you have it on DVD?

I do it all the time. Don't know why. It's strange.
I know I have the DVD but I see a movie advertised
on TV, and then watch it. And as I am watching it
I think to myself, why am I watching this with commercials.
and obviously cut, and "formatted to fit this screen" (although
I don't know how they know what screen I have - LOL!)
when I have the DVD. But I still watch it. LOL!

Anyone else do this?

James :)

Yes because I'm too lazy to go through an disorganized collection.

I have an even stranger variation of that habit.

I wait until a movie is on TV, then I put on the DVD.

Here's my reason: I like the sense of "community" when you know that hundreds of thousands of people are watching the same movie as you are. It's just more fun to think of other people enjoying all of the same moments at the same time.

However, I still enjoy the superior quality of DVD.

A perfect example of my viewing habits was this past weekend when MUCH MUSIC here in Canada was showing GREASE. That's one of my favorite movie. The DVD is anamorphic widescreen and 5.1 sound. So I waited until the movie started on TV...then I loaded the DVD into the player and watched it at the same time it was being broadcast!

Usually I avoid watching something on tv if I have the dvd. With the few exceptions of favorites that I can watch over and over sometime has to go by before I feel like seeing a movie again. I watched thew first dvd release of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly when it came out. I bought the newer special edition but probably won't feel like watching it for years. Sometimes I get tired of watching dvd and put on TVLand or TCM before bed and watch old shows and movies over and over even if I have them on dvd, that's the one exception.

I always have a great time watching "A Christmas Story" during the 24-hour marathon every year. I usually end up watching it two or three times while wrapping gifts for the kids.

I am guilty! I will be watching a movie with my mother,and tell her "I got that on DVD", but I still watch it tv.

Yup, if I'm building a model and a good movie is on, i'll leave it on rather than run upstairs and get the DVD. I'm not paying such close attention that it matters.

I just got done watching That Thing You do on tv even though I have it on dvd. I just love the movie and can't turn it off or walk away even though I wanted to finish up my Seaview model which I'm going to do now.

Oh yeah....consider me a founding member of that club! I've been asking that question of fellow movie fans for years. I've still yet to hear a really good reason why we do it.

I'll be sitting there channel surfing and find Jaws or an episode of The Honeymooners on the air. I can actually SEE the DVD or tape just to the right of the TV, but I still watch it. Amazing.

At least I'm not alone in my psychosis. Is there a support group anywhere?

I watched the chopped up and politically correct Blazing Saddles on TBS the other day. Maybe I just like having something to complain about.

"I think he said the new sherrif is nearer."

"No, carnsnabbit!! I sned tha noo shnarifs a nerrer!!"

I think we are creatures of habit - still affected by all of those years waiting (im)patiently for a particular movie or show to come on. Even though we have "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin CB", It wouldn't be the season if we didn't watch when the network airs them.

Sometimes we can't help but live in the moment. Once our attention has been captured by a moving image we enter instantly into a sort of waking dream. Snapping out of a pleasant dream, however briefly, in order to pop in a more properly formatted version of the same dream runs contrary to the way most people are wired.

Bought "The Wizard of Oz" DVD for my daughter 2 years ago and of course she fell in love with it (and I fell in love with it all over again - what a truly perfect film). While I know that the networks still run it yearly, I truly lament the fact that she will never experience the movie as the nearly magical collective "event" that it was in my childhood.

It's funny that this has come up. I have just now cancelled my Cable/Direct TV service. I will have NO programming. All I have is DVD's now so I will HAVE to put them on to watch something.

The reason is watching your own media requires a commitment to focusing on it, whereas something that "happens to be on TV" can be "viewed" much more casually.

How about that one?

Nope.

The only exception being It's A Wonderful Life.

Guilty.

I do this all the time. Several reasons mentioned already are legit. Sense of community and laziness being the most obvious.

I too lament that my kids will never know the anticipation of catching that once-a-year event on TV. They just pop in the disk or tape. My daughter is 3 and has seen Wizard of Oz more times than I had when I was a teenager. Now most people would say that's a good thing that she can watch what she wants when she wants. Having a huge video collection, I would generally agree, but I also think something is lost. When you can watch any film at will, it's no longer an "event."

I'll sometimes watch something out of curiosity. For instance, about the same time the three hour cut of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY was making the rounds last year, one of our local stations showed the movie on a Saturday afternoon.

In a two hour time slot.

Subtract commercials and we're talking about a 90 minute cut of the film. The major omission: The entire bridge sequence. It went directly from the shootout with VanCleef's men to Eastwood firing a cannon at Wallach. Never mind that there is some important exposition in that part of the movie. (Like which grave the gold is supposedly buried in.) This is why I rarely watch movies on commercial TV.