How do you organize your collection?

[hidef al]

I organized my stuff by studio...its a little easier finding a movie IMO

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by SammyG

You would be better off organizing by genre instead of alphabetical, its easier when you buy a lot of movies.

I do that with my DVDs, and used to do it with my BDs. After getting ~15 new BDs for Christmas, I decided to try the alphabetic organization. I must say, it's REALLY bothering me. I've already moved all of my Bond movies to their own spot together and have done the same with my Disney, Pixar and other animated BDs. Pretty soon, I can see things organized back the way they were. It just makes better sense to me.

Oh, and my UK Bourne Trilogy is currently filed under 'B'.

[SammyG]

Originally Posted by Ricshoe

I do that with my DVDs, and used to do it with my BDs. After getting ~15 new BDs for Christmas, I decided to try the alphabetic organization. I must say, it's REALLY bothering me. I've already moved all of my Bond movies to their own spot together and have done the same with my Disney, Pixar and other animated BDs. Pretty soon, I can see things organized back the way they were. It just makes better sense to me.

Oh, and my UK Bourne Trilogy is currently filed under 'B'.

Yeah, it really gets to be a pain in the a$$ trying to organize when in alphabetical, thats why I went this route. You don't have to shift an entire section if you're out of space, ie: starting a new rack.

[LaserD]

When you have a large collection, these issues crop up and need reassessed occasionally. I try to keep my organization logical, but it has definitely got a bit idiosyncratic. I would put the Bourne films under B. But my James Bond section is under J, and my Sherlock Holmes section under S. For me, it's about how these fictitious characters are normally known.

Generally, I have separated my genres by SF/Horror, Drama/Action/Comedy, Fantasy/Mythology, Superheroes, Comedy Cartoons (otherwise my animation is spread throughout the genres).

[SammyG]

Originally Posted by LaserD

When you have a large collection, these issues crop up and need reassessed occasionally. I try to keep my organization logical, but it has definitely got a bit idiosyncratic. I would put the Bourne films under B. But my James Bond section is under J, and my Sherlock Holmes section under S. For me, it's about how these fictitious characters are normally known.

Generally, I have separated my genres by SF/Horror, Drama/Action/Comedy, Fantasy/Mythology, Superheroes, Comedy Cartoons (otherwise my animation is spread throughout the genres).

That's almost exactly how I have mine.

[blubryant]

People getting uptight about movie organization is funny, I organize my movies by studio, the studio logos are usually the same, line up really good. I only break the rules if trilogies fall into different studio hands. I personally think it looks good, but alphabetically is easier to find movies I'm sure.

[Packerfan75]

I've got my dvd's, HD DVD's and BLU's all separate and in alphabetical order. I also have separate sections for animated, kung-fu and westerns, when there's enough of them.

Right now I only have those 3 genres separated on my standard dvd rack. HD DVD's and BLU's have their own rack.

[Cowboy300]

I'm thinking about switching mine to production year for something different. Any thoughts on this?

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by RevolveR72

I tried doing that on my excel list that I have for my colection and nearly went nuts. So many movies fall into multiple categories that it became nearly impossible.

no, because it is not a hard and fast rule. I do by genre/subgenre because it makes it easier to pick a movie to fit my mood. So I take Resident Evil, for instance, and since I consider it more of a Game based movie then horror I put it there. Shaun of the dead is more comedy then horror so it goes there, Army of Darkness which is also Horror-comedy falls in Horror (plus it needs to be with Evil Dead 2).

Plus if you feal a bit different later on you can always move it.

My catagopries (at this time)
Fancy box (top shelf to keep away from little hands)
Not suitable for kids (as above)
Horror
Comedy
Action
Sci-fi
Period pieces (take place in the past like knights or cowboys or even Indiana Jones)
TV shows
Concerts
Seasonal (Christmas, Easter…)
Kids animated
Kids live action
None Hollywood
War
Bond
Other (this includes Drama, girly, musicals….)

unseen (bought movie and have not seen "all" the content yet, so for TV series means all the episodes, for collections means all the movies in it)

[Chaotic]

I used to do alphabetical but now i have way to many so i have stacks of blu-rays on top of each itehr

[detective392]

I just organize my movies by age group I have the kids movies, older kids and then adult movies (R rated not the kind you think)

[hoogoosedmoose41]

alphabetical order except odd sized cases go to the top left. I keep concerts together. I have all my discs listed on excel with a hyperlink to a review of the movie on here if available.

[Blu Myers]

I used to organize alphabetically, now I do it by genre...horror, comedy, action, super hero, epic/drama.

[MEB]

Mine are in alphabetical order on custom (built into the wall) shelves. I keep the high def movies separate from the DVDs so I have Blu-rays and HD DVDs intermingled in alphabetical order.

