Altimus Prime

It took about two years and one month, but I bought my 100th DVD today: Star Trek Insurrection SCE, along with #101, Stripes Extended Cut.

I intentionally put Insurrection into my DVD Profiler first because I wanted a Trek film to be my 100th. Hey, I'm a sentimental Trekkie.

I know, 100 in two years is hardly anything around these parts. Some of you may have reached a hundred DVDs in a tenth of the time it took me.

So does anyone else keep track of their "landmark" DVD purchases? 100, 250, 500, etc? Do you try to fit "special" films into those slots?

It won't be too long until I'm going to need more storage space myself.

Dmacsg1

100?!?!?

Sorry!!! I couldn't resist!!

Congrats! I quit keeping track of such things a while back! Nowadays I buy more TV sets so do I count each disc in the set or count the set as one disc?!?!

I just stick the new dvd's on the shelf and don't worry about it!!

Take care all!!

Cameron

congrats...don't keep tabs on what fit where myself...just know what i have in dvdaff and a few others that won't pop up in there...

Altimus Prime

... don't worry about the chuckles. I was expecting that. Hey, if I can make some people laugh, does that count as a good deed?

I guess I'm picky about what I buy. I have to really like it. Or I have to kind of like it and the price be right.

Based on my last look at the release list, I won't be buying much of anything for a while now, unless I start working on my short list of older movies I want to get eventually. There's also a few I'm waiting for new releases to buy.

Unless I buy Hunter Season 2 in July, it won't be until September that I'll make my next buys - Lost Season One and Toy Story.

p.s. I guess one of the things I should have said first was "No, I'm not missing a zero. It's 100."

Drexl

I'm about to hit 300, but I leave out the numbers in Profiler because they don't "stick" as discs get sold or given away because of new versions. I thought 300 was going to be Million Dollar Baby, but I'm going to reach it before that comes out.

Not counting the ones I no longer have, your rate is about the same as mine-50 per year.

atari2600

yeah, 100 was a biggie for me too

i dont think ill ever hit 1000 like many here have.

Altimus Prime

The 100th DVD club? Is that like when you have to sit at the little kids table for family holiday dinners?

And I should add that in my profiler I've got six DVDs for which I couldn't enter purchase dates, so they don't have numbers. So Insurrection is given #94, but it's actually 100.

And that's 100 titles. As for individual discs, who knows. I've got so many multi-disc sets, as we all do.

cfloyd3

It is difficult to say what mine was because I don't really recall but I believe John Cassavetes: Five Films CC was around that time period where I had reached 100 so I am going to say that since it is my favorite thing I own (even though I can't get the theatrical cut of Chinese Bookie out of the case, believe I cracked some of the center trying the other day).

fitprod

When I used to work at a Laserdisc/Home Theater store in the San Francisco/Bay Area, I used to think that about LD's. At my high point on LD's I was probably around 400 to 500. (I started collecting them in 1982 with Star Trek II and Tron...)

Once I saw properly presented DVD's from Sony, in early 1997, it was a relitively quick dash to the 1000 mark... about 4 years. It's amazing what can happen when you start with a format from day 1.

:-)

fitprod

JZ1276

i didnt know laserdiscs were around in 1982

Fincher Fan

Bah! Come back when it's a million and we'll be impressed.

dsa_shea

That surprises the shit out of me too.

dadaluholla

Better to have 100 dvds you love and will rewatch frequently than 1000 that are just sitting on a shelf collecting dust.

runnersdialzero

But they look so beautiful sitting there collecting dust.

Altimus Prime, no offense, but why do we care that you hit the 100 DVD mark? I'm not trying to be mean but if everybody posted threads concerning which century mark they hit this week, this forum would be a waste of time.

Saxon

Maxflier

I keep track of the landmark ones too.I remember when i was trying to figure out what to get for #100 and i ended up getting Charlies Angels:Superbit since the regular Charlies Angels release was my very first DVD.

eedoon

Congrats! It took me four years to reach the 100th mark (start collecting in 1999, reached 100 on 2003). But then I bought more than 100 DVDs on the year 2004 alone.

dadaluholla

Yes. That is so true.

Shagrath

There was a thread similar to this about a month ago here.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...ghlight=1000th

I stated in there that I thought it was silly to hold off on purchasing a dvd just so it has a certain # in the collection, and I'll say it again.

Cameron

library...library...

Altimus Prime

room service... room service...

... sorry, channeling Spaceballs...

I didn't really delay buying my 100th DVD. It just happened that I was nearing that point, and Insurrection came out. I didn't hesitate to buy it, or Stripes.

I guess I primarily started this thread to see if anyone tries to have certain movies be at certain milestones when it's possible, whether that involves going to extremes or not to make that possible.

Regarding laser discs, I remember a high school physics teacher I had was using them in the classroom, and that was in 1988-89, IIRC.

mdc3000

I do the "milestone" thing usually with good movies.... I number my entire collection (usually only about once every three months) so I'll try and make the good movies have decent places in the collection. I do it a lot less now that I have a bigger collection...

ie. 100 - Jaws 150 - Sopranos Season 1 200 - Close Encounters 300 - Buffy Season 1 450 - ET 1000 - Star Wars Trilogy 1100 - Angel Season 5

MATT

DVDHO

Just hit 400 here with Soprano's season 4,hey we all had 100 at one time so no chuckle's here,enjoy bro.

dvd_luver

Hey, dvd aficianado's everywhere can poke fun at you only having 100 dvds in your collection, but that is quite a huge collection of dvds. Think about how much time you'd have to set to watch them all, or how many you will watch. It makes more sense to only have a few of the dvds that you will watch, with a decent replay factor, when some people have 1,000's of them and all they are there for is show and to collect dust. I think a dvd collection with a 100 or so dvds is a more reasonable collection if you know you will watch them again. My collection has to be near 500 or so, I am not to sure, I lost count. At least you are responsible enough with your collection to keep count.

Acid_Bath2

Well I just hit 1300 and it was Soprano's S5 but my 1000th DVD was 24 Season 2 cant tell you what 500 or 100 was so long ago

chente

I'm thinking about doing a major culling with my collection pretty soon. I am going to try and stick around 300-350 DVD's and 100 LD's.