Who has over a 1000 DVDs?
 

I'm at 810 DVDs right now and I've sold a lot of stuff in that time. I'm guessing I've bought about 1100 DVDs. I'll usually go through my collection and find 3-4 titles I could live without and go and trade those in for 1 DVD I really want. I tell myself I would rather have 1 DVD I really want instead of 3 or 4 minors titles I'll probably never watch.

I have 810 and I am pretty picky. I usually don't buy movies I haven't seen unless it's a director I really like. Sometimes when I go to Best Buy or some place like that and some guy buys every week's new release. Everything from a romantic comedy to a blow em up action flick. The movies are so totally different I would have to think that no person could possibly like all those movies that came out that week. According to IMDB, I've seen 2700+ movies and I own 810. That's only like 1 in every 4 movies I see, I buy. Well, I guess that is a lot....Nevermind.

So, anybody have over a 1000 and can honestly say they like all of their movies?

Saxon

Blockbuster and Best Buy

60 to go!

I hate most of the crap I have. Why do I even bother.

Only about 600 to go, but I've watched every one I own and enjoy them all.

Over 1600 here. I don't sell them... back in the late 80s and early 90s I sold off a lot of CDs that I wasn't listening to, and didn't think I'd miss. Now in 2004 I've repurchased many of them because I did miss them. I simply decided I wouldn't go down that backstep road again. :)

over 1600 here too and I can say I like over 95% of my collection. I just don't feel like trying to get rid of the stinkers.

RunnersDialZero, I would say you and I are pretty close to being in the same situation. The way I view the value of dvd's I like and the fact that I've bought over 1000 but currently have 800+ makes you and I almost identical.

Have about 1050.
Have watched about 50%.
Like 90% of them.

I have started selling off double-dips, duplicates and OOPs with rumored re-releases. I used to be a hardcore collector, but it started being a money pit. I now use my existing collection to fund future DVD purchases. I sell DVDs, as described above, and use the money to purchase new ones. I usually make money on the deal, i.e. selling an OOP Disney for $30 then buying the new anamorphic special edition for $15.

I have also stopped buying most New Releases. Paying even $15 for a New Release, when it will be less than $10 in 6 months (when I MIGHT get a chance to watch it anyway), just was not worth it.

About 30 to go... I haven't checked my preorder count recently (made a bunch last night) so I might be over the 1000 limit by the time I take all those into consideration. I'm thinking about doing a mass purging when I top it (so far I trim down about a dozen at every 50 bookmark). The problem is looking at the collection critically/realistically enough to actually get rid of some of them ;)

Me. If I don't like them somebody in my family or my BF does.

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perhaps 90% out of the half you've seen?...

I've got about 600 to go.

1150

Sorry, let me clarify. Many of the DVDs that I own but have not watched, I originally saw the films in the theater. I have bought some movies that I did not like (hard to pass up a great deal, though this was before I stopped collecting) and have bought others blind that I have not yet watched.

I estimate that I like about 90% of my total collection (+/- 25 DVDs worth of error).

About 800 to go.

I have just under 200 DVDs and I can honestly say that I like all of them.

However, I'm trying to tighten up my collection by only having the "essentials". There are about 30 or so that I've seen a few times and feel that I don't need to see again (even though I like the films).

I can't see myself owning more than 250 DVDs, as I can't think of that many "essential" films.

Plus I have to factor in upcoming HD-DVD titles I want to own - so I need to make space for them. ;)

Not to diss those with really large collections - but won't there be a buttload of DVDs that you'll never see for long periods of time?
Theoretically speaking, with 1,000 DVDs (assuming that you watch 1 different DVD per night) you won't get back to the top of the order until almost 3 years later - and with work/family/friends getting in the way, it could be much longer than that.

1,000 dvd's :drool:

i don't and don't really care to. will never have that many in my life and happy bout it.

I love collecting DVDs never enough for me 1628 is my current count.

I have over 1000, although that number does include a few TV DVDs and not movie ones. I've seen virtually all of them minus a new exception here and there. Most of them I've watch multiple times. I have a pretty wide variety of time frames and a wide variety of genres. Except for horror, I have a pretty good selection from other genres. But that's just my preferences

Nearing 1200.

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just hit 1,600 titles on the nose. there is plenty of essentials yet to add to the library. I usually make it a habit to not buy crap...just want is important to me and my tastes. "weeding out" is low on the agenda as I usually think about dumping something that has been upgraded...but then I end up keeping it anyway. emergency back-ups.:D

That is crazy! I probably can't watch a 1000 DVDs in a year!

950 to go, actually I will never own 1000 dvds, thats way to many

That's exactly what I used to think ;) Of course the days of Reel.com and real coupons are gone so it's harder now :(

its wierd when someone says they are picky and have 1000 dvds. i thought i was picky and i have like 100.

I would take it those are the people who've got a wide range as far as taste in movies go. When you don't limit yourself to one genre, it's not too difficult to like / love hundreds or thousands of movies.

true. but are they still 'picky'?

Just checked my DVD profiler, 1073. But, I bought my first DVD player the first year they hit the market.

I'm sure they are to a certain extent. Though I did check through some posters' collections who were over 1000 limit and I have to admit there quite a few movies I would never buy, but that's just me. I'm at 575 right now. And I consider myself "picky" I rarely buy Hollywood's weekly releases. I seem to average a little over 100 a year since I got my first DVD player so I can definitely see me getting up 1000 someday but by then all these guys will have like 4000.

Trust me, I see some movies in people's collection and I wouldn't even use the DVD as a coaster I don't mean to be an elitist. I'm sure there are some movies in my collection people would never buy.

I go through my collection every once and a while and look at each title and ask my self if I really need that movie. That's why I have over 800 DVDs. If I had to, I could get it down to 700 that I could never get rid of. But that's it.

Saxon

i have 189. working my way to 1000.

it's called personal taste, and that part of the issue should not even have to be brought up.

but there ARE people on this forum who will buy dvds for the sake of buying them - whether they like the movie or not.

I have just over 200 and, according to dvdprofiler, there is only about 100 left that I want. 1000 seems a long way away.

Count me in on that oxymoron group: picky and in the 1k club. ;)

Holy crap! I have 300 or so (not including box sets or tv seasons) and I think I have too many. But I like all of them that's why i bought them. But how do you store 1000 dvds?????? And Box sets????

1388 here, as of right now. Wait 30 seconds and it will change :)

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pdjennings

The first impression that you might have about pdjennings's collection of over 2800 titles is "Wow, he must have everything!" But comparing his collection to mine of just over 200, I find a lot of titles I have that he doesn't. So, I ask myself, "would I trade my collection for pdjennings's?" I'm disallowing "sell off what you don't want to buy what you do" or "replace what you're missing" tactics; this is a straight-up trade, no substitutions.

I'd have to say no. Sure, it'd be nice to have that full run of Deep Space Nine or fill out my missing Oz seasons. But give up my Hitchcock titles, Marx Brothers, Red Dwarf, Cosmos, The Manchurian Candidate, etc. ? No thanks.

rkillgore: i made that exact same comment about a year ago (about not trading my collection straight up for collections 10x bigger than mine). 100% agreed!