30th June 2005, 10:02 PM
Your analogy falls apart for the reasons ABF said. Series I can watch relatively free. Movies I may not be able to see any other way than by buying, same with games. If this TV series had been cancelled long ago and the only way to get a wack at it was the DVDs, then you'd have a point, with enough data buying a DVD to check it out becomes a good choice. If this show's currently on television though, then suddenly that same decision becomes very stupid indeed. You see?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)