I collect them. I like 2+ disk versions and uncensored, so you have to go to places like Rewind, Movie Censorship, Melonfarmers etc. in order to select the best version of any DVD you might want to buy. Not only do the film producers censor certain movies for UK release, the BBFC also lend a hand on occasion. As most movies are released from the states, you can't get around any cuts the MPAA may require.
ETA. General comment. It's quite common for the R1 release of a DVD has better extras than the R2 UK release. If you don't even know what R1 or R2 means, then I suggest you need to learn up fast.
ETA1. If you receive a DVD that has a non white colour (dye) on the back, it is a fake. Needless to say, I can spot a fake DVD a mile off.
Hardly any. I watch a film once then I want to watch a different one. It's not like music that you can listen to time and again. Just have a few that I might not find again, like Alias Smith and Jones and The Old Grey Whistle Test.
All my films are on a media server which has a piece of software I run on a netbook (XBMC) which runs it to the TV's in the house. I've got about 1500 movies on it.
Recently I've been transferring all my DVDs onto a Media Server though so I can stick them up in the loft (keeping the Blu-Rays for now though due to the file size and quality concerns). Getting towards the end of the DVDs now and my library is showing as 724 films and 124 TV series (364 Seasons, 3801 Episodes).
Will be 16 years this February that I bought my first 3 DVDs (Jerry Maquire, Mars Attacks and The Toxic Avenger, for £70!) so been collecting quite a long time.
Have a collection of 300+ in the garage, all top notch films (I'm very fussy) but haven't bought any for a couple of years. Still great to delve into on a rainy weekend, if I have nothing better to do.
I currently have something like 1900 DVD's/Blu-rays, but that includes sets with multiple films/disc.
I've been buying them for about 13 years, and a lot of them aren't readily available in the UK (foreign films/animation), or have been bought either cheap as individual discs (especially with the likes of Zoverstocks on Amazon), or as multi disc sets.
I think my most expensive single disk was something like a £40 collectors edition of one of my favourite films, and cheapest something like 50p a disc for some of the TV series sets (3rd rock from the sun, that 70's show etc).
I have a tendency to buy them when either the price drops to a point where I'm happy to splash out on it, or in the case of multi film sets, where the price of the set is less than the cost of the films in it I want to watch (for example it was cheaper to buy the David Lynch set than buy the two films in it I wanted to see, same with Jerry Brockenheimer, Stanley Kubrick etc).
I'm never short of something to watch, the problems tends to be choosing what exactly to watch, or finding the time to watch them (I've got about a 30+ disc backlog at the moment of new films, mainly thanks to amazon deals and multi film sets).
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Anyone with a reasonably large collection may well find DVD Profiler handy, it's relatively cheap (about £20 for the PC version, same for the mobile versions), and you enter the barcode of the DVD/blu-ray (either manually, or using a scanner), and it lets you easily catalogue your collection with all sorts of information.
Very handy to avoid buying duplicates, or if you can't remember if you've got a particular film (it also lets you mark them as loaned out, and to who, which is really handy if you do lend them out at all).
Hardly any. I watch a film once then I want to watch a different one. It's not like music that you can listen to time and again. Just have a few that I might not find again, like Alias Smith and Jones and The Old Grey Whistle Test.
I am the opposite to you. Hardly ever listen to music but I watch films all the time, over and over.
Probably around 100 I love watching films, some are a bit obscure or not that popular so when I see them on ebay or amazon I grab them. Two that spring to mind are Guarding Tess and Keeping Mum, neither were big hits but I really love them.
I don't buy DVDs that often. I only get films/documentaries etc that I really think I'd like. If we're talking individual discs, I have a lot. This is because I have complete series as well as films and documentaries.
I collect them. I like 2+ disk versions and uncensored, so you have to go to places like Rewind, Movie Censorship, Melonfarmers etc. in order to select the best version of any DVD you might want to buy. Not only do the film producers censor certain movies for UK release, the BBFC also lend a hand on occasion. As most movies are released from the states, you can't get around any cuts the MPAA may require.
ETA. General comment. It's quite common for the R1 release of a DVD has better extras than the R2 UK release. If you don't even know what R1 or R2 means, then I suggest you need to learn up fast.
ETA1. If you receive a DVD that has a non white colour (dye) on the back, it is a fake. Needless to say, I can spot a fake DVD a mile off.
Genuine pre-recorded DVDs don't have a white colour under them anyway, they have a very pale yellow or grey colour. Besides, you can buy DVD discs that have the same colour as the ones you buy with films etc on them. They are obviously more expensive to buy though.
Genuine pre-recorded DVDs don't have a white colour under them anyway, they have a very pale yellow or grey colour. Besides, you can buy DVD discs that have the same colour as the ones you buy with films etc on them. They are obviously more expensive to buy though.
Yeah, my white is your grey. Regarding the latter point, maybe you are talking about Taiyo Yuden.
