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The definitive niche where this happened for me, is sci-fi tv shows on bluray over the 2010s decade. In practice, I have much higher standards for sci-fi tv shows/movies than other niches. For example, I didn't bother buying the Dark Matter blurays after the show was cancelled on a...

I will rip every newly purchased dvd/bluray disc on the computer, once upon arrival at home. This is primarily to check whether there are any bad sectors due to manufacturing defects and/or crappy quality control. Defective discs go back to the retailer for an exchange (or refund). My...

I only started buying a lot of dvds/blurays in 2011. (Before 2011, I had very little to no interest in dvd/bluray). At the time, I already knew about HTPC type stuff. Though I quickly came to the realization a lot of it seemed kinda superfluous, other than for checking whether newly purchased...

The only times I ever felt this way about a particular tv shows, is the original Battlestar Galactica and later Buck Rogers. (Back in the day, I mistakenly thought the latter was a part of the former). I watched the original broadcasts of BG during the brief time my family lived in america...

In practice from a lot of trial and error, I've found that if I'm "on the fence" about a particular title and/or "waiting" for a heavy discount, then there is a high probability that that particular title will end up never being watched at all. For that matter with recording broadcast/cable tv...

(On a tangent). I have noticed in observing my father and other relatives who were long retired, they had large collections of vinyl records, cds, vhs tapes, dvds, etc ... Though since retiring, I noticed they were spending their entire day watching 24 hours news channels like CNN, BBC, DW...

If I ever do have a hobby editing project, it would be the Blacklist complete series dvd set of ten seasons. If it is ever released that is, considering seasons 9 and 10 have not been released on dvd/bluray in region1/A america. It would involve editing all the segments with James Spader's...

My issue is not cost. My main issue is the time/effort in ripping something I only end up watching once or twice, and whatever becoming clutter collecting dust on my bookshelves or n storage. My personal free time is more "valuable" to me, than ripping multiple bluray discs I'll likely never...

If I'm likely to only watch something once, then there is no point in buying the bluray or 4Kbluray versions. Easier to just watch it on a streaming service, or in reruns. I don't buy many highly serialized shows anymore. Very few are ever watched again. The remaining stuff I'll still buy...

For generic procedurals (such as Criminal Minds, CSI, NCIS, etc ....), I just extract the individual episodes into their own *.vob files, and play them in a random order in the background when I'm at home. (I don't currently subscribe to basic cable channels which play NCIS or CSI reruns all day).