Your DVD collection

[KJIM]

Every time I see a movie alert, I figure I must be abnormal. I own about 200 DVDs, and I watch them all the time.

I wouldn't bother with flipping to Bravo and watching the edited version of The Breakfast Club or Spike's “shut this guy up” Major League version.

And OF COURSE I own Red Dawn. Are you kidding me?

So I just wondered, how many DVDs do you own? Do you watch them, or are they for show?

I read a story a year or so agao about how the “average” collector had about 100, mostly TV shows that were still sealed. Me, I've watched my MASH and Seinfeld copies so much, when I do find them in reruns I'm surprised there's a laugh track for the former and ticked there aren't any “Notes About Nothing” on the latter.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Don't have a lot of movies but my most prized DVD is the WKRP set I bought off of Ebay last year.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I have bought one DVD in my life. It is a Butch Walker concert. [/hi ijag!] I have had one given to me (Forrest Gump) and never opened the package.

Probably has something to do with being able to get them for free and in a timely fashion from my library.

 

[Columbo]

Every time I see a movie alert, I figure I must be abnormal. I own about 200 DVDs, and I watch them all the time.

I wouldn't bother with flipping to Bravo and watching the edited version of The Breakfast Club or Spike's “shut this guy up” Major League version.

And OF COURSE I own Red Dawn. Are you kidding me?

So I just wondered, how many DVDs do you own? Do you watch them, or are they for show?

I read a story a year or so agao about how the “average” collector had about 100, mostly TV shows that were still sealed. Me, I've watched my MASH and Seinfeld copies so much, when I do find them in reruns I'm surprised there's a laugh track for the former and ticked there aren't any “Notes About Nothing” on the latter.

I own 100 DVDs.

I feel like I'm stupid for it, really.

Do you really watch the same DVD more than a couple times?

I can count on one hand movies, and I love all the movies I have on DVD, that I have watched more than twice since I bought them.

DVD ownership.... was a pooooooor choice.

 

[Trey Beamon]

I own quite a few show DVD's, but not one movie.

Personally, I don't think movies have much replay value, at least not enough to warrant a purchase. That's why I love Netflix; check it out once, then move on to something new.

 

[spup1122]

I am inheriting probably 300 dvds when I move in with Doc in a month. I can't call them my own until the wedding, but I only have around 30 dvds, so his will be nice since I have not seen a lot of them.

Plus, he has most of the movie channels available, so I will have MANY movies at my disposal while I'm job hunting.

 

[Matt Foley]

Just counted, I have 142, and I love each and every one of them

 

[Columbo]

Just counted, I have 142, and I love each and every one of them

I DO like the packaging of a purchase, the cover art

 

[Madhavok]

I have a very, very small collection that I 'own' but that's because when DVD's come out, they're pretty expensive IMO. So, I either rent the movie or download. Regardless, the collection is still small and I will buy movies that I want.
This is how small we're talking:
Spider-Man
Spider-Man II
X-Men (1.5 edition)
X-Men II
Sin City (weird, I have all the comics/dark novels from which the movie was based off of)
Wayne's World
Total Recall
Unbreakable
The Program
Pearl Harbor (gift)
First Decent
Afterbang (Robot Food snowboard video)
From ____ with love (snowboard video)
Wildcats (snowboard video)
The Resistance (snowboard video)

That's it. I want more but you know they're kind of $$$, so I'll just go the netflix route and rip them to my hard drive (Shhhhhh!)

 

[alleyallen]

Every time I see a movie alert, I figure I must be abnormal. I own about 200 DVDs, and I watch them all the time.

I wouldn't bother with flipping to Bravo and watching the edited version of The Breakfast Club or Spike's “shut this guy up” Major League version.

And OF COURSE I own Red Dawn. Are you kidding me?

So I just wondered, how many DVDs do you own? Do you watch them, or are they for show?

I read a story a year or so agao about how the “average” collector had about 100, mostly TV shows that were still sealed. Me, I've watched my MASH and Seinfeld copies so much, when I do find them in reruns I'm surprised there's a laugh track for the former and ticked there aren't any “Notes About Nothing” on the latter.

I own 100 DVDs.

I feel like I'm stupid for it, really.

Do you really watch the same DVD more than a couple times?

I can count on one hand movies, and I love all the movies I have on DVD, that I have watched more than twice since I bought them.

DVD ownership.... was a pooooooor choice.

I own close to 100 DVDs and watch them all religiously. In fact, I watch so many movies they changed the cable lineup on me and I didn't even realize it for close to three weeks. TV by itself blows.

 

[EStreetJoe]

I own maybe 20-30 DVDs of movies/TV shows and double or triple that number of Springsteen concerts/TV specials/etc. on DVD.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

My DVD collection consists of...

