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Old 10-28-03 | 07:12 PM
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Un-opened Dvds in Your Collection

How many un-opened dvds do you have in your collection ? I have about 50 or so, mostly $5.88 dvds from the WM bin.
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Old 10-28-03 | 07:13 PM
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Old 10-28-03 | 07:15 PM
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I usually open them right away. I had a unopened RoboCop: CC, I was waiting for eBay prices to go up and unload it. Unfortunatly my brother found it when I was away and decided to watch it. Oh well...
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Old 10-28-03 | 07:22 PM
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Since I always open my DVD's when I get them for cataloging purposes (I use the inserts for the # of chapters) I technically don't have any sealed. Unwatched DVD's however...
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Old 10-28-03 | 07:22 PM
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Mondo Cane Collection-(had to walk the dog..still tryin' to crack it open)

The House That Dripped Blood-(just got today)

Legend of Eight Samurai-(Chiba)

Frogs-(recent addition)
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Old 10-28-03 | 07:23 PM
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Unwatched: Lawrence of Arabia (Never have the time), Law and Order: SVU season 1 (Just got), Army of Darkness (Watching it tomorrow or the next day)
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Old 10-28-03 | 07:31 PM
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When I do buy new, I usually don't open them until I'm ready to watch them. That way if I need to unload them for any unforseen financial hardship I should get a little more money for a sealed copy on ebay.
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Old 10-28-03 | 07:38 PM
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Maybe a couple of hundred...
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Old 10-28-03 | 07:44 PM
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From: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Sparticus Criterion
Throne of Blood Criterion
Scarface
The Man who Knew too much

= 4
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Old 10-28-03 | 07:45 PM
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106, for the same reason bmello mentioned.

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Old 10-28-03 | 07:46 PM
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The House That Dripped Blood-(just got today)
Lucky. I should have ordered it online, but I foolishly thought I'd be able to find it locally. Of course, I couldn't so I wound up ordering it from Overstock.com.

As for unopened DVDs, I don't have any. I open them when I get them, even if I don't watch them right away. I probably have about 10 or so I haven't watched.

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Old 10-28-03 | 08:14 PM
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The R2 Amicus box set due on 11/24 will contain The House That Dripped Blood. It will have added trailers and a commentary track. I bought the Lions Gate version just for the Max Rosenberg featurette.
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Old 10-28-03 | 08:34 PM
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Well, apparently this thread was unopened... http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...light=unopened
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Old 10-28-03 | 08:37 PM
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Old 10-28-03 | 08:45 PM
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I don't have any unopened DVDs. I keep up the viewing with the buying. I'm not a collector in the strictest sense so no reason to buy and not watch them.
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Old 10-28-03 | 08:55 PM
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When I do buy new, I usually don't open them until I'm ready to watch them. That way if I need to unload them for any unforseen financial hardship I should get a little more money for a sealed copy on ebay.
Yeah, but what if you open it a year later and it turns out that it's defective? God knows I had quite a few of those throught out the years. It would suck even more if it was an expensive box set.

Open them as soon as possible!!!
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Old 10-28-03 | 09:04 PM
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I open them as soon as I get them to check for defective discs and scratches during shipping. As the person in the above post mentioned, i'd hate to open up a DVD a year after pruchase to find it defective.
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Old 10-28-03 | 09:05 PM
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I always open mine to make sure it's complete, and to look at the inserts and disc art. I have about four now that I haven't watched yet. But I'll probably hit two of them this week.
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Old 10-28-03 | 09:18 PM
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Same as the guys above.

Open 'em as soon as I can, check the discs superficially and in my player.
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Old 10-28-03 | 10:09 PM
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About 50 of my 700+ DVD collection is unopened/unwatched, I think I'll open them though to check for obvious defects.

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Old 10-28-03 | 10:26 PM
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I usually open online / mail order purchases immediately upon receipt, but sometimes store (B&M) bought discs get put onto the shelf without being opened... I did however recently wait a week or so on opening a new two disc criterion from the recent DVDEmpire sale only to learn that disc one was missing... got a prepaid return label... hope they get another one in stock as I really want the movie.
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Old 10-28-03 | 10:28 PM
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None are unopened. I don't understand any reason for buying movies without the intent to watch them in the immediate future unless you're buying with an intent to sell it later for big money.
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Old 10-28-03 | 11:10 PM
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None, The first thing I do when I get home is open it and make sure that they work.
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Old 10-29-03 | 12:34 AM
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I have around 65-100 I think that are unopened. I suppose I should open them to see if they are defective, but I'm lazy.
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Old 10-29-03 | 12:36 AM
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106, for the same reason bmello mentioned.
Out of about 1000, probably 400 or so unopened, for the same reason illennium mentioned.
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