Why? What's wrong with it?

At sell-through pricing, all the money goes to the Blockbusters of the world, who milk it with forced sales, now, or late fees, and less to the creators.

Buying going to the creators, fairly directly.

Netflix is more creator-supporting than Blockbusters, but only because they are gouging less.

But, Gus, there are quite a few movies I don't want to see $20.00 worth.

When I see it in the theator, the creators get shafted on the royalties, too. Would you suggest that it's wrong for me to go to dollar night?

Not very work-safe. What if you liked wearing fuzzy suits but you wanted to be a human?

For a brief moment, I wanted to kill myself....

Yeah. Social class is really alive and kicking in Europe. Not that it is dead in the States. The cues are just different.

I was interested in England with how, well "ok" everyone seemed to be with class. Lord so-and-so was who you talked to about finding a job in that town, the housekeeper was from the same part of the country as the middle class family I was staying with and had a distinctly different accent... and my one friend with an economics gegree from Cambridge hadn't even considered going to college at all because his family was working class and no one ever had-- and college was FREE.

Buying going to the creators, fairly directly.

But if I don't buy or rent those 273 movies, the creators get no money at all. How's that a win?

And if I hadn't just rented Sneakers (don't see how I could have PPVed it), I wouldn't be looking at buying it.

I like that fact that my cable co is at least trying to offer the extras. I am pretty selective about what I'll own in regards to DVD's. REALLY picky. And yet, not so picky as to what I'll watch.

We'll rejoin Netflix when we get around to replacing the DVD player.

PPV ties you down to not just a cable-connected house, but quite probably your own.

For people like us, this SO ISN'T a problem. In fact, it's a pretty good solution for us since with a baby, we're mostly homebound--at least for entertainment purposes.

Oh, we have a class system all right. Look at the jokes about "trailer trash" and about backwoods people with no teeth.

For people like us, this SO ISN'T a problem.

I only have one screen connected to the cable box. So even if I don't leave home, I can't watch movies in my bedroom without DVD or nefarious downloading involved. Not to mention airplanes or train stations or on vacation.

PPV ties you down to not just a cable-connected house...

Well, I'm on satellite, but your point is good. The distinction being that PPV is (generally, or in my case, anyway) recorded for future re-watch. The One-View-One-Fee thing is defeated.

PPV isn't an option at our house because we don't have cable. So, netflix it is. Plus, better selection at netflix.

So, something I purchased (sadly not the shuffle) on the Apple website yesterday just got here. At 10:00 AM. That is crazy. (esp. since I didn't specify super speedy delivery).