Dazed & Confused
Old School
Wedding Crashers
Swingers
Austin Powers I and II
Godfather I and II
Casino
Red Dawn
Caddyshack
Animal House
The Quiet Man
Outlaw Josey Wales
Charlie Brown Christmas
Steelers commemorative Super Bowl XL and season review

My wife's collection includes...
Gone with the Wind
Sex and the City (Seasons 1-3)
Friends (Seasons 1-4)
Sleepless in Seattle
An Affair to Remember
When Harry met Sally
Three or four other movies I can't remember

The last one we watched? Wedding Crashers about two months ago. Before that, I watched the Super Bowl XL DVD the day it arrived. Before that, we watched Charlie Brown Christmas back in December. The Godfather DVDs are still in their wrappers. At this point, I don't know if I'll open them or not.

 

[Cadet]

I own less than 20. Most have been given to me. Quite a few are sports movies. Did wrangle custody of the Harry Potter DVDs from the ex. Never understood paying $20 a pop to own something you may watch once.

 

[rascalface]

I probably own more than a hundred. I think I've watched the entire series of The Critic about a thousand times. Though the first two seasons of Arrested Development and all the ATHF DVDs probably get the most play. I'm just a sucker for repackaged TV.

 

[Chi City 81]

I am inheriting probably 300 dvds when I move in with Doc in a month.  I can't call them my own until the wedding, but I only have around 30 dvds, so his will be nice since I have not seen a lot of them. 

Plus, he has most of the movie channels available, so I will have MANY movies at my disposal while I'm job hunting.

What she said.

 

[Farbecker]

I'm afraid to count how many I have, but I know the number is well over 100. Between The Simpsons, Seinfeld and South Park collections, that's a ton of money I've spent right there.
I am proud to say I haven't bought a DVD in the past four months, though that's bound to change soon because the final season of Arrested Development is coming out in the next couple of weeks.

 

[HejiraHenry]

I have just a handful of DVDs that I have bought. My wife tends to buy more.

The first I bought was "Cast Away," because I was really interested in breaking it down Ebert style and learning more about how the movie was made.

I have been given all of the Pee Wee's Playhouse DVDs, which is cool. I really want the full run of Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs, maybe Santa can deliver.

I have a feeling DVDs will quickly become obsolete, so I have avoided buying a big pile of them.

 

[alleyallen]

I own less than 20. Most have been given to me. Quite a few are sports movies. Did wrangle custody of the Harry Potter DVDs from the ex. Never understood paying $20 a pop to own something you may watch once.

Of all the DVDs I own, I've watched each at least twice, probably more. But I'm never going to buy a movie I'm only going to watch once. If I own it, I'm watching it. Kinda stupid otherwise.

 

[Batman]

Whenever it came time to switch from VHS tapes to DVD, I swore I wouldn't end up with a bunch of crappy movies like the ones on my tape collection. Three years later, and I've managed to keep my vow. I only have about a dozen DVDs, and other than a few bad ones that have been given as gifts, they're all pretty top flight:

Saving Private Ryan
Spider-Man 2
Training Day
This is Spinal Tap
Rounders
Reservoir Dogs
Lord of the Rings
Family Guy, Vol. 1-3

And a few others I can't remember. I try not to spend more than $10 on a DVD, since I rarely watch them more than once or twice.

 

[bigpern23]

My collection is nearing 400. I have about 70 that I've never watched on DVD and, of those, about 20 that I've never seen at all (the other 50 are movies I've seen before, just not since I bought them).

Part of it is just the cinephile in me. I love movies, I watch them all the time and I try to watch as broad a spectrum as I can. The other part of it is having a "good" collection. For instance, I bought a three-pack of Ben-Hur, Casablanca and Gone With the Wind. Ben-Hur is the only one I've watched, but I figure, what kind of a movie collector doesn't have Casablanca or Gone with the Wind?

I don't own a lot of TV shows. Just Band of Brothers, Seasons 1-4 of Smallville, Seasons 1 and 2 of Arrested Development and Seasons 1-3 of Family Guy. I'm just more of a movie person than TV.

It's stupid, sure, and obviously expensive. But hey, some people buy lots of clothes, others buy sports memorabilia. Me? I buy movies. I like knowing that on any given rainy day, I can see a movie I've never seen before without walking out of my house. I also like knowing that I can watch my favorite movies at any time I choose. I often pop a movie in the DVD player when I go to bed and fall asleep to it. A week later, I'll have seen the whole thing. Some people listen to music when they go to bed, I watch movies.

And as far as them going the way of VHS, it will happen eventually, but the next generation of home movies are almost sure to still play DVDs, much the way PS2 plays PS1 games, so they'll last a long time.