Recently I've been transferring all my DVDs onto a Media Server though so I can stick them up in the loft (keeping the Blu-Rays for now though due to the file size and quality concerns). Getting towards the end of the DVDs now and my library is showing as 724 films and 124 TV series (364 Seasons, 3801 Episodes).
Will be 16 years this February that I bought my first 3 DVDs (Jerry Maquire, Mars Attacks and The Toxic Avenger, for £70!) so been collecting quite a long time.
Surely sticking them in the loft is risky because you may find yourself in the same situation as people who stockpiled videos years ago. Just a pile of worthless junk.
At least 200 all over the house. My husband has shelves in the living room, my daughter moved most of hers to the empty bedroom and kept only the ones she liked, I have about 10. It was less with our son moving out and taking all his with him but now oldest son is moving to a smaller flat and gave us a box full of dvds to store in the empty bedroom
I have a lot, probably about 200. I have to say that I donated about 50 to our local fete last year to sell. I will probably do the same again this year.
Funds are tight at the moment so I don't buy so much these days.
I prefer to buy TV box sets at the moment and the very best films that I know I'll watch for a long time.
Favourites in my collection are
Harry Potter
Dark Knight Trilogy
Revolution Series 1
Doctor Who
Father Ted
James Bond
Star Trek
Indiana Jones Quadrilogy
24
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Fawlty Towers
Vicar of Dibley
I've chucked out/recycled a ton of DVDs and books recently. Have about 60 books left and around the same of DVDs, including boxsets. The extra space is fab.
I rarely buy DVDs but I usually receive them from family & friends at my birthdays & Christmases.
Thanks to this thread as I've discovered today that my children have more DVDs than I have at the moment - Mine stands at 63 compared to my children's 122 (almost double)! :eek:
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ETA. General comment. It's quite common for the R1 release of a DVD has better extras than the R2 UK release. If you don't even know what R1 or R2 means, then I suggest you need to learn up fast.
ETA1. If you receive a DVD that has a non white colour (dye) on the back, it is a fake. Needless to say, I can spot a fake DVD a mile off.
Given them all away now, though.
All my DVDs are in the loft or moved on.
Recently I've been transferring all my DVDs onto a Media Server though so I can stick them up in the loft (keeping the Blu-Rays for now though due to the file size and quality concerns). Getting towards the end of the DVDs now and my library is showing as 724 films and 124 TV series (364 Seasons, 3801 Episodes).
Will be 16 years this February that I bought my first 3 DVDs (Jerry Maquire, Mars Attacks and The Toxic Avenger, for £70!) so been collecting quite a long time.
I've been buying them for about 13 years, and a lot of them aren't readily available in the UK (foreign films/animation), or have been bought either cheap as individual discs (especially with the likes of Zoverstocks on Amazon), or as multi disc sets.
I think my most expensive single disk was something like a £40 collectors edition of one of my favourite films, and cheapest something like 50p a disc for some of the TV series sets (3rd rock from the sun, that 70's show etc).
I have a tendency to buy them when either the price drops to a point where I'm happy to splash out on it, or in the case of multi film sets, where the price of the set is less than the cost of the films in it I want to watch (for example it was cheaper to buy the David Lynch set than buy the two films in it I wanted to see, same with Jerry Brockenheimer, Stanley Kubrick etc).
I'm never short of something to watch, the problems tends to be choosing what exactly to watch, or finding the time to watch them
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Anyone with a reasonably large collection may well find DVD Profiler handy, it's relatively cheap (about £20 for the PC version, same for the mobile versions), and you enter the barcode of the DVD/blu-ray (either manually, or using a scanner), and it lets you easily catalogue your collection with all sorts of information.
Very handy to avoid buying duplicates, or if you can't remember if you've got a particular film (it also lets you mark them as loaned out, and to who, which is really handy if you do lend them out at all).
I am the opposite to you. Hardly ever listen to music but I watch films all the time, over and over.
Have around 250 dvds in my collection.
Genuine pre-recorded DVDs don't have a white colour under them anyway, they have a very pale yellow or grey colour. Besides, you can buy DVD discs that have the same colour as the ones you buy with films etc on them. They are obviously more expensive to buy though.
Yeah, my white is your grey. Regarding the latter point, maybe you are talking about Taiyo Yuden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiyo_Yuden
Verbatim blanks, which I consider to be one of the best for blanks, as far as I know are usually not grey/white etc.
Surely sticking them in the loft is risky because you may find yourself in the same situation as people who stockpiled videos years ago. Just a pile of worthless junk.
I prefer to buy TV box sets at the moment and the very best films that I know I'll watch for a long time.
Favourites in my collection are
Harry Potter
Dark Knight Trilogy
Revolution Series 1
Doctor Who
Father Ted
James Bond
Star Trek
Indiana Jones Quadrilogy
24
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Fawlty Towers
Vicar of Dibley
Plenty of directors cut/extended edition movies
Thanks to this thread as I've discovered today that my children have more DVDs than I have at the moment - Mine stands at 63 compared to my children's 122 (almost double)! :eek: