DVDs - do you buy films or TV shows?

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I noticed with the 'new release' section on DVD websites that a large number are TV shows rather than films. When did this happen? The primary attraction for me has always been films rather than TV series' when watching a DVD, it's strange now with all these high-priced boxsets.

What do you mainly buy? Films, TV shows or an equal mixture?
 
TV shows on dvd has been the biggest growth area of the format in recent years.

Unlike VHS ,the companies can now offer attractive entire season sets that are so cheap to produce and can be contained in such little packaging that they have realised that every show in their vaults is marketable at the prices they are able to offer them at.

I now buy far more tv stuff on dvd than movies but I have well over a thousand movies but this is dwarfed by my tv collection.

And long may it continue
 
TV shows seem to be better than most movies these days. There's nothing on the big screen to match The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Dead Like Me, The Sopranos or Six Feet Under when it comes to acting, story, complexity or emotional impact.
They have a scale which permits them to do a lot more than a two (or even three) hour movie can, with a few exceptions, ever hope to achieve.
That's why I seem to buy mainly tv shows. :)
 
I buy both...last three DVRAB I bought were a CSI: New York set, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Xanadu.

And, err, that's a bit of a weird mix. But I buy a mix of both, although I probably have more movies than TV shows because of buying ex-rental videos cheap.
 
There's everything in my dvd collection. Movies, Concerts, DVD games.

Lately I've been collecting the Charlies Angels and Hart To Hart boxsets.
I adore 70's t.v shows like that.

Next I'll be getting the Bionic Woman.
 
I recently got dr who season 2, greys anatomy season 1, and battlestar galactica season 1.

Dr Who was a shot in the dark, as I haven't watched any of the new series.

But mainly I buy movies.
 
I mostly buy films, but have started to buy a lot of television series on dvd instead of watching them on television/or because they have never been on terrestrial television(L Word for one example).

Plus I'm sick of editing and adverts in shows. Like with Lost.
 
I buy both, mainly films though.

The problem with TV boxsets, for me personally, is that their too expensive. I have Phoenix Nights 1+2, Max and Paddy and Ab Fab on DVD.
 
Yeah that's true for me too. Though DVRAB overall do seem to be coming down in price - anything I really want that's too expensive, I wait two or three months and I can usually afford it then.

One TV show I have treated myself to is (don't laugh) Dawson's Creek - I paid whatever price the shop was selling it for every time a new season was released, which would be anything between
 
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