How many DVDs do you own?

ryanciara

Hi,

How many DVDs do you own? Do you still collect DVDs? In my opinion there is nothing like owning the real thing.

Dravokivich

ryanciara wrote: »

In my opinion there is nothing like owning the real thing.

So you get the reels from the production crew, or the cinema?

:pac:

Yeah I still buy DVDs. I've loads.

qwertyabcd

my sister buys them and I watch them, think she has about 1700 at this stage

The One Doctor

Maybe 10. Haven't used them since the advent of downloading whatever I want whenever I want. I don't really like watching movies/series anyway. Watched the first episode of Breaking Bad and just said 'Meh'.

D1stant

No DVDs, CDs, walkmans, crossbows or flints.

maximoose

Zero.

Had around 250 which I sold about 4 years ago.

I own 2 Blu-Rays, don't really plan on adding more to that colossal collection.

Captain Chaos

Just stream what I want when I want. Think I only bought about 10 DVDs and Blurays ever. Never bought a CD in my life.

e_e

Few hundred.

Legs.Eleven

8

anncoates

About 10 maybe. Stuff I've got as gifts. Not really big into films.

keith16

Zero. In fact, I got rid of a whole load yesterday. I went on a mad de-clutter spree. It was cathartic.

Peregrine

Two or three.

How many have I bought in the past 5 years? Zero.


It took me a year after buying my laptop to find out that the eject button was broken. Even then, I was trying to install a software, not watch a movie or listen to music.

dee_mc

Probably about 50, most of which I've seen once and will never watch again, a few of which are still in their plastic wrapping and likely to remain so unless I ever do my back in or something

Mr. CooL ICE

7. Boxsets that were presents of shows I had already seen. I was given The Inbetweeners a few weeks after I finished watching it on 4OD

Davarus Walrus

I inherited one.

Carol Vorderman: Kick Start Detox and Exercise Plan DVD

BearBanjer

A handful. Down from just under 300.

Took up too much space and what with downloading, iTunes and Netflix I just sold them. Didn't see the point in keeping them.

I see why some would still collect them alright.

Movies and TV today are lot disposable what with various means and technologies.

gazzer

Between myself and my partner we have roughly 1500 DVD's. Have about 80 Blu Rays. Keep meaning to bring a load of them to a car boot sale and make some money.

Have about 800 video tapes as well

Its about 4 years since either of us bought a DVD. I stream and download now.

samwhite449

About 1500-2000 and in mint condition im abit of a collector freak as that is only one of mt collections

Cupcake_Crisis

I'd say about 25, mainly box sets.

No Pants

I gave most of mine to the local library. I have a few left, mostly recorded gigs, some bike racing, a Boston Legal boxset, plus a boxset of Godzilla episodes and Ulysses 31 as a nostalgic salute to my childhood. Stuff that isn't easily downloaded.

Coincidentally, I stuck in one of the BL DVDs earlier and it made me sit through the "You wouldn't steal a car" ad and I couldn't bypass it. Reminded me why I don't buy DVDs anymore. :mad:

shamrock55

About 150, all perfect, if anyone is interested you can have them for 1euro each

MonstaMash

None...ripped & converted my whole collection to MP4 & donated all of them to a charity shop.

meoklmrk91

I've never counted but I would say somewhere in the region of 100-200. I used to love collecting them, last time I bought on was about 2 years ago at a car boot sale, when I look them now I just see stuff collecting dust and taking up space, I bought a fair few seasons of family guy back in my teens, I've stopped watching it since, watched them all once and spent a fair few bob on them, now they are on Netflix. The other night I wanted to watch a movie I have in my DVD collection, I just put it on Netflix instead. I am beginning to feel about media how I feel about paper, I hate paper bills, I hate junk mail because its just something else I either have to find a place for or get rid of and it's just a hassle. I probably will hold onto what I have but can't see myself ever buying a DVD/BluRay again.

harvester of sorrow

*puts patch over eye*

"Arrrrrrrrrrr me harties......"

crasy dash

MonstaMash wrote: »

None...ripped & converted my whole collection to MP4 & donated all of them to a charity shop.[/quote

have about 35 myself

Want to do the same myself what software did you use ?Clueless when it somes to software.

Adamantium

I've a box of dvd's and blu rays and I want to hold on to them for my kids to watch if I ever do have kids. Then i think,


...will they even give a damn about it some old stuff when they're watching their holographic versions of the Star Wars Trilogy

Links234

Too many

Thinking of selling off a few, but I don't know yet. They don't take up all that much room anyway.

