I am very curious - especially from those that list their "disc count" in an ongoing counter in their sigs - what is the draw to "own" so many movies?

Do you actually watch your 100+ HDDVD or BD collections more than 1 time? I have to imagine most are collecting dust.

Just curious, as I know we all have diff hobbies, but I have always been fascniated by people buying DVD's, let alone, the much more expensive Hi Def formats (I had an old college roomate who must have damn near 750 DVDs who probably never watched more than 10 of them twice)

I am 30, financially well off, with a nice Home Theatre set up, however, I could never imagine spending so much to 'purchase' discs, when I am more than content to pay my $9.99 per month and watch 3-5 BluRays via NetFlix - especially when the hi def format is curretnly $20-$35 a pop.

Ouside of 4 or 5 titles, I don't buy discs, and I think that vast majority fall in that ship than the other.

No offense is meant by this post, just a curiosity thread to post into if your looking to kill off a few minutes at work.

Happy Hi Def viewing.... :p

Very easy to answer.

I like to own disc, because then can I when ever I feel choose and watch exactly the movie I feel like watching that day. No waiting, no fingerprints, just me and my movie. Sometimes I dont even watch entire movies just my favourite scenes in different movies.

Sometimes I have friends at home and we want to watch movies, just let them pick one, I already picked them all as my favourites.

I don't have a huge collection (compared to a lot of guys here), but I like to own movies because I may get the urge to watch them later. I also like entertaining guests with movies. I don't rent anymore, and havn't rented a movie in maybe 5 years.

3 reasons for me.

1.) My wife and I re-watch movies that we enjoy fairly often. We love movies. We have watcing some tittles 20 times in our life. some 10 and some 5.

2.) Our mood on a certian day determines what we watch.

3.) We are lazy. Meaning when we do rent movies by the time we actually return it we have paid for buying one with late fees.

As guy #2 said... Its a matter of having your own... netflix is wonderful, i been using them for 5+ yrs now.

I currently "own" over 1,000 movies. My goal was to get every single movie i ever wanted so if i woke up and said oh man i wanna watch that.. boom i just load it in..

same as the other guy said, my friends love coming over and are just stunned at my movie collection.. they just find it fascinating that almost everything they want is there to just pop it at anytime.


Netflix tends to have Scratces, Dirty, discs.. I keep my stuff extremely organzied, dust free and clean my collection quite often. I'm actually working on creating a spread sheet and having it laminated with every title that I have.

But this is regular DVDs.... with bluRays... I'll deff buy a few 100... but once the technology comes out alittle more polished i'll be "creating" my own.

I'll throw in an extra justification for owning many discs.

Many films presented today by the various channels are offered disjointedly because of the number of advertisement interruptions, including those annoying on-screen promos while the film is being shown. I'd rather own the disc of the film and watch it at my leisure without the disturbances.

A perfect case in point is American Movie Classics. My library would probably be slightly smaller if it weren't for their constant advertisements. Conversely, I would probably own even more discs if not for TCM.

Control and choices. I have enough of an income to control most aspects of my life and entertainment is no different. I also enjoy having options of my own choosing and dislike waiting for what I want; nor am I interested in interacting with the great unwash masses at video stores.

Also, it is a great pleasure to introduce someone to a film or genre they haven't experienced and very satisfying to have a full selection from which too choose.

Well, my wife and I don't own a 1,000 DVDs or more (like many here), but we own around 450 discs, so maybe I'm in the crowd being addressed, maybe not. Either way, my/our rational includes a lot of what already has been said: a) the ability to watch what you want without waiting, anytime, b) loving to watch movies -- we don't have a super-sophisticated home theater, but what we have is pretty decent, and it is a good way to "unwind" together on a Friday night (we're past the point in our lives where we want to go to a bar on any sort of regular basis), 3) company -- we like having people over for dinner, etc., and having a large movie collection is a nice "filler" when needed, especially for my three young nieces, 4) my wife, specifically, is someone who LOOOOVES to watch a movie over and over again -- she's very 'kid-like' in that way, she has probably watched each Harry Potter movie more than 20 times (and no, that is not an exaggeration), and 5) while Netflix would be a more cost effective way to watch (caveat, see #1 above), for the most part, we buy our movies on sale such that the price to "buy" is only marginally more expensive than renting at the local Blockbuster (i.e., the bargain bin at Walmart at $4.50).

