"Michael Johnson, PE" > wrote in
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>>>This is somewhat off topic but have you checked out Netflix? I
>>>signed up recently and have been fairly impressed with their
>>>service. I can send three movies back Sunday afternoon and have
>>>three more by the following Wednesday. It takes a movie one day
>>>from ordering to showing up in our mail box! It takes 2-4 weeks for
>>>the latest releases to show up on the site but it is convenient.
>>>The movies come with a return envelope that already has return
>>>postage on it. Very convenient. Plus DVD burners and blank media
>>>are cheap nowadays.
>>
>> We only watch a couple a month, so I don't know if I want to join a
>> service just for that. Hell, we go to Wendy's more than we watch
>> videos.
>
> They have different plans. I pay $17/month to have three movies in
> rotation. For $9/month there is a one movie rotation plan. Sounds
> like that would be a plan you might consider. I like the
> convenience of it more than anything. Plus they have a large
> library of DVD's from current stuff to old movies from the 1950's
> and numerous television shows.

That's not bad, but the two or three times I go to the video store a
month I rarely find more than one video I want to watch. Does Netflix
carry music concerts? Now I could go for that...

>> I hear you about the DVD burners, but my PC is only a 450 P-III.
>> Don't know if it'll handle burning DVDs...
>
> It may not work. It might though if you had a good bit of RAM.

This thing's maxed out at 384mb RAM. I think I'll need to upgrade
before I start getting into DVDs on the PC.