This has got to be the single greatest quote I’ve ever read on these boards.
Thanks for making my day 
I have two binders of DVDs, one large-ish one containing (in alphabetical order) my collection of bad movies (think Mystery Science Theatre fodder and you’re on the right track) and a smaller one of good movies (also alphabetical, though allowances are made to keep series with non-alphabetical titles together) mostly received as gifts or bought before I signed up for Netflix.
I’ve also got several DVDs of both kinds lying around waiting for me to put them in the binders and alphabetize them.
ETA: I almost forgot that I’ve also got a row of boxed sets and TV series (mostly anime with occasional exceptions like The Muppet Show thrown in) that are in mostly random order.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society-alphabetically stacked in color coded milk crates by genre.
I have one huge binder that holds like 400 discs which has all of my “western” movie DVDs. It’s actually sorted by genre, with scifi, then horror, then drama, and finally comedy. Aside from genre, they aren’t really in order, aside from keeping a series on the same page
Then I have a second binder with all of my Criterion discs, ordered by spine #, and my other foreign movies in the back
I also have binders for my TV show & cartoon DVDs, and a fourth one for my music DVDs.
I don’t keep the plastic cases, since they take up way too much space, although I do have one big clump of the sleeves clumped away in a drawer. The only cases I keep are the unique ones, such as the 12 disc Lord of the Rings set which looks like a leatherbound book and the Memento one with all the loose papers.
My DVD collection isn’t really huge, but if Netflix had been around ten years ago, it would probably be substantially smaller.
I have about 200 DVD’s. I got probably half of them by joining, quitting, and rejoining the Columbia House DVD Club several times. Actually, I had two accounts that I alternated joining and quitting with. I never paid full club prices except for the few required to fulfill the membership requirements. I would take advantage of any good sales they had. I quit the club thing years ago, though, and slowed my buying down drastically. Part of why I slowed down is that I’ve obtained most of the movies that have strong nostalgic value for me–the ones I loved as a kid.
Now I only buy blu-ray, and only a few of those each year. I’ve gotten better at realizing which movies will have the most replay value for me. I also watch a lot through Netflix.
I’m in the same boat. I have probably 150-200 DVDs, and don’t watch any of them, except the TV collections, which are on a pretty good rotation. I’m also looking to back them up and get them out of sight - but not sure I even want to do that if it involves much of a money investment.
I have Netflix, and there simply isn’t any need to physically own any media these days. Netflix On Demand fills any gap I would need while my one disc is in the mail - and if that isn’t enough, it’s not much more to upgrade to two discs (though I don’t know why it would be.)
Once I upgraded to a PS3 for bluray, I decided I wouldn’t be buying anything. I might get a few used discs if they present themselves for less than $10, but then, only classics or reference-quality movies when I want to watch something pretty.
My goodness.
Mine are alphabetical. I must have over 1000. More, most likely. I have more than I could ever imagine.
Alphabetical for the most part. I have over 1200+ DVDs and in my recent move one of my DVDcases (that was already overflowing) got destroyed, so currently all ‘regular’ movies are in boxes in the storage closet and until I get money for a new case they will stay there. Those shelving units are flimsy and expensive!
My TV show DVD are alphabetical on a dvdcase.
My criterions are organized by spine number (or alphabetical, I forget, I keep switching every time they have to be moved) on the top shelf of another case.
Below on the same case is boxsets that need to stay boxsets. Basically if they can be taken out of the packaging it came in and won’t affect the set (John Waters was just the regular for sale DVDs in a slipcover, etc.) I put them in with the others. Also any special edition that wouldn’t fit in with the regular DVDs is with the boxsets.
On the same case that is followed by music video/concerts organized by artist and then chronologically. Then stand up, alphabetically by comedian with multiple by the same comedian they are put in order by release.
Then comes a series of horror/sci-fi 1-disc/3-movie set DVDs.
Then comes all of Marilyn Monroe’s movies on DVD in alphabetical order.
On the bookcase with my boardgames I have an anime shelf; movies, series, and TV shows. Those are organized alphabetically.
To answer the other questions asked: I have re-watched (not counting TV which gets higher rotation) maybe 20% often, 70% overall. Depends on the film, if I go back to watch commentary, etc. Sadly there are 10% I’ve never seen but those came from boxsets where I’ve watched the other films or DVDs I got for $1 when a brand new video store was closing next to my old place. I’ve also moved away from all my friends and sister who would watch them with me much more often than my fiance (he hates MST3K and doesn’t really get ‘bad’ movies… we are working on it).
