How do you access movies? tv/purchase/rental/streaming/purchased-download/torrent?
This is how i view movies.
1) tv - this is getting rare. I generally don't have the patience to sit through ads, even fast forward if recorded. But it occasionally happens.
2) purchase - if I am to purchase a DVD, it's generally at a 2nd hand store where they are about $1-$2 these days. As cheap as renting. I rarely buy brand new, maybe at Christmas.
2) rental - Where I live, we have rental kiosks and a few blockbusters left (they're dying, 3 closed down within the last 18 months.) I recently joined a blockbuster and it's a good store, but the owner is a bit of a di/ck. He wants weekly rentals back by 6pm or there is a 40 cent late fee on each, on the same day. Whereas another blockbuster gives a 3 day leniency on weeklies. Even though he's a di/ck, I feel like this may be my last rental blockbuster experience, so I'm going to play by his rules.
3) streaming - I actually don't watch many movies on netflix. Their selection isn't great, but I have watch a few. I'm more into their tv series.
4) purchased-download - I only did this once, as I was making a trailer as a project. But legally downloaded movies don't work inside of Adobe Premiere, as they are locked! I actually had to illegally download the movie to make a trailer out of it.
5) torrent - yes, I torrent. Not a lot but every now and then I will. My view is that if I were to digitally rent a movie, it shouldn't be expensive. It's $5.99 to rent a movie, which is more expensive than going to the actual video store and renting. Shouldn't digital be half the price of a business that pays rent, electricity, wages, etc? So I feel that it isn't fair to charge this. If digital rentals were $2-$4, I probably would do it.