Your Movie Collection: How BIG is it?

[Todd Anderson]

I know we have some fairly hardcore collectors on here... I'm curious to know where folks fall on the collection size scale.

If you're a frequent buyer, what drives your decision on what to buy?

 

[Todd Anderson]

Just to start... I typically only buy old favorites and new titles that I *think* will be keepers. I'm really not a broad net kind of collector and will typically resell movies that I didn't like. I think I'm close to (or slightly over) 500 titles...

 

[phillihp23]

I have three main catagories I have been collecting movies under.
1. AL Pacino (not so much anymore) Have most all the movies up until about 2015. Some had to be self converted from VHS to DVD.
2. Robert Deniro (not so much anymore) Have most all the movies up until about 2015. Some had to be self converted from VHS to DVD.
3. Movies IMO that are solid or part of a series I am collecting. Mostly solid action movies, Police Drama's, Comic Book based (super hero type), Series like Rocky, Die Hard, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings etc.

 

[NBPK402]

I used to have almost 1k DVDs, but I let them go when I started my BR collection. I now have almost 300 BRs, and maybe a dozen 4k discs.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

I sell mine off every few years, or at least the ones I don't really care for any longer. It's about that time again too.

 

[leecreek]

CED discs, Laser Discs, VHS tapes, DVD's and now BluRays And I never sell nothing. I didn't think I had so many DVD's until I emptied out my Sony Carousel player when it started messing up. i really liked that thing. Need someone to make one that will do BluRays too.

 

[Todd Anderson]

@leecreek How are your Laser Discs holding up? Do you still watch them? I've read that they aren't holding up that well...

 

[NBPK402]

CED discs, Laser Discs, VHS tapes, DVD's and now BluRays And I never sell nothing. I didn't think I had so many DVD's until I emptied out my Sony Carousel player when it started messing up. i really liked that thing. Need someone to make one that will do BluRays too.

I believe Sony has a carousel that is for BR discs, but it is around $1k as I recall,

 

[leecreek]

@leecreek How are your Laser Discs holding up? Do you still watch them? I've read that they aren't holding up that well...

I do not watch them any more. The old Pioneer bit it a while back.

 

[leecreek]

I believe Sony has a carousel that is for BR discs, but it is around $1k as I recall,

Now that would be a good thing. I checked around the first of the year and didn't see a thing that interested me. I was just so happy that the Carousel didn't just stop working. It had a mind of its own sometimes so I did get to empty it and get it off the bottom of the cabinet while under power. Kinda curious how much it weighed tho. But it did hold 400 discs....It was around 20 years old. And it still sits in my shop. Pack rat..

 

[Todd Anderson]

I believe Sony has a carousel that is for BR discs, but it is around $1k as I recall,

Sure seems like a hard disc media servers would trump a carousel! That's not a world I'm all that familiar with... anyone have their collection on a server?

 

[leecreek]

My music here is on a old Dell computer living its last life as a server (XP lives). But just the Music. All the DVD's were in the Sony

 

[phillihp23]

Sure seems like a hard disc media servers would trump a carousel! That's not a world I'm all that familiar with... anyone have their collection on a server?

At one point I was putting mine on a server, problem is that it is time consuming, then had hard drive failures and decided it was not a time effective means to maintain. Besides Vudu works for me, and no maintenance.

 

[phillihp23]

I do not watch them any more. The old Pioneer bit it a while back.

Turn them into deco wall art?

 

[Asere]

Between DVD and BD combined I own over 2000.

 

[BD55]

Probably between 250 and 300. As our kids have gotten older, the number of kid movies has grown exponentially to the point where I'd say nearly a third of the collection is for our younger viewing audience. Thank goodness most of them are watchable.

 

[leecreek]

Turn them into deco wall art?

Walls mostly full. We have lived in this house for 37 tears or so...But a good idea. With the lasers and the RCA CED Discs I might not need to paint.

 

[leecreek]

browsed around this morning. I just can't see 8x times the cost of the old truck I bought for a BR carousel.

 

[Tony V.]

At last count I had just over 400 bluray movies, 150 DVDs and over 1000 CDs. I even have two (LOL yes just two) Laser Disks. My Pioneer player still works but have not used it in a few years. The two LDs are the Blues brothers and a very rare National film board animation collection.

 

[Jon Liu]

I have nearly 700 blu-rays and still over 150 DVDs.

I'm a movie collector, as much as my wife will allow/tolerate.

 

[Todd Anderson]

Wow... 700 Blu-rays?

Tony - 1000 CDs??

That's a lot of media right there!

 

[Leonard Caillouet]

I am not a collector of movies. There are not many that I want to watch more than once or twice. I am always looking for something that I have not seen.

 

[Mark C Flick]

I'm with Leonard, I don't watch too many films more than once or twice though there are exceptions like John Wick,Tombstone and some others. I do have a small collection of Star Wars, Star Trek, 007, a few super hero movies and a smattering of others like Bourne, The Fifth Element, Stargate, and Serenity.

 

[JBrax]

I have roughly 600 Blu-ray's of which about 15 are 4K UHD. I've definitely slowed my collecting because my local video store rents 4K and I don't want to keep double dipping if/when studios re-release in that format. I do still buy the must haves though.

 

[NBPK402]

Sure seems like a hard disc media servers would trump a carousel! That's not a world I'm all that familiar with... anyone have their collection on a server?

All my Blurays are ripped to my UnRaid 20T NAS, along with all my music. At this point I am not ripping my 4k though as I haven't found a way to rip them.