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- 10/25/07 11:39 AM
Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 10/25/07 11:39 AM
Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own?
1-50 (Name some of your favorites.)
51-100 (Name some of your favorites.)
101-300 (Name some of your favorites.)
301-500 (Name some of your favorites.)
501-700 (Name some of your favorites.)
701-1,000 (Name some of your favorites.)
1,000+ (Wow! Have you watched all of them?)
None (Please explain.)
500-600
by givemeaname - 10/25/07 1:27 PM In reply to: Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Farspace complete series (I wish more seasons where widescreen)
DS9 complete series
Enterprise complete series (yes I liked it)
ST:TOS complete series
ST: Voyager complete series
BSG complete series
Firefly
Rome complete series
Earth to the Moon
Lost complete series
Sg-1 complete series
Star Gate: Atlantis complete series
Sopranos complete series (my season of 6.5 is blu ray)
Andromeda almost complete series (have not gotten the last season yet)
South Park (half the seasons)
Dark Angel (1&2)
Band of Brothers (a great mini)
Apollo 13 (great sound)
War Of the Worlds (the new one)
Cast Away
Saving Private Ryan
I, Robot
Star Wars (all of them)
Gladiator
Galaxy Quest (my fav comedy)
The Star Trek Moives TOS & NexGen (all but ST: Generations)
Dr Strandlove
Silence of the Lamps
Dawn of the Dead
The Thing (the 80's one)
I got lots more but I these are the one I would want if I was stuck a island 
dvds owned
by tarnette - 10/25/07 2:45 PM In reply to: 500-600 by givemeanamepirates of the carribean
harry potter - (all)
war of the worlds (new one)
farscape rocks
by knelson276 - 10/25/07 3:43 PM In reply to: 500-600 by givemeanameFarscape was awesome, i only wish they hadn't ended it. nice selection you have, was surprised you didn't have Babylon 5 on it, or it just didn't make the list?
Ha, ha! I got all of "Andromedia in one box set
by aka_tripleB - 10/26/07 1:38 AM In reply to: 500-600 by givemeanameThat took 3 months to watch.
Plus I have:
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show (Vol. 1 & 2)
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. (the actual movie, which is much better when drunk)
Disney's Hercules
Disney's Mulan
Digimon Season 1
Heroes Season 1
Both Fantastic Four movies
Verigo
Psycho
The Birds
Rear Window
Boogie Nights
Resident Evil 1 & 2
Silent Hill
Entrapment
True Lies
Three Kings
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Prestige
Double Jeopardy
X-men 1, 2, & 3
Planet of the Apes (2001)
InuYasha Seasons 1-4
InuYasha Movies 1-4
Charmed Seasons 1-8
And some other ones that won't be mentioned by name
i am waiting for the industry to stabilize.
by bobcatplus - 10/25/07 2:45 PM In reply to: Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
before i decide what to purchase i am going to wait for the industry to stabilize...
why bother
by vidyman - 10/29/07 6:43 AM In reply to: i am waiting for the industry to stabilize. by bobcatplus"Who needs all this krapp around the house." That's what my wife says about my 300 LPs, my 400 CDs, and my 20 or so DVDs and VHS movies. And she's right. I can put all my music on a 60 gig iPod and out side of a very few special titles (Blade Runner, The original King Kong) who needs to keep movies. Just call it up on iTunes, Pay per view, You Tube, or what every going to win the distribution war, watch it, and forget it. I don't think 99% of what's coming out of Hollywood is worth watching much less keeping.
We see your point. I too still have LPs.
by NM_Bill - 10/29/07 8:47 AM In reply to: why bother by vidymanJust hoping convergence gets cheaper & more user friendly. Sure, I'd like a terrabyte external hard drive and both a Sonos & Olive server system, but the basic thought goes back to a philosophy that all hard drives are destined to fail eventually.
Maybe the future will be cheap convenient remote online storage. We don't REALLY NEED to physically own a hard copy of entertainment if we have easy cheap access to the use of them. I guess we should change our ways. My attitude always has been that the CDs & DVDs are too expensive. Artists do need protection for intellectual property. We just feel the companies are greedy ********.
"We just feel the companies are greedy ********."
by jcrobso - 1/2/08 8:30 AM In reply to: We see your point. I too still have LPs. by NM_BillThere is truth in this!!
