![]() ![]() ![]() Adding to my current enthusiasm for made-on-demand DVDs is just how much is available now, far more than a couple years back. This year, I’ve been here a while already, much longer than usual, so I’ve had a chance to get in on a couple sales to date, and counting. Archives has sales once every few months, in fact, but won’t ship overseas, which means I buy most of my titles from them when I’m in the States once a year (and means my library can’t take up any slack). Screen Archives Entertainment, which carries the MGM titles, has the occasional sale, though. Because they are made-on-demand, there are few if any people selling these titles on Amazon Marketplace even if they are, the prices are no improvement. They aren’t that cheap at Amazon, so it can be hard for most people to justify buying them (not so much me, but a) I’m an addict… um, a collector, I’m a collector!, and b) they have lots of stuff that’s important for my research, which is why ‘70s titles are disproportionately represented in my made-on-demand DVD purchases). Except there’s a lot more justification for writing about those on a blog, it seems to me: very, very few video stores anywhere carry them, and Netflix doesn’t offer them either, so for most people, renting is out. Archives, MGM Limited Edition, Universal Studios Vault, and Columbia Classics (why doesn’t Fox do this? I need things!). The same goes for made-to-order titles in such series as Warner Bros. ![]() For all these reasons, for now at least, DVD and blu-ray are going to remain my chief medium for watching movies at home.īeing a film scholar and living in NZ tends to entail spending a lot of money buying DVDs, especially Criterion titles, which are not, and never will be, available in that market to buy or to rent. ![]() I’m sure it’s my fault, but that sort of thing has a steep learning curve, it seems to me. Third, every attempt I’ve ever made to use bit torrent has been an unmitigated disaster. Second, I don’t have a laptop, yet, and my desktop doesn’t have a very big screen and even if it did, I don’t have my La-Z-Boy in my office. For starters, I don’t have a very fast computer, so even if, when I’m in home in NZ, I had a sufficiently fast connection to overcome the lag that is inevitable when accessing sites from across the Pacific Ocean, the processor is so slow that even video files I download freeze up every few seconds. For a variety of reasons, they remain my home entertainment medium of choice. ![]()
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