were paying merely a dollar to three dollars per episode. Since we don't watch very much of them, that is actually cheaper than cable could have been ultimately.
Plus, DVD has some great features. First of all, they have no commercials. We realized that a sixty minute television show is really only about forty-two minutes long. That's almost 30% commercials! We certainly have better things to do with our time than spend 30% of it watching commercials. Second, we can watch the shows at our convenience. While it is possible to do this by recording television, this is an inconvenient process in itself. We can pause and restart the shows, or start them at any point. Plus, a lot of DVDs have extras that enable us to watch documentaries or even hear commentaries.
A lot of the DVD and blu-ray boxed sets are collector's goods themselves. It suits the collector within me to have a variety of my beloved TV shows all arranged in a row on our bookshelves. When you want to watch something, all those boxes provide a nice choice of selections to leaf through, and we can watch our favorite episodes over and over again. They've been especially nice to have right after our babies are born, since we spend a lot of time sitting in chairs with babies on our laps, not able to do much else.
We then can view the shows on our monitor or even on a DVD and blu-ray player. All things considered, by the end of the day it's the cable that's expensive, not the TV We obtain access to all the TV shows we would like, without commercials and at little cost. The only difficulty is making certain we do not uncover what takes place ahead of time, since we're often a season behind!
