My History with Downloaded Media Viewing

I have been downloading TV shows and movies ever since my brother found out about P2P, and I've gone through several programs like iMesh, Limewire, Kazaa, Azreus now uTorrent.  At home or at the office (and at present at my home-office) the PC stays on throughout the day and night slowly but surely filling up the hard-drive w/ stuff to later help pass the hours with 'tainment both info and enter.
Even my viewing techniques evolved w/ the technology.  I used to burn the video files onto CDs or DVDs.  To save money I then switched to rewriteable discs.  Then DVD players came w/ USB drives, so the discs gave way to flash-drives.  Then external media players came out so now I'm watching them through a LAN cable.  Then people started uploaded hi-definition videos, so I had the TVs in the house (and the internet connection) upgraded w/ more acronyms: LCD and HDMI.  Now as much as possible any TV show or movie I download has to have a resolution of 720p or higher.  Maarte?  You betcha.
     And the mass media outside this country has a lot to offer.  Too much, in fact.  Sometimes it only takes a pilot episode for me to determine whether or I not I want to continue wasting precious bandwidth to keep downloading a particular TV show.  Some shows start out promisingly but peter out after the 3rd or 4th episode for me, so I call quits on them.  Bottom line is this is just for my entertainment and holds no sentimental value for me.  Frankly the only time shows I did end up burning to discs only get watched when a) my internet connection's down or b) I want to watch something while I'm on the treadmill.  Examples seen below:

   

More TV-related anal-retentiveness in the next post.