Now, having said that, do I sometimes cringe when I look at 450 DVDs and do the math (at a conservative $10/movie)? Yes, but on evenings where I'm bored, tired, or just too lazy to go out, it is great to pop in a LotR movie and marvel at how good it is. Watching movies is a lot like any other hobby, really. I mean, who NEEDS to build a train set that goes in circles in their basement, or plant rare varietals of herbs, or collect odd or expensive wines, or [fill in the blank here]? A lot of this stuff doesn't make "sense" . . . but then again, human beings rarely proceed along completely (or in some cases, even partially) rational paths. What is 'odd' to one person is the 'norm' for someone else. Could you show me that your method of watching DVDs is more 'cost effective'? Sure. But, because we are different people, that doesn't = 'better'.

Just curious -- and I'm asking this question in a very real, person to person way, not negatively -- do you enjoy any hobbies that you spend (what might be considered by others to be) large amounts of money on? If so, what would you reply if someone asked you: "Why do you spend all that money on [x]?"

As some who lists there latest BD purchase in their sig I will answer that I just love movies. I will watch all of the movies I buy again and againg at some point. My SD collection was at about 800 since Ive stopped buying them and it took me about 9 years to get their. Thats plenty of time to watch those movies multiple times each. Plus its fun looking at my shelf and seeing all of those wonderful movies in there cases.

A lot of it... for me comes down to when I first got into DVD. If I wanted to watch a DVD, I had to buy it... as no one had DVDs available for rent.

I also live out in the country, so even when DVDs became more mainstream, renting wasn't a very good option since I would most likely run into issues returning them in time. Later, a rental place that rented DVDs moved closer, but with the finite time I had to watch said movies, and the fact that the prices on them were higher than I would have prefered, I only did it for a few times.

Those are just some of the reasons why I have a VERY LARGE DVD collection.

However, with the impending release of a HD format, I mostly held off on DVD purchases (aside from some gotta-have titles) and chose to rely on "loaners" from friends who have borrowed from me so many times over the years...

Unfortunately, I'm WAY behind on a lot of these titles, and have since purchased some of the titles on HD Media that I had a SD DVD loaner of since that time. I've also WAY behind on a lot of my HD DVDs as I've only watched about half of them, and WAY behind on my Blu-Ray's as I have yet to get a PS3!

While I admit that I have a lot of DVDs that I've never seen more than once, I also have a lot that I've seen several times, some that I've seen over 20 times, and others that I'm just proud to own should I want to watch them again. As one poster has said above, Netflix and the like don't work out too well since I don't really know what I'm going to be in the mood to watch, until I'm ready to watch it. That coupled with the fact that if I were to rent a movie, watch it and like it, I would have spent money on renting it that I could have spent on purchasing it.

Renting, in my honest opinion, is just too expensive for my tastes... which is why I purchase! :)

~Alan

I've hit about 510 discs 41 being HD-DVDs.
I think for me it partly a collecting thing. Much like anything its a hobbie that may or may not turn a profit. Which for me dosent matter. Other then that its just nice to have so many movies at my fingertips. Always having somthing to watch is great.

But I'd say in the last year HD has increaced my buying a little. Mostly it a new thing. The PQ and AQ are amazing. Never seeing artifacts is nice. I find going back is harder becase you notice those artifacts a lot more. I didn't relize I had become used to them..

I also have a 200+ laserdisc collection. Although about 50 or so I may part with as they were won in LD lots. Were I payed an average of 2$ a pop making those few unwanted discs worth it...

But my master plan is to some day create a folder with a picture and descption of all my movies and it format. Ill either combine them or seprate them into HD,DVD, LD and VHS. But on the VHS side I only own 10 not on dvd tapes. Most are documentys. Which I've tranfred to DVD...

The cost of going to the Movie Theater for a family of four with some Pop, Candy, and Popcorn can exceed $50. Even paying the ridiculous cost for a FOX Blu-ray at $40 is cheaper plus you get to keep the movie for future viewing if desired. When you compare the cost of a Movie Ticket to the cost of a disc, its not ridiculous to own movies at all, even movies you may never watch twice. It mostly depends on how much you like the hobby of Home Theater and collecting Movies/Media. Some people have huge collections, some enjoy the hobby to the same extent but don't have huge collections. I can't afford to have a huge collection so I have to be selective.

