How many DVD's do you own.

jeffsg4mac

jeffsg4mac

Republican Poster Boy
Just out of curiosity, how many DVD's do you own? at last count I had a little over 500, but I need take a new inventory. How about you?

Funny thing is I never had more than a dozen or so laser disks and about half that of VHS tapes at any one time.
 
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Buckeye_Nut

Audioholic Field Marshall
LOL...nice sig.


I have around 400, but I only started seriously collecting within the past 2-3 years. Before that, I was a rent-aholic.
I know of some people in forums who have 5k+...wow, now that's a lot of DVDs!!!

I joined Netflix last fall and have slowed my purchases. In recent months, I only buy stuff that I really want. IE.... I bought "King Kong" today:)

Yea baby!! We'll be rocking tonight!!
 
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outsider

Audioholic
I think I've got 120 or so.
Most of them are TV shows-South Park, Farscape, Lost, anime.
Around 20 of them are actual movies since there are very few movies I watch often enough to own.
 
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korgoth

Full Audioholic
i probobly have about 1k+
and maybe close to 100 ps2 games..
 
jeffsg4mac

jeffsg4mac

Republican Poster Boy
jetyi83 said:
i probobly have about 1k+
and maybe close to 100 ps2 games..
Whoa, you da man! You don't have much of a life do you?:)
 
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extreme

Audiophyte
I have about 150.. I use a program called DVD profiler to control my collection... Best thing about it is that it lets you enter your DVD's using the serial number and you can publish your collection online so that others can see it.

Ken
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
Tried profiler and I didn't like it. DVD Spot is much easier, though certain titles may not be there. If you find a title that isn't there, anyone can submit the info for review to have it added. You can search by title or UPC and it is very easy to use. Nothing to install or download like profiler and it is free.
 
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Buckeyefan 1

Buckeyefan 1

Audioholic Ninja
Probably only 25. Kids probably have 100.

We rent - have been paying $2 each with a Discover Card cashback bonus program (double rewards).

Now cd's - probably 700 or so, and another 15 gigs of songs on the hard drive.
 
Matt34

Matt34

Moderator
Rough estimate around 300. I bought movie collector but still haven't gotten around to getting them all on there, I even have a barcode scanner.:eek:
 
Rock&Roll Ninja

Rock&Roll Ninja

Audioholic Field Marshall
About 100 or so. I was around 500 at one point, but the upcoming HD formats led me to sell-off my collection (will I really want to watch standard-def movies when new HD transfers are on store shelves?).

Now I mostly buy TV series (which will never look good on HD since many were created on low-def tapes, not film), and rent everything else from Netflix.
 
masak_aer

masak_aer

Senior Audioholic
Now I have the least DVD's in this bunch...I had 175, i gave out 130 to charities...(i dont watch them anyway). So now i only have 45. :D I have 70 CD's and 20Gigs of mp3s.
 
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gnagel

Junior Audioholic
Now I have the least DVD's in this bunch...I had 175, i gave out 130 to charities...(i dont watch them anyway). So now i only have 45. I have 70 CD's and 20Gigs of mp3s.
Now I have the least DVDs in the bunch. I only have 2!

I rent tons of movies, but have little interest in watching a movie more than once. Hence, it doesn't make sense for me to buy a movie.

On the other hand, I have over 9,000 songs on my iPod. I enjoy listening to my favorite songs over and over.
 
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korgoth

Full Audioholic
jeffsg4mac said:
Whoa, you da man! You don't have much of a life do you?:)
lol, yeah well i just like having stuff to watch when i go to bed. funny thing is i dont really even have the time to watch them, or play the ps2 games that often.

most of the time my friends just watch or play them.
 
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philbam

Audiophyte
Have been collecting from the beginning (June 98) and have now amassed approximately 1000 discs - frightening isn't it!!
 
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Jedi2016

Full Audioholic
I have them all listed in a Word document, that's up to 230 lines. But some of those are in box sets and may include more overall discs/films while falling under one title in the document (the Godfather collection, for example).

So figure somewhere between 240-250.

It never occurred to me that there might be computer programs out there to catalog large collections.. duh.. hehe. I might have to check those out.

I need a bigger rack, too. The problem is price.. I'm one of those "poor" DVD collectors. The only reason my collection is so large is because I bought it piecemeal over the course of many years. Getting good deals on release day at Best Buy, things like that. $20 here, $40 there, rather than spending in big chunks (this is the same reason I don't yet own an HDTV).

My original rack, I bought for about thirty or forty dollars. It could hold maybe 150 DVDs. Wooden, with two side supports joined by 1x2s and dowels to hold the discs. Rather than buy a new one when it filled up (which would have cost me at least a hundred bucks, for a rack that could hold several hundred discs), I expanded it myself with a few dollars worth of wood from Home Depot, to twice it's original width. But now it's filling up again (no thanks to Stargate and Star Trek, each of which takes up almost a full shelf). I'm debating on whether I want to move those somewhere else, or expand the shelf again (which will require a third support in the middle, since it looks oddly bowed in the center from the weight.. DVDs are surprisingly heavy in large numbers).
 
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rolski

Audioholic Intern
Have just counted as I really need to invest in some decent racks - I've 473 DVD's & 1152 CD's ! And they're the ones that I can find ! Oh dear, I sense some expensive racking coming my way....
 
Jack Hammer

Jack Hammer

Audioholic Field Marshall
550

I've been collecting movies since dvd first came out. I average a little over one new movie a week, way cheaper than going to the theater to see most, overall.

I use dvd profiler also, it's not a great program, but it was free and allows me to do simple searches. I keep it on my flash drive so I can access it wherever I am.
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
I've been collecting movies since 98 also, but I still don't have 1000...not that many titles that I felt I *must* own, and even some of the ones I own, I could live without.
 
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Johnd

Audioholic Samurai
I've got about 150, and don't anticipate having more than 250 in the next few years as I already own most of the classics, epics and greats that I want.
 
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