So...are you mixing-in your HD discs with your SD-DVDs? - Page 5

Right now they're separate, but when I move in with the fiancee next spring I will probably integrate them.  She's cool with the number of discs though, as she's a movie buff herself.

Hahaha...  We probably need a entertainment media collectors anonymous here no doubt -- oh wait, isn't that what HTF stands for??

No, I don't generally include DVDs I've upgraded to BDs in my Profiler collection either.  I'm still keeping a small number of them around after upgrading (mostly for the kids on roadtrips and such w/ titles like Harry Potter), and of course, some of the (more family-oriented) BD titles actually come w/ the DVD version included nowadays -- in fact, the upcoming Harry Potter BD comes w/ the DVD.

I guess if I were single (or just married w/out kids), I'd probably have a smaller collection now -- maybe more like 600, not upwards of 800 -- although maybe I'd just end up buying more of other types of titles that I've been staying away from in that case.   OTOH, if we didn't have kids, maybe I'd spend more time (and $$$) doing something else outside and away from the house instead.

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Keeping 'em separate, for the time being.  Running outta space though, so I might have to juggle how I organize things.  I think we have around 650 titles, 80+ of which are BDs.

 Something i just thought of, i dont let my wife keep her movies with mine. She only owns about 50 to my 800 anyway.  How about you guys? Devil Wears Prada wont be sitting next to The Deep, in my collection!  

The few films I have purchased for my wife are intermixed with mine. I cringe every time I see The Devil Wears Prada or How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days on the shelf.

Hahaha...  I don't have too many of those for my wife either, but I have tons (mostly DVDs) for the kids though.   No Devil nor How to Lose here, but I cringe to see Twilight and especially Mamma Mia in there (both for my daughter) -- fortunately, I bought the Mamma Mia BD very cheaply off eBay w/out cover art (probably as a previously-viewed-rental copy or something), so I don't actually see the title on the spine when it's in the shelf.

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As a brief aside, I rented Twilight last weekend from Blockbuster, not knowing anything about the film. Reading the description made it sound like a typical vampire movie, and I was trying to be Halloween themed. My wife and I made it through about 20 minutes before turning it off and watching John Carpenter's -- The Thing.

My wife actually knew more about the film than I did. She said she was surprised I would rent it.

I definitely segregate my SD-DVDs from my BRs as I'm slowly working on upgrading the worthy titles to BR.  I also don't wanna have to dig through SD-DVDs when looking for a killer demo when someone's over the house!

I have started giving away my DVD's to friends once I have upgraded that DVD film to the same film on Blu-Ray

the exchange shops here in London give such poor rates for trading in DVD's that I would rather give an awesome film to a friend, than make a tiny amount back

I usually do the same (I do keep some DVDs for work or kid purposes, however).  

I have a couple of thousand DVD's and Blu-rays.  Just to keep some kind of order they are alphabetical mixed together.  Except collections which have their own place of importance by star or subject.  Once a month I have to purge the DVD's that I upgraded and file the Blu-rays, if not it gets messy.  At first it was not going to be that many, I thought.  But it has turned out more than expected.  Every time RAH gives a great Blu-ray recommendation, I feel have to follow it. 

 

Years ago with laserdics, I built my own Access database, before the advent of DVD Profiler and others.  I have looked into those programs, but keep staying with mine since it would be a monster project to transfer over. 

Great thread!  I wasn't here for its first run so I'm delighted to jump in now. 

 

Allen's post, above, describes my own situation practically word for word.

 

For years I'd intended to create a customized database for my LP collection which, at its peak, numbered several thousand albums.  Those are much more under control now, at maybe one to two thousand (?), and I'm still thinning the herd.  Sadly, I never quite got off my ass -- or should I say on it, in front of a good software program -- to turn that database cream into reality.  However, when I saw movies starting to take over my life, I sat down and entered the most important (for me) elements into an Excel spreadsheet, which I've kept current, and I have considered learning enough Access to create a proper database and porting it over.  As of now I have some 2,200 Excel rows, each row being one film or TV title in the collection which encompasses LDs, DVDs, BDs, and still a few VHS tapes.

