I am a gigantic movie watcher and I should have purchased some stock in Blockbuster because I am always there renting and returning flicks for my high definition television.
The workers at our local Little Rock store even know me by name. I am not ashamed though, I love movies, and they give me an escape from my long brutal day at work. One day after viewing my latest rental, I was channel surfing and I discovered some HD channels I didn't even realize I had.
One of these was part of the pay per view feature through my satellite provider. I was growing with excitement as I browsed down the list of movies I haven't seen. Many of them weren't available at my video store because they were sold out.
I found at minimal three of them I desired to watch that weekend. I decided to settle on one just to see the difference in the DVD HD quality image versus the pay per view movie. As soon as it started, I noticed a difference.
Novels, with a few famous exceptions, usually pretend that we have never read a novel before in our lives, and may never read another after this one. movies, on the other hand, tend to assume that we spend every waking moment at the pictures, that anyone who has found his or her way to the cinema is a moviegoer, a regular, an addict.... movies rely on our experience of other movies, on a living tradition of the kind that literary critics always used to be mourning for, because it died in the seventeenth century or fizzled out with D. H. Lawrence. The movie tradition, of course, specializes in light comedy, well-made thrillers, frothy musicals, and weepy melodramas, rather than in such works as Donne’s Holy Sonnets or George Eliot’s Middlemarch; and we shouldn’t listen too seriously to the siren voices of those critics who claim big things for Hollywood movies as art. But there is a tradition. We have in our heads as we sit in the cinema a sense of all the films we have seen, a range of common reference which is the Greek and Latin of the movies, our classical education.
—Michael Wood (b. 1936)
Wow, was I in trouble now, I no longer will have time to do the long "to do" list I have at home because I have discovered HD pay per view. After going through almost every picture in the list, I had to go back to DVD store.
It has been a month since I visited the store and they were all worried because they didn't know what happened to their most common consumer. I told the associates about my discovery and they were all grinning nodding their heads.
I picked up five more movies and returned home. Several nights later, I checked the high definition channel for pay per view movies and there were several new ones available. I was so joyous that my cable co. was on top of my needs and delivered such great flicks in quality high definition picture.
I returned the flicks to the rental store and returned to my television for movie watching. Having HD movies available with a few presses of my remote controller has helped me save time, money and gas.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
The high definition pay per view movies are way less than the ones at Blockbuster and I don't have to journey 10 miles all the time anymore. I see my friends at the store about once a week now because that is all it takes for me to get what I need in between the time my cable company offers new movies for me to observe.
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