I have my TV on DVD separate from my movies but both are in alphabetical order

One shelving unit has them organized by studio, then another shelving unit houses only tv sets, and another shelving unit holds box sets/series collections.

I'm 40 away from hitting 1,000 -Alphabetical would drive me nuts!

I agree. I hate when stores arrange by genre, because I don't always agree with their catagorizations. WalMart does it best; alphabetical by title.

Chronologically by theatrical release date (or TV airdate). I find that it makes for a nice "history of cinema" vibe from left to right.

Alphebetically.

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Choices ...

I have TV alphabetical, then feature films alphabetical. I figure they are separate and should be treated so.

Alphabetical for everything except the boxsets or odd shaped cases which I keep separate.

At some point, I had them organized by color, just for kicks. Then, I moved. Now, they are the embodiment of disorder.

These are the categories I use for my shelves:

sorted alphabetically
- Action-Adventure
- Action-Adventure - Comedy
- Action-Adventure - Crime
- Action-Adventure - Epic
- Action-Adventure - Espionage
- Action-Adventure - Martial Arts/Samurai
- Action-Adventure - Military
- Action-Adventure - Superheroes
- Christmas
- Comedy
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Music
- Sci-Fi
- Sports
- Suspense - Thriller - Mystery
- Television
- War
- Western

sorted chronologically
- James Bond
- Actor - Al Pacino
- Actor - Bill Murray
- Actor - Brad Pitt
- Actor - Johnny Depp
- Actor - Robert De Niro
- Director - Alfred Hitchcock
- G.I. Joe

for the most part its organized by Director, with the films in the order of their theatrical release. then i have a miscellaneous section in alphabetical order for the rest.

ROBERT ALTMAN
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
WES ANDERSON
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
INGMAR BERGMAN
ROBERT BRESSON
JOHN CARPENTER
JOHN CASSAVETTES
JOEL & ETHAN COEN
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
SOFIA COPPOLA
JEAN-PIERRE & LUC DARDENNE
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
TERRY GILLIAM
JEAN-LUC GODARD
DAVID GORDAN GREEN
CHRISTOPHER GUEST
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
HOU HSIAO HSIEN
JIM JARMUSCH
KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI
STANLEY KUBRICK
AKIRA KUROSAWA
MIKE LEIGH
SERGIO LEONE
BAZ LUHRMANN
DAVID LYNCH
LUKAS MOODYSSON
SAM RAIMI
LYNNE RAMSEY
ERIC ROHMER
GUS VAN SANT
MARTIN SCORSESE
STEVEN SODERBERGH
ANDREI TARKOVSKY
BÉLA TARR
LARS VON TRIER
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT
ORSON WELLES
WIM WENDERS
WONG KAR-WAI
JOHN WOO
ZHANG YIMOU
MISCELLANEOUS

I keep all the studios together and then alphabetically...looks really nice on the shelves that way. I also have a seperate cabinet for box sets and other special editions (like tins etc.)

I arrange mine by height. It is a good system because it makes it easy to figure out where the new ones go.

Actually I have four shelves that each have their own organization. I have my Criterions and large sets (Scarface Cigar Box, Matrix Limited Collectors set etc) and sets or discs I'm particularly fond of (King Kong & Alfred Hitchcock Collection) on a seperate shelf.
Then my main shelf is arranged by director (and chronolgical within each group) and and the remaining room filled with my Docs and Music DVDs.
I have another small shelf with about 30 of my favourites in no particular order.
And last is anything that doesn't fit into one of these groups is in alpha on a seperate shelf by the TV.

I have a few major categories, and the DVDs are alphabetically organized with in them. They are: Foreign Language, Animation (mostly Disney/Pixar), "Classics" (pre-1980s), Televsion and Documentaries (including sports), and finally "Mainstream" which means everything else. Within some categories I have movies grouped by director, e.g. all Hitchcock films under "H" within Classics, or all Francois Ozon films under "O" for Foreign Language.

in the two shelving units I have, everything is alphabetized. everything else that I don't have room for is randomized.

Everything is ordered alphabetically, and than TV is sorted at the bottom of my shelfs.

Mostly alphabetical by director (release year within director).
Tv-shows, Digipacks, snappers and amarays are all separated.

Asian films by country and in alphabetical order within country (some by director or star).

All amaray cases have a custom spine with the director name and release year.

That's the simplified version of it, but I guess it's enough to have me committed.

In no order whatsoever,just wherever there is space and whilst i know it probably only applies to laserdiscs...i just make sure i store them all vertically!!

Here's something I've wondered about, thought I'd get other peoples opinions:
When putting series together and there's a prequel, does the prequel go in the series chronology or the release date chronology? Quick example, Star Wars movies go Ep I-VI or IV-VI,I-III?

no matter what i put them in order ep 1-111 then the trilogy box set. Same thing with the 1st Carlito's way and the new one that came out. (prequel)
the new one is 1st then the original

Alphabetical....however, I moved a few of my TV DVD sets and my Superbits to another shelf. I ran out of room on my main DVD rack. I may move my boxsets eventually from my main shelf also, but room is a factor now.

I used to have my movies alphabetical, with TV shows on a seperate shelf alpabetical, with box sets on a seperate shelf alphabetized and Music DVDs seperate as well.... I recently just amalgamated the whole collection onto one big wall, so now everything, regardless of type (except music dvds are still seperate...dvd-audio and the like look bad with normal dvd cases).

Alphabetical seems the best way... I once (when my collection was only at 150 instead of the now 1300) tried organizing by studio/actors/directors but it was too hard to easily locate titles (especially for any guests or family members) so I scrapped that.

MATT

Alphabetical. Makes it easier to find. (and I only have 260 or so)

Thanks for the imput guys. Looks like this weekend we have a project. They'll be arranged by genre then alphabetical order. (verses my way..Genre then release dates)

I seperate my collection by TV Shows, Movies, and Horror movies (since I am on the only one in my family that likes horror movies). They are all on the same wall, but just in differen't bookcases.