How many DVD's do you own? And do you watch them?

[Splitty]

I only own a small portion of what I really want, long unemployment has kept me down! (and all extra money goes into toys).

Basically my purpose of owning DVD's is threefold. Wait, fourthfold. I do like to revisit movies I love, but I have to wait for them to fade and become hazy in my memory a bit, which can take 1-5 years or even more. So that's a small purpose. But then I can revisit anything at anytime, and I'm spoiled that way.

Secondly, I love to have an immediate inventory to share with other local movie-philes that haven't seen some weird obscure thing I'm rabid about, and I can get it to them right away and ruin them, sending them down the dark path like myself with new obsessions. I rarely get to do this though sadly, but recently I did get to loan stacks to someone who'd been out of it for awhile. That was really fun.

Thirdly, I'm an old school collector. For books I really enjoy, I love getting the coolest best hardback editions, for DVDs the most fancy pretty fold-out or figural case, and if I had a room for a record player (someday, someday...) I'd want to get the awesome old vinyl rock records. I just really really enjoy having a fancy physical representation of what I like, I feel more connected that way. I love my Big Lebowski bowling ball, but I need to get the Alien Head and Hellraiser box.

Fourthly, for my old age!! As I get older (I've seen relatives with memories gone bad) I know won't remember the things I enjoy. If I have a bunch of movies I really enjoy, I can pop them in anytime in the future, and I'll enjoy them again all anew! It's a super-win. If I left it all up to internet downloads, I'd have no idea what to download if I could even figure out the newest technology in my old age.

I also love cataloging things, which helps because sometimes I forget what I have. I use the Film Aficionado alot, which is nice (http://splittyhead.filmaf.com), but when I go out garage saleing I don't have internet access with me (yet), so I'm still in danger of buying a DVD I already own.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Too many to count. There are some I've never watched...still in the shrink wrap years later. We did a purge a while back and donated a bunch of them to my wife's library. But we watch certain ones quite a bit. Honestly the kids watch them far more than me or my wife do. They have tons of kiddie fare, and the super hero films are worn out by my son.

Chris

[megoapesnut]

My Blu-ray player is a Sony jukebox type unit that holds up to 200 discs. That is about full of Blu-rays. I also have about that many DVD's. Some, like "A Christmas Story" and "Halloween" get watched once a year at the appropriate time. Most never get watched. However, I do watch two or three movies a year from the collection and, some day down the line, I will have watched them all at least once. Very few movies interest me to the point I have to buy on Blu-ray anymore. I usually just watch once and that's good enough. The lesson of buying and owning so many movies that never get watched has been learned. Although some oldies buy goodies still pop up on Blu-ray from time to time that I must have. A recent example would be "The Fog". As soon as that comes down a few bucks on price I will jump on it. I will watch that every year or so. Another that I have been impatiently waiting for is "Phantasm". It's been quite a few years since I watched that and I desperately want to see it again. However, I would much rather watch a clean, restored Blu-ray rather than the stuff available on DVD right now.

[steelcouch]

We have around 700 blu rays and 200 dvd's. We generally watch most of the movies over and over. I like to watch a movie before I purchase it. That way if the movie is not so great, we dont get stuck with a movie that will sit for years unwatched. We are definately movie people. We also have the full direct tv package for the kids as an alternative. I have not watched many movies lately because I returned to college and taking night classes. The family enjoys their time while I am out as king of the tv because I mainly watch horror movies.