I can help too. That sure is an impressive collection. Here I thought I had too many DVDs at just under 600.

Haha, I haven't watched a majority of my collection but basically I buy my DVDs and then watch them when I get the chance. Very expensive habbit but the resale value for them is pretty good so if I ever needed to sell them, it would payoff a bit. It'll take a lifetime or two to watch everything, but I'm working on it...

ROADTOPERDITION,
I don't know if you have a local video store...but maybe you should look into opening one?

RoadToPerdition, you need to tidy up some, but that looks great. Where do you get the autographed posters? I am jealous.

You get major points from me for organizing your Criterions in alphabetical rather than spine number (read: OCD) order.

p.s. So that's what a Salo spine looks like...

Edit: Although I just noticed you used "ugly American" alphabetical order: L'Eclisse, L'Avventura under "L", etc. You lose some points there but it's the thought that counts.

Unfortunately illenium the Salo isn't the real thing, it's some second-printing or something. But it's good enough because I'm not paying what people charge for the real thing!

I could never open a video store, toddly6666, and risk someone screwing a DVD up. I'm very particular.

I used to have my DVDs lined up along the wall but I just moved them into this "row" type thing which I think looks better in a way.

The autographed posters come from eBay, the seller I buy from most frequently is movieemporium. They're great!

As someone who dabbles in autographs, be careful . . . a friend of mine who really knows her stuff said one of them looked like a fraud.

I'd just hate to see you waste your money!

I think the Chicago one might be, I didn't buy that one from movieemporium though.

Or, RoadtoPerdition, you could put the shelves back to back and have aisles in between like an actual library, thats the kind of feel I got from looking at it. That would be RAD!

I think the whole "library" look with aisles is great, but I agree with everyone that if you spent just a little bit of money to get a more uniform look, it would ROCK!

Great collection!!!

this is my place to buy Autographed stuff. I bought a Life aquatic poster on here. This is also the same place that the Brokeback mountian shirts went over i think 100,000 dollars.

http://stores.ebay.com/Variety-The-Childrens-Charity

My question to you, since you are an obvious collector is what about HD DVD and BluRay? will you be repurchasing the titles? Like you said you buy then watch later... or would you jsut not worry about HD and BluRay? Or.. if you are going to purchase the titles in the new format, I sense a long list of "for sale" DVDs.

I don't plan on upgrading, I don't think the most-likely minute upgrade in picture will be worth it. I also don't plan on buying HD-DVDs until there is one universal format decided on.

Thanks for all the suggestions for my setup, everyone! I'm looking to get some high-capacity shelves but the most I've seen is one that holds 708, does anyone know of any shelves that hold more?

If you got enough wall space and you'd like a modern minimalistic look, go for (3) Boltz multimedia systems.

A plus of the Boltz racks is that dust won't build up on them

There is a very noticable difference in picture and sound. The HD-DVD discs use DD+ for audio and it definitely is superior to standard DD and DTS. You should upgrade when possible.

Have you seen a HD or BD demo yet? I would go to a high end electronics store and see if they have something set up. Best Buy has been using lousy connections to play their demos, so you don't get the full effect.

I have 3 Boltz Racks and that is not entirely true. While they do seem to collect less dust than most things, after time I do find a small layer of dust on the front and top spines of my DVDs.

I know it's a "looks cool" thing, but those boltz racks are EXPENSIVE for what you get! I built a regular ol' bookcase-style shelf for about $100 that holds about the same amount of DVD's (6' tall by 6' wide). The super-kit linked above is over $600!!

RoadToPerdition,

I admire your Criterion collection. That being said, why are they not in numerical order?

Everything else is in alphabetical order, so it fits better.

Here is a little update on my DVD collection & HT.

nice little setup you got there ewan. i like.

Recently updated mine with the projector and a new dvd shelf.

Will try to add a pic of a movie playing as soon as I can get off playing Oblivion.

Very nice indeed!

Just moved and finally got my front wall set up in the new place.

It is a 4:3 DIY screen. Behind the screen and curtains, the wall is covered by 2 inch acoustic blade tiles.

Still left to do: side/back walls (will use acoustic panels for these), install carpet and put in a bar/concession area. The bar/concession stuff will go to the right of the screen... there's an area over there made for it.

I'll also eventually put in a masking system for widescreen light spill...

These images don't do it justice, but you can get the idea anyway...


Front Wall (screen width is right at 7.5'):


From Kill Bill:

Sweetness^. I'll have to post new pics of my DVD collection soon.