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And this is newsworthy because? Honest question, I don’t get it.

This isn’t listed under news, this listed under general chat. If you are not interested, move on.

Thank you,

Remember when they came out with those lavish DVD sets for Lord Of The Rings? I bought them all. Unfortunately, I've never been able to get through a single one of them. Just never find the time. I did see the movies in the cinema but never got around to watching them at home with all those extra scenes and whatnot.

In fact, I can say that for most of my DVD collection. For about a 10-year period, I collected over 200 DVDs that are now gathering dust in my basement. I had visions at one time of building a massive DVD library and building a "home theatre" of sorts in my home in which I would invite people over for a truly cinematic experience - sort of like Hugh Hefner in his Playboy mansion.

Alas, that never quite came to pass. Instead, when I am in the mood to watch something, I plug in headphones and run Netflix on my MacBook Pro and watch "House of Cards", "Breaking Bad" or "Lost" on demand. Netflix has mostly lousy movies but they have a decent collection of TV shows that don't have all those commercials.

Getting a DVD to play on the television is actually a hassle by comparison. I have to go down to the basement to find what I want to watch, then I have to insert it into the Blu-Ray DVD player (I still have yet to see a Blu-Ray DVD) and then I have to figure out what buttons on the remote control get me to the DVD and then you have to change the TV to VIDEO 2 or some such setting. Then the audio doesn't come on and you have to go to your stereo receiver and select the right channel to bring in the audio. Such a hassle.

My wife keeps telling me to put the DVDs on Ebay so I can get rid of them (some of them are still shrink-wrapped!) but I'm just too damn lazy I guess.

Well exactly. Peter Jackson and Lord of the Rings are going to be divorced, because hes run out of books to make films of. I suppose you could do bits of the Silmarillion - the tale of Beren and Luthien come to mind, but thats about it.