Post Pictures of Your Blu-ray Collection

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by paul_66

My small but proud collection. It's missing a lot of titles that I want.

Also, nice collections guys! I wish I could afford as much blus as some of you probably can. One day I will though. I'm also addin' new blus to my collection every now and then. Also just ordered The Longest Day, Rio Bravo, The Dirty Dozan and How the West Was Won. I also try and keep my images updated as best I can in my gallery. Every time I get new blus I update with a new pic. Check it out. Would love to read your comments and answer any questions!

why aren't they in alphabetical order?! or any type of order?!

[paul_66]

I like to put 'em in the order of the top 1000 voters ratings on IMDb.com. I just prefer 'em.

[boynotorious]

Originally Posted by paul_66

I like to put 'em in the order of the top 1000 voters ratings on IMDb.com. I just prefer 'em.

Awesome. I am really shocked nobody has inquired how I have mine organized.

[paul_66]

Well, let's have it, boynotorious. How do you have your collection organized? I looked at it and couldn't figure it out.

[boynotorious]

Originally Posted by paul_66

Well, let's have it, boynotorious. How do you have your collection organized? I looked at it and couldn't figure it out.

Autobiographically. How awesome would that have been. Seriously. I tried that once. My mind was just not there to pull it off. Bummer. They are actually all organized by Theatrical Release Date. Next best thing. So much easier to contain and catalog as the date never changes so moving everything around becomes a non-issue. Also, not a single soul who isn't you will have the slightest idea where anything goes. So snaking, grabbing, theft and or moving titles around by other people becomes pointless. I did it that way to piss off one of my ex's back in my UCLA days. She gave me no end to shit about it and made me put everything back alphabetically. It is just more comforting this way. Also the way my mind works as I spent more time in movie theaters than anywhere else as a kid. I can't remember shit unless I reference it to a movie now and days.

[Chloenator]

My collection so far...



You'll notice at the top that a BD is missing. That's the spot for Avatar. It's missing because I let a friend of mine borrow it. I also have the Mel Brooks Collection, but it's not pictured because it's on display somewhere else.

[RippdBD10101]

Originally Posted by boynotorious

I can't remember shit unless I reference it to a movie now and days.

Word.

[CZAR]

Check em out. Got Em!!

[hidef al]

Originally Posted by CZAR

Check em out. Got Em!!

WOW!! You went on blu-ray shopping spree. Nice!

[boxterduke]

Originally Posted by boynotorious

Autobiographically. How awesome would that have been. Seriously. I tried that once. My mind was just not there to pull it off. Bummer. They are actually all organized by Theatrical Release Date. Next best thing. So much easier to contain and catalog as the date never changes so moving everything around becomes a non-issue. Also, not a single soul who isn't you will have the slightest idea where anything goes. So snaking, grabbing, theft and or moving titles around by other people becomes pointless. I did it that way to piss off one of my ex's back in my UCLA days. She gave me no end to shit about it and made me put everything back alphabetically. It is just more comforting this way. Also the way my mind works as I spent more time in movie theaters than anywhere else as a kid. I can't remember shit unless I reference it to a movie now and days.

You still had to move them a few time though no?
I mean when you got Gone with the Wind and Casablanca for example.
Great collection by the way.

[aneed123]

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[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by paul_66

I'm also addin' new blus to my collection every now and then. Also just ordered The Longest Day, Rio Bravo, The Dirty Dozan and How the West Was Won.

Didn't really look..... but if you don't have "The Magnificent Seven" it's a great deal right now on Amazon, and it sounds right up your alley!


I'm surprised so many people get so crazed about how other people organize their movies...... although still a smaller collection (200+ Blu-rays and 1,200+ DVDs) I keep mine in NO order whatsoever..... however, when I take a movie out to play it, it always goes back to where it was..... so if you asked me "Where is Dam Busters" or "Where is Rear Window" I can walk right up to them, and pull them off he shelf...... it's funny because I have a terrible memory, but when it comes to my movies, I'm Johnny on the spot!

EDIT:

That's not all true.... I have shelves for Criterion DVDs, and then I have the Criterion Blu-rays and Digi-books separated..... and I keep the 'kid friendly' stuff together.

[NorCo_1806]

I just posted this picture in my gallery yesterday. It shows my Blu's at the top, my DVD on the bottom. It doesn't show my TV on DVD....they're across the room. Doing some late-Spring cleaning this weekend, maybe I'll figure out how to get more of these IKEA racks up on this wall??



