We all like movies we may even have our own collection of favorite classic movies. In the early 80's the format to collect was home video tape, it was Sony Beta versus JVC VHS. Eventually VHS won the tape format wars and the technology stayed on for another 15 years. Then came the Pioneer laser discs those double sided silver foil lined discs the size of an LP record which was read by laser pickups. Pioneer pretty much had the manufacture market cornered for these type of players and laser discs. For a while, I thought it was cool that the movie data were being read by laser pickups so the disc is never physically touched or damaged. Or so I thought, with repetitive playing, the silver foil inside which contains the signals become damaged over time. It was during this time that I collected so much movies perhaps about a hundred or more titles. I really thought that the technology was here to stay, but then came CD and Video CD. I stopped buying movies for a while, hoping that the technology would improve and it did. Then came Digital Video Discs (DVD), I remember buying my first full featured Panasonic DVD 5.1 Channel player for around $1,200.00 which until now works just fine. But the cost of advancing technology has brought down manufacture prices of DVD players to astonishngly low levels of $70 for a modestly featured player which is more than adequate to play newer format DVDs. Now is the best time to catch up on updating your collection of classic favorite movies. The DVD format is compact, full featured with astonishingly clear picture and theater-like surround sound details. If you're adept at computers, you can even load up a copying software to backup your favorite movies on blank DVD's which you can play forever till it self destructs, as you safely store your master DVDs in the collector's rack. Now they're talking of high definition DVD capable of longer playing hours and extended picture definition and user extra features. Meantime, I'll stick to my DVD collection since the format is compact, clear and easy to backup. Maybe someday when they decide to make HD-DVD the new standard, then they'll probably put up for a big clearance sale on Amazon.com all available movies on DVD format. I'll be waiting for that clearance sale, an event I wouldn't miss for anything in the world. As always, enjoy the movies on whatever format. :)