Movies by the cubic foot

[AndyC]

I've mentioned in another threat that my video collection has been packed for moving. What blows me away is that between my wife and I, our complete collection of movies, books and CDs has taken up 15 boxes of two cubic feet each. That's 30 cubic feet, of which about half is movies on DVD and VHS.

Anybody else have the experience of actually seeing your movie collection packed into a solid block of space?

[Rombles]

Between my wife and I with our movies, books and CD's, we would probably go close to that. But we cheat - I work for a book printer, and she works for an online DVD shop (EzyDVD.com.au), as well as having links to the music industry. So I get lots of insanely cheap books, and she gets lots of insanely cheap DVD's.  Add that to my collection of 400 crappy videos from before we discovered DVD, plus the CD's we just buy because we are into that sort of thing....  Oh yeah, and if we were to add records (remember vinyl?)... well, I don't want to think about that! (We are planning on being the last people on earth with vinyl - when the second-to-last person sells their collection, it will be to us!)

[raj]

Rombles, you'll get my vinyl collection when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.  And even then I intend to return as a zombie, just to protect my records.
For my last move I had about 7-8 printer paper boxes filled with books and dvds, plus a few plastic milk crates.

[The Burgomaster]

Yes.  My wife and I moved to a new house in January of 2005.  At that time, I'm guessing that I had around 300 VHS tapes and 1,100 or so DVDs.  It was a pain in the neck moving them and a bigger pain in the neck unpacking the DVDs and making sure they were in alphabetical order when I put them on the shelves.  I left the VHS tapes in the packing boxes and ended up giving them to my parents a month or two after we moved.