Joe wrote:
> "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...

They have a ton of music related DVD's. Here a link to their page on
music DVD's: http://www.netflix.com/Genre?sgid=35...tr=LhcGenre355

>>>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.

If I didn't use Autocad and Civil Engineering software I might still be
running a 486 processor.