I bet you can buy that DVD for money very close to the rental price, even now.

Hmm. Most DVDs cost anywhere from $12-ish to $20+, while rental at Blockbuster is (IIRC) $4-ish. Even if I'm misremembering, and it's $5, that's still 4 rentals to the price of buying one $20 DVD.

And what about the movies that you want to see once but have no desire to see over and over again? That's a waste of storage space as well as however much more it costs than a rental.

Now, what's the best method of hooking it up so I can listen in the car?

Maria, what kind of radio do you have in your car? Cause that's what it's dependent on. you can buy the radio tuner thing (which didn't work for ita) from Belkin. If you have a Denson (I think that's the brand), you can run a aux output from the radio.

Or you can go see a car radio guy and ask him.

Or if God has found a new substitute for Job.

I think my moral turpitude precludes me from being a Job figure.

I'm not sure that God's trying to teach me a lesson so much as he forgot to turn off the grill when he realized he was out of Pabst Blue Ribbon and went on a beer run, setting off a chain reaction of inconceivable events and leaving me sitting in the scorched driveway, nauseated, and muttering, "Dude, you suck."

what is great is that there are all the different options.

what's the best method of hooking it up so I can listen in the car?

The best method is what Rio or Lee did, with a direct connection to the car stereo that doesn't use either FM (lowest quality) or cassette (higher quality).

Neo Ion is one such solution.

Paying $6 or so bux to store a movie seems like a square deal to me.

But that's not how PPV is supposed to work, is it? You're supposed to be paying $6 to watch the movie once. Keeping it on your hard drive is therefore stealing from someone.

Moreover, how does your saving PPV movies benefit their creators more than my Netflixing them?

My PPV isn't a "one time only" watch. You rent it for 24 hours and can replay as often as you like in that time frame. It also has pause and rewind. And you can stop it to do something else and return to where you left off. Edited for--we only pay $3.95 per movie, too. So, bargain.

Overall, one of the better options, I think.

What kind of person cold-calls someone asking if you can "help them out" by getting a hold of a neighbor that you may or may not even know? I just got a call as I was putting the baby down and a person asked if I could help them get in touch with someone who lives two house down from me. Debt collectors maybe?

Debt collectors maybe?

Bounty hunters!!!

eta: I advise you to capture your neighbor yourself. The reward could be substantial.

That is like the call Jesse got!??!!? WEIRD!

bingo.

ita comes out swinging!

Granted, PPV means pay-per-view. The license probably reads "don't record". Beats me, I never read it. The pricing of PPV, however, is above that $2 figure, which reflects that somebody ain't getting paid. Guess who?

On the other track in this thread: Yes! Dead-busted-broke is not all there is to "class" outside the States.