Do you mix your blu-rays with your DVDs?
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Do you mix your blu-rays with your DVDs?
I'm sure this has been brought up many times, but I couldn't find a thread searching, sooo...
Do you organize them separately?
Since I've started collecting blu's, I've had my blu's separated from my DVDs, while I have 3-4 of my larger box sets on display just because they take up so much space on the actual shelves (Hitchcock Masterpieces, Godzilla, Abbott & Costello, and Puppet Master).
I recently got the Omen Blu-Ray set, and it's the size of a standard DVD and have thought of mixing blus and DVDs together.
Do the rest of you do that? Or keep the separate?
Do you organize them separately?
Since I've started collecting blu's, I've had my blu's separated from my DVDs, while I have 3-4 of my larger box sets on display just because they take up so much space on the actual shelves (Hitchcock Masterpieces, Godzilla, Abbott & Costello, and Puppet Master).
I recently got the Omen Blu-Ray set, and it's the size of a standard DVD and have thought of mixing blus and DVDs together.
Do the rest of you do that? Or keep the separate?
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I started out mixing them together, I actually just somewhat recently set the BDs apart when I got over 100.
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Everything's in alphabetical order. I tried separating them once but it made it difficult to find the title I was looking for so I switched it back.
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A year ago, I would have said that there was no way I would ever mix them, simply because of how the cases are. I have a modestly-sized shelf, so I'm trying to figure out ways of making new space.
My shelves are like this:
-Top shelf: steelbooks with a box set as a bookend
-below that - keepcases
-below that - keepcases with box sets as a bookend
-below that - cardboard fold-out cases (you know the kind) and tins as bookends
-below that - my dvd books
-below that - my three blu-rays
-below that - collectible cases (Casino Royale, Star Wars Trilogy tin, etc).
Since I'm running out of space for my keep-cases, it occurred to me that when the space runs out, I could just use the blu-ray shelf, and it wouldn't bother me. Sure, DVDs are taller, but they're all the same width, so it looks kind of nice.
My shelves are like this:
-Top shelf: steelbooks with a box set as a bookend
-below that - keepcases
-below that - keepcases with box sets as a bookend
-below that - cardboard fold-out cases (you know the kind) and tins as bookends
-below that - my dvd books
-below that - my three blu-rays
-below that - collectible cases (Casino Royale, Star Wars Trilogy tin, etc).
Since I'm running out of space for my keep-cases, it occurred to me that when the space runs out, I could just use the blu-ray shelf, and it wouldn't bother me. Sure, DVDs are taller, but they're all the same width, so it looks kind of nice.
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My instinct and current practice is to keep the BDs, HD-DVDs, and SDs all in separate places. However, I'm finding that I'm forgetting what I have in each format, and sometimes "upgrading" or "downgrading" when I really didn't want to do either. In most cases, I just want the film in the cheapest way possible, format doesn't matter too much. So I think I'm going to mix them all together. Just waiting for a week off to tackle that mountain of a project.
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Everything is mixed together, and it's all loosely categorized by genre/sub-genre. It makes sense to almost no one, sometimes even myself, but I know where stuff is.
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blu-rays look so good together, I've even changed my love of slip covers with blu-rays, because I feel they look so much better together without them.
i could never mix them together.
i could never mix them together.
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I only have a few Blu's, but I keep them seperate. I don't know though, I might mix my wrestling Blu's with the DVDs, which will be a strictly exclusive deal.
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Nope. My Blu-Rays are on a different shelf.
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No. For now I have my blu's in alpha order in original cases on their own bookcase. The DVDs are broken down by genre and/or director/actor and are kept in slim cd jewel cases. HDs are kept in red slim CD jewel cases in their own area. I'll eventually do the same with the blu's to save on space but they will still be stored seperately.
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No. For now I have my blu's in alpha order in original cases on their own bookcase. The DVDs are broken down by genre and/or director/actor and are kept in slim cd jewel cases. HDs are kept in red slim CD jewel cases in their own area. I'll eventually do the same with the blu's to save on space but they will still be stored seperately.
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No doubt's about it, together.
I prefer my movies to be organized alphabetically by genre. Right now it is about 1000 DVD movies to 70 Blu-ray, and still growing. To separate them would basically mean duplicating each genre to have separate collections. I choose what to watch on a given night based on interest not format.
My 300+ TV seasons are organized by the year the series started (with all seasons of a series together).
I prefer my movies to be organized alphabetically by genre. Right now it is about 1000 DVD movies to 70 Blu-ray, and still growing. To separate them would basically mean duplicating each genre to have separate collections. I choose what to watch on a given night based on interest not format.
My 300+ TV seasons are organized by the year the series started (with all seasons of a series together).
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Mixed together, excepting the separations I already had for DVD (anime, animated and "everything else"). I have too many Blu's that are parts of series to keep them separated, such as the most recent Harry Potter movie, the one Apes movie that had a longer cut only on Blu so I just picked up that one and kept it with my DVDs, Toy Story 3 is with my Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box DVD set and my DTS reissue DVDs.
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seperate, except for tv seasons. I have Smallville season 7 and Bones season 4 on blu and they are mixed in with the other seasons.
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Blus are kept separated for two basic reasons. Firstly, we don't have room on our three DVD towers for them and they look a lot better (and make more sense) grouped together on a small little stand nearer the TV. Secondly, I'm still enamored with having gone Blu and enjoy the snobbish pretentious way of displaying them.
Also, everything in our library is alphabetized by release title. For instance, The Adventures of Indiana Jones box set is in the A's for "Adventures." There are only a handful of things like that that aren't where you'd expect to find them, but I find myself more contented with that strict system than I was by making exceptions. (As a rule I try to avoid multi-title collections for the purpose of avoiding that kind of conflict.)
Also, everything in our library is alphabetized by release title. For instance, The Adventures of Indiana Jones box set is in the A's for "Adventures." There are only a handful of things like that that aren't where you'd expect to find them, but I find myself more contented with that strict system than I was by making exceptions. (As a rule I try to avoid multi-title collections for the purpose of avoiding that kind of conflict.)
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It seems Blu-Ray's should be on a top shelf as they are newer. But as you buy more and your DVD's keep getting pushed off the bottom shelf so to speak you may feel like you've gone anti-DVD. So mixing them could give you peace of mind that you like both formats. So many cases are different colors and sizes already. I am not sure if I will mix them yet. But combo packs come to mind again. They come in either DVD packaging or Blu-Ray packaging. According to which you pick up at the store ... you're already mixing them.
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So far as I'm concerned, the Blu-ray Disc is the reason I own any combo pack. Any DVD is simply a redundant SD clone of the content I really wanted. I don't even think of them as DVDs; I think of them as bonus discs.
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I keep them separate.
The primary reason is to save space, since the blu-rays can all go on a smaller shelf.
The primary reason is to save space, since the blu-rays can all go on a smaller shelf.