To boldly blog....

I've been spending a lot of bandwidth lately downloading Star Trek off of the Usenet. Yeah I know, how evil of me to do that. You know what, there are close to 400 titles in my DVD collection (and probably another 300 unique titles in the VHS collection), all bought and properly paid for. I have no problem paying for my entertainment -- I just refuse to pay an inflated amount for said entertainment. Some TV has been very reasonable -- '70s Show, Family Guy, the entire Monty Python for less than $90. And while I'm really annoyed that MGM/UA didn't release the 007 flicks separately, the box sets weren't bad. Generally I like to pay less than $19 for a movie, so I usually try to catch them in the first week when they're promo priced. Movie sets I usually go for if the individual films are less than $10 a pop (the Mel Brooks set was a very nice bargain, especially if you like some of the older films like Young Frankenstien, Blazing Saddles, and High Anxiety). TV seasons have to be between $30 and $40, entire series would depend on the number of show -- along with the Flying Circus set, I also have the entire series of Coupling, The Vicar of Dibley, Are You Being Served Again, and Sportsnight. While my wife and I enjoy Are you Being Served, As Time Goes By, and Keeping up Appearances, the price tags on those series are still too high (although $159 for all 13 years of Are you Being Served is not at all unreasonable). But as much as I really liked Star Trek: Voyager, I'm not spending $700 for the complete set -- thats $60 more per season than I'm willing to pay.

Now, the 20 disk set of the 10 Star Trek films for $89.99...