Here are just the Blu's:

[boynotorious]

Originally Posted by boxterduke

You still had to move them a few time though no?
I mean when you got Gone with the Wind and Casablanca for example.
Great collection by the way.

With the BD's, YES. Only because I display them all. But it so much easier to shift when you know ahead were something is going. I was actually thinking in terms of the DVD's when this started. Shifting even a 300 case is a *****. So I did a definitive list of everything I would want to own, DVD, BD, LD, VHS, Bootleg and went "year by year" and "date by date" when I archived them in the binders. That way I would never have to worry about shifting anything. And I have so few holes in total to begin with that a few blanks spots here and there wouldn't matter all that much. All I have left to find is mostly VHS titles. Which is tricky because you don't want to go used and finding NEW VHS Titles is expensive and not to easy to come by. Less the rare occasion that something pops up on an HD Channel somewhere and I can just hi-jack and MKV it at 720p. Then leave it like that or encode it to DVD or MPEG2.

I did the entire list first with everything that I had. It came out 95 pages long single spaced. I then started in the 80's because that was the box of discs in front of me at the time. Since then I have slowly added what few titles I needed to before archiving them and stuffing the binders. This was great for finding OOP titles I missed and just gems lost in general. If you really research it you wouldn't believe the titles that are currently OOP. You also wouldn't believe the titles never released here in the states that got released elsewhere. I got really smart a bit too late and ended up paying threw the nose for a few titles. But being No Region/No Code helped greatly.

And yes, I did get some grief for leaving the list in Release Date Order. So I flipped it and did them all in Alphabetical Order with Date Codes in case someone was visiting and needed to find something.

So it reads either:

981113.3 Thursday UC dvd LBX,4:3r 5.1 OOP -,T,- 1

or

Thursday UC dvd LBX,4:3r 5.1 OOP -,T,- 1 1981113.3

Better spaced out of course. Just getting it into this frame as I type it.

I then just coded the title for whatever format it is:

831216.6 The Keep (LD) dvdb LBX,4:3r 2.0 N/A -,-,X 1

So I would know what was replaceable should a better copy materialize somewhere.

It is actually a great way to keep on top of everything you have and want. If your collection is huge or small and you just want to expand and figure out where to put everything ahead of time.

Despite being totally time consuming, it has worked out great for me.

And before you guys think I am nuts.... This mostly came about because my insurance company hates me. I have a separate $100k policy on my HT. Given the size and magnitude of it they require I update them once a month with receipts, photos, and no end to shit just because they can. Should they ever have to pay it out.... It is gonna hurt !!!! Mind you, there is no way in hell to replace everything I have. No chance. But at least I would have the money to attempt it should disaster ever strike.

Any questions?

[danman227460]

Just one. How did you manage to insure your HT setup? Is it even possible? I am from Canada and I didn't know insurance can be extended to personal stuff. I know of home insurance but thought that was just protecting everything in your house but nothing specific.

Originally Posted by boynotorious

With the BD's, YES. Only because I display them all. But it so much easier to shift when you know ahead were something is going. I was actually thinking in terms of the DVD's when this started. Shifting even a 300 case is a *****. So I did a definitive list of everything I would want to own, DVD, BD, LD, VHS, Bootleg and went "year by year" and "date by date" when I archived them in the binders. That way I would never have to worry about shifting anything. And I have so few holes in total to begin with that a few blanks spots here and there wouldn't matter all that much. All I have left to find is mostly VHS titles. Which is tricky because you don't want to go used and finding NEW VHS Titles is expensive and not to easy to come by. Less the rare occasion that something pops up on an HD Channel somewhere and I can just hi-jack and MKV it at 720p. Then leave it like that or encode it to DVD or MPEG2.

I did the entire list first with everything that I had. It came out 95 pages long single spaced. I then started in the 80's because that was the box of discs in front of me at the time. Since then I have slowly added what few titles I needed to before archiving them and stuffing the binders. This was great for finding OOP titles I missed and just gems lost in general. If you really research it you wouldn't believe the titles that are currently OOP. You also wouldn't believe the titles never released here in the states that got released elsewhere. I got really smart a bit too late and ended up paying threw the nose for a few titles. But being No Region/No Code helped greatly.

