Home audio & video forum: Approximately how many standard definition DVDs do you own?

pirates of the carribean
harry potter - (all)
war of the worlds (new one)

That 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

"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.

There 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

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)

favorites include
The Shootist
Broken Trail
Open Range
Sweet Home Alabama, really funny!!
Casablanca, can't imagine Reagan instead of Bogart
The Maltese Falcon

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.

Sherlock Holmes/Jeremy Brett complete collection
Agatha Christie's Poirot complete collection
Agatha Christie's Marple complete collection
Cracker/Robbie Coltrane complete collection
Prime Suspect complete collection
Charles Dickens BBC complete collection
Catherine Cookson complete collection
The House of Elliot complete collection
Rumpole of the Bailey complete collection
War & Peace (all 3 versions - Russian version is the best!)
Eye of the Needle
A Bridge Too Far
Element of Doubt
The Krays
A Certain Justice
Ruth Rendell Series Collections
The Sculptress
The Whistle Blower
etc., etc., etc.,
if it's British, I probably have it!

John Mayer is high on my list and he's getter better all the time so, I have everything he's done. Waiting for the world to change [which is best song written, sang and played about the current war and how he and his friends are affected by not being able to do anything re the war and can't depend on the TV news we hear, since its so bended by the time it gets to us]. I don't Trust myself with Loving You, Belief, Gravity [which is simply awesome], Tha Heart of Life, Stop this train,which I dearly love, mentioning how fast the world is moving, and it has 'I hate to see my parents go' and lets you know what a down to earth good writer, guitarist and producer he really is. In repair, Dreaming with a broken heart, Bold as Love, Slow dancing in a Burning Room, Vultures, Daughters [which he won an academy award for], I'm gonna find another You,The Heart of Life, Who did you think I was?, Good Love is on the way, Neon, Home Life,and on and on. I have approx 50 dvd/cd's but any title by John Mayer is tops on my list and I listen to him every day. Peggy

Classic (to me) movies
No TV series
Oops, make exception for The Twilight Zone

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Evita
Garden State
all John Turturro movies
all ben Stiller movies

After making the switch from VHS to DVD I decided to stop buying DVDs. I had hundreds of movies on VHS and suddenly they weren't worth watching anymore because of the change in quality.

Am I going to spend the money on replacing these movies in the new format? How often did I really watch those movies? (I had already replaced hundreds of vinyl LPs for CD.)

I have 5 movies that came with my original DVD player, plus one that I bought (Yellow Submarine). I've since replaced my original DVD player once (upgraded to a multi-disc DVD/SACD player about 3 years ago.

Am I going to upgrade to HD? Not for some time. First, I have a 35 Inch TV with a few years left in it that I'm not going to chuck for an HDTV Plasma or LCD, just because it's the latest and greatest thing to have. Therefore I won't upgrade the player until the TV is replaced.

Beside with on demand tv I rarely go to blockbuster anymore.

I think I'm going to wait for the dust to settle and get myself the latest and greatest holographic viewer when they become available.

Complete Ken Burns Baseball
The Simpsons Seasons 1-9
The World At War (5 double sided DVDs)
Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volumes 1-3
Hill Street Blues, Seasons 1 & 2
Miami Vice, Seasons 1 & 2
all Star Wars movies (Episodes I-VI)
all James Bond movies
Saturday Night Fever
Alien (special 20th anniversary edition)
Aliens (special 20th anniversary edition)
All Harry Potter movies
Most of the Disney classics (Cinderella, Peter Pan, Snow White, Bambi, etc...)
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
The Great Escape
Independence Day
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Live Aid
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
A Bridge Too Far

I have 50 to 100.
The worst part about it is I don't like to watch them too many times, there are a few I've seen once and there they sit.
Just to name a few:
Star Wars (all)
Saw I, II(standard and BluRay), III
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (new and original)
Full Metal Jacket
Taxi Driver
Blow
Transformers (HD)

The only DVD I have so far in more than one format is Saw II and that was because I wanted a direct comparison and I already owned the regular one when I got the BluRay player and the TV to go with it, plus I got it cheap. I can't see replacing any other DVD's at this point. I guess it works for me that I have both BluRay and HDDVD players so it doesn't matter to me which format wins. I do wish that BluRay would follow along with the added online content that will be coming more on HDDVD's. I do notice a better picture on the BluRay but that is just my opinion, I also see the upconverted picture is amazing using either player so unless you have a VERY large 1080p TV you won't really see much difference(I have a 42" 1080p Toshiba).