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I tried sorting by box color once..it just looked weird

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Alphabetically, by year of release works best for me. Starting with 2010 followed by 2009, 2008 and so on.

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I couldn't imagine bypassing genre and just going straight alphabetical with a large collection. Genre is the way to go. If you are in the mood for a sci-fi film, then they are all grouped together for your perusal. Comedy? Over on this shelf. Even my TV sets are seperated between Comedy & Drama.

BDs are another matter though since I don't have a tenth or twentieth of the DVDs I have. BDs are split between Animated/family and everything else, then alphabetical.

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Personally, if I'm ever in the mood for something, I'm in the mood for something specific: "Star Trek" (it's under "S"; "Doctor Who" (it's under "D"). If I don't know what I'm in the mood for, then I just start with "A" and start looking for a title to jump out at me.

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Same here pretty much. I just pick a random shelf and scan it, covering all genres, until I find something.

But I actually am considering separating all of my horror films into their own shelfing.

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I used to have them in category of genre but then I kept overthinking which genre's to put certain movies in and went back to Alphabetical. I find it the easiest and most effective.

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Agreed. Some movies are really hard to categorize. I did the genre sorting once but kept switching certain titles back, forth and all over the place.

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This is a fantastic idea.

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I order by Alpha using four categories, Blu-ray, DVD, TVDVD, and the Archive (movies I put in jewel cases because I don't have enough room to display them all).

But for purposes of my database I use three genres for movies

1. Action/Adventure/Drama
2. Comedy/Musical
3. Horror

I found the combing genres made it very easy to classify something to one category.

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That's pretty neat. But what about Westerns? Sci-Fi? Those fine lines between action and thriller/horror? And even harder, Horror-comedies? Dramadies? ;)

I think I'm just going to end up ignoring genre altogether. The concept no longer exists in my mind. Zip. It's gone.

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This is an interesting thought since I have encountered just the scenario you described.