 

I'm as certifiably insane as any of you when it comes to the nuts and bolts of organizing stuff like this, but I've also learned that even for one person there's no single right way to do things.  Basically, my DVDs and BLUs are combined aphabetically, but there are some groupings in which I'd prefer to have them set up.  And though I'm current with the "data entry", I'm woefully behind on updating the arrangement on the shelves.  I'll more to say about all this later.

 

I am in the same boat when it comes to DVD to Blu-ray upgrades.  I thought it was going to just be a few, but its turning out to be almost all of them with only a handful of exceptions like the Black Hawk Down or Pearl Harbor DVD deluxe sets.  For "family friendly" titles I'm buying dual disc Blu-ray cases and combining the DVD and Blu-rays into one case. 

 

Despite all this I can't get myself to combine DVD and Blu-ray together in my collection with the exception of TV titles.  I have a finite amount of room and have been purging duplicates and DVDs that I just don't watch, but I need to do another purge badly, or move all the family films out to the kids playroom. 
 

 

At this point, especially w/ recent trends in pricing, I'm finding myself upgrading most titles I care about to BD at some point or other (unless the BD release doesn't offer any significant improvement in quality).  And since shelf spacing is limited (for each media storage cabinet I have), I've basically ended up keeping the DVDs separate from the BDs.  At this point, according to DVD Profiler, my BD collection has broken the 700 titles mark and easily exceed the remainder of my gradually dwindling DVD collection -- and some of them are multi-disc sets that take up extra space while some are UK imports w/ the thicker cases (similar to Criterion cases in thickness, and of course, I have some of those as well) -- so they easily take up 2 of the small-ish Mission-style storage cabinets I've been switching to since I went Blu.

 

In DVD Profiler, I continue to keep the BDs and DVDs organized based on collection number -- I have them sorted separately in terms of collection number, numbering the BDs below 1000 and DVDs starting from 1001, using the reassign function whenever I add/remove titles.  This way I can keep them mixed for most purposes while having an easy well to separate them apart when needed (or to easily identify the format based on collection number).

 

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Ours are now mixed.

We have two main sorting orders, either by director, or genre. We used to separate the BDs from the SD DVDs, but we were burglarized when they were separated, and along with the PS3, they stole only the BDs. The only BDs that didn't get stolen were a couple that were mixed in with the SD DVDs.

I went to our local Blockbuster last weekend for the first time in a few months, and they have now mixed the SD-DVD's and BD's in their "new release" shelves along the outer walls. I actually preferred when they were separated, as it reduced the area I had to walk in order to find something to rent.

Of course, this is coming from a person who has mixed his DVD's and BD's at home all along.

 

 

Guess I should add that I may end up combining them together -- well, at least the remaining DVDs I still care about -- after my upcoming anticipated move since I will likely have a dedicated room w/ more wall space to handle more shelving space to keep everything together.  Will have to wait and see on that...

 

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I have about 1000 movies and 200 TV shows on SD DVD that are stored in wall units I built.. The movies are alphabetical withn genre and the TV shows by year they were first aired. Since adding a bluray player almost two years ago I have picked up around 120 bluray disks. Mostly upgrades and some new content.

I just can't see keeping them separate, especially as the bluray section grows, so mine are all mixed. Now I use to try and trade in the SD DVDs that have been replaced, but most just aren't worth enough. So I've gone the route of putting most of the replaced SD content into paper sleeves and storing them in the respective bluray cases where a liner or guide might go. This appraoch allows me to save space while keeping the SD disk for better portability.

Mixed in. Everything is my genre only. Tv stuff is separate from films.

Mine are separate and alphabetized. I have already purged about 700 DVDs only have 20-30 left not counting the kids titles which are also separate. I have slowly been growing my blurays but trying to use streaming for older titles. Some how I have 300 or so already but they use a lot less space.

My DVDs and BD's are inter-mingled. Movies are arranged alphabetically, as are TV titles, then music, and  then special interest and demo discs. The main exceptions to that rule are cross-overs, like Star Trek, Stargate,  Firefly/Serenity, etc, which are filed under TV.

