How do you organize your DVDs?
 

How do you guys organize your dvds? Alphabetically? By director? By genre?.

Anyway I organize mine alphabetically, but I got that Hitchcock 9 disc box set coming to me, and I'm not sure where to put it, and I don't want to split all the movies up.

Alphabetically in 2 sections. Snappers/Boxes and Keep Cases.

Alphabetically. Box sets have their own section, but if they have different titles in the box, I just put them together at the end of the shelf.

TV, movie box sets, snappers, keep cases, wrestling.

Works fine for me with a shade under 300 titles and looks really nice. I used to do just alphabetical, but the snappers mixed with box sets and keep cases just didn't look right. I don't have enough titles to start breaking everything into their own particular genre (except TV and wrestling), so I'm holding off on that until it becomes necessary.

Alphabetical


I do, however, have a separate shelf just for music titles.

Alphabetical

I wish I had enough room to make seperate sections for music and TV, but I don't. So it's all together in alphabetical order.

Alphabetically.

I have separate sections for music, tv, box sets/trilogies, Brad Pitt movies, and Quentin Tarantino movies.

by genre

In the order i get them in.

But i have been considering sorting them by genre.

I'm still just under 250, so I just put them on the shelves as I get them. I'll have to alphabetize them eventually, everything but funky-shaped box sets, which go on seperate shelves.

Back when I had 20 or so I would organize them by spine color :)

Now it's alphabetically, except with TV sets and music seperately.

Alphabetical, though I am thinking about moving box sets to it's own shelf.

Seperate Shelves for:
1. Sci-Fi
1a. Star Trek
2. Kids movies
3. Classics
4. Drama
5. War
6. TV
7. Holiday Movies
8. Superhero

My family and I find this to be the best way to find the movie I want to watch.

By Studio.

PEACH

TV Show box sets, followed by other movie box sets, then buy studio.

by genre then inside of that alphabetically, each on different shelves of course. New member by the way!

Alphabetical, though TV box sets are about to have their own shelf.

On my top shelf I have the movies where I have sequels - like Trek, Matrix, Terminator, Shrek, X-Men, Back to the Future.

Then it's pretty much just by genre - action, comedy, "musical," TV.

Not sure how much longer it will work that way. I'm running out of room.

Alphabetically, except music (which is also sorted alphebatically after everything else).

Oops, also forgot: there are a couple exceptions to the rule... Jason Goes To Hell and Jason X follow Friday the 13th, and all the new Universal monster movies are filed under "M" for "Monster Legacy". There may be one or two other things like that, but you get the picture. :)

Alphabetically, with Tv sets and Boxed sets seperately

I have them split up by genre. It is not perfect since there are many movies that are hard to classify. I have seperate sections for Hitchcock, musicals, children's, classics, action, drama, comedy, tv sets. When I look for something to watch I prefer to have similar style movies together.

They're coming to take me away, hee hee!

Once I get enough shelves for everything that is boxed up right now, I plan to have several sections, each organized alphabetically within the sections:

• Anime (no box sets)
• Anime - Specific creators or series, Miyazaki/Ghibli, Leiji Matsumoto, Lupin the III, etc.
• Anime - large keepcases
• Anime Boxes
• Disney Animated
• Pixar
• Disney Live Action
• Disney Tins
• Classics, musicals, old comedians - I might separate the comedians from the classics and musicals
• Criterion - by spine number :D
• Star Trek
• TV
• TV animation (Simpsons, South Park, etc.)
• Non-Disney animation
• Family
• Music (all 2 discs...)
• Horror
• Hammer Films
• MGM Midnite Movies
• LE & special packaging
• Anchor Bay Tins
• Martial Arts
• Christmas
• Superhero/comic book films - this is tentative at the moment
• Directors/Actors - Only a few: Kevin Smith, Hitchcock, etc.
• Unwatched - once it is watched, it goes into the respective category.

Everything that is left gets a general "Hollywood" label, with box sets separated. As I get more discs, I might add certain boutique labels, such as Something Weird, or other director/actor sections.

Here's my sorting system, in gory detail. Can you tell I used to write technical specifications for a living?

(1) The basic bright-line rule is a variation on alphanumeric ordering. I have chosen the ordering 0, 1, 2, ..., 9, a, b, c, ..., z.

(2) Given two titles X and Y, X precedes Y if the first character of X precedes the first character of Y. If the two characters are the same, then perform the comparison on the second characters, and so on. Example: Once Upon a Time in the West, On the Waterfront, Ossessione.

(3) As the example in (2) shows, spaces are ignored. Exception: Every title is taken to have an infinite number of spaces after its last character to facilitate the comparison in (2) above. These spaces precede 0 in the alphanumeric ordering. Example: Blue, Blue Velvet.

(4) Periods, commas, colons, hyphens, etc. are also ignored. However, ampersands are considered equivalent to the word "and." Example: L.A. Story, Law & Order, Lawrence of Arabia.

(5) Articles that begin titles are ignored. This is regardless of the language in which they appear. Example: The Asphalt Jungle, L'Atalante, The Awful Truth.

(6) Where a title has been chosen for marketing reasons and a more logical title suggests itself, the logical title is used. Examples: The Adventures of Indiana Jones becomes Indiana Jones for purposes of sorting. The Work of Michel Gondry becomes Michel Gondry.

(7) Notwithstanding the system in (2), season sets and direct sequels are grouped together in chronological order. Example: X-Men, X2: X-Men United.

(8) With regard to boxsets: If a boxset is a collection of discrete films each of which appears on its own disc in its own case, then the cases are removed from the box and files according to the system above. Examples: The Film Noir Collection, The Martin Scorsese Collection. Otherwise, boxsets are subject to the same system as all other titles. Separating them from other titles would require answering the question "What qualifies as a boxset?" Is Home Movies Season 1 a boxset? How about Chappelle's Show Season 1?

That's more or less the system. I hope it makes sense. As you can see, I'm anal, but my anality is really directed towards problem-solving generally rather than DVDs or DVD sorting specifically.

Alphanumerically. Pretty much the way illennium put it.

Miss Peach,

How do you sort by studio for all those titles where you only have one per studio? Do you have a "misc." section, or are all those onesies scattered through the collection?