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Television On DVD And Blu-Ray: An Exceptional Hobby!
Written by Ethan O. Tanner   
Sunday, 11 July 2010 08:08
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?
by EthanO.Tanner


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 found that many TV shows are obtained on DVD and blu-ray, with complete seasons in one box and at times more. This is a great boon for all of us. They're affordable. A new one cost around sixty dollars, but used shows sell for less than twenty or thirty us dollars per season. Since seasons of shows will often have about twenty episodes, I was paying merely a buck to three dollars per show. Because we don't watch a lot of them, this really is actually cheaper than cable might have been over time.

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 boxed sets are collector's items in their own right. It really suits the collector in me to have a collection of my favorite television shows all lined up in a row on our bookshelves. When we want to watch something, all of those boxes provide a nice selection of options 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!

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