TomV TV

1. The way the cardboard sleeves that come with box sets make you feel like a bad parent the minute you accidentally crush them having not been bothered to put them back around the main disk holding bit

2. The way that shared houses make their occupants look like they do little other than watch DVDs due to the sheer quantity of DVDs that the average tweenager owns

3. The fact the (2) is particularly unfair given the fact that 95% of DVDs are never ever watched

4. The guilt one feels when one of the remaining 5% appears on TV and you watch it anyway with adverts in it

5. The strange dust/grease hybrid that forms on DVD cases

6. The rude and accusatory messages DVD players (particularly old Xboxes) give you when they can’t recognise a DVD: you are a criminal, this isn’t even a DVD, you should take better care of your stuff etc…

7. The bizarre tension that results from having managed to get a slightly scratched DVD to play but then wondering whether a frozen frame is a dramatic device or a sign that your entertainment is about to be ruined

8. That DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk, an acronym that is only two thirds true, unless you count emergency Frisbee/ninja star use

9. The ability to loses entire weekends to a recently acquired box-set (not strictly the fault of DVDs)

10. That the whole Blu-ray nonsense is about to make this all much much worse

Insight to action:
Sell the 95%, get the 5% onto a hard disk, investigate the whole media centre concept, have clearer spaces in main living area, laugh at fools stumbling into next format war.

(though if anyone has season 3 of the OC that would be awesome)