HOW MUCH PHYSICAL MEDIA DO YOU OWN?
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hungryinconway — 1 year ago(September 06, 2024 12:07 AM)
Thousands of blu-ray, currently. A few years ago I thinned the collection substantially, including ditching all Disney titles (with variants) except the Marvel movies, which I keep alongside the Marvel 4k Steelbook collection.
Hundreds of 4k Steelbooks. Most recent: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Still pissed that they never released a steelbook for The Flash, apparently. That would have been great to go with the original Batman 4k steelbook collection with the Michael Keaton movies, so i'll probably end up getting a custom Flash steelbook case made just for that reason. I only upgrade titles from blu-ray to 4k that I am seriously interested in, and have no plans to upgrade the entire blu-ray library. In most cases, regular blu-ray copies are good enough vs a $100,000 upgrade to the entire collection.
Zero to few regular DVD, but still quite a few boxsets of series which weren't available on blu-ray or I never upgraded. I had around 5000 dvd at one time, probably like 20 years ago, but ditched the entire lot in favor of collecting blu-ray when that format came out. More recently I did have an entire collection of Disney DVD with all variants which I slowly replaced with blu-ray copies. I've had my eye on a few box sets I may eventually get, like that big bastard Gunsmoke complete collection which I have resisted the temptation of wasting $200 on, so far.
VHS: very few and they are all big collector boxsets I have held onto just because they look great to top my shelves. The best ones are Xena Warrior Princess seasons 1-4 which are fat box sets like 15 tapes each and look very badass and imposing against my steelbook collection. I found these at a yard sale a few years ago and paid $5 for them. I showed this fantastic find to jan_el_senor, who was suitably impressed, so it was well worth it. I had an entire collection of Disney VHS in the clamshell packaging, which I admit looked great, but seeing how useless and worthless they became vs. the room they occupied I literally threw them all away, 100s of titles. I was never really a big collector of VHS movies.
Laserdisc: One. Somehow I ended up with a laserdisc porn title which I kept as a curiosity. Something with Seka & John Holmes. At one time I had a few hundred laserdisc titles which I got rid of due to storage issues and lack of interest. I believe I sold the entire lot of them along with the final laserdisc player I owned, which weighed around 50 pounds.
I also have around 1000 digital copies and add to it all the time with the digital copies included with new blu-ray and steelbook releases as well as older titles I purchase each week during Vudus weekly sales at $5 each to fill in gaps from my collection of both physical and digital copies. The main problem with digital copies is that over time they disappear from your library as providers lose the rights to carry them, and you never even realize it and they sure as hell don't notify you. The only way you know if if you keep careful track of them or go to watch something you know you own and it's simply no longer there. Those bastards.
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️ Christina 1986-05-20 
— 1 year ago(September 26, 2024 12:17 PM)We lost our seemingly endless supply in the hurricane Hurricane Katrina.
My grandma had quite a nice and vast collection, herself. I loved movie time, at her house.
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