So Many Movies – Never Enough Time
Today’s fun fact for the movie buffs everywhere, is that American consumers watch an average of 50 movies per year. If you happen to fall into the 18 – 24 demographic, then you rent closer to an average of 88.
What’s interesting about this statistic is that it seems to be way too high compared to most of the people that I know. When I asked my friends and colleagues about how many films they rent per year, they don’t come anywhere close to one per week. Instead I got estimates ranging from one DVD every other month, to one every other week. When I checked my own Netflix queue, I was a little suprised to learn that my own DVD watching habits were a bit lower then I anticipated. According to Netflix, I’ve rented 66 DVDs so far this year. This puts me on track to hit about 76 by the end of the year. It also means that the average DVD cost at Netflix is closer to the $3 mark, then the $1.75 that I try to hit each month.
I place a large part of the blame, on the decline in the number of average DVDs that I watch each week, on the introduction of the TiVo series 3 into my home. Every since I’ve had access to a dual tuner THX high definition televison on demand experience, it’s really cut into my DVD time. It’s also made traditional DVDs less appealling, when I can get a higher resolution experience from television.
Nontheless, my Thanksgiving resolution for this year is to finish watching the La Femme Nikita series and to make it through the final two seasons of Alias. While my normal Netflix method is to only rent one TV show and two movies at any given time, I’ve decided to speed up the process after spending the last 9 months trying to make it through two great spy series and barely being able to make a dent. While some will find the amount of TV that I watch a bit shocking, I’m proud to be doing my part to help lift the national average higher then the other DVD slackers that I know.
Posted on November 21st, 2006 by Davis
Filed under: DVDs, Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Netflix, TiVo