Do any of you have a lot of unwatched digital movies/shows in your collection?

[MrHT]

The funny thing with digital movies and tv shows is that there are tons of great deals that pop up. And since digital movies/tv shows are not physical copies, I don't have to worry about defects and therefore, I don't feel pressured to watch after I buy. So I grab movies and tv shows when I see good sales pop up, but these sales just pop up faster than I can watch them. I already have a plethora of movies and shows accumulated in my collection that I haven't gotten around to watching, and this year's Black Friday sales really killed me with the amount of deals that occurred. So I bought a lot more stuff, and a lot of TV shows too. So I really have a lot of things to watch. And I'm sure this isn't the end of the deals and there's probably more to come in the months ahead. So the amount of content unwatched is likely to continue to multiply to the point where I will probably die of old age before being able to watch all my digital content, assuming my content doesn't get taken away from me (which is the big risk of going digital).

So does anyone here have the same issue where you have a lot of purchased digital movies and shows that are unwatched and continue to accumulate?

[jtu128]

I've bought a few in the past because they're so cheap but same as you I don't really watch them like I would if I have a physical copy on the shelf.

[Vilya]

I do have a fair amount of unwatched digital content, like I do with discs for that matter, but my digital collection was never really intended for my use, anyway. I share access to my digital collection with my family and friends and I often add titles to my digital collection that I think that they would enjoy. Naturally, I redeem all of the codes that come with my discs, but I make digital purchases, too.

Sharing my digital library also makes it lot easier to decline any requests to borrow my discs.

I already have more content, physical and digital, than I will get watched before I die. This is no different than my books that I won't read, my video games that I won't play, or my music that will go unheard- just to name a few more things that I won't fully utilize in the time remaining to me. Eventually, we all just run out of time.

[drb999]

Yeah I have a few.

[MrHT]

You guys are better than me if you only have a few. With me, I have a ton. I think I have a sickness! But then again, I no longer subscribe to any streaming services, so that’s why I buy so much. Gives me a nice selection of content to watch without committing to pay monthly subscription fees.

[DeanJames]

Originally Posted by MrHT

I think I have a sickness!

This probably applies to most folks who visit Blu-ray.com

When you get into the thousand mark it would be difficult to keep up. And if you have additional hobbies it is worse. Big sports nut here and I spend so much time watching football and basketball which takes up so much time. I force myself to watch two movies a week. I will never catch up. At 2494 on VUDU/Fah.

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by DeanJames

This probably applies to most folks who visit Blu-ray.com

When you get into the thousand mark it would be difficult to keep up. And if you have additional hobbies it is worse. Big sports nut here and I spend so much time watching football and basketball which takes up so much time. I force myself to watch two movies a week. I will never catch up. At 2494 on VUDU/Fah.

This is how I know I'm getting old because when I was a kid growing up in the 1990s, the amount of TV shows and movies wasn't nearly as much. And new content wasn't coming out nearly as quickly. Most new TV shows were shown on a handful of OTA channels and that's it. And movies were usually released in theaters and stayed in theaters for several months before making its way on home video. And times were even simpler in the 1950s when my dad grew up.

Now, we get tv shows coming from everywhere, whether it be OTA channels, Netflix, Max, Paramount Plus, Prime, etc. Same goes with movies. They come and go in theaters so quickly and also there are exclusive movies on streaming services as well. There's just so much being churned out one after the other that it's overwhelming how much there is to watch. So it's easy to jump and say, oh I want to see this show and that show. But we only have so much time in our lives. We end up wanting to see and own more than what time allows. Not so much a problem back in the 1990s, but a big problem today because there's just too much content coming from all over.

[meremortal]

Probably most of them. I've been focusing more on trying to give more physical media a watch to reduce clutter.

[meremortal]

Agree with the above comments. It just did not seem overwhelming to follow tv or movies in the 90s. Movies often stayed in theaters for a decent while and there were far fewer channels. Binge watching entire series was just not a thing. Nearly everyone watched episodes as they aired and then watched episodes in syndication/re-runs. It was so much fun to visit video stores multiple times per week and rent stuff based on the box art and marketing. Premium channels like Showtime, TMC and so forth also seemed a lot more unique back then and had a ton of variety of content.

[Chad Rouch]

I bought that Columbia 100 movie bundle about a year ago and have watched maybe 20 so far. A lot of them I haven't ever seen. I did find a gem in there, "Robin and Marion" which I had never seen. "Ride Lonesome" was another interesting movie I had never even heard of.