And yes, I did get some grief for leaving the list in Release Date Order. So I flipped it and did them all in Alphabetical Order with Date Codes in case someone was visiting and needed to find something.

So it reads either:

981113.3 Thursday UC dvd LBX,4:3r 5.1 OOP -,T,- 1

or

Thursday UC dvd LBX,4:3r 5.1 OOP -,T,- 1 1981113.3

Better spaced out of course. Just getting it into this frame as I type it.

I then just coded the title for whatever format it is:

831216.6 The Keep (LD) dvdb LBX,4:3r 2.0 N/A -,-,X 1

So I would know what was replaceable should a better copy materialize somewhere.

It is actually a great way to keep on top of everything you have and want. If your collection is huge or small and you just want to expand and figure out where to put everything ahead of time.

Despite being totally time consuming, it has worked out great for me.

And before you guys think I am nuts.... This mostly came about because my insurance company hates me. I have a separate $100k policy on my HT. Given the size and magnitude of it they require I update them once a month with receipts, photos, and no end to shit just because they can. Should they ever have to pay it out.... It is gonna hurt !!!! Mind you, there is no way in hell to replace everything I have. No chance. But at least I would have the money to attempt it should disaster ever strike.

Any questions?

[markbr]

Originally Posted by NorCo_1806

I just posted this picture in my gallery yesterday. It shows my Blu's at the top, my DVD on the bottom. It doesn't show my TV on DVD....they're across the room. Doing some late-Spring cleaning this weekend, maybe I'll figure out how to get more of these IKEA racks up on this wall??



Here are just the Blu's:

very nice collection you have there.

[boynotorious]

Originally Posted by danman227460

Just one. How did you manage to insure your HT setup? Is it even possible? I am from Canada and I didn't know insurance can be extended to personal stuff. I know of home insurance but thought that was just protecting everything in your house but nothing specific.

This is America. The land of greed, human stupidity and large corporations that will insure anything if it seems like there might be money in it for them.

At first, no. They would only cover the entire house and only $80k in possessions. My agent cheated a bit and declared it "separate" property. After a lot of twaddle and grief I got a decent enough policy on it. But it honestly is almost not worth the stress. If I couldn't afford to replace everything it might have been totally necessary. But I can. So it is almost only there for the principle of it at this point. That and it drives my friends nuts. I already refuse to get married again, ever. Because any female I would marry would be smart enough to go after the movies in the eventual divorce settlement. And I am not going there. Add to the fact that I actually insured my HT for more than all my other possessions !!!! Seriously. Why do people not get that I am just prioritizing. If I loose the nifty bed or a few TV's, who cares. Lose the discs... That is tragedy. Pick your battles.

[danman227460]

Thanks. Kinda figured it would require some hoop jumping to get it. Makes me want to get a safety deposit box and shove all my OOP and rare movies into it.

Originally Posted by boynotorious

This is America. The land of greed, human stupidity and large corporations that will insure anything if it seems like there might be money in it for them.

At first, no. They would only cover the entire house and only $80k in possessions. My agent cheated a bit and declared it "separate" property. After a lot of twaddle and grief I got a decent enough policy on it. But it honestly is almost not worth the stress. If I couldn't afford to replace everything it might have been totally necessary. But I can. So it is almost only there for the principle of it at this point. That and it drives my friends nuts. I already refuse to get married again, ever. Because any female I would marry would be smart enough to go after the movies in the eventual divorce settlement. And I am not going there. Add to the fact that I actually insured my HT for more than all my other possessions !!!! Seriously. Why do people not get that I am just prioritizing. If I loose the nifty bed or a few TV's, who cares. Lose the discs... That is tragedy. Pick your battles.

[CZAR]

Originally Posted by hidef al

WOW!! You went on blu-ray shopping spree. Nice!

Well I didnt buy all of those in 1 day but those were the ones bought after the last photos I took. Got Em!!

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by boynotorious

This is America. The land of greed, human stupidity and large corporations that will insure anything if it seems like there might be money in it for them.

At first, no. They would only cover the entire house and only $80k in possessions. My agent cheated a bit and declared it "separate" property.

Our policy covers the house, outer structures (decks, gazebo, garage) our vehicles (if damaged while in the garage for instance) and possessions anywhere on the property...... I won't say the amount, but let's just say I'm hoping for a tornado