Most stores won't even accept returns on discs more than a few weeks old (even if you did save the receipt).

It doesn't happen often, but there ARE discs that simply will not play (or at least not play properly). And making sure you discover that in time to get a replacement is incentive enough to go without sleep until the pile is finished.

I thought I was the only one too! This board is like an AA meeting - DVD enthusiasts getting the chance to be open about their darkest DVD secrets and finding others who share your pain!

Personally, I have about fifty DVDs I haven't watched yet, not including any TV on DVD box sets. But it's hard because I'm also checking out DVDs from my university library on a constant basis, and friends are always lending me DVDs to watch.

But I'm slowly getting through them, though, and hope to finish the feature films by the end of the summer, or at least before the next DDD sale rolls around (assuming there will be one). I find the TV series the easiest because of the brevity of each episode. I always have time to squeeze in an episode, whereas finding the time to commit to a two-hour film is a lot more difficult.

No regrets ever, moving on to another title. I be mindful if I get too behind, though.

My system is that I export my DVD Profiler database to excel. I have three columns (well, more than three, but for the purposes of this thread...) for each movie.

1. Watched - Meaning I watched the movie or the whole season/volume of a TV show. I rarely watch the end credits. If I have done this, I count it as watched.
2. Special Features - Meaning I watched all of the special features of the disc. This includes commentaries, bios, documentaries, trivia track, etc... Reading booklets count as special features. I have to read the booklet before I say yes in this column.
3. Easter Eggs - Meaning I looked up if there are any easter eggs and have watched them all. Exceptions include Dodgeball unrated where the other two commentaries are "easter eggs", I count that as a special feature, i guess. I use DVDTalk database and http://www.hiddendvdeastereggs.com. DVDTalk database is just *ok* IMHO (I hate the search), but it has some that the other site doesn't and vice versa.

Other notes:
1. I have never watched any of the DVD-ROM stuff for any title. I probably have missed some good stuff, but I don't do that.
2. If I have two copies of these same movie and watch one of them, I count them both as watched. This is usually only the case where I double dipped and the original release contained something unique and I will not sell it.
3. The only movie that I've ran into with a script is Alien or Aliens on the quadrilogy release. I did actually read the whole thing... not very carefully, but I went through it.

In all cases, I used to be pretty bad about leaving the special features and moving onto the next title. A good example is Se7en. There were 4 commentaries and I felt overwhelmed, so I just went on to other movies and figured I would listen to them sometime (since then I have listened to them all).

Commentaries are almost always listened to while I'm doing something else (darts, organizing my DVD's, cleaning, doing something on the computer, etc...) It's hard to listen to a commentary and watch it over and over again unless I'm doing something else. Some exceptions include the mini commentaries on South Park and most of the time the Simpsons and Futurama. I also have a laptop, so if I'm upstairs making dinner or doing the dishes or something, I can get a little caught up on commentaries. I just started doing this when I did a serious cleaning of my house that took a long time.

Lastly, I have dedicated a shelf for DVD's that I have to finish the special features on. This does not include DVD's that I haven't watched in so long that the special features wouldn't mean a whole lot unless I watched the movie/show again. I now attempt to not have any more of those... If the shelf gets full I'll knock a couple off.

I don't know what else to say, that's my DVD watching experience!

I still LOVE to buy them.... it's the watching that's become a chore


Oh, my "To Watch" list is 211.

Kill me now.

I do this exact same thing. . .I thought I was strange. . .

I'm afraid to count, but I would guess that I have between 250 - 300 unwatched DVDs. (Counting TV season sets as 1 title.)

I'm supposed to have more time in the summer because I don't have as much "new" TV programming to watch, but somehow, I haven't been attacking my DVD backlog that much!

I'm a victim of this too. I still have TONS of movies to watch.

