I have wall units to store my DVDs. I am curious to how people organize their DVDs? Alphabetical? Genre? Genre and then alphabetical? Also, I was watching a show on HGTV where they organized the person's cd collection alphabetical and had someone plasma cut metal tabs with the letters on them (kind of like in a library where they separate fiction and non-fiction). Anyone ever seen them done commercially?

I don't have a huge collection but when the times comes I plan on storing all my dvd's on a server so i can watch it in any room in the house. hopefully there is an option like this to store blu-ray or hd-dvd movies. I am waiting to see who wins, as I don't have a hdtv yet.

I have them in alphabetic order, but with little number tags on the spine, which relate to the position number in one of the two Sony 400 disk changers. This means that I can scan the DVD's and find the disk I want, and I know which player it is in, and which position it is.

I also have typed all the names in the disc player so that I can scan it also by title on screen.

I was planning on putting a 2 channel RF modulator on the output of both DVD changers, and getting some IR to RF converters so that I could watch the DVD's on any TV in the house. This would make it easier to watch a movie in any other place other than the theater without having to remove the disk itself. Of course watching movies is more of an event anyways (We "go to the movies" in our house anyways), so I do not know if I will ever do that.

As to storing all HD DVD or Blu-ray in a server, remember that the average HD movie is probably 30 to 40 gig, so ten movies will be 300 to 400 gig. Also it is looking more and more like the movie studios are attempting to "lock down" any access to the DVD content so that you must have the DVD present in a player. I would not hold my breath for a server based storage system for HD-DVD's. And if becomes available, prepare to pay through the nose.

Reedl

I started storing mine alphabetically, but lost track when the collection outgrew the storage space. My rental place sorts them by genre, then alphabetically. I suspect I'll do a cross-referenced database someday that I can search by any category on my PC, but it's not high on my ToDo list.

I just give the disc a number when I get it and then put it in DVDProfiler (http://www.intervocative.com/). When I was buying a lot of DVD's it was always a royal pain to keep them in Alphabetical order because I had to keep shuffling shelves.

Alphabetical. I used to put the titles that start with "The" or "A" with the T's and A's but I've started putting them in order without counting the "The" or "A". There are exceptions to some DVDs. Sequels and trilogies are together starting with the title of the first movie.

Ex. All jurassic park, terminator, lord or the rings, star wars, raiders of the lost ark, fast and the furious, mission impossible etc. are together.

...I used to put the titles that start with the T's and A's ...

The "T's and A's"? There's got to be a joke there somewhere... :D

htomei

I thought "fast and the furious" was the joke

The "T's and A's"? There's got to be a joke there somewhere... :D

htomei

:o :p :o :p :o

Oops!
Htomei, you know what I meant! LOL!

I do my series movies the same way....all Bond movies are together, Austin Powers, American Pie, etc.
I have a few other exceptions...concerts and holiday movies (Christmas Vacation, Christmas Story, Elf, etc).

I don't do any of my media to that detail. I have every Beach Boys CD and they're just at random. As long as I'm in the right neighborhood, I'm good enuf.