I mix all of my titles regardess of its DVD or Blu status. I first organize by director (alphabetical by last name), then by year (oldest to newest) for "miscellaneous" titles, then "original & remake" (if I own both versions of a movie), and finally films that are part of a series (oldest franchise to newest). Particularly bulky boxed sets got on their own shelf, as do seasons of TV shows and animated films/TV shows. I prefer to have all of my films by, say, Brian De Palma all in their own section for easy access. Whenever I upgrade to Blu, I try to sell off the old DVD, unless it contains extra features exclusive to the release (like that 3-disc Black Hawk Down set). Otherwise, as soon as I hear about a forthcoming Blu, I put the DVD in a "to sell" pile.

Mixing -- you have got to be kidding!

Firstly, I have an analog collection (vhs, laserdisc) and digital (dvd, bluray), each in separate rooms -- then my dvd collection is divided into feature films, tv series, music/concerts, what I call 'living history' -- documentaries on world events, sports and a section set aside for er, slightly racier fare.

Then -- the feature film collection is divided into movies from studios (Fox, Warners, Universal, Paramount, MGM, Sony etc) in date order (movies from 1910-30, 30s, 40s etc) -- also all the 'indie' movies (from public domain, z-grade guilty pleasure crap, stuff straight from the $2 shop, hundreds of good but mainly bad movies, curiously interesting for one reason or other) -- these movies are set aside on shelves in the back of wardrobes and cupboards.

One section is an entity unto itself -- the work of the classic comedians: Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy, the 3 Stooges, Abbott and Costello (theatrical features only, I have their tv work is in the tv series section), the Marx Brothers, Jerry Lewis (with and without Dino) -- when I'm feeling down, I usually make a beeline for this section.

I try to mix in the special edition box sets with the rest of the dvds in their date order--these movies were landmarks and certainly stand as landmarks in this collection (especially with the size of those boxes)

I've only swiched to bluray in the last year or so since player prices have been going down and will only buy movies that are favorites of mine, period -- anything else, I'll only get cheap and only on dvd. I have the blurays in a separate bookcase, the dvd versions of the same movie have been put out of view, but like the laserdiscs, kept for future reference.

Seperate for me. about 400 HD/Blu and about 600 Standard DVD's. Alphabetized...debating whether or not to go genre first, and then alphabetical.

95% of the Standard DVD's I have are classic movies as opposed to modern movies. My definition of classic are those films prior to 1970, and modern films are 1980 and beyond. For the 70's decade, usually the actors determine if it goes with my modern films or classic films. So a 70's films with Steve Mcqueen would be classic, but 70's films with Deniro or Pacino would go Modern. Make sense? Of course it doesn't!!

So I have a small shelf with an ever shrinking collection of Modern Standard DVD's. Bonds yet to be released, Star wars OT versions and fan edits are members of the 5% club. Hopefully will be able to upgrade all of my modern movies to Blu eventually, but I know there will be some that will never make it, for example Michael Keaton films I enjoy, "Night Shift", "The Last Time" and "Clean and Sober" most likely will never see Blu. In fact I had to import "Clean and Sober" from Australia to get a widesreen copy! Not sure If I'll ever mix with the classic films, Brosnan and Keaton next to Cagney and Bogart just doesn't seem right...
Edited by jra166 - 9/20/11 at 1:46am

I feel your pain. I have enough shelving space for 200 Blu-rays and that is about where I am at. DVDs have been banished to boxes in a storage closet, with the exception of a few frequently-watched titles.

 

Regarding organization, I've not separated my Blu-rays alphabetically or by genre. Not sure why, but I can usually find a title faster as-is than going through an alpha search. If my collection were to get bigger, I'd make a change. I do tend to keep packaging types together (i.e. digibooks, sleeves, etc.). That tends to look better on the shelf and helps keep a harmonious marriage as well   

 

Segregation all the way baby!


* Of media discs I mean, not you know the bad kind.