So...are you mixing-in your HD discs with your SD-DVDs? - Page 4

Re: DVD Profiler, the easy (display-only) way to do it is via the Filters function.  Not only does it work for Owned, Ordered, and Wish List, but there's already a Formats tab built in, and if you want to further separate by Genre, there's a tab for that too.  That works well enough for me.  Unfortunately, Invelos has done little to nothing to modernize the web interface with even basic filters.  That would be nice, but not having a lot of web database coding experience, I'm not sure if that's out of laziness or problems with server/bandwidth loads.

As for how I organize, it's Blu-rays on top shelves and DVDs on the bottom shelves in generic bookcase-like media storage.  Special packaging (i.e., Freaks & Geeks Yearbook, Battlestar Galactica Complete Series, etc.) goes on top of the shelving.  As of right now, it's about 55 BD:45 DVD in terms of shelf space, and I'm pretty much out of room.  With the Q4 rush coming--I've got 30 BDs on my pre-order list in September alone--I'm considering giving the BDs their own shelving by moving my DVDs in with my music and games, where there's plenty of space.

I just like keeping the HD stuff separate. 



I haven't used the web version of Profiler, so I really don't know if this method will work.

Mix my BD's with my standards and deprive myself of the vision of all that pretty blue all lined up on my shelf? Pish posh.

What happens to real box sets under this scenario? I did not think that DVD Profiler allowed for nesting of box sets within other box sets.

Scott, you can add box sets to any "category" or "sub-category" without it affecting the real sets.

LDs, SDs, HDDVDs, then BDs.

I put everything alphabetically, with HD-DVD and BD mixed in.

For anyone interested, I found a way to workaround that collection #s issue.  Downloaded and installed the BulkEdit plug-in (thru www.invelos.com/Downloads.aspx), which allows bulk editing of flagged titles.  Used that to clear all the collection #s for my DVDs -- filter down to DVD format only and then flag just them before applying the clear collection #s function that's added by the plug-in.  After that, reassign collection #s for all titles w/ no collection #s (ie. all the DVDs) into the range above 1000 (or more precisely, do not reassign the range below 1001, where my BDs are assigned) ... and voila!

Didn't run into any problems w/ it, and haven't tried any other functions/features added by the plug-in yet.  But if you want to try it, you should be sure to backup your collection database first before doing so (as the plug-in warns).

_Man_

 I switched to a Mac a few months ago. I was going to run Windows on my Mac so i could keep my Profiler. Well, i hate how Windows slowed my Mac. Plus worried what Windows might do to my Mac.

Bottom line, im not using Windows on my Mac, and i miss my Profiler.  :(

Thanks for opening that wound again Man!  :)

Noooooooooooo!!!!

Lucky!
I told my wife i wanted to buy a cheap Windows laptop so i could run my Profiler again.

Only id be so far behind...

Nooooooooooooo!!!!

Rick (and Mike),

Just get one of them netbooks.  Then you can do your profiler stuff anytime, anywhere!  

Actually, I usually end up just doing that stuff on my work machine -- and I'm in front of a computer most of the day.  It's really not bad if you keep up w/ it regularly (and aren't too picky about the details )...

_Man_

You do realize that there is a "sort by" feature under the "collection" menu in DVD Profiler which allows you to sort your collection by media type?  I simply do this with my collection, and all my BD's appear first (in alphabetical order of title), followed by the SD-DVD's.

I have my Blu-Rays sitting in their own space

and 100s of DVD movies jammed in everywhere else, except for DVD TV Box-sets which get their own space to not confuse them with the DVD movies

Personally, I do not need my collection in DVD Profiler to reflect how I have the titles organized on my shelves. I organize titles on the shelves based on genre, which makes it easy for us to browse the collection if we are in the mood for a particular genre. However, if I feel like watching a BD for whatever reason, I can always fire up Profiler and see the BD's listed first. It works for me.

But unfortunately, there is nothing like that for the hosted web presentation version of it, which was a large part of the reason for organizing the collection using collection #s.  On the web side, all you can do is sort by title name or collection #.  Also, organizing the collection #s to reflect media format would make it easier to determine format at a quick glance even when the collection is sorted by some other order (like title name).

If it were easy enough to manipulate collection #s, I might even bother to assign them based on genre too to be more like how I physically arrange them at home.   Actually, maybe I will try that at some point now that I can do more w/ that BulkEdit plug-in -- maybe then, it'll look more like a library of titles w/ well-organized collection #s.

FWIW, part of the reason the web presentation matters to me (and indeed, part of the reason to use any such software at all) is to make it easier for family and friends to browse thru my collection and see what they might wish to borrow.  And using collection #s for this purpose makes a big difference for the extremely limited web presentation -- heck, even I won't feel as much need to fire up the PC app itself, if I'm not planning to update anything.

_Man_

That's where we differ, Man. I decided quite a few years ago that I didn't want to run a video rental endeavor with my private collection. There are only a couple of people that I loan discs to -- people I trust to take care of them and return them promptly.

