How do you keep ur dvds?
Alphabetical order?
Or all messed up?
Mine are all in order, but I’m thinking of messing them all up.
I think maybe if they are in no particular order, I might pick a movie to watch more randomly.
I keep them alphabetically. It’s easy, though, 'cause I only have two.
I keep them in stacks in various places around my bedroom. There’s the vaguest attempt to keep seasons of the same TV series/movies within the same series together, and most of my horror movies cohabitate on one shelf, but other than that…
When I had my shelf set up I kept them alphabetically but I separated TV sets from movies. Now I have a crappy shelf setup and they are all random.
Until a few months ago they were kind of jumbled up and not even all in the same room. I finally gritted my teeth. I finally threw out the ridiculously oversized DVD packages and alphabetized the discs in a couple of those CD-file-box-thingies. They take a fraction of the space and they’re always where I want them. If I want to pull one at random, it’s easy enough to do.
I have a really large DVD collection. To save on space, I keep the discs in binders rather than the original boxes. Originally, I made a half-hearted effort to sort them by genres when I was transferring them to the binders but this fell by the wayside and they’re pretty much just in the order I bought them. But I’m now in the midst of sorting them out and arranging them in alphabetical order.
I used to put them all in alphabetical order, but now I group mine by genre. That way when I feel like watching, say, a sci-fi movie, I can just look over that group instead of the whole collection.
Some movies I group by director or actor. I have all my Clint Eastwood movies together, all my Tim Burton movies together, Tarantino, etc.
I have a huge DVD collection that is a mess. I tried the binders and some discs still live in theirs, but mostly it in stacks and stacks in the cabinets of the entertainment center, in various desk drawers and little stacks next to DVD players in various rooms. It is really out of hand.
I actually discovered that I re-purchased several movies I already owned simply because I couldn’t locate them and/or had forgotten about them! One day I will get around to clearing them out and organizing them, Right now I do have a few stacks of “have never watched” and “want to watch with the kids” but I never seem to get around to actually watching any of them, so apparently I just like to acquire DVDs but am not much of a movie watcher. 
By genre, then by a vague secondary association, like release order, or how much I like it.
I also have my most commonly watched DVDs filed in my living room, while the rest are in the spare room, which I call the DVD library.
Alphabetical; most movies and TV shows by title; music, stand-up comedy, and performance art by artist/group name and then in chronological order of release. If I collect movies by certain directors, I group those by director name and then chronological order. I’ll group non-consecutive titles together to unite series; I keep the Qaatsi trilogy together under Q, The Dark Knight is under “B” and shelved right after Batman Begins, 7 Up, et al., are under “U.”
If/when I move in with the girlfriend, I’m planning on putting the discs in paper sleeves and storing them in CD/DVD file boxes, keeping the boxes and liner notes packed away in the basement.
When I was a teenager for a while I used to hang around with a bunch of deaf guys. They drank at the pub that me and my friends went to and really we had very few communication problems.
Anyway, they shared a house and used to have great parties. This was back in the day when vinyl was the sound source. They painted the labels on all their albums black so that you never knew what you were about to play. They could spot which album was which and eventually you would learn to recognize your favorite albums. But it was interesting.
Movies are all kept alphabetically. TV show sets are loosely grouped by genre; I have one set of shelves that are all SF-related shows (which includes things like my Twilight Zone and Night Gallery sets. I need to get another storage unit of some sort, though, as the ones I have are full and I’ve had to start stacking boxed sets on top of the shelf units.
A little off-topic, but I have a few dozen DVDs and I recently had a look for something to watch. I realized that I had watched about 90% of them exactly ONCE and had no burning desire to watch them again. They’re all movies I like, but not a ton more than what’s on TV at any particular moment.
Does anyone with a large collection regret purchasing so many disks? Do you tend to rewatch most of your disks? What percent of your collection have you watched more than once?
I’m thinking of downloading them to my computer (when I get a new one in about a year) and then selling most of them. Any opinions? Thanks.
We have a boatload of them. I’ve been reorganizing them into sleeves, which go into little racks that you can flip through, to save shelf space since the cases are no longer there.
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They’re alphabetized, more or less.
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Anything with a “special” case gets kept intact. Same with Criterion Collection films, big boxed sets, and, so far, Blu-Ray movies.
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Movie series are filed in special ways: all of the James Bond films are under “Bond” and then alphabetically ordered, Evil Dead/Evil Dead II/Army of Darkness are all under “Evil Dead” and in release order, etc.
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Japanese/Korean monster movies/anime/animation are separate.
I’ve got a collection of around 800 titles right now (sounds like a lot, but I’ve been buying since they came out in 1997, so spread out over 12 years it isn’t so bad), and don’t regret purchasing them. It hasn’t cost me much money; through strategic buying, I’d say the average cost per disc is probably around $2… (taking advantage of used DVD clearances at video stores, hitting video stores when they’re going out of business, or buying a mixed lot of DVDs on eBay, keeping the one in the lot I really wanted, then reselling or trading the rest). Picked up around 20 discs for 30 cents apiece at a local Blockbuster’s going-out-of-business sale this weekend; they’re mostly titles that were in my Netflix queue, so they’re titles that interest me.
I tend to rewatch the lighter fare, but if I’ve paid $1 or less for a given film, I’m not that ticked if I only end up watching it once. If I absolutely hate a film and know I’ll never watch it again, I can always trade it with a friend, trade with a video store, or resell.
Oops, forgot your last question. I’d say I’ve rewatched probably 75% of my collection. Of the 25% I haven’t rewatched, some I do plan on rewatching, but haven’t had the time or inclination. Perhaps 10% I won’t watch again, and most of them are trade fodder.
Feature films: Alphabetical, but I keep foreign language separate from english language.
TV & Short collections are kept physically separate as well
Ours are sorta kinda semi-organized by type. Sometimes. There are two large racks and a few stacks. All of the TV shows are together, as are the Westerns. After that things get fuzzy.
Wait, the above sounds more organized than it is. Britich TV is in a different place than Merkin TV.
All messed up in a closet, but DVDs are the one thing I’ve managed not to accumulate. With Netflix I’ve decided that except for a very few favorite movies, I would much rather get a new one on my queue than one I own.
I’ve got mine grouped by HD vs SD. The HD-DVDs and Blu-rays are first on the rack. I’ve probably got about 90 of those. They are mostly in alphabetical order. Similar movies are kept together though, like Batman Begins and the Dark Knight or Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick. After that are my DVD’s. I never was big into DVD’s and only have about 20 of those. They are in alphabetical order. My TV box sets are with my video games because my movie rack is nearly full. My games are listed by system and then alphabetically too.
They are alphabetical (though we keep the TV shows and movies seperate).
Every once in a while my husband will ‘reorganize’ by category or theme or some such. I will then take them and put them back in alpha order when I am looking for one (there’s only about 150 or so, doesn’t take too long).
As for rewatching them, we only buy movies we have seen before and have had a desire to watch again. I would say that there are only a couple we have not watched multiple times.