Plus, the convienience of having the movie on hand at any given moment if company comes over to watch is worth something. You then have selection for people to view. Of course, if your local video store were to stock the Blu-ray/HD DVD, that wouldn't matter so much.

Great stuff so far...I appreciate the responses.

And yes, I do have interests I blow too much $$ on, and yes, its no different than buying DVD's. Most on here would probably say I am crazy to drop $1,200 on a bicycle - but I do a lot of biking/triathlons - so to me, its not a big thing.

I also spend too much $$ on the NFL....Sunday Ticket subscriptions, tickets, etc...

I don't have a large BD collection, but I do have a fairly large DVD collection, and there are two reasons:

My two children.

We own almost every Disney animated movie that has been available since the kids were born and weren't straight to dvd.

We watch them all the time, and we enjoy watching the same ones over and over. The same does not apply to most other movies, we belong to Blockbuster Online and go through a good bit of movies, but I don't feel compelled to watch most of them more than once.

Very easy to answer.

I like to own disc, because then can I when ever I feel choose and watch exactly the movie I feel like watching that day. No waiting, no fingerprints, just me and my movie. Sometimes I dont even watch entire movies just my favourite scenes in different movies.

Sometimes I have friends at home and we want to watch movies, just let them pick one, I already picked them all as my favourites.

My reasons are the same as MovieSwede. I try to be "picky"about what I buy. 3-4 times/year, I go through my collection and delete movies (after consideration over time) I think I may not watch again... trade them in at FYE and take the cash to purchase new ones I want. This keeps my collection "tight". I have just over 500 discs.
I do have a minimal Netflix sub (one movie out at a time) for those items I would like to see once but not purchase....of course, the disc (unless really new) is scratched, fingerprints galore, etc.

I purchase movies to save time.

In the past I would scan the TV Guide for all my favorite movies and try to watch them all. Once I started buying the movies I didn't have to look for them or watch them because I owned them. I doubt I've watched 20% of my collection, it would take years.

My family on the otherhand will sit and watch an SD broadcast of a movie I own in HD because it's convenient. I shake my head thinking what a waste of my beautiful HDTV.

Now, I'm wasting all my time looking at the HD TV Guide listings for movies I love and own in SD so I can experience them in HD.

I need the studios to release HD disks faster so I don't have to watch them in HD because I will own them in HD.

I purchase movies to save time.


I'm going to echo what a lot of others have been saying. It's been a while since I counted my DVDs, but I'm certain I'm over the 500 mark by now. To answer your question, YES, I absolutely watch most of my DVDs more than once. I like to own because I travel a lot and like to have portable entertainment, and because I have ecclectic tastes, and can't rely on finding what I want at Blockbuster or Netflix.

Plus, convenience. Most of the time I don't decide to watch a movie until it's already 11:30 at night... if I don't already have what I'm watching, I'm SOL.

I own 1543 discs of which 107 are HD DVDs and 70 are Blu-ray discs. It makes no financial sense to own that many discs. But I am a collector of movies on discs. Some people collect stamps, trinkets, dishes, shoes...even cars and airplanes. My hobby is to collect movies on discs. It doesn't matter that I may not see any movie more than once. This hobby is within my financial means and my wife likes the fact that it keeps me out of more troublesome, and potentially far more expensive extracurricular activities.

Being one with a tremendous SD dvd collection... It's killing me inside that now I'm going to start over and buy everything on HD/BLU-RAY lol..


for big collectors out there... what are you guys doing with the older SD discs now that you'll eventually replace them with a new HD copy...

i was probably going to just bring them down stairs to my dads office or another room with only SD players... im the only one in my house with this crazy stuff..

I have probably 200 DVD. I have been comparitively VERY very picky with my HD selections, only picking the top tier titles after checking the reviews. Most of these movies are not double dips being new releases that I didn't see in the theaters (and I'd spend probably 40 or 50 after goodies and the tickets) or releases I passed on DVD (I stopped buying DVD over a year ago, knowing I would eventually go HD).

