My Signature bears testimony to the number of DVDs I have obtained since I discontinued my subscription to Cable TV. I figure I won't be watching "Reruns" until after the 2022 Olympics!

I figure I have well over 150 TV disks that haven't been viewed yet; that is, disks in season sets. And probably 70-80 movies still in shrink wrap; but many of those I've seen before, on VHS or in theaters. Someone commented earlier about physical media fading away, and I agree. I want to have a substantial library to see me through until I check out. Something that I control completely. And I'm certainly not done buying--if it's a good deal (and I mean cheap!) and something I want, I'll get it. I'm cherry picking a few items from the current DD sale (weak as it is) and plan on getting a few more things from Amazon's Warners Bros. sale. I'm not looking at the Black Fri. postings because I want to open up the ads Thanksgiving morning and [hopefully] be delightfully surprised.

I currently list 70 to watch. But, that includes many TV shows including the complete Ally McBeal, the complete Twilight Zone, the complete Farscape, the complete Get Smart and the complete It's Garry Shandling's Show and over 25 other single season sets counted as single items. It'll take me a while to get caught up...

This is a good "problem" to have if you're a) a Chinese film junkie and b) live near a Chinatown! The hunt can be a lot of fun, but it does require a fair amount of vigilance, as Ash suggests.

When the Shaw library first came out, I went against conventional wisdom and loaded up on the non-martial arts titles, as I suspected they weren't going to sell in the same quantities as the martial arts titles, with their international fan base. Then I gradually loaded up on the martial arts stuff just to be safe. Got to around 500 titles before the catalogue started going OOP (especially the VCD line, which is virtually extinct at this point), and that's when I realized there were a few stragglers that were going to be increasingly hard to score.

Here, there are no less than six Chinatowns, with varying, sometimes dwindling selection. I picked up most of the 500-ish Shaw titles online because the prices were better there at the time, but thanks to the bootleggers here (who peaked a couple years back and are in modest decline right now), the price of legitimate discs dropped quickly, and now it's easy to find authentic DVDs and VCDs at clearout prices, although supplies will become more scarce over time.

That said, there's one shop here, a "Cash n' Carry" Chinese entertainment store in the China-burbs that I swear I've kept in business for the last ten years, that has a substantial section of Shaw DVDs and VCDs that they steadfastly refuse to drop the prices on, even though they've done so on most of their other products (they also had an awesome $1-$2 VCD blowout a couple of years back to free up space). So there they sit: literally a few hundred Shaw discs, way too highly priced at this stage of the game, but I fear the OOP status of many of them will keep them that way. Nonetheless, I drop in weekly in the hopes they're having a sale!

In keeping with the topic, though, most of those 500 Shaw titles have yet to be watched! Along with about 600 or more HK movies that I've just recently begun plowing through. I took a break from it for awhile (thus the accumulation), but it still fits like a comfy old glove, and winter's coming, so . . .




I've seen griping about these on a couple of internet forums, mainly because they're not remastered, and have variable quality subtitles, but let's face it, this is the ONLY way to see most of these titles at this point. I also wonder if the Joy Sales licence is set to expire some time in the near future as they seem to be putting a lot of stuff out via that label that was originally marked for the remastered line. Regardless, I'm happy with all of them, and I love the poster sleeves, although I could do without the silver slipcovers. Ive also been scoring a ton of these on 2-for-1 VCDs at a downtown Chinatown shop that's been having an ongoing going-out-of-business sale. That's another place I've probably kept afloat over the years—even back when VCDs went for $13 a pop and DVDs were in their infancy—so it'll be sad to see them go (if they ever really do )




So true!

Hundreds. I didn't just type that, did I? I think I'm going to sell some...

About 800. I essentially stopped buying a couple years ago, but (due to other commitments and interests) it's still all I can do just to make it through the review discs I receive so I'm not making much headway with that backlog.

Probably about 100-130

I'd say at least 1500, maybe 2000.

The problem is I buy a lot of lots and then peddle off what i don;t want or are duplicates. Add the Big Lots stuff (most of which I would not own if they weren't $3) and it gets out of hand quick.

I've got boxes of stuff I don't know if I want to keep or peddle off. Ususally I keep the used stuff b/c 1) It's not worth anything and 2) it may be a great blind buy. So I've got boxes of used DVDs that I got for an avg of .50-1.00.

it is usually around 10 at the most at any given time, but my collection is only a few hundred movies so...

I'd say 20-30 for me.

Now that I live in japan I have worked it down to maybe 10. However, before that I had dozens sitting around still in their wrap.....

How does "Japan" change that number? My number is over 600 and I'm in Japan too.

about 20-25 out of my 2000+ collection

Finally went through my collection and I have 341 unwatched titles

Out of 400 that I own, I currently have only 5 that i havent watched yet. I do have the bad habbit where I feel like I need to go and buy more every few days and Im not even done with my old pile yet...comes with the territory I guess.

67 so far (include blind buy DVD).

more than 50

Hundreds and hundreds.