Do you still collect DVD, Blu-ray, 4K?

[Moviefan2k4]

I don't do streaming at all, it's not my thing, and I know I "miss out" on a lot of shows simply because they aren't available on physical media. I've come to a point where I've simply stopped being interested in anything that isn't available on physical media. (It also kinda helps that I have very little interest in modern television as it is, granted. And that I'm old. And that I like to re-watch old shows over and over again instead of checking out new stuff.)

Yeah, its a sad fact that most of Hollywood's current mainstream output sucks. In my opinion, a big reason is that the creators of the movies and shows are driven by their own arbitrary agendas, instead of telling an objectively incredible story. They're practically desperate to avoid offending anybody, which is completely impossible because anything you say or do is bound to bother someone else; its just a fact of life.

 

[Forbin]

Yup, and my collection is justified every time I get an email from one of the streaming services telling me what shows and movies are "leaving this month."

I've lately found a program that downloads programs from streaming services (legally) that you subscribe to. So anything I can't find on physical media I have as MP4 files (which I back up twice).

 

[Daedalus]

During the halloween season, it has become painfully apparent that a lot of old favorite horrors cannot be found on streaming services. I don't think this will ever change, no matter how many new services become available. My collection is quite priceless right now.

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

Contrary to popular belief, you do not need a massively-sized screen to notice and appreciate the improvements in the 4K format. The biggest selling points are greater color variety and improved clarity, thanks to the higher resolution, so anything above a 40 or 50-inch set should work just fine.

I have a 32" Roku TV that was a gift 7 years ago. I'd rather get a 4K player first so I can play 4K titles and know the discs play correctly without defect, upgrade the TV later. Make sense? For me it's more "make sure it works right" more than anything else, because I have absolutely had brand-new discs be defective before.

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

Primarily Blu-ray. DVD only when no other option is available. I own several 4K combo releases but got them for the Blu-ray that was included. I have no 4K set-up and have no immediate plans to upgrade.

When about DVD's for cuts of a film that didn't go Blu-ray or for Special Features that didn't port over?

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

All that may be true, I simply have no interest in upgrading. Obviously I'll be forced to eventually, but for now I'm sticking with what I have. I loathe that all TVs are "smart" now, I dearly miss the ability to just plug stuff in and play without all the bullshit.

What's wrong with a smart TV? You don't have to use all of the extra stuff, you can still plug and play if your focus is on playing discs. The TV being "smart" is mostly just about connecting to the internet so you can decide which streaming apps to download and use, pretty simple.

 

[John Clark]

DVD/Blu-Ray for me, and I'm afraid I have a bit of a collecting problem.

I do have a register of them which calculates them by isbn so one isdb could cover one film, or one complete series.

I haven't gone 4k because we too have a "smaller" tv - but that's as much room as function.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I had a large collection of movies and tv shows on Blu-ray and dvd. I lost about 95% of them when my house flooded. I tried to set some of them up higher when the water started coming in but they god messed up too. I'm going to try to replace some of them over time.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Yes, yes, no.

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

DVD/Blu-Ray for me, and I'm afraid I have a bit of a collecting problem.

I do have a register of them which calculates them by isbn so one isdb could cover one film, or one complete series.

I haven't gone 4k because we too have a "smaller" tv - but that's as much room as function.

I find keeping everything alphabetical (except direct sequels or prequels) works for me, plus separated by format. DVD's first, Blu-ray second. If I buy a Blu-ray title, only the Blu-rays shift down the shelves.

 

[N-121973]

Primarily Blu-ray. DVD only when no other option is available. I own several 4K combo releases but got them for the Blu-ray that was included. I have no 4K set-up and have no immediate plans to upgrade.

The same, though when you get the 4K combos it can hike the price. There a combo set coming out next month I'm interested in getting from an Australian boutique label for 'A Bridge Too Far' but it is over £60 Sterling and there's no Blu-Ray only release that I can see.

 

[Forbin]

Here's my living room. Home-made shelf full of movie DVDs, BDs and music CDs on the left. Cute little wall shelves made by my wife's father with BDs over the couch. Bracing the picture window are two standing shelves, and two enclosed cabinets, mostly full of TV series DVDs.

The front hallway: under Astro Boy, is a shelf half full of soundtrack CDs and half old TV show DVDs. Around the corner, more home-made shelves. The nearest half is DVDs of TV shows and animes. The farthest half is paperback novels. The little shelf unit under the Indy poster is books, but also has the complete Ghost in the Shell series on DVD or BD.

Nothing is cataloged, but it's arranged mostly by category and alphabetical order. We mostly know where everything is.

 

[Set Harth]

I tried to set some of them up higher when the water started coming in but they god messed up too.

God can be that way sometimes.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Here's my living room. Home-made shelf full of movie DVDs, BDs and music CDs on the left. Cute little wall shelves made by my wife's father with BDs over the couch. Bracing the picture window are two standing shelves, and two enclosed cabinets, mostly full of TV series DVDs.

