I watch maybe a hundred movies a year, all on DVD, and I've never bought one. I get them all from the local public library. Like most libraries today, it's part of a regional consortium of libraries with a shared on line catalog, so I can get almost any DVD available in region 1. They have, for instance, a blanket order with Criterion, and they are very good about buying items at purchaser request. So basically I can get just about any DVD I could buy, including classic films and the most of the better past and present TV series.

Incidentally, I watch all these on a video projector with a 7 foot screen, which I find provides a much more movie-like experience than even the best and largest state-of-the-art video screen. There is something about the projected image on a large screen in a darkened room which is, for me, essential to making something cinema rather than an imitation of cinema.

CDs are a different matter. The better CDs are a visual and auditory package, with the cover art and notes forming an essential part of it. This is, I think, especially true of folk music CDs. It's a great pity that they are being replaced by mp3s, which don't allow for the same ancillary materials (and putting them on the internet just isn't the same.)

Jon Corelis
Songs by William Blake