Originally posted by: 3NF
Originally posted by: Kilrsat
361 at the moment.
I just added a pair of new 750GB drives, so I can start adding them again.
What's the point of burning that many DVDs to your hard drive? My friend has over 500, and some he has even yet to open! So let's say on average it's 20 bucks per DVD. That's $10,000 in DVDs you could have downloaded for free
Mostly its accessibility, some of it is laziness.
Whether I'm on my laptop, home dev machine, in the living room, or now at a neighbor's (we just set up a really cool 25mbit wireless link between our houses) all the movies are a few clicks away.
Leaving for trips is also made easier as I just copy a few ISOs from the file server to my laptop and its ready to go.
Then there's the whole, I just didn't want to have to get up and flip through all the DVDs when picking one. On a PC there are just better ways to find a movie than browsing the DVD stand, ex:
http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?t=22124
And I actually watch a lot of movies. Every single one stored on the drive has been watched at least once, and most of them multiple times. What many people do with music (just turning it on for some background noise) I do with movies very often.