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Title: DVD Collections
Post by: Russell on April 26, 2007, 20:00:36 PM
Just been addding a few more DVDs to my DVD Profiler and it got me thinking, I finished uni in 2002 with around 60-70 DVDs and now Im up to 360, 300 DVDs or so in 5 years.  Not many compared to some, a guy at work has, at his best guess about, 2000 which is rather a lot.

Heres my DVD Profiler http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/russellcram

So how many DVDs have people got?  And lets see other peoples DVD Profilers/Collections.
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Pete on April 26, 2007, 20:41:28 PM
~12 in the whole family. VHS til I die  :mrgreen:  
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Russell on April 26, 2007, 21:04:06 PM
Quote from: sdp~12 in the whole family. VHS til I die  :mrgreen:  

*Points gun at sdp, pulls trigger *BANG*, problem solved*

VHS are just horrible, I had around 150 and I gave them all to a local charity shop, they take up soo much space compared to DVD, look and sound crap and only get worse over time.  Go buy more DVDs, you know you want to, erm well unless of course you dont watch fims/tv much of course then itd be a bit of a waste lol
Title: DVD Collections
Post by: maximusotter on April 26, 2007, 22:19:58 PM
I dont see the point in owning DVDs when I can rent them as needed. :mrgreen:
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Smugs on April 26, 2007, 22:21:27 PM
188

I have tended to buy box sets of TV series lately which can be a sod for space.

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=smugs

My first dvd I ever bought was the 2 disc Matrix special edition before I even had a dedicated DVD player(used my PS2).
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: BigSoy on April 27, 2007, 00:18:55 AM
Quote from: sdp~12 in the whole family. VHS til I die  :mrgreen:  

Bah, double-gay-super-duper-blue-ray only for me Im afraid, one zillion films in 34239423904902348902384 x 2342342345683452435.

Oh wait....

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Title: DVD Collections
Post by: Goblin on April 27, 2007, 08:10:04 AM
Ill post mine if Intervocative and Invelos sort out their legal wrangles and I can get my copy of DVD Profiler 3 working again :(
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Russell on April 27, 2007, 08:39:09 AM
Quote from: SmugsI have tended to buy box sets of TV series lately which can be a sod for space.

Your not kidding, 8 season of stargate take up nearly 2 feet of shelf space, I mean wtf slim cases you fools!
Title: DVD Collections
Post by: Russell on April 27, 2007, 08:40:54 AM
Quote from: GoblinIll post mine if Intervocative and Invelos sort out their legal wrangles and I can get my copy of DVD Profiler 3 working again :(

The entire DVD Profiler 3 seems rather odd, Ive stuck with 2.4 for now after reading of the problems on the DVD forums.
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Smugs on April 27, 2007, 15:22:20 PM
Quote from: Russell
Quote from: SmugsI have tended to buy box sets of TV series lately which can be a sod for space.

Your not kidding, 8 season of stargate take up nearly 2 feet of shelf space, I mean wtf slim cases you fools!


Ah forgot Series 2 so its 9 lol thanks for bringing it to my attention.

But yeh the old Stargate sets are stupidly over packaged with 6 amray's per box so take up loads of space.

Though in the US they are reissuing them in slim lines though I wont be forking out again if the do it over here.
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Russell on April 27, 2007, 21:06:27 PM
Quote from: SmugsAh forgot Series 2 so its 9 lol thanks for bringing it to my attention.

But yeh the old Stargate sets are stupidly over packaged with 6 amray's per box so take up loads of space.

Though in the US they are reissuing them in slim lines though I wont be forking out again if the do it over here.

There was a rumour going round that theyd do a trade in scheme, trade in your old one and get the new slim ones, but that seems to have been quashed.

Just went and bought 2 DVDs and Alias S4 tonight, whoops.
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Mark on April 28, 2007, 20:53:44 PM
I have a mate who is a film freak. He replaced his 8,000 title VHS library with DVDs (And is still doing so), so I guess hes f**ked again with the new formats LOL

Me, I buy hard disks if you catch my drift.
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Russell on April 28, 2007, 21:08:33 PM
Quote from: MarkI have a mate who is a film freak. He replaced his 8,000 title VHS library with DVDs (And is still doing so), so I guess hes f**ked again with the new formats LOL

Me, I buy hard disks if you catch my drift.

Ouch 8000 VHS To DVD then 8000 DVDs to HD/Blu Ray, must be one rich guy, hmm well poor guy now probably lol.

I keep the local DVDR retailers in business too myself  ;)
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Mark on April 29, 2007, 11:15:02 AM
hes literally an idiot. He spends 80% of his salary on DVDs
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Smugs on April 30, 2007, 18:01:46 PM
I doubt I will replace many of my DVDs with their Blu Ray/HD counterparts, though maybe some of the TV series box sets as an entire 24 episode series on one disc does sound appealing and good for space.
Title: Re:DVD Collections
Post by: Mongoose on April 30, 2007, 18:47:46 PM
Buying stuff on DVD which I already had on VHS made some sense since a well cared for DVD is basically everlasting while a VHS tape is going to wear out. Also the quality difference is obvious to a one eyed monkey watching a hand held player.

DVD to Blu-Ray/HDDVD I really cant see being worth the upgrade for stuff you already have, especially older stuff which isnt HD anyway.
Title: DVD Collections
Post by: Russell on April 30, 2007, 20:34:38 PM
Yeah if some companies are pulling the stops out to do new transfers to make good quality DVDs I doubt that theyll be able to make it that much better for HD (famous last words)

Once the entire HDDVD/Blu ray format war has been decided then Ill see about buying myself an HiDef/TV