Videophilia

I have six machines hooked to my TV which can play DVDs. Only one of these was actually bought for the primary purpose of playing DVDs on my TV. The others are all either special-function machines or play DVDs as a side benefit of what they were bought for.

For example, I have a Go-Video machine intended to copy my VHS tapes to DVD-R. It will also record from cable, to DVD-R or DVD-RW.

Another machine is region-free (region codes are one of the stupidest things an industry known for doing stupid things has accomplished) so is used to play DVDs from other regions. It will, of course, also play DVDs from this region.

Another machine was purchased to play HD DVDs. (Naturally, right after I bought it the HD format officially died. Or was it murdered?)

I have a modest set of laser discs, and my player was getting old, so last year I bought another one. It also plays DVDs and CDs.

I have a three-format machine which will record to or play Mini-DV video tapes and DVDs, as well as recording on a built-in hard drive.

And so on...

Being a videophile means having considerable redundant capacity.