Our household is not among the five million who splurged for “Dead Man’s Chest” when the DVD launched or among those who saw the hit movie in the theater.

“Dead Man’s Chest” also is on track to unseat the previous live-action record-holder for DVD sales, “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” which sold about 16 million DVD copies and 2 million home-video units, a Disney spokesman said.

Maybe it’s just me but when I saw the new Pirates DVD I said to myself: wait for the special DVD trilogy set. We all know that’s coming and I’m certain it will contain all sorts of cool footage that makes the version in stores now look like an unwise purchase. Yes, I realize the third Pirates movie isn’t even out in the theaters yet, but I think this is one movie I’ll rent online or at Hollywood instead of buying the DVD.

I’m starting to think the same thing with some TV series sets too. Patience for the set and you can save big money. Costco, for example, had all 7 seasons of the West Wing for $150. These were selling for $40 a season for awhile, so that’s almost 50% off when bought as a package. There was also a package DVD set of all the Superman movies, including the newest Superman Returns and a special cut of Superman II at Costco for like $60. Compare that to $15-20 for only Superman Returns and the one off DVD purchase doesn’t seem like a good idea.

Hollywood is making suckers out of us for buying DVDs when they’re first released. I guess the same could be said for buying the first of anything which I’m guilty of doing, so this isn’t a major revelation. We picked up the Alien Quadrilogy for $30 the other day which I saw for $80 when it was first released. Patience, young Luke. We always pay for impatience, don’t we?

Are you like me, waiting for the Pirates set coming in the future? We’ve done the one at a time thing with other series movies and am starting to grow a little weary of being on the non-collector treadmill.

For those who don’t already know, the third installment of the Pirates trilogy is called At World’s End. It might be 2008 or later before the DVD hits shelves, but I bet this will be a smoking trilogy set based on the success of the franchise thus far.

Do you feel suckered as one of the five million for what amounts to buying part 2? Or did you buy it and will still buy the trilogy set? Conflicted marketing for non-collector’s anyway.

• Computer or human packing error in HD DVD movie set from Costco
• Pron Pirates + CGI Skellys = 100,000+ sales
• Wal-mart starts selling Windows-only digital downloads with purchase of DVD
• $16.99 for unlimited streaming from Netflix library of 6,000+ movies
• Did you buy less DVDs/videos in 2006 than 2005?
• Creative DVD packaging for Grease and My Name is Earl