Irish Guitarist

I think I must have about 300.

About half of them are concerts or music documentaries and are worth keeping.

The rest are mainly films which I've only watched once or not at all. I bought loads of them in Xtra-Vision when they were on special offer. It cost about the same amount of money to buy them as it would have cost to rent them out for a couple of nights.

The best ones are To Kill A Mockingbird and the box sets of Back To The Future and the Superman quadrilogy. Most of the others aren't exactly classics. For instance I don't know what possessed me to buy 50 First Dates apart from the fact it was only a couple of euro.

A few years ago I discovered the room I had left my DVDs in had a damp patch. Some of my best ones were destroyed. The one that pissed me off the most was The Concert For Bangladesh. The DVDs themselves were still playable but the cardboard cover was completely destroyed.

Naydy

About 50-60. Mostly Disney films, anime, stand-up comedy and boxsets of Supernatural, Game of Thrones and Archer.

MonstaMash

MonstaMash wrote: »

None...ripped & converted my whole collection to MP4 & donated all of them to a charity shop.[/quote

have about 35 myself

Want to do the same myself what software did you use ?Clueless when it somes to software.

http://handbrake.fr/

fleet_admiral

Hundreds but I never lend any out anymore because most of the time I didnt get them back

Spring Onion

Matrix
Snatch
Bear in the Big Blue House

Maphisto

About 200

Out in the Oulou where internet speeds are just something to be envied of others, downloading is not really a great option.

Oh and I'm a sucker for box sets
West Wing
Sopranos
Breaking Bad

Rothko

About a hundred. I usually just get my favourite movies.

Amirani

0

BrokenArrows

5. All of them are still in their plastic wrappers which I received as presents at birthdays and Christmas.
I stream or download everything so never felt the need to use them.

WilyCoyote

zero, zilch, nada, 0

Calibos

700 DVD's and about 50 Bluray.

We've about 1200 movies and 4000 Tv Show episodes on our home server.

The approx. €15,000 we paid for the former means I feel zero guilt about the latter.

JumpShivers

I'd say a few hundred.

crasy dash

MonstaMash wrote: »

http://handbrake.fr/

Thanks for that!!

Holsten

No idea, around 30 probably?

Most of my movies/tv shows are digital only, 100's of movies on one small portable HD is pretty sweet.

Sulla Felix

Hundreds. Inherited my brothers collection and between us we had about 800 in 2005, must be nearly 1000 by now. They're all in boxes in the spare room since I moved two years ago and because the cd drive on my pc, through which I route a signal to my tv, is broken, I haven't watched one in nearly as long.
Thank god for primewire.

orangesoda

Dravokivich wrote: »

So you get the reels from the production crew, or the cinema?

:pac:

Yeah I still buy DVDs. I've loads.

many cinemas have gone digital now and don't use film reels, they receive the film in a hard drive, some even use satellite

orangesoda

I have stopped purchasing box sets as it gets irritating, if you purchase a full series an updates version will be released within a year containing extra material

Kaycee2

A few box sets-sopranos, inbetweeners, Phoenix nights, all ones that I know I'll watch again, any films I've had I've given away, some stray Simpsons ones that are keepers and dozens of peppa pigs

AdolfHipster

Yep, still own around 30 dvds. Most of which are films that I really like. Small enough collection. Wouldnt be in a rush to go out and buy "Freddie got Fingered" on DVD

krudler

keith16 wrote: »

Zero. In fact, I got rid of a whole load yesterday. I went on a mad de-clutter spree. It was cathartic.

At one stage I had over 1000 dvds, now have less than 10, just box sets I cant get again or want to hold onto. It really is cathartic decluttering your life. What used to take up shelves of space now sits on a hard drive the size of a book.

murpho999

No DVDs , all digital.

Don't understand why people think that DVDs or CDs are the real thing when they are just the same file as I have but on a disc.

The idea of having discs you can lose or scratch or going to places like Xtra-vision and inserting discs into a machine is totally archaic to me.

Also means that I have skipped the need for a Bluray player

SEANoftheDEAD

Have about 500 dvds.

Stop buying about 4 years ago and went digital.
Got pi$$ed off with Netflix and there ever changing catalog so cancelled it.

I have recently started buying again, as I actually prefer to own the films I like.

Plus the man-cave looks better with a dvd/cd collection on display instead of a external hard rive beside the tele.

maguic24

The One Doctor wrote: »

Watched the first episode of Breaking Bad and just said 'Meh' 'Meth'.

FYP :pac:

c_man

None. I don't like clutter, so gave them all to charity a few years ago.