When I get The African Queen, 3-disc Blade Runner, 3-disc 2001: A Space Odyssey, and all of Akira Kurosawa's movies, enough is enough.

I put together an Excel spreadsheet to compute the exact number.

It looks like I would do fine with about 2,018 of them.

Thanks for the responses...

I see many people replyed they had a few hundred...

I guess my question should have been geared to the people that have over 1000 dvds...

Yea, there are many factors to consider but to me, storage space is becoming a problem...

According to "The Bus" spreadsheet, I need 2537. However, I already own 3202, and at least that many on my wish list. So, I either made a mistake on the spreadsheet, or am a hopeless film/DVD addict.

That sums up my feelings exactly. I haven't been keeping track, but from what I have in racks and what won't fit in racks, I estimate I have about 1200 DVDs. I've been collecting for 7 years.

I think when people first start collecting, they buy a lot - there's a lot to catch up on, and it seems impossible. Then you hit a magic point in your collection where you have just about everything you think you want, and start filling small holes. Sadly, that isn't good enough. The collection begins to spider out, and you begin various odd branches and sub-categories of the library.

That is how I view my collection. Other people vary. There are the people that want to have all the 2 disc sets, all the discs with DTS tracks, or all the discs that have the best looking anamorphic picture, etc. They seem to be more in love with the DVD medium, than the movies themselves. Which is fine, I wouldn't begin to criticize anyone's collection. There are a few ways to build a collection, and a lot of it has to do with individuality. Someone's 200 disc collection is respectable as someone's 2000 disc collection, IMHO. It's enough when the collector thinks so.

Blasphemy!

i feel you on that one

Good deals on discs can have effects too. I know I've bought some titles over the past year or so that I wouldn't have paid $15-20 or more for, but because I saw them cheap I got them.

For example, when that Superbit sale at Best Buy started, I (and I'm sure many others) bought several titles that had been out for a while, but just didn't scream "buy me" until they were cheap. Thinking the sale would end soon, I probably bought more than I really wanted at the time. If I had known it was going to be extended until the end of the year and then extended again (I think it's still going on), I would have waited on some of them.

There have also been some good 2 for $20 or 3 for $25 sales on catalog titles, and of course the Wal-Mart dump bin (with some titles selling for $4.88 or even less around Black Friday) that have made some titles buy-worthy.

Ditto Ditto & Ditto...Amen brother!...
BUT... the sales keep coming

If you're a true movie fan..."too much" isn't in your vocabulary.

I agree completely. While I haven't really sold any off, I find that I'm slowing down considerably now that I'm reaching about 200, and have most of my favorites. Also, I'm now a member of Netflix, so I'm only gonna buy 'em if I really like 'em. I say go with your gut. If you feel like cuttin' back, it's probably a good idea.

For me, I don't know that I'll ever have too many. Three or four years into my DVD collecting obsession and my wish list is only growing as I learn more about film. According to my DVD Aficionado account I have 390 titles in my collection and 41 on order. I don't buy every film that comes out, and there are some "Classics" that don't really interest me. I have no pretensions of having a complete library of the "most important" or the greatest films of all time. I want to have a library of films, but only of those that I really like or believe that I'll like. I'm not a completist. I think renaldow is very much correct - and I'm still in the catching up phase. Every Deep Discount DVD 20% off sale kills me, as is the current Criterion sale. I have 41 films in the Criterion Collection, and 17 on order - and there are still many, many that I want (and I have no plans to ever own every spine number - I just feel that they release mostly very high quality films). In the past year or so I've bought most of the Hitchcock films that I want, but I still want more Billy Wilder and Akira Kurosawa and Stanley Kubrick films. And I'm continually finding new directors that I love and new genres that interest me. Cinema has been around for over a hundred years, and there are a lot of gems. So no, I don't think that I'll ever feel like I own too many DVDs.

Storage space isn't really a big problem here - money is. Fortunately I have a fairly good job and not a lot of expenses, currently, though that's all going to change in a few months as I go off to college.

On more than one occasion, I have bought a dvd and brought it home only to find out I already own it...

"I hate when that happens..."

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I stopped when the good movies stopped. I have about 500 DVDs and I could easily ditch 200 of them because I'll never watch them again. I no longer buy a new movie every week like a used to. I never rented a DVD till I had about 400 and realized what a waste of money it was to buy a movie I'd only watch once. There's a few movies here and there that'll I buy but as it is I have more then enough.

I've got close to 300 disks. At one point I was buying one, or two disks a week. But lately it's been more like one or two per month. I tend to just buy the things that I like but lately none of the current releases have really interested me.

Interesting worksheet. It says I need 6448 titles. I can see having that many by the time I'm 90.

One problem with the spreadsheet is if you put 0 for "On average, how many hours do you spend watching each borrowed or rented DVD?", it doesn't do the computation. I don't borrow or rent any DVD's, so it was not applicable to me.

I'm around 1000 movies and shows and I can tell you that I haven't scratched the surface.

830 by spine count (box set as one), 967 by title. I've also gotten rid of some every once in a while. I have a majority of what it is I want, but there's always new things coming out and never enough money to buy it all so I won't truly ever be 'happy'.

I am in the 4 digit category.

I have very far ranging tastes...I love old B&W films, cult films, exploitation films, foreign films...etc. Thus my library is very extensive and there are many, many more films I would want to own.

Fo me there isn't a stoppage point, my only criteria in buying a film is if I will re-watch it. Every film in my collection fits that criteria.

I've only got 60...I only had about 10 last June though.

I have only bought about 8 DVDs in the past 16 months.

There are a few I would like to buy, Season Sets of Smallville, Batman and Superman.

But, they will have to wait awhile.

Current total = 310

I crossed the 3000 threshold recently and wondered "Ok, just what the hell am I doing here?" Since then I've been going through each shelf and EBaying titles that I'd either never watch again or only have remote interest in seeing and could just get from Netflix. My problem now is that everything I own seems to instantly lose its value.

I can say when I first found this site and started hitting the dvd bargain thread my purchase rate went up for awhile. I've always bought the major block busters and would always get the WS SE version.

Now I find myself going bare bones because of the stuipidly huge price difference. So my purchase rate has slown down a lot. I'll still pick up the major movies that I had to see in theater. But I likely stick to bare bones.

One the following will get me to jump to an SE.

-Addition of DTS track if it doesn't exist on Bare Bones.
-Extended Cuts with enough extra movie to make it work. Only films where it's been cut in like LOTR would get me to do it though. Other deleted scenes you watch it once and that's it.

About 600 here, but at least a third of those are multi-disc sets as I love TV series...

The answer for me will be "when I don't enjoy them anymore". Until that point I will continue to buy more and more. If I continue to buy more after I don't enjoy them, then that is just wasted money.