Weird.
Very much so. So much that it makes me ill to think about. Sometimes I think even if I only paid $5 for each movie (and obviously some were much more) that is thousands of dollars that I could have spent on something much more important. I feel bad especially because so many of them are still unwatched. I paid full price for some movies when they were first released that I see now on the “bargain shelf” for a couple of bucks and my copy is still in the plastic. Ugh…I feel bad just thinking about it now.
I feel the same way about the massive collections of video games around here. 50-100 games per system and we have every system…the PS3 was the most recently acquired but we already have 20 games for it. A brand new game is what? $50-$70 and even though many of the games were not bought new or were bought once they had been marked down, and this is spread out over 20 years or so those games still represent a potential college fund or a potential down payment on a house, or just so many things that I could have done if I had all that money at once instead of piddling it away on games that are now gathering dust (since only the most recent get played).
I have 2589 DVDs, though a bunch of them are entire seasons of TV shows, so the disk count is much larger. I make no attempt to group them in any coherent way, but I keep a database of them on my computer, which syncs to an application on my iPhone. I just put them in labeled boxes; I’ve got “convenient” boxes which are plastic storage bins sized specifically for DVDs (~24 per box, 47 boxes), much larger cardboard boxes (30-50 per box) stacked in my closets and two DVD racks. It’s easy to browse through the titles on my computer or iPhone, but searching for a given title or actor or director (or whatever) is easier on my computer. It usually takes me about a minute to retrieve any given DVD.
I like watching DVDs multiple times; the story is, of course, not surprising after the first watch, but many aren’t surprising on the first watch, either. If I like particular scenes, particular cinematography, whatever, I’ll happily watch a movie multiple times, and I usually find something enjoyable about just about any movie. I’ve watched the movie Invincible about five times in the past week.
Just doing some quick filtering: I’ve watched 433 of them more than once, and 118 of them five times or more. I keep detailed records.
I’ve got mine sorted into four loose genres (Sci-Fi/ Fantasy, Comic books, Other, and TV), then alphabetized within each genre.
And, yes, I wish I hadn’t bought so many DVDs. But, when I try to look at them, I can’t decide which ones to sell, so I end up keeping all of them. But I’m buying very few these days.
Oh; more than half of my DVDs are bought used, though I never find anything for $2. Between $4 and $8 is more common for me.
Mine are straight up alphabetized with one exception. MST3K stuff has it’s own shelf. And there it’s in episode order with commercial volumes placed after my own amatuer copies.
I only have a few and they are scattered.
Starting whe VHS tapes, I had a general rule that if I didn’t think I would watch it more than five times, it wasn’t worth buying. That was based on average rental and purchase prices. It is harder to come up with a calculated amount but I still generally don’t buy a DVD unless I really think I’ll watch it more than two times and there are few movies in that category.
A few months ago I put all of them on craigslist. I sold about 40, and couldn’t tell you which ones went, as I simply don’t miss them. Let the market decide. If you get an offer for “Little Giants” and you suddenly go, “NO! I cannot relinquish my cherished copy of ‘Little Giants’!”, then tell them it already sold.
By genre roughly. But my shelf is not big enough for them all.
I have over one thousand single dvds (mainly films). Then I have over one thousand box set dvds and documentaries. For the purpose of numbering I count one entire series as one, for example, X files complete collection counts as one dvd. As there are so many I have 5 book cases in my spare room which have my regular dvds in alphabetical order. Then I have the box sets in alphabetical order in my living room. Ones I can not fit are in storage boxes (in order!). I will soon lose my precious collection due to having no money. Ebay are having a free listing deal on for media at the mo so I am selling a few hundred off.
Yesterday I put my video collection into some semblance of order:
Top of shelves: James Bond, most VHS, and DVDs in special packaging.
Top shelf: Foreign, Cult, and Indie
Second shelf: Certain directors and series.
Japanese Horror, Classic Horror, Science Fiction, Drama (pretty much a catch-all), Music, TV Series (U.S. and British), War, Westerns, Family Films, Classics, Comedy.
Total listed: 569.
I didn’t list my copy of The Seven Samurai. Seems I’ve misplaced it. And my VHS copy of The Great Rock And Roll Swindle isn’t where I thought it was, so I haven’t listed it yet. There’s a box or two of VHS tapes in storage, and I probably won’t list those. I forgot to list the LASER discs.
Oh – I see a few more I forgot…