Video on demand or own collection?

What you prefer - Video watching on demand, online, with big choice, pay per view or - building own movie collection? Need to add some notes: real VOD not exist yet, but some people expect it, with relative low prices. Making collection: you can't get all what you want, because choice is limited. Don't count here illegal copies. Poll is little hypothetical, but we all are aware that major changes will happen in close future.

OK i voted i prefer my own collection. But maybe i should explain this a bit. I think VOD like online music stores are good ideas. For other people :p My main reason for voting for my own collection is that i do not buy anything over the net. This paid services as well as ordering physical stuff over the net. The only thing i could imagine in this direction is joining a service by my ISP allowing you to watch online for a fixed rate per month (my ISP is the swiss cable TV provider so this is not so unlikely in the future, actually they already offer online TV, but only limited channels and not with choice of what you watch). The idea here is that it were like a tuned internet service and i would not have to order it online. But then again this would most likely have a rather limited choice of titles. Now, in the current situation i don't i need anything like that even though it could be nice. I have my fansubs that keep my desire for non-animated movies relatively small. The bi-weekly to monthly normal movie i watch are most likely european or 'classic' movies. The 'classics' are almost all available at my videotheque and for the rest i buy them, which also gives me new fodder for encoding :) You said "don't count illegal copies", so with only video on demand you would never again get to make an encode *shudder* :p

I tought it was approximately a synonym for 'to shiver', but english is not my native language :( And yes you're right, of course you still had amateur video. I do not produce/encode these, or only that rarely that i did not think about it before.

Nup never - When I pay for it, I want it for ever, not view once. The price will never be cheap enough for "view once". I.E. My kids must of viewed their DVD's / Videos hundreds of times each, With an original DVD price of 20 dollars, that works out at less than a cent "per view". That will never be matched!

When we say 'prefer' that doesn't exclude other option. Putting third choice in vote - 'I prefer both' would make it almost nonsense. I'm sure that most of us is so: that some movies want to have in his collection. Maybe I should say 'building big collection'. And that's the point. Everybody complains about how wrong is to pay per view, but nobody talks how much costs buying thousand(s) of DVD's. VOD - I should add Internet before VOD, to be more precise. Poll is for everybody, not for people which are connected to some limited network. This poll is actually inspired with one discussion here, before year, or more, in hardware room, when someone talked about putting all of his DVD's (over 1000) to some hard disk cluster, to make watching easier. Imagine just costs and required work for that. Imagine how many times you can view all of that collection per year... Some problems about required resources are discussed in thread 'Little futurology'.

I would be so nice, if we could access our movie collection all over the world and anytime we want for a fixed fee, why not. U dont have to worry about spilling sauce on the dvd or lending it out to one of those friends who never give it back. We desperately need fast broadband and cheap rate to use it though. We pay US$ 110 per month for a no cap 256k connection.

$110 per month!!??! even in australian dollars (~ $0.70 USD) that's a horrid deal! change yer ISP man...

OUCH! $110? Not USD I hope. We pay $40 a month for uncapped 3000/512 Cable DSL. I suppose if you did some bad math/accounting you could say we pay $80 a month when you throw in the other $40 for digital cable. But that is not correct.

We have a monopoly here, the market has now opened up and we wont have to pay US $ 110 anymore.