I do rewatch movies, though very rarely rewatch extras.

I live overseas. Middle East to be more specific and until moving here never considered purchasing dvd's. I now own over 500 SD-DVD titles and now building my HD-DVD collection and that stands at 65 to 70 disks, with much more on the way.

Apart from traveling and playing golf here in Saudi, watching movies is my primary form (almost primary) of entertainment. Girlfriend helps a lot in that department.

Cheers.

Why do I own vs. buy? because I dont drink, smoke, gamble, drive a nice car or have a chance to go out to the theater having two kids at home. Most stuff I buy is played a few times anyway. I also sold my 200 DvD collection in anticipation of the new formats and have managed to buy most of my discs for less than $20 each.

I'm a collector. I just like owning the movies with the pretty cases and coverart. Same applies to music. I buy a CD then copy it to my Ipod. So once that is done, I never use my CD again. So one would think it would make better sense to simply purchase music downloads. But I don't buy music downloads, I prefer to buy CDs.

The weird thing for me is that I own several DVDs that is still in it's shrink wrap. The Hulk, Spiderman, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The 40 yr old Virgin, I-Robot and several others, that I've owned for more than a year now and I've never opened it. I've already seen all those movies in the theater and I just haven't gotten around to watching it again on DVD, but I still wanted to own it!

Bought a lot of my favorite movies on standard DVD from goung out of business sales , used or on sharp discounts.

Was in wonder of watching them in OAR whenever I wanted to.

As they steadily come out in HD, I am double dipping my favorites as they are released.

Its like if I can get it for less than twenty bucks, and I'll watch it at least twice, its worth it. Cheaper than a 1 time out at a movie theater. So if I saw a DVD under $10 or Wal-Mart $5, I'd pick it up. But I've pretty much stopped buying SD DVDs now, unless they are cheap and from Sony or Fox.

I want to watch movies I've liked again whenever I upgrade my display.

I want to add another input.

I work nighshift. So when most of the good tv shows are is when im at work. So there is no point for me to follow any show like lost, unless i buy the entire season on DVD. So to get quality TV/movies i buy DVDs.

And on the question what will I do with all of my DVDs when this new format has come. Well I have more SD tvs with DVDs then I have HighDef TVs with Highdef player. So unless i want to start my projector, i will watch movies with my SD TV and DVD player. Very helpfull when you want to sleep during the day. My wife even complain,
"why do you buy all these movies when you only wact the first 15 minutes of them..."

I want to add another input.

I work nighshift. So when most of the good tv shows are is when im at work. So there is no point for me to follow any show like lost, unless i buy the entire season on DVD. So to get quality TV/movies i buy DVDs.

And on the question what will I do with all of my DVDs when this new format has come. Well I have more SD tvs with DVDs then I have HighDef TVs with Highdef player. So unless i want to start my projector, i will watch movies with my SD TV and DVD player. Very helpfull when you want to sleep during the day. My wife even complain,
"why do you buy all these movies when you only wact the first 15 minutes of them..."

Dude, TiVo S3, you can record the season and watch it whenever, upgrading the hard drive will help with being able to retain more stuff for watching later.

I am currently saving BSG season 3 and Planet Earth from Discovery HD for watching this summer.

You should really think about this, I can't tell you how much this will change the way you use your television.

It looks like we all have basically the same reasons for our ciollections (more or less).

1) We like ownership. Many of us are collectors. I have 900-1000- discs, 1000+CDs, 500+ LPs etc.
2) Conveinience- we can watch what we want, when we want. Mood derectly effects our viewing habits. I'll also add, in the case of imported DVDs, many are not available as rentals.
3) economics-With the price of movies being what they are, a discs is cheaper than the price of a couple movie tickets plus munchies.
4) We're decadent- its a hobby. Once the basic necessities are taken care of, why not enjoy yourself a little.

That about sums it up.
J

"Chicks dig it" :)

I never know what I'll be in the mood to watch. When I rent HD DVD/BDs sometimes they sit around for weeks because I don't feel like watching it. If I own it then i can watch it whenever the mood stikes me. The title is there for me to watch. Plus I had only bought a handful of DVDs over the last 4 years. I purchased most of my DVDs between 1998 and 2002. The same thing will probably happen with HD DVD/ BD.
My purchases have also been influenced by Amazon's 10% off, free two day shipping, no taxes, and 3% off with the Amazon Visa card. if I had to pay the prices that BB sells the titles for, I would not have very many.

