Movie Mania -- on TV

I’m still getting used to this whole bazillion channels of cable thing. I’ve had it before, but not for several years, and at that time, it was kind of spotty and didn’t offer HD. Plus, it just bears reiterating: DVRs are awesome. Most people love them because they allow you to watch your favorite shows whenever you feel like, skip the commercials, and generally allow you all the fun parts of closely following a show without any of the hassle of scheduling your life around it. And, no doubt, that’s awesome. However, that’s not really anything you can’t get from poking around the internet’s P2P grey markets (although it does offer it legally and somewhat more conveniently).

However, with all the movie channels (I get about twenty between HBO, Showtime, and others like TMC), it offers a movie nut like me the opportunity to flip the listings and record movies that I otherwise wouldn’t watch. Yes, I know the movie channels tend to repeat movies, only showing a few a week. But with 20-odd channels, that still means there are at least 50 movies being shown each week—and odds are there are at least a few I haven’t seen. Combine this with my NetFlix subscription (which I use almost exclusively to watch older movies that aren’t likely to be shown on TV), and it’s pretty easy to rack up 5-7 new movies a week.

Of course, that may not be a goal everyone shares. Hmm.