I've got almost the exact same setup as you for keeping track of things, however, I do it directly in DVDProfiler in the "Personalize" section of each disc. When I enter in a new title, I put a listing of all the features in the textbox, and when I watch a feature, I "check" it off.

Example:

[X] - Movie
[] - Commentary /w Director
[] - The Making of Rock & Rule

I've got tags set up for "Unwatched," which will get unflagged when I have watched the main feature (the title movie, every episode in a season, etc.), and a "Complete" tag which will get checked if I have completely gone through a disc/set. This seems to be a pretty good method for me. I'm currently just working on getting rid of the "Unwatched" discs, then I'll work to "Complete"-ing them.

I never thought that I would have this problem, but alas, I have about 30-40 that I haven't seen yet. I am too addicted not to buy new ones though. But I look at it this way: I will always have the DVD so it doesn't really matter if I watch it right away.

About three years ago I went a little crazy and in the span of a few months I bought a Gamecube, a PS2 and a DVR. At this point my options became almost unlimited and my DVD watching habits changed considerably. Basically I almost have to make time to sit down and watch a DVD. Fortunately, my kids have enjoyed many of my recent purchases (age appropriate of course!), so that has eased the burden of spending money on something that I probably won't ever enjoy.

Welcome to the club. The sad thing is, I have more unwatched than you own, and it will only get worse. I have 160 unwatched with 18 on order right now. Many are boxed sets and TV shows, plus I just got the Planet of the Apes Ultimate DVD Collection in the big ape head which will take awhile to get through. To keep track, I set up a filter for "unwatched" in DVDSpot. I count the disc as watched if I watched the movie, watching special feature is an added bonus but not required first time through.

Here's my Unwatched list: http://dvdspot.com/list.php?member=t...ter=1924082693

I'm trying to work my way through them, usually watching at least one a day. My problem is I buy them faster than I watch them.

Time, indeed. I think I've bought like two dvds in the past six months, there's not been any new releases that I've wanted enough to add to the pile. I think by title I'm about 50% watched. Of course, that's misleading because 'Simpsons Season 5" and "Nightmare on Elm Street Collection' are one title, and I don't mark it 'watched' until they'll watched. And with BBO, which I guess I should cancel but I want to watch the rest of BtVS, i have those rental disks sitting there that I feel i "should" watch to get my money's worth there [which I am definitely not doing this month, luckily I still get the game coupons, that helps].
And yes, for a while there I was getting lots of good deals on PS2 games as well, so I've got a stack of games to go through.
Extras: I watch/listen to whatever ones sound good. I don't make myself listen to a commentary from two people I don't care about just to get my 'money's worth'. If I've watched everything on the set I want to watch, I call it watched.
As has been said, too much choice often leads to lack of choice. That's my problem too, sometimes--standing in front of the rack or looking at DVDprofiler, trying to decide which of 65 titles to watch. I've got a few dvds my boy can watch with me [although some I thought he could, I don't know if I want him to yet--I didn't realize The Muppets was so violence, in the first two episodes there were at least two instances of characters pointing guns at one another, not even counting all the explosions.] Plus, once he finds something he wants to watch, he wants to watch it all the time, so we're not making any headway that way.
And I haven't really watched tv in years...I'll watch the Simpsons and occasionally JL/JLU or a movie from HBOHD or SHOHD, but I don't follow any of the 'hot shows'. The last one I did follow was Dead Like Me.
I've taken to assigned odd numbered days as DVD days, and even numbered days as game days, although that sometimes gets thrown off when it's a game day and my wife wants to watch her program [I can always watch a DVD on the computer, and sometimes I prefer to, if there are no subtitles or captions]. Of course that assumes having time to watch/play something; which I have done only twice this week [half an episode of Batman Beyond and about 45 minutes of Grandia III.]

update: After having watched Spaceballs and as many of the extras I care about [rather misleading though the extras disk is], I am down to 90 unwatched/75 watched titles. [again, some of those are TV series, which are partially watched].