Chris Thilk on Blogspout.com: This past weekend I attended BlogOrlando, the wonderfully enjoyable and educational social media conference. I had attended last year and this year Josh asked me to lead a session on social media and entertainment.

One question that came up, and which I wanted to focus on now, was this: When everything is available how do you decide what to watch?

Let me explain. Right now if I decide I’m in the mood for a comedy my options are:

* Go to a theater (Options: Ghost Town, Burn After Reading, Tropic Thunder, etc. But more expensive and dependent on scheduling working out.)

* Rent a movie through Netflix (Options: Almost unlimited. Just about whatever I want to find I can find)

* Rent a movie through iTunes (Options: More limited than Netflix, but more immediate gratification since I don’t have to manage a queue and wait for the mailed envelope)

* Find something streaming online (Options: Cruise to Hulu.com, Fancast.com or other site, but dependent on what studios have decided are essentially expendable)

* Find something in my own DVD collection (Options: Largely Marx Bros., Kevin Smith, Monty Python and some other favorites that are comfortable to me but which I still enjoy.)

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