Re: Help with Organizing Collection for Display
 

Yeah, the abandonment of collecting by many has provided all of us who are still rabid about the hobby the opportunity to buy catalog titles, many that are out-of-print, at a fraction of what they originally cost. I'd say about 80-90% of my purchases are now used. I can often find titles for $2-$3 in like new condition so I only buy online when there are sales. I pre-order absolutely nothing except for the occasional steelbook.

I still go to Best Buy—prefer it over Amazon.

Re: Help with Organizing Collection for Display
 

hmm how do I organize?

First I have all 3d seperate.
All Steels seperate.
All Digis seperate.
All Disney animated seperate.
All CC seperate.

DVD seperate from Bluray

Like some others have said I put franchises together.
All Batman dvd or blu are together under "B" on the blu shelf

All Spider-man togehter.

All things related to The Who together

Star wars together

Star trek

I had my CC in spine number order but I moved them to alphabetic order because i didnt want to remember their number.

Took all dvds that have extras not on the bluray and either put them in the blu case or just next to the blu on the shelf.

Get rid of dvds that I have on blu if the blu has the same extras.


Everything else is a-z

Re: Help with Organizing Collection for Display
 

I organize by director. Chronologically. By first directing credit. For instance the director with the earliest directing credit, in my case Charlie Chaplin, is placed first and his films are organized chronologically, starting with The Kid and ending with Limelight. The director with the most recent first directing credit is Jeff Nichols, starting with Shotgun Stories and ending with Midnight Special. He rounds out my Directors section.

Then I have Drama/Comedy/Foreign/Horror/Sci fi/Fantasy/Action/Comic book/Documentary/Criterion/Wrestling and TV Drama/Comedy/Animation. All organized chronologically. I have franchises organized chronologically, with the first film in the series being the marker. Starting with George Romero's Dead films and ending with the Saw films.

Finally I have Film Noir, Gangster, and actor signature collections together.

VHS/DVD/BLU/3D/UHD all living together harmoniously.

Its unorthodox, but it works for me.