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Jeeping fuck! I had no idea. I had to look it up on Blu-ray.com just to make sure you weren't joking or exaggerating for effect. :lol:

I don't mind a dual-format if they just throw an extra DVD in there for a single film, but that's friggin' ridiculous.

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When most upgrader arguments seem to be "You're an untermensch if you don't upgrade," no wonder people are content to remain so-called Luddites.

"DVD users should be sent to the ovens and purged to make way for the master format." Yeah, great incentive. :gah:

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Yeah, I might hold off on Zatoichi boxset in the hopes that they release a much smaller, BluRay-only version in the future.

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I don't see anyone telling DVD owners that they're sub-human or deserve to die, but okay.

My point is simply that we're nearly a decade into Blu-ray. Prices are rock-bottom cheap. I just saw a player for $50, so that's actually 5% of the cost of the first players that came out in 2006. There's no reason not to buy a player (especially if you're the type of person buying movies on discs), since they're all backwards compatible anyway. Disc prices are pretty damn close, and I've even seen a few DVDs that cost more than their BD equivalent.

The only excuse is pure stubbornness, which I guess is how it is. People are free to do what they want. I figured Criterion would be the type of studio to make some bold moves in this market, but they're still a little too old-school.

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You forget there's still a big population of people who don't even have an HDTV.
Plus there are people who want to play the movie in a few different places other than their HD-enabled living room (ie. kids rooms, mini-van entertainment system, cottage, etc.). Not everyone can afford to be HD-enabled at all the places they watch their movies. So stubbornness isn't the only reason.

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The Zatoichi set is the only set I complain about being dual format. However, I don't see that even if it were just the nine discs in the set that it would fit on a regular shelf just because of the odd design of the box. Yes, the dvd makes the set thicker but the set itself is longer and oddly shaped in the first place. It is the only Criterion blu ray set that I have that doesn't reside on the shelf with other 150 Criterions bds that I own. All of the rest of the dual format releases sit just fine with me. I wish I had a dvd copy of El Norte without having to go buy another copy.

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Yes! Tati set looks awesome!!!

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But if it wasn't 27 discs, the box probably wouldn't have been designed as such. Luckily, I've got plenty of shelf space as well, so the dual-format stuff hasn't bothered me too much (other than being useless). I did have to move all of the stuff I haven't upgraded to blu yet to another area to avoid doing a complete reorganizing though. As of now, the Criterions take up almost 3 shelves that span the entire wall.

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I still believe the box didn't need to be as long as they made it.

How do you guys organize your Criterions? Do you do it numerically by mixing and matching the clams with the digis? Or do you do them numerically by clams and then follow it up with the digis? I use the latter organizational method.

Here is mine and it is spoiled for size.


My Zatoichi set is stored elsewhere due to the previously mentioned size.

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I just mix them in with my other blurays and organize them all alphabetically.

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I'm not at home to post pics, but I can edit this later this afternoon.

I have mine sorted strictly by spine number, with dvds in one section, and blu-rays in another. As mentioned, I had to clear up some space (in order to avoid a complete re-org of my entire library), so I moved all the stuff I've yet to upgrade (a lot) to another section of the room. I'm at 540 titles right now between dvd and blu-ray.

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My dvds are not even on this shelf and I actually do not have all of my Criterion dvds together in one place. I still look at Armageddon and The Rock and scratch my head as to why they were even released by Criterion.

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I bet new addition day is a pain in the ass around your house.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com

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All my Criterions are together and shelved numerically. DVDs and BDs are mixed together. If I upgrade a DVD, I just pull it out and slide the BD in its place.

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I was just browsing some of my titles on Amazon and I came across this 2004 Criterion gift set.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WVAP3K55L.jpg
I wonder what that cost back in the day?

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Many of my DVDs are organized by director, so I would never keep all my Criterions together.

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This. Except I've separated all of my Akira Kurosawa discs (Criterion or otherwise) and put them on their own shelf in an attempt to remind myself to watch the ones I haven't seen yet.

The price at the time was listed as $5250, but the MSRP was surely much higher.

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Ok, OCD'ers, enough with your uber sexy ways of organization. I'm sure it drives the females crazy. Let's move on to something else.

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Well, I mean, my wife did once get really frustrated, saying, "Dammit, Dan. Just tell me where the fuck I can find Dazed & Confused! It's not under the D's, so where the hell is it?!"

So, yes. Yes it does.

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Kenny Powers alphabetizes his Criterions.

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At one point, I was going to sort my collection chromatically. I thought it would look absolutely amazing, but felt I would have trouble finding anything (at least at first).

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Well played.

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Figured I'd throw my pictures up as well. I'll hide 'em in a spoiler, so as not to offend anyone.

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I think Why So Blu knows some girls who just got wet. ;)

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I've only got eight Criterions. I put them together, alphabetically:

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I know it's not supposed to be funny - but compared to Shagrath's collection - I couldn't help but chuckle - you've got a lot of catching up to do ... ;)

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We all have to start somewhere. :)

My first Criterion dvd was Robocop. I think my first laser-disc was probably Hardboiled or The Killer. So you can tell I've been around for quite some time.

