I have a good number of movies on DVD that I'm just fine leaving in that format.

Then there are those that I gotta have in HD: 2001, Terminator-2, Star Wars, PoTC (just the first one), etc...

Those I will probably buy in every new format for many years to come...

Though I have DVDs in the hundreds, I am quickly coming to view them the same way I do most books. I buy it, I read it, I get rid of it knowing that if I ever need it again it won't be that hard to reacquire it (whether by repurchase, rental, download, etc.).

I just looked over my movie watching log for the last year. I own approximately 350 DVDs. In the last 15 months I have watched a DVD I own (as opposed to a Netflix rental) four times.

The odds of me needing to watch Buckaroo Banzai without waiting a couple days for it to get here from Netflix (or, if it is available, minutes while waiting for it to download) are essentially nil. And if it is that important I can probably walk across the street to Best Buy and just buy it. But it is still taking up space in my house.

I'm all for the future of "leased access." I don't care if I physically own anything, I just want to know I always have relatively easy access.

Count me in as a sucker consumer. I just ordered my ps3 (blu-ray player), and I bought the Kubrick movies for the fourth time (laserdisc, fullscreen dvd, widescreen "remastered" dvd...). And I don't regret it. Not a bit.

I wish I could be more like Alex but I have too much stuff that I fear I'd never find again if I gave them up, that they might never make it to the next platform

This may expose my supreme dorkiness, but we just watched Jurassic Park for the first time in many months, perhaps even a year or two, and I couldn't help but imagine it in HD on a big, wide screen. Almost gave me a woody. Now I'm totally wanting an HD set.

I imagine the effects in JP will not be served particularly well by HD.

Really? I know they're a few years old now, but I would think that they were still rendered in high enough resolution that they'd see an improvement bumping up to an HD set from a traditional TV. I can't imagine that I'm seeing their maximum resolution now, anyway.

I'm just hoping for with the increase data that can be packed on each disc, that my favorite TV shows can be put out in more compact forms.

Imagine, a single Blu-Ray disc containing an entire season worth of Simpsons or Family Guy? You could an entire series in what fits in a season's worth of box sets these days. :D

That's another thing I've been wondering about too. With HD or BluRay discs holding so much more data you would think that'd be a preferable option. A whole season on one disc would be great. As it is, one whole shelf in our living room is solely 24. Trimming that down would be great.

It appears the war will be officially over tomorrow.