How do you arrange your DVDs/VHS collection?

[Saucerman]

For the last year, I've had my rather extensive B-movie DVD collection contained in a pair of briefcase-sized CD binders, since they took up less space then several shelves' worth of DVD cases and at college, space was at a premium. 

Today I put all my DVDs back in their cases, save for ones where the cases were lost or too damaged to use. 

So now I'm staring at several stacks of DVDs which have collapsed into a pile roughly the size of an unrolled sleeping bag.  And I feel like some organization is in order.  I'm home sick from work (nothing too serious), so I have all night to work on this. 

How do you arrange your DVDs/VHSes? Alphabetical by title? By director? Themes?

[Psycho Circus]

I put all mine in alphabetical order and they are just stacked up from the floor next to the TV. I don't have any shelves or holders and I'm too lazy to buy any, so they just have to balance nicely. 

[Javakoala]

Along these lines, does anyone know of a free program out there that will let me log film info into it and then cross reference with tags, like HORROR, AL ADAMSON, BIKINI, or the like? I'd like to think Office could do it, but I'm awful at figuring these things out.

I arrange mine by the alphabet, but then you get into the 50 movie sets and the like, so those get lumped into vague catagories, like Mill Creek, Retro-Media, Brentwood, TGG and then into things like "mostly horror", "Kinda action-ish" and so on.

[Jack]

I got a DVD storage unit, which is full, and the rest are on a bookshelf.  The ones in the storage unit are alphabetized, and the ones in the bookshelf are not.  For multi-movie sets, I go by the name of the set, or else the name of the first movie if it's a double feature.  Not a perfect system, but it's an imperfect world.

[SPazzo]

I put the ones with cooler titles/box art first and the uglier ones later.  Then, if someone is looking at my movie collection they'll think I'm cool. 


Seriously though, I put them alphabetically.

[justin]

I have 1,144 movies (over 900 on DVD). So, all my dvd's are listed alphabetically - its much easier that way for me. I have 2 shelves (about 5 feet tall) that are filled while my 3rd cabinet shelf has only 2 small shelves left before its filled.

The remaining VHS tapes (most are of movies that either ain't on DVD yet) I have are in smaller cabinets near my TV.




Yes...I do get a workout if I get a movie or 2 that begin with the letter A & then I have to proceed with moving all the rest of the movies down just to make them fit on the shelves. But its fun.   

[The Burgomaster]

My DVDs are arranged alphabetically by title on 12 bookcases.  I had most of them listed in an Excel spreadsheet, but I fried my hard drive a few months ago and lost the file.

[InformationGeek]

I don't really arrange them in any way.  I just put in a spot where there is room.  THe only DVDs I arrange are my anime season sets by alphabetical order above my TV.

[Shadow]

I have a convoluted system that only I seem to understand. It confuses my wife, who is always asking me to get her a DVD, because she doesn't know where it is.

I have four main groups: movies, TV, American animation and anime. Each category is in alphabetical order on the shelf. With the movie section, I also take certain discs and group them separately from the rest, such as all my Godzilla films or all the Midnite Movies discs and so on. Multi-movie sets are also in their own section, as they're impossible to group alphabetically with the others. What really confuses my wife is that from time to time, I have to move things around as the collection grows. What is on one shelf now, may be moved three shelves down by this time next year.

[Joe]

I have 3 racks that hold 200 DVDs, all in alphabetical order. the VHS are stacked along the walls and to say the least exist as my wallpaper. i don't have much room as i still live at home so my room is packed with all kinds of fun crap.

[Mr. DS]

Whatever way they end up.   I don't really buy DVDs much anymore.   I feel like an outcast on this thread. 

[SkullBat308]

I don't really arrange them any way, they are just all over the place.

[InformationGeek]

I don't really arrange them any way, they are just all over the place.

Just like me!  It's good to know there is some just as unorganized with their DVDs like me.

[Saucerman]

Well, I ended up doing rough categories: "Kaiju," "Slashers," "50s sci-fi," "80s cheese" and "miscellaneous."  Which means Casablanca, The Untouchables, and the few other mainstream, non-horror/sci-fi/fantasy, "good" movies I own are mixed in with The Robot versus the Aztec Mummy, Sex Kittens Go To College, and Legend of the Chupacabra. 

[SkullBat308]

Well, I ended up doing rough categories: "Kaiju," "Slashers," "50s sci-fi," "80s cheese" and "miscellaneous."  Which means Casablanca, The Untouchables, and the few other mainstream, non-horror/sci-fi/fantasy, "good" movies I own are mixed in with The Robot versus the Aztec Mummy, Sex Kittens Go To College, and Legend of the Chupacabra. 

I tried to do that but ran out of room, hence DVDs all over the place