Originally posted by LabRat:
Take SG1. When the new season starts, I want to be able to watch the episodes and discuss them with other fans, right there and then. It becomes more difficult to do that when it's shown in the US in, say, July, and in the UK in October. Not impossible, but it's not the same. By the time we've seen the episode and hop onto the forum to talk about it, the US fans have long since moved on and aren't interested in the main in discussing it any more. And if you're in a country that's got even more of a delay than the UK and are years behind, you've got no chance.
Try watching SG and not having cable. I'm a full year behind everyone else; well, slightly less because of the DVDs.
Speaking of which, I got the first two Atlantis DVDs from Netflix today!