People have been buying books and putting them in home libraries since the dawn of printing. DVD/HD collections are no different.

I can Netflix a title just like I can go to the public library when I have an urge to read a book. But I still build up a libarary of my favorites at home, for easy access.

I'm becoming a bit more choosey over what I buy now than in the past. I still have a large number of DVDs sitting on my shelf that I haven't watched since 1998 for example. Some of my laserdiscs and VHS I haven't watched in about 14 years. I love to own movies but wouldn't cry myself to sleep if pre-recorded optical media were no longer for sale and downloading were the only option.

I own about 70 HD DVDs and 38 Blu Ray titles. I easily watch the movies more than 1 time and many times multiple times. I think it would be nice for the posters to note which hi def title they have watched the most. I think for me it's probably a tie between Pitch Black and Serenity - around 8 times each. And that's roughly since October of last year.

I have a very large DVD collection, a modest HD-DVD collection and 2 BDs. I got my first DVD player in '98 while in college because I had wanted a laserdisc player for the longest time. Thankfully my parents stopped me and I'm glad they did since being a teenager with a laserdisc habit would have been deadly. I like having a variety of choices available because I've always got a movie going, even just as background noise. Let's say that I'm in for a long haul doing a full PC build from scratch. I'll put Pulp Fiction in and that takes me most of the way through. If I'm doing light work, maybe Johnny Mnemonic, which incidentally I seemed to play during the writing of every term paper. I've also been sitting on the 4.5-hour cut of Until the End of the World for nearly a year, but I've not been able make the time to sit down and watch that properly.

To sum that all up in one line, I have a large movie collection because I love movies.

I'm up to about 1900 DVDs including 194 HD DVDs. I just consider it a hobby and I love to rewatch movies. The only thing to keeps me from just rewatching movies is the fact that my unseen pile just grows. The price difference in HD and SD discs doesn't bother me too much. I had no problem spending almost $100 on the Ultimate Kill Bill vol. 1 set from Japan so $27 on Amazon for a HD/DVD combo doesn't bother me too much.

I have over 1000 movies; only about 20 are HD (mix of HD DVD and BD). My wife and I l love movies and we do watch many of our DVDs multiple times; add to that the fact that we do not have cable, and you can see why!

As to HD content--I confess to being amazed by those folks who have 50 HD movies or more. I truly cannot find 50 HD movies in total from both formats that I'd want to own (_Beerfest_--now there's a classic "must have" in HD!). I wish the studios would get their acts together and release some of the excellent movies in their archives that would drive HD media sales (LOTR, Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc. etc).

Brian
Format Neutral

Being an old fart, I remember when if you didn't catch a movie on its first run, you might never see it. Three television networks, and the people doing movie programming were not in accord with my tastes, to say the least. No VCRs. No DVDs. No way to own a movie without the massive investment of a 16mm or 35mm projector and actual film, which was way beyond my means.

But I nevertheless had a love for film, and read about it voraciously. So many movies I would read about and despair that I might never see.

VHS was too crappy to spend much money on, and LD held no attraction due to the obnoxious side breaks.

But when DVD came, finally, an answer to my prayers. Full length, beautiful, uncut (mostly), OAR (mostly), and I could own them for a song.

So I did. I finally get to see the movies that those film books talked to me about 40 years ago. And I get to revisit them, and compare as I see fit. Can't do that with rentals. And since the things I favor tend to be obscure/weird, if I don't buy them as soon as they come out, they vanish from circulation and command huge bucks on eBay.

And that's why my collection is nearing 5000. Granted, 1100 or so of those are review copies from my work at digitallyObsessed.com, but they mean a lot to me. It's a wish from long ago that's being marvelously gratified. They say that you don't get pleasure from material possessions, but I'm willing to make an exception here. :)

I own 1543 discs of which 107 are HD DVDs and 70 are Blu-ray discs. It makes no financial sense to own that many discs. But I am a collector of movies on discs. Some people collect stamps, trinkets, dishes, shoes...even cars and airplanes. My hobby is to collect movies on discs. It doesn't matter that I may not see any movie more than once. This hobby is within my financial means and my wife likes the fact that it keeps me out of more troublesome, and potentially far more expensive extracurricular activities.