My problem w/ people not returning movies is w/ close relatives like my brother -- and he doesn't go on the web at all AFAIK.   Ironically(?), people to whom I'd lend movies w/ the aid of the Profiler's web presentation (and who would not visit my home regularly) are actually far more likely to return them at a reasonable pace -- or they would at least not be borrowing a whole lot otherwise.

FWIW, I buy movies not just so I can watch them for myself (in my limited spare time), but so I can also share them w/ others I personally know, whether family or friends.  And in the end, they are really just things anyway that are only as good as they are useful (and entertaining) to us -- even though I do have a fair bit of the enthusiast and collector's mentality that both drive me to treat them as more than just utilitarian items.

And honestly, although I've lost a fair few DVDs over the years (mainly to my brother ), if I consider it some, they really aren't worth all *that* much now anyway.  I can barely sell one for $2-3 in a stoop sale now while replacing it w/ a BD upgrade (or not at all, if I don't really like it enough).  But yeah, I'm gonna be more careful about lending any BDs out though -- well, so far, I don't personally know more than one person who has the gear for BDs anyway (and my brother isn't one of them yet ), but then again, that was the case (for DVD) back in the early days of DVD too...

_Man_

I won't lend a BD to anyone

and I have stopped lending DVD to friends and colleagues because I am fed up with either losing track of what has been lent out (do you end up writing it down?), or waiting weeks or sometimes months for them to get round to watching the movie and returning the disc

like a previous poster mentioned, I also buy movies for my own personal use, and I place a big emphasis on being able to put my hands on any movie in my collection, at any time, if the mood takes me...

nothing worse than going to watch a movie and realising its not there :(

if anyone wants to come round to my house, I am more than happy for them to choose any movie in the collection and watch it with me :)

I've had a couple of discs loaned out to a friend of mine since January.  It kind of upsets me; but I remind myself that his friendship is worth a lot more than a couple of hunks of plastic.

On the other hand, he hasn't asked for any other loaners. 

- Walter.

It's almost a carrot/stick situation.  My circle of friends and family have invested in Blu-ray (thanks to my demonstrating it, even on their equipment) to enough of an extent that it's not usually a concern in terms of lending.  But it's a rare occurrence for me to lend a movie out anyway that I don't see as an issue.

 I lend movies to friends and I've had no issues regarding damaged or lost discs.  It is true they can be lent out for a long time but that is as much my doing as theirs.  I really only have three people to whom I loan movies and I'm careful not to loan something I feel confident I will want to watch within a month's time.  However, I'm more than familiar with loaning other things that come back damaged (or not at all), so I can understand the general reticence.  I guess I've been fortunate with my movie lending so far.

I kept BDs and DVDs separate for as long as space allowed...

This weekend I finally mixed them in.  My films are all alphabetized, and I keep TV shows and exclusive sets separate from the 'pack'.  I need more movie storage! 

I have anywhere from 250 to 350 dvds, and so far about 30 blurays.

I guess it may also depend on how many one owns.  If you own a lot, there's a good chance you won't miss a certain title too much for quite some time (unless it's one of your top favorites).  Heck, I've even accidentally repurchased a title (at whatever great bargain price) on a couple occasions, not realizing I already owned it (but just haven't gotten around to watching it yet) in part because of that.

I know I certainly own waaaay more than I have time to rewatch each year -- although I originally thought I'd restrict myself to owning no more titles than the number of days in a calendar year (and thought again I might try to w/ BDs this time around).

According to my current Profiler's collection, I own somewhere in the low-to-mid-800's in titles w/ ~300 in the Blu format -- well, some of them are really mainly for my kids, but I generally do not include the ones I would never care to watch even once w/out them (like their Veggie Tales collection or a few Barbie titles for instance ).  And before jumping into BD, I probably owned a comparable size collection of titles (that I lost track) only just in the DVD format -- well, I'm not counting my small-ish collection of dust-collecting LDs since ~99% of them have already been replaced (and my player's been long dead, so won't be watching them anyway).

What I own may seem like a whole lot (to most people), but I still can't really fathom owning the far (order of magnitude) larger collections that at least a few longtime HTF regulars own.

_Man_

I have the problem that I want to see the titles I'm lending out, and that's really frustrating. On several occasions I can't figure out what to watch (you think it becomes easier when you're getting more titles, but it's the exact opposite) but when someone wants to borrow a movie, I find out that I want to watch that one. 
But not many people lend titles from me. My family, yes. But we live in the same house, so I can keep an eye on those. For the rest my collection is a mixed bag with region 1 titles people cannot play, titles with no Dutch subs and Blu-rays, so lending them out is already quite limited for most people around.
I think a collection of 800 titles is already pretty big, I have around 400 myself. That's just the fun of this forum, isn't it? 'Well, this person has over 2,000 titles. I don't have that many, so I'm not nearly as addicted as that guy. You see?'
And by the way, my collection number would've been a lot higher if I don't give away most of the dvds I have when I buy the Blu-ray, or the other titles I sold over the years.