Review: DVDs and Videos

[jack]

DVD:

No need to rewind
Easy skip ahead
Menus to view different options non-linearly
Subtitles
Small storage space

Video:

Built-in ability to skip stupid intros, piracy ads, menus, etc
Low hassle recording
Cheap
No stupid bonus features

Comments

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

Now that idea is basically lost to me: if a film happens to be on right now, I'll watch it, (or record it if I want to watch it again and again) otherwise it'll get rented to be watched at a time of my choosing.

Oh no, that's so sad! I hope I never lose the recording instinct :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*shrug* When something actually comes out new, it's nice to watch it live. I lose out on the sense of community I used to have if I lived with someone and we'd all have an artificial reason to sit down with a film together, because it happened to be on then. But then I'm so busy, why should I let TV schedules dictate my schedule, and not aim to watch things when I have an evening free and feel like it?

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Something far more insidious occurs in fact...

I was one of the first people in the UK to get on to the hard disk recording band wagon. The first week that Tivo was released in the UK I got hold of one...

Tivo has an interesting feature where it learns what you're watching (because it knows which channels you choose to watch and what you ask it to record), so it records things it thinks you might like based on what you have watched in the past... then there is a "TiVo suggests.." option on the menu which has stuff in it has recorded that you might want to try watching.

It was a really really good feature actually. I suspect if I had TiVo today, what with the number of channels there are now - it'd trap me with so many cool things I didn't know where on TV that all I'd do would be watching television.