The FTC has found the RIAA & it's members guilty of price fixing two times. How has the RIAA responded??? By lowering prices??? NOT!!!
Instead they are tracking down people who have downloaded music and taking them to court and prosecuting them.
Lets go back to days of 12" LP records, they we about $7~8 for a major artist at the time that CDs were introduced at $16. 25 years later CDs are still $16+, we all know that the cost of making them has dropped, but they are still $16+.
$16 for a CD with 12~16 songs and usually the rare about 5~6 that you really like. It's easy to see why iTunes has become so popular, $.99 and only get the songs you really like. John
Had to laugh at vidyman and reminded me of wifes ......
by Rollbar - 10/29/07 9:34 AM In reply to: why bother by vidyman....comment to me several years ago.
I had become compulsive about copying tapes. I had collected some 200 VHS tapes with at least 2 movies on each one. After complaining about them for some time, she resigned herself to living with them....for a while however one night she said, "When you die I'm throwing them all out". Ouch! LOL
She didn't have to wait for the big one.... I tossed them out 10 years ago when I started to collect DVDs. This time, with a better financial picture, (pun intended) I have purchased every one. Some are used however, but most were new.
Collection is up to 440 now. I considered peddling the whole collection in favor of building a new set in BR or HD (Can't tell which yet) that is, until I saw my SD DVDs on my new Sony 55A3000 with an upconverting DVD player. Now I think I'll just keep them.
If I die contact my wife, I'm sure she'll give you a great deal to take them off her hands.
Gary
Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own?
by specialj67 - 10/25/07 2:59 PM In reply to: Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
A selection of my most viewed:
Arrested Development (entire series)
Battlestar Galactica (remake, entire series to date)
Firefly (and Serenity)
Wonderfalls
The O.C. (entire series)
Shaun of the Dead
The Hunt for Red October
Office Space
Philadelphia
Finding Nemo
Harry Potter 2-4
The Matrix
Garden State
Lawrence of Arabia
Chicago
Ocean's 11
Napolean Dynamite
Good Bye, Lenin!
Good Night, and Good Luck
Three Kings
Team America, World Police
Get Shorty
South Park (movie and The Hits: Vol. 1)
ownership of standard dvds
by eglazier - 10/25/07 3:01 PM In reply to: Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
obviously, with my collection of nearly 300 and increasing as i find both the dvd and the funds, i am not concerned with the newer types and will not be till there is only a single standard. personally i find watching standard types on my tv set quite satisfactory and am in no hurry to change. i cannot see the value of more expensive copies nor expensive equipment.
some of my favorites:
band of brothers
saving private ryan
quigley down under
the shootist
the russians are coming,the russians are coming
the american president
charley varick
all of the english comedies of the 1950s and 1960s
eat drink man woman
four weddings and a funeral
goodfellas
its a mad mad mad mad world
mccabe and mrs miller
men in black and men in black 2
milagro beanfield war
my cousin vinny
open range
all of the later clint eastwood westerns
and many many more especially comedys when they made funny ones for adults instead of silly ones for 10-year-olds
Between 50 and 100
by arnold88 - 10/25/07 3:04 PM In reply to: Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
favorites include
The Shootist
Broken Trail
Open Range
Sweet Home Alabama, really funny!!
Casablanca, can't imagine Reagan instead of Bogart
The Maltese Falcon
Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own?
by jfordorl - 10/25/07 3:13 PM In reply to: Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have between 300 and 500 standard def DVD's. My most played are these (in no particular order):
Jaws
Top Gun
Blade Runner
Gattaca
Spaceballs
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Bourne Files series
and lots more
My DVD collection? Lots of TV Series, and oddities
by punterjoe - 10/25/07 3:20 PM In reply to: Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I figure the big blockbusters will continue being rereleased in the newest shiniest format of the day, so I won't feel compelled to replace ALL my old tapes & analog discs (LD/CED/VCDs). Stuff that's likely to be released once, I'll collect... like any TV series Fox killed before all episodes had even aired. (Serenity, Wonderfalls etc)
Quirky indies & docus that will likely be soon forgotten... and comfort food for the brain - movies I can watch over & over... like Delicatessen, Brazil, Koyanisqaatsi, Casablanca, Lola Rennt and a dozen more I can't think of off the top of my head.
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