Lifer blog was about mostly my short prose about nature, personal experiences in Sri Lanka, Poetry, my personal writings in the period of 2010 to 2014, Sinhalese and Sri Lankan reviews of films from the period of 2020 to 2021 and my personal goals and resolution achievement for the period of 2020 to 2021.
This was mostly superficial writings but were interactive due to use of photos.
This post is a stark contrast due to it's difference in many aspects of life and also my rate of posting have declined drastically from 2017 to 2019, which is a good thing because of the irrelevance of things I share.
VCD-DVD-Bluray haul removal is the title of this post. This is a personal story of our family where we invested a hell of a lot of money on VCD-DVD-Bluray from the period of 2005 to 2014.
I also downloaded 1500 torrent based films wasting a significant amount of data from my home internet package.
And also due to these hobbies, my education was dismantled partly leading to depression.
So this is kind of a cautionary tale with a nostalghic touch about memories 20 years ago.
I reviewed many films I watched and was posted them as blog posts. The link to the relevant blog posts are below. These reviews were added to IMDB as well.
https://dimademoviefreak.blogspot.com/
I also prepared a list of films and television shows I watched as a blog post and also quoted John Lennon saying " Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time". The link is below.
https://daysofmylifeupdated.blogspot.com/2018/08/artistic-meditation-making-hypothesis.html
My father and three of us purchased around 1000 films from film shops all around Sri Lanka, mainly Colombo and Gampaha. We even downloaded many films from illegal torrent websites since 2012. (YIFY now YTS, Piratebay, 1337x and Kickasstorrents) Many of the films we purchased and downloaded is against copyright laws but not in Sri Lanka. This is a 3rd world experience.
Many films we purchased were Hollywood, Bollywood or Tollywood.
Since our family were film fanatics we were ardent followers of Sinhala Cinema as well. Many old Sinhala films were purchased from Torana film shops in Sri Lanka. Now they are mostly in Youtube which shows our bad investments without value.
We were able to witness VCD to DVD and DVD to Bluray transition which reflected the technological advancements of the world.
And also since 2018 there were streaming services like Gluoo (For Sinhala films) and Netflix (For Hollywood films).
There were special DVD's with multiple films called Collections which provided high value but had low quality films.
These film CD's have bad environmental impact which reflects the carbon footprint. We were involved in as a hobby.
We purchased some originals from Singapore and other airport duty free shops during our trips. It was a great addition to our CD collection.
Special mentions should be made of the large 'Criterion' film collection we purchased from T.H. Entertainment, Kiribathgoda (Now Closed) It unlocked us to Europe (Ingmar Bergman), Japan (Akira Kurasowa) and India (Salaam Bombay).
Eagle DVD shop which was in front of Majestic City was a cost effective DVD shop which allowed us to buy a lot of films to a lesser price.
Overall it was a bad investment but also gave a great entertainment.
My advise to my post reader's is to know your limits.
