Sorry to dig this thread up again, but figured some of you may have increased your count. I just bought a Wii, with an optical drive. I don't "think" it will play DVDs (or CDs for that matter), but figured I should mention it in case it does.

Also, since I made the first post, I've added a new computer to the living room with a DVD player/burner. That gives me 19 at least. Still two people for 9.5 each.

LOL so what are your favourite 9 movies to watch all at the same time??

Good question, Stealth. Sadly, despite the number of DVD players I own, I've never watched more than two at the same time. There has been at least one moment in time that a DVD was playing on the office PC, the living room DVD deck, and the master bedroom DVD deck. There were three people (a brother was staying with us) each watching a different movie in different rooms.

And thinking more about the original question, I'll have to add "Any Notebook or desktop PC on my home network, even if they don't have a DVD drive, can still play DVDs backed up onto a Hard drive shared on the network." So since both desktops have DVD drives of their own I won't count them, but two notebooks that don't have DVD drives can access the DVD files and play them, so plus 2 for 21. OMFG!

i have 11 ..... 10 in my house and 1 in the truck.....and i live alone most of the time..... kids wednesday and thursday night...........

so my ratio is pretty hi?

With kids (2?) on two of seven days, you have 3 people but not 3 per day. Just you for 5 days is 5 people/days, and the kids and you for two days is 6 people/days. 11 total people days per week is an 11/7 (1.57) person average. So your actual ratio, ceied, is 11(dvd players)/1.57(people per day) or 7. If you've got more than 2 kids, that ratio gets smaller. Nice try, though! ;-)

wtf that makes no sense to me.... explain in english =)

let's take a simple example, let's someone lives by himself but has 1 kid that spends 1/2 a year with him then that should be 1.5 people for the home. If the person has that 1 kid for 1/4 of the year then it is 1.25 people.

In essence what he is saying is the equation should be the sum of people * the %of days the people spend there. If someone lives there 100% of the time they count as 1 if they live there 50% then they are worth .5 and if 20% then .2

Oops, I'm sorry. I must have slipped into "davish", my personal language. Anthony apparently also knows a little davish, because I understand his description.

You don't have your kids all the time, so we can't say you are two or three people sharing the DVD players you own. You live there all the time (I suppose) and are a clear one (1 person). Any kid that lives there a fraction of a year is a fractional person. Kids living there 2 out of every 7 days are 2/7th people. Two 2/7th kids add up to one 4/7th kid. If your kids never watch DVDs at your house, you can forget this all and go back to your original DVDplayer/person count. I started the thread so I get to make up the rules. ;-)

LOL!!

I added a one terabyte ethernet drive to my network yesterday and am slowly copying my DVD and Music files to it. Once that's done, I'll be able to access those files anywhere I am with internet access, and if I have something that can play the files I can play them.

If anyone else is interested, BestBuy has the drive I'm talking about for sale this week.

Painful thing is that to copy to it I have to use an internet site which means my copy rate is limited to my network speed. The drive is visible an accessible on my local gigabyte network at gigabyte speeds, but I can't write to it over that path. Every time I try I get a "Permission Denied" error. The web interface is fine for small files and music files, but painfully slow for DVD copying.

I am so insane. Not only did I pick up an external DVD dual layer burner with lightscribe (adding one more DVD player to my list) but my local Aldis store has such a great price on a PC that I'm picking one up today for the basement office. It's also got a dual layer DVD burner in it. Aldis doesn't do credit cards (only debit and cash) or I would have picked it up last night.

So my count is now in the hundreds, I'm guessing. ;-)