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I can't be wasting too much time and money on Criterions. There are lots of other classic films that I need to buy, like... Grudge Match and Hollow Man 2. :lol:

My Blu-ray collection is an eclectic mixture of high-brow classics and low-brow crap: Citizen Kane and House of the Dead, Apocalypse Now and The Scorpion King 3, The French Connection and Van Helsing.

Just like my bookshelf, where I've got Shakespeare and Hemingway sitting next to movie novelizations and Star Trek tie-ins.

I've got all three of those, but sadly not on Criterion.

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ah a fellow Laserdisc patriot - that explains it. I'm Mr. Unorganized, there's no way to take a pic of all the Criterion DVD's, laserdiscs, blu's I own, cause there here, there, everywhere in my house.

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what? no 'White Chicks' ? okay - I admit it, I own that on DVD.

I wouldn't share that with too many people ;).

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I honestly really couldn't care less - if someone where to 'really' look at my entire video collection they'd commit me ... :lol:

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Ha, I'm about to dump all of my CC laserdisc titles at Amoeba sometime soon.

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I keep my CC BDs by the spine number. They're just too classy to sit with my regular BDs.

Regular BDs are by alphabet except by those of a favorite director. They've a seperate section. CC makes that hard for me at times. But I won't mix a favorite director film by CC with the regular BD director section.

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I'm looking at a list of every title that's ever been released on Criterion, and I'm amazed at how many I own in other editions:

The Lady Vanishes
The Killer
Hard Boiled
RoboCop
Flesh for Frankenstein
Blood for Dracula
The 39 Steps
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Carnival of Souls

There are too many to list that I've seen but never owned. (Thank you AMC, TCM, and IFC.)

So many I'd love to own, and yet I'm too busy buying stuff like Black Dynamite and Destroy All Monsters. Can't deprive myself of my schlock. ;)

I considered organizing some of my films by director, but something always fucks that up. I could put Halloween, Escape from New York, The Thing, and In the Mouth of Madness together, but what of Halloween II? Trying to organize Ridley Scott would be impossible: where do you put Prometheus in relation to Alien? I've got the Alien Anthology followed by the three Predator films, then the AVP 2-pack, then Prometheus. Seems as good a placement as any. And I can't very well put my Gladiator Steelbook in with my standard cases for Blade Runner and Robin Hood. And how can I put my Paul W. S. Anderson movies together? The Resident Evil movies need to go together, even the ones he didn't direct, and the Death Race stuff needs to go together, and AVP obviously needs to go with the Alien stuff, and Event Horizon has to sit there by itself because there's no other way, and oh my god I think my head just disappeared up my own ass. -eek-

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:lol: My mind's gone in this direction! I've become more lax with organizing. Ultimately I realized it doesn't matter because I'm a loner; I have no one to exhibit my collection for. It doesn't matter what goes where as long as I know where to find it.

Some directors I keep together, partially. John Carpenter, for instance, I don't always have all his films together but I keep the "Apocalypse Trilogy" in the same area (The Thing, PoD, ITMOM). I keep They Live, The Fog and Halloween in this area too. The "dark films". Since my director subsections are chronological, sometimes I want to keep it "Dark Carpenter" and go from The Fog to The Thing without jutting Escape From New York in between.

I keep flip-flopping on my Cronenberg Criterions, though. Sometimes I put them on my Cronenberg shelf, sometimes I put them on my Criterion shelf.

Which version do you own? Last I checked aside from Criterion they're all cheapo public domain copies, and the colorized DVDs by Legend Films & Rifftrax.

Aside from CARNIVAL & perhaps the 2 Hitchcock films, I think most of the other films in your list have better transfers in their non-Criterion releases (certainly the more recent editions of Life of Brian & Robocop).

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Here's the entire Criterion collection (sans laser discs), in one spot:

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hpho...38872485_n.jpg

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I don't own a single Cronenberg movie, which is ridiculous because I've loved every one I've seen, but I think I would still keep the Criterions by themselves. Not that Criterions are "too good" to be mixed in elsewhere, but seeing that row of C logos all in a line is so satisfying, and I only have eight of the things.

Yes, public domain cheapies. It's hit and miss with those Mill Creek box sets. Sometimes their prints look surprisingly terrific, and other times they look like someone projected the film on a bedsheet and took a Polaroid of it.

I've been told that the colorized Legend Films discs are actually quite good, since they restore the black and white prints before colorizing them and include both the black and white and color versions. I may upgrade in the future (to another DVD or a Blu-ray... I haven't even bothered looking into the film's Blu-ray availability), but I'm frankly not a big enough fan of Carnival of Souls for it to be high on my priory list.

Yeah, I got the newer Blu-rays of Brian and RoboCop. I got the Dragon Dynasty Blu-rays of The Killer and Hard Boiled, which I've heard some people complaining about but I haven't watched them yet so I can't comment on them. (I watched them years ago on rented DVDs.) Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein got pretty good non-Criterion DVDs, but I love those enough that I would upgrade to Blu-ray the moment they got a Region 1 release.

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How I wish Carnival Of Souls would get a Bd upgrade from Criterion...but being a pd title, doesn't seem too likely.

Anyone have any opinions on Pierre Etaix?

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The 39 Steps is PD and that didn't stop Criterion from releasing it on Blu so you never know.