I got my dvd about a year and a half ago and I bought about 25 dvds the first 3 months...but during that time I purchased the must have movies that I wanted...now I may buy a movie every month...I just started renting about 3 months ago and I only do that for movies I havent seen yet...Also if I dont know how good the movie is I dont want to spend $20 and it suck...btw Hollywood $3 every movie and you get them for 5 days so that helps out with renting