The front hallway: under Astro Boy, is a shelf half full of soundtrack CDs and half old TV show DVDs. Around the corner, more home-made shelves. The nearest half is DVDs of TV shows and animes. The farthest half is paperback novels. The little shelf unit under the Indy poster is books, but also has the complete Ghost in the Shell series on DVD or BD.

Nothing is cataloged, but it's arranged mostly by category and alphabetical order. We mostly know where everything is.

I can't see the pics for some reason but it sounds like a nice setup.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

I learned fairly recently that when considering bonus features, I won't always be able to get the 4K version of a movie and automatically treat the Blu-Ray as irrelevant. For example, the 4K release of the original Iron Man movie has all the extras from the standard 1080p release, but omits those found in the second disc of the Ultimate Edition. Similarly, the 4K standalone disc of Escape From L.A. has no extras at all, so I'll be buying both that and the Collector's Edition Blu-Ray by Shout! Factory to make my own combo set.

In order to completely solve these problems, I'll have to get appropriate cases every so often, and make custom covers as well. Thankfully, I'm a Photoshop geek, and I have several fan-made studio templates on my external hard drive.

 

[N-121973]

I learned fairly recently that when considering bonus features, I won't always be able to get the 4K version of a movie and automatically treat the Blu-Ray as irrelevant. For example, the 4K release of the original Iron Man movie has all the extras from the standard 1080p release, but omits those found in the second disc of the Ultimate Edition. Similarly, the 4K standalone disc of Escape From L.A. has no extras at all, so I'll be buying both that and the Collector's Edition Blu-Ray by Shout! Factory to make my own combo set.

In order to completely solve these problems, I'll have to get appropriate cases every so often, and make custom covers as well. Thankfully, I'm a Photoshop geek, and I have several fan-made studio templates on my external hard drive.

One of my bugbears is when not all extras are ported over from one release to another, usually because they were spread over a couple of disks. I still have my DVDs of 'Empire of Dreams' from the first 'Star Wars' DVD boxset and the DVDs for the prequels because not everything came over. The same is true for 'Die Another Day' and the deluxe edition of 'Casino Royale'.

 

[Starkers]

I'm still collecting DVD and Blu-ray, don't have any 4K yet because I don't have the TV/player spec to play them, plus having bought things on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray I can't be arsed to get yet another version of some old favourites!

One thing I have started to do is to downscale how much space they're taking up. I don't plan to do it for all of them but I've started taking lots out of the box and putting the disc/cover in a folder. Saves a lot of room!

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

One of my bugbears is when not all extras are ported over from one release to another, usually because they were spread over a couple of disks. I still have my DVDs of 'Empire of Dreams' from the first 'Star Wars' DVD boxset and the DVDs for the prequels because not everything came over. The same is true for 'Die Another Day' and the deluxe edition of 'Casino Royale'.

This is why I have the DVD and the Blu-ray of some movies.

Braveheart - several extras did not port over.

Edward Scissorhands - some nice cast interviews didn't port over.

Ice Age (original - most of the 2-disc extras did not port over)

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - Mostly everything ported over, but there's about an hour's worth of SD behind-the-scenes SFX content that didn't port over from the 2-disc DVD, likely due to low quality, but still worth seeing.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

"Collect"? No, no more than I "collect" fountain pens.

I buy recorded music on CD to actually listen to (and in the case of my annual Christmas bulk order auditions, I buy every new-release CD prominently featuring an organ that's at least predominantly real pipes, on at least predominantly direct tracker key action, in order to select the one that has the best combination of mass appeal, quality of music, quality of performance, and a good demonstration of the subtle nuances possible when one is able to directly control wind-onset, and therefore note envelope transients. And I have more than a dozen feet of shelf space devoted to my CD library (and another three feet to vinyl, much of which has never seen a CD release). But "collecting" implies either investment, or completism, or both (I will admit to a certain level of completism with respect to the recordings of mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and her pianist/composer husband William Bolcom, just as I'll admit to a certain level of completism with respect to books by certain authors, and to ST books, but not in general, and if I de-accession a CD, it's invariably because I'm giving it away.

I likewise buy DVDs (season sets of ST, Emergency, Banacek, Quincy, and so forth included) to actually watch, but not as "collectibles." And as I recall, I don't currently have a functioning Blu-Ray player in the house. Multiple DVD players, though. And so I have only a couple of movies on Blu-Ray, both of which I also have on DVD.

And generally, any fountain pen that sits in a drawer instead of in my breast pocket is one that I retired, or that somebody gave me in complete disregard for my taste (which is why I have a Parker 25 that has only ever seen service as a "backup" pen), or that I bought, only to find it completely impractical to actually use.

 

[scotthm]

I purchase mostly Blu-rays, along with the occasional 4K UHD and, rarely, DVDs. I've been collecting film and television on disc since 1998.

Here is my Home video disc collection, though some of these are recordings I've made that reside on my Plex server: My home video disc collection.

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