Storing large DVD collection

DeadAgain!?_sl said:

What are ways you guys store your large DVD collections?

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DVD Storage:

Jysin_sl said:

I actually spent a few hours beginning to rip them onto my NAS for streaming, but simply gave up. Takes far too long and I can just torrent what I want in minutes. I actually trashed hundreds of DVDs. Not worth all of the space / hassle.

I purchase only a few BluRay titles a year for exceptional films (LoTR, Game of Thrones, etc).

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When my wife and I first met, we had probably 250-300 DVD's. After a few years that was closer to 400. We eventually realized we didn't watch most of it and sold a good deal of them. Probably kept 100, mostly stuff we thought we'd watch (National Lampoon's movies, Elf, Back to the Future, all her Disney movies). That lasted a few years when we realized that we didn't watch those either. In the end, we sold them all for $2-3 each. It was fun getting a few grand, but we also realized we lost a shit ton of money overall. Much better to just get Netflix for streaming, Redbox for anything new, and download stuff I can't find anywhere else (which is pretty rare nowadays).

So my advice is to offload them at a yard sale while you still can get something for them.

Elurin_sl said:

Probably kept 100, mostly stuff we thought we'd watch (National Lampoon's movies, Elf, Back to the Future, all her Disney movies).

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Damn, I can't imagine what masterpieces you parted with if that's the shit youkept.

I had plenty of good movies, but what are the odds I'm going to sit down and watch A Clockwork Orange? Not fucking likely.

You sir, you have made an enemy for life.

We have a few hundred, only buy the good stuff lately (and only on blu-ray). I find that I never watch a movie a second time, but stuff like Game of Thrones I will always watch again.

I have a couple hundred DVDs and I am highly unlikely to swap to the Blu-Ray format so long as they keep making DVD players.

Assuming Blu-ray sticks around, I will try and skip it and go to the next format (4k? Super Laserdisc? Retinal players? Who knows).

Blu-Ray players play DVDs...

20TB NAS mirrored raid drive, upgrade to 100TB in 5 years to accomodate 4k, fuck storing shit. I still buy really good blurays to support movies/etc I like and give em away as gifts, but download everything for personal consumption.

Only thing that gets me hopping mad is how not a single other person in real life will acknowledge how 1080p is clearly superior to 1080i or 720p from streaming sources/DVR, but its all of them who are wrong and not me I KNOW THE TRUTH. "NOOOOOO LETS NOT WATCH THIS ON NETFLIX GIVE ME AN HOUR TO TORRENT THE 1080P RIP ITS SO MUCH BETTER" but nobody listens

For those of you streaming 1080, what are you streaming to (HTPC?)? I have issues even with some 720 stuff, and I'm wondering if it's because I'm using wireless?

Um why spend an hour downloading when you can just watch it right away? The world isn't going to end.

Elurin_sl said:

I had plenty of good movies, but what are the odds I'm going to sit down and watch A Clockwork Orange? Not fucking likely.

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Whereas you plan to enjoy Elf hundreds of more times in your life? Whatever man, I still have my Stanley Kubrick box set from when they first released all that shit on DVD and every thing except 2001 was in fuckingmono...ugh.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but only the theatrical releases of Eyes Wide Shut, 2001 and of the 70mm version of Spartacus were not in mono.

Don't they have versions with upgraded sound?

Maybe, but that's like Star Wars with upgraded special effects or colorized versions of black & white movies