I actually didn't get any and haven't bought any in 2 weeks. Partly because I've been paying off my brand new Sanyo Z2 :)

On my days off I usually get in a movie or two (sometimes 3 or 4). It's relaxing and I like the ability to stop a movie and not come back to it for days sometimes weeks. With Columbia House not supplying Fox or Universal titles any more my buying will be more limited next year.

Yep, they don't understand my obsession and i don't understand why they're obsessed as to why i have so much dvd's.

The biggest thing that when those "people" say that, is that they are thinking its just the movie. For me, its like (and i'll use Open Water as an example), its of course and first and foremost the film, BUT its also the informative audio commentaries (like I'm eager to hear OW's due to my love of low budget films and the possiblity of me learning that and doing it myself), deleted scenes, ect.
Take an older film where most of the crew is dead, something like the german film critics who recently did the M audio commentary-that's invaluable information you can't get anywhere.
Here's the big question: Well, most people, your average dvd buyer, don't care about them extras all that much.
Answer: That's why you don't get us owning all these dvds.

I'm over 300+, not including a handful of boxsets (like Star Wars or Alien Quad) and about 20 or so TV sets (like all Buffy/Angel, Millenium, ect.).

I've felt I have too many dvd, many of them are never watched, but "I might want to watch them in the future", and that makes me keep buying new dvds. Maybe it will slow down after I get married.

I try to tell my friends & relatives not to mention how many DVDs I have when we are together and meet new people, but they always end up doing so anyway and I get embarrassed (my collection is over 2000). My friends & family think its an interesting way to start a conversation and I think its an easy way for people to classify me as a geek & a real nutcase.

...where's the big question, and to what is that "answer" addressed? I'm stumped.

Anyway, I'm still in college (and also broke), so my collection is rather modest in comparison to other members here. Still, I do think I have too many DVDs. And most other people tend to agree with me. I now try to buy only what I consider the essentials and put the money saved to better use.

I wouldn't let it bother you. people are going to think what they want to think anyways. like I said earlier, some of those same people wouldn't hesitate to spend thousands of dollars on hobbies that relax them, so if anyone says anything, just feel free to point that out.

I count TITLES too. And if you don't believe I can send pictures of my entire collection & the new titles to your house.....

i dont mind ppl knowing what i have as long as i know they arent crooks or criminals which i know some, but i simply put it straight to them that theres probably no way at all they are "borrowing/renting" my dvds, simply because everyone is not careful at all and they dont seem to care about other ppls collections, unless of course they have a dvd habit like all of us. when you are investing money and time into something you love you want it to stay in the best shape possible. most of the time they understand.

but i thought i would share one thing on this thread that i forgot the first time around, my wife has simply stated that these days a mans dvd collection is now the mesurement for his "manliness"...its no longer the size of his.....but the size of his dvd collection. i found that humorus and in some ways true.

People think I have too many (especially my wife), but they still buy them for me (not at random, they take them from my wishlist, and I've never gotten one that was wrong OAR or anything like that). My wife even asked for a DVD for Christmas (which she got!)

No! I need more DVDs. :D

Within our family, no we don't think we have too many DVDs :) We have a bit over 350 now..

My husband and I are both movie buffs and both enjoy our DVDs. Although we like many DVDs together, we also have our own individual taste. He likes old silents, Japanese film and 'bad' movies...I bought him the Ed Wood box set for Christmas under the condition, I not be forced to watch any of it ;) . I myself love mainline Chinese and Iranian films and he never watches any of my fitness DVDs. He likes Jackie Chan, our teenage daughter and myself prefer Chow Yun Fat :) . Sometimes we learn to like a style of film from the other (I like Miyazaki's anime now).

Our teenage daughter also also some of her own DVDs...my husband bought me additional copies of LOTR EEs as our daughter is taking her copies to away to university next fall.

Extended family and others think we are bit strange that we like film so much...I thought it was odd that my elderly parents told me they only want to borrow 'light, entertaining' movies, nothing too sad or provocative. As well, my mother-in-law still only has a VHS and we're trying to convince her to go to DVD as it's becoming impossible to find anything in that format. My best friend also likes films but her taste is more limited than mine; she has only a 19" screen TV and her husband insists on buying pan and scan :( I told her to go look at new LCD TVs and how they are all widescreen and to reconsider. Meanwhile my daughter & I are drooling over the new plasma TVs :) .

My family doesn't buy me DVDs, but not because they think I have too many. By and large, it's that they don't know what I have, and my will power isn't strong enough to stave off buying whatever I put on my Christmas list (usually).

That said, no one around me (family and friends, namely) thinks I have too many DVDs, because they're constantly asking to borrow them. As long as I'm a free rental service, no way I have too many DVDs. I'm going to put a stop to that, though; maybe it will be a good new year's resolution!

I've had a few people say that I have too many DVDs. Usually they say they can't understand wanting to watch a movie more than once or that they already watched that TV show before, so why buy it? Some on other non-DVD forums say "You know, you can rent those on Netflix and you never have to worry about storing them or buying them!"