Owners of 1000+ DVD's & Videos: Is This Normal? Movie Addiction

[Haze]

I own over 200 titles (rather small yes) and I have bought DVDs and VHS from the prices between 3.99 to 19.99. Any larger and I usually refrain (unless I really want it).

I don't think it is sick, but uncommon is a good word.

[The Burgomaster]

I'm going to ATTEMPT to cut my DVD purchases down to only releases of new movies that I really want, plus releases of older "classic" movies.  My problem is that I spend a lot of money on "marginal" movies, or movies that I have never seen and will probably end up watching only once.  I also buy a lot of "fill in" titles that I don't really want or need.  For instance, I will usually buy a bunch of sequels, even though I really only like the original.  If I can cut out buying all of these extras, and stick to the movies that I really want, then maybe I can limit myself to about 1 movie per week.  (Yeah . . . right).



Post Edited (11-20-03 10:55)

[raj]

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[Bernie]

It's a fine line between a hobby and an obsession....

My wife and I are both the kind of people who will rewatch things we like over and over.... so that's one good excuse for buying (as opposed to renting ... or abstaining).

We only started our DVD collection in May, and it's already up to about 30 titles ...

However if you want to include VHS ....

Hundreds.  At least 75+ are MST.  50-75 are classic "bad" movies.  50+ are actual "good" movies.  The rest are miscellaneous things -- music, things we taped off TV (South Park, etc.).  

And yes, we're both childish enough that there have been times when we've said, "Oh, hell, I don't really need that new [shirt] [blouse] [sweater] [etc.] yet -- let's buy a new [DVD] [CD] [book]!"

It's a fine line....

[Neon Noodle]

I guess I fall into the skimpy category because I have only about 100 dvd's.

However....

I am extremely obsessive with them. Some of you remember my earlier post about 4-5 months ago when I described my dilemma of thinking up slogans for the 2 disc sets (i.e. the ninth rule of fight club is you do not talk about the special features disc). I won't break up certain sets like Harry Potter, Memento special edition, Se7en special edition, Lord of the Rings special edition. The boxes are good enough!

I also refuse to get The Ring on DVD because it nullifies the whole concept of a VHS tape horror movie to be on DVD format....

I think the whole aspect of collecting is what gives us comfort. Bad films are for a select audience that can truly appreciate that while it takes a lot of work to make a movie and even though some of them reek, they can still be entertaining. Maybe this is why we feel a need to grab up every bad movie possible, before they disappear into the obscurity of the past...or maybe we're all just looney, that's okay too....

BTW Burgo, don't feel bad about having movies you haven't watched,  I have every Official Playstation 2 magazine to date including the disc inserts. I haven't read any of them in months.



Post Edited (11-21-03 21:27)

[JohnL]

I don't own ANY prerecorded movies. A friend took me to a used video store that sells everything for $5 (except for the beastiality movies the owner keeps in the store room) and while I saw a lot movies I wouldn't mind owning, I couldn't really bring myself to buy them. I know that these movies will be floating around on video, DVD and cable for the forseeable future.

On the other hand, I am obsessive about taping TV shows that I like, even though I almost never go back and watch them again. I've been taping the show Tru Calling every Thursday and I haven't even watched the first episode yet. I have all six episodes of All Souls on tape and have never watched any of them. Lately, I've been wondering if I should just stop taping the ones that look like they'll live on forever and erase the tapes, but I just can't bring myself to do it, so in about 7 hours, I'll be taping the latest episode of Andromeda. Add to that my habit of taping news segments and scenes I like (cool stuff, hot actresses) and I have a couple hundred video tapes which I'll probably never go back and watch again, but I just can't bring myself to tape over. Some of them don't even play properly anymore.

I also download tons of stuff from the newsgroups and various web sites and burn it to CD, sometimes without even testing/watching it.

Oh did I mention that between the classic video game systems, the C64, Amiga and various emulators, I must have several thousand games by now?

Of course, for the above, I really only have to buy blank tapes/CD's/disks, which are way cheaper than buying movies on DVD.

[Susan]

I wonder what would happen if you had a TiVO in your hands, john...

[JohnL]

>I wonder what would happen if you had a TiVO in your hands, john...

I'd probably keep even more stuff! The one thing I don't like about TiVO and other similar devices is that there's no easy way to backup what you record unless you record it on tape (kind of defeats the purpose of recording in digital format) or you take the unit apart and use some kind of a hack to copy the files off the HD. I wish they'd make one that recorded in either mpeg or mpeg2 format and you could just plug in a USB cable and transfer the files to your computer. Of course that would be Hollywood's worst nightmare. I like to save stuff and if I'm going to record something in digital, I want to be able to save it in digital format.