Every once in awhile, I get up in the morning and find all of the HD DVDs on the floor. I guess the Blu-rays kicked them out!

Mark

[rmnmartinezo]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Heres mine:

Family flicks and animated stuff
Series, trilogies, and franchises
Super Hero
Horror
Sci Fi
Medieval
Action adventure
General stuff
DVDs

I know..makes NO sense. Ive never really settled on any one way. Damnit!

that actually does make sence, i have mine by the type of movie and depends on the actor...example all my seth rogan movies are together but they are close to my will ferrell n adam sandler...then i have my special adition together along with seaquals and superhero movies...bc most superhero movies have seaquals

[phatrat1982]

I am currently facing this MAJOR issue right now, before I started buying Blu Ray I had sold all my DVD's and ripped all the content to HDD's for viewing using a WDTV HD Media Player, which was working perfectly until two things happened, 1 I got a Blu Ray player, and 2, my parents and I decided to try opening a video rental store, which meant buying DVD's again.


So now I have over 250 DVD's and almost 50 Blu Rays and just barely 6 HD-DVD's and I need to get them all organized into a system that works better than just tossing them on the floor and flipping through a big mess of plastic.


I have 2 Blu Ray sized DVD stands that only fit Blu Ray and HD-DVD sized cases, right now I have 1 for Blu Ray and the other for HD-DVD, but since I am quickly filling up on Blu Ray and just occasionally grabbing HD-DVD as I go I might just combine the two into 1 large collection and deal with it that way. Of coarse it would also require the HD-DVD and Blu Ray players both hooked up to the same TV set which currently they are not.


As for the DVD's I have those all stacked right now in piles on the floor and have 2 book shelves that I might organize for DVD usage but I also have a shit load of books to also put on the book shelves, real books mind you not Digibooks that come with Blu Rays. (yes I am old fashioned I actually read)

So either I try and cram over 200 DVD's onto 1 book shelf and devote the other to actual books or I find a way to spread them out over 2 shelves and just leave my books in the great big box they are currently in.


Either way it is a massive project the would require more energy, and time, than I have or am willing to devote so as of now I have 1 huge mess to deal with and no desire to deal with it. Long, pointless post, I know but that's me.

[scotthall187]

My Blus are seperated from my DVDs. I basically arrange all my movies by genre then director/actor. For instance I'll have all my action together but grouped by either movie series or the director who did it. If I have a movie that is standalone, it'll usually be by actor. Perfect example is I have Seth Rogan movies all together with Zack and Miri at the end, which then leads into my Kevin Smith blu-rays.

Gets difficult with DVDs when it comes to all the SNL alums, especially Bill Murray and Chevy Chase.

[UTVOL06]

Originally Posted by rob91c

At the moment my blu-rays and hd-dvds are in piles and i need a way to find them easily.

How do you arrange yours e.g genre, alphabetical and why did you choose this?
Also if you have some hd-dvds as well do you mix them or seperate?

I have mine in alphabetical order per Studio.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by phatrat1982

I am currently facing this MAJOR issue right now, before I started buying Blu Ray I had sold all my DVD's and ripped all the content to HDD's for viewing using a WDTV HD Media Player, which was working perfectly until two things happened, 1 I got a Blu Ray player, and 2, my parents and I decided to try opening a video rental store, which meant buying DVD's again.


So now I have over 250 DVD's and almost 50 Blu Rays and just barely 6 HD-DVD's and I need to get them all organized into a system that works better than just tossing them on the floor and flipping through a big mess of plastic.


I have 2 Blu Ray sized DVD stands that only fit Blu Ray and HD-DVD sized cases, right now I have 1 for Blu Ray and the other for HD-DVD, but since I am quickly filling up on Blu Ray and just occasionally grabbing HD-DVD as I go I might just combine the two into 1 large collection and deal with it that way. Of coarse it would also require the HD-DVD and Blu Ray players both hooked up to the same TV set which currently they are not.


As for the DVD's I have those all stacked right now in piles on the floor and have 2 book shelves that I might organize for DVD usage but I also have a shit load of books to also put on the book shelves, real books mind you not Digibooks that come with Blu Rays. (yes I am old fashioned I actually read)

So either I try and cram over 200 DVD's onto 1 book shelf and devote the other to actual books or I find a way to spread them out over 2 shelves and just leave my books in the great big box they are currently in.


Either way it is a massive project the would require more energy, and time, than I have or am willing to devote so as of now I have 1 huge mess to deal with and no desire to deal with it. Long, pointless post, I know but that's me.

Sounds like a classic case of "hiring somebody else to do the work for you."

[phatrat1982]

I am not sure what you mean by that?