I am really suprised more people haven't said this already??? I think this is by far THE #1 reason people have massive collections weather they realize it or not...in realality it doesn't much sence to collect movies as most people won't watch the movie more than once or twice and even then it would still be more cost effective to rent vs buy...I really think people with massive collections are just like comic book collectors or people with home libaries...most people will never read a book multiple times but yet have massive stacks of books and libaries instead of checking the book out at a libary...its simply a hobby that people enjoy collecting

People have been buying books and putting them in home libraries since the dawn of printing. DVD/HD collections are no different.

I can Netflix a title just like I can go to the public library when I have an urge to read a book. But I still build up a libarary of my favorites at home, for easy access.


Interesting perspective.

As a hobby, I am a book collector & dealer but have never thought of dvd's in that manner. Maybe my ever-growing Film Noir collection would fit into the collector niche.

I'll be the first to admit that I own too many titles at over 2000. I started collecting (and that's the proper word for someone that treats it like a hobby) when DVD first came out. I'm just glad that I didn't start with VHS or LDs. By the time Netflix came along, I was already into the habit of buying and on my wat to a large collection.

Granted, if I could do it over, I'd buy a lot less. I suspect that I'd still own a very large collection though, probably over 700. A lot of what I do own was purchased used or on sale with large discounts at the time. I also saved money not going to the theater and not subscribing to the movie channel packages. It's not a wash, but did lesson the costs and I still have something to show for my money. And yes, the pun is intended.

I stopped buying DVDs a while ago and also subscribe to Netflix. I'm making a conscious effort to rent most new HD releases. I only buy titles that I'd watch more than once and won't replace my DVDs unless they're eye-candy titles that I have to own in HD like the Matrix, etc.

Dude, TiVo S3, you can record the season and watch it whenever, upgrading the hard drive will help with being able to retain more stuff for watching later.

I am currently saving BSG season 3 and Planet Earth from Discovery HD for watching this summer.

You should really think about this, I can't tell you how much this will change the way you use your television.


Actually it feel very good not be a slave for the weekly shows (Star trek TNG excluded of course)

But the quality of the broadcast (SatToAnalog) were i live isnt really up to my standards so i very happy by watching purchased DVDs

I own almost 4,000 DVDs, but pared down my spending on HD media to about, at least so far, 30 HD-DVDs and 40 BDs, the primary reason being cost.

The reason my DVD collection is so big is because it's exactly that, a collection. I also agree with many of the previous posters, in that I like to be able to watch any movie I want on a whim. I think i own probably 90% of all the movies I've ever seen in their entirety. The other 10% are films I'd never want to watch again, such as 'Sugar and Spice,' 'The Sweetest Thing,' and "Transporter 2.' Movies that burn me up inside when I think about the fact that I wasted 2 hours with them in the first place.

As far as viewing on particular discs is concerned, I'd say it breaks down like this:

of all the DVDs I own:
1,000 are still sealed
2,000 were watched once
800 have been watched twice
and the remaining 200 I have watched numerous times.

So I guess you could say I could have saved alot of money just buying those 200 and renting the rest.

I must agree with most of the answers given by others.

I started out with DVD, eventually DVDs became cheap and it was easy to buy cheap DVDs, eventually I bought enough (buy a movie from a discount bin or sale and it was sometimes cheaper then a rental) that going to rent seemed more of a bother. eventually it grew to a size where rental was not even an idea any more. Buy new movies you really want, wait a bit for the rest for the price o drop. You have it for ever unlike rental where eventually they might get rid of their last copy. I agree that with HDOM that is not the case yet, but now I am into that habit. I had my sister and her family for Easter weekend it was fun for the kids and adults to be able to pick movies they want to watch. As a group I think we watched 7 movies put together, you can't do that with rental :)

67 hd dvd and 40 BD so far. (never counted DVD's, a bunch...)

Great points made here. Collectibility is huge which is why having the object, case, artwork etc. is very important. One of the plastic covers on my hd dvd (Deer Hunter) pulled apart and it still bugs me to this day.

