DVD vs Internet

[Vulture]

Which do you favour? I guess the vast majority of posters here use both regularly - if this applies to you, pick just 1, ie if you were only allowed 1, which?

Still DVD for me. I've dabbled with the idea of joining a paying internet porn site or 2 but for me the worry is that I have a bit of an addictive personality (like many porn fans, I suspect). If I have constant access to new pics/scenes etc. for a fixed monthly fee I have a real worry I'd spend an inordinate amount of time glued to my monitor or with my PC and DVD burner working overtime downloading and burning a library of scenes I won't realistically get around to watching. Diminishing returns, less is more etc.

I wouldn't mind an internet service that was limited to a small number of full length DVDs for download each month and at fairly low cost to make it worth the punt. I suppose that kind of defeats the object though and most of these services pride themselves on their "unlimited" or at least extensive library nature. So not for me.

I still like the "off the peg" approach of the DVD that allows me to pick and choose what I want and when. And I can't watch porn (or anything beyond brief YouTube clips etc.) on my PC - too depressing.

Your views please.

[chris]

DVD for me too.

[Lee]

I'm going to go with internet.
Both have their advantages though.
DVD's are great for quality & having the physical product but with the resolution & bitrates improving in downloadable porn, the gap has closed in my opinion. Burning your fav scenes to disc I think is the best option of all. I can get fed up of having DVD's where maybe 2 out of the 5 scenes are worth watching. Burn scenes from the internet & you can have a disc full of great porn, the ones of your choice.

[Mr_White]

True enough but that's all quite labour-intensive, isn't it? First of all you need to download and watch enough material to fill the disc then you have to burn the thing.

And I would miss that first DVD viewing where you don't know what's coming.

I can see the appeal but it isn't for me personally.

[Lee]

True enough but that's all quite labour-intensive, isn't it?

Not at all, it's quicker than the postman!

I love the fact that I can put my favourite scenes onto one disc, it's like making my own compilation. No need to skip boring parts, just have a disc full of filth!

[Mr_White]

Original DVDs are beautiful.
And DVD players very practical.

[Lee]

True, but you can play internet porn on a DVD player.

The only difference I see between an actual DVD & one you've done yourself is the feeling of it being more 'real'. But I find having more control over content outweighs this.

[Bored]

DVD

[BEP]

Other question, do you use VOD and Pay per minute services? What you prefer? Pay per minute online or download to own?

[Billbo]

Except in the U.S., with it's ridiculously slow download rates and caps on downloads by internet companies, the Internet is usually more versatile. One can pick content and resolution.

In the U.S., where most internet is 1/100th to 1/1000th the speed of European and Asian internet and 1/10th the speed of other nations and the cap for most ISPs is 5GB per month, or slightly more than one DVD's worth of information, DVD is pretty much the only choice for most people.

It's ironic that most of the actual technologies for the internet were pioneered in the U.S., but the internet companies colluded and decided not to upgrade like the rest of the world did. Most people in the U.S still have dialup as a result and pay more than 4x the world average for broadband for that dialup. Nice racket, eh?

[cosmic]

always dvd

[Lange]

Internet by a mile.

[just_me]

Nice racket, eh?

Except that most of what you write is either not true, or rationally explained in other ways than the stereotypical "greedy corporations" argument.


And to the question of this thread, I prefer photography by a mile over video, so yeah, internet's the way to go.

[hopless3]

Nice racket, eh?

Except that most of what you write is either not true, or rationally explained in other ways than the stereotypical "greedy corporations" argument.


And to the question of this thread, I prefer photography by a mile over video, so yeah, internet's the way to go.

I agree with you about pic sets being better, hence the fact that I rarely buy DVD prefering mags or downloads.

As to the internet as a means of distribution unless you have very fast lines your not going to download DVD quality movies in any sort of practical timescales.

From what Ive read the US sufers from a particular problem for download speeds relating to the fact that none of the phone companies are leagly responsible for upgrading the lines. They are only responsible if there is a line failure and so they do repairs. However because they aren't required to do upgrades to the lines the line speed is limited due to the fact the wiring is rather old.

[just_me]

The U.S. is like most other countries where the regions with large population densities have been connected to faster services quicker, while the sparsely populated regions lag behind. And there's just never been a push to have the federal government turn internet access into a regulated utility. Most people have access to broadband, it's just a matter of price and whether they personally value it or not.