Just knowing you can watch on demand even if you never actually do for some movies :o is still important, because you know you can ;) Downloads and having all on a netwok is a good idea too though, but even using digital downloads on the Xbox Marketplace reminds me that I don't have all the extras that come with full optical disk.

Another factor though is bookmarking. Bookmarking and watching exactly the segments you want to watch is a great way to use optical media. In fact I'd like for these formats to provide enough bookmark space to maintain bookmarks on every disk in my collection so when needed I can pop in a disk and just watch the bookmarked scenes. How much bookmark space is supported anyway?

I hardly go to the cinema. I buy movies thinking that I might want to watch them again and I don't usually rent movies. I've only got round to re-watch only a tiny portion of what I buy. I won't buy movies that I don't like even if it's dead cheap.

My CD/SACD/DVD-A collection is much larger than my DVD/BD collection (c.3000:300). To listen to them all again would take years!

I collect books too!

Sometimes owning something makes you think you're part of it, however smal that is.

Very easy to answer.

I like to own disc, because then can I when ever I feel choose and watch exactly the movie I feel like watching that day. No waiting, no fingerprints, just me and my movie. Sometimes I dont even watch entire movies just my favourite scenes in different movies.
Sometimes I have friends at home and we want to watch movies, just let them pick one, I already picked them all as my favourites.

Bingo, I like to own the disc, I like to watch certain scenes just for the heck of it. I was just thinking about poping in The Departed to watch the failed police sting to get Costello

"I'm the guy who does his job, you must be the other guy!"

Although my movie collection doesn't come close to some of the people on here, some of the dual format owners have 100+ HD DVDs and 100+ Blu-Ray movies. Its insane!!!

Collector, A little bit of Video Nirvana, and maybe a little personal snobbery.

I like to own the movies, I absolutely hate having to rely on the local rental people having a movie in stock and whether it will be marginally playable once you get it. Netflix is reliable, but certainly plenty of nonplayable discs ship daily (chip, scratched, dirty that I wouldn't put into my player under any circumstance). Cars, Animals, Boats, Houses, non-AV Art, extra wives, etc don't hold much interest for me, but I love just knowing the movies and music are near.

Never had much reason to collect VHS other than some Disney and Veggies Tales for the kids so they didn't have to be tempted to touch MY Movies.

I loved LD as much for the cover art as the movies (much like LP's over CD's). My LD collection include 5 players and at least 800+ separate movie titles (?1600 total discs including double/triple, etc dips) including 200 Criterion, a nearly complete collection of every Star Wars (plus some spares allowing for possible future rot) and Star Trek ever released, a complete DTS collection, most of the regular Disneys including most of those gorgeous Deluxe collections, a number of other Collector Sets, a handful of Japanese discs, and a number of titles that were never released on DVD or only released Pan Scan. A lot of those discs were bought after DVD showed up and people were clearing out their LD's though around 300-350 were bought before DVD appeared.

Roughly 750 DVD's mostly in excellent to pristine condition. I don't loan them to friends, I taught my wife and kids how to handle them properly. The kids were trained from the time they could pick them up and I rarely find a fingerprint on a surface and I have never seen them lay a disc on a surface other than the player drawer and inside the case. It drives my nuts watching people throw CD/DVD's of counters/receiver/coffetable/concrete blocks/radiators, stacking naked discs 10 high instead of storing them properly, picking them up by the disc surfaces, and knowing that these are the discs coming from Blockbuster/Netflix. I went to college in the 70's with an avid LP collector who was even pickier than I am now and he taught (?demanded) I care for his stuff the right way if I was going to listen to his equipment.

HD DVD added this week thanks to the deals and already have 25 titles in hand plus 5 Freebies coming from Toshiba and an order of 15 more with Warner ($14 per disc is just killing me).

I have just about every HD DVD title at home and second open copies at the store where we play them all day long in three rooms. I have about 75 BD discs as well.

So all in all at home I have 3 HD DVD and 2 BD players and in my store we have 4 HD DVD and 3 BD players going full time, plus DIRECTV all feed through several matrix distribution amps and some splitters to about 20 beautiful HDTVs.

I am so obsessed and having fun, fun, fun.

-Robert