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Space. I have upwards of 3000 blu rays at least, and ran into the same issue. I’m a Plex guy and have all of my films on my hard drive NAS. I decided to just bite the bullet and buy aluminum blu ray disc storage cases that hold upwards of 800-1000 discs and put the sleeve, inserts, and discs in Discsox high def blu ray sleeves and just boxed up the blu rays cases. The only issue there is the Discsox sleeves are cheap, but if you truly love the hobby it is what it is. Now I have condensed all my blu rays in close to 3 large aluminum storage case boxes with all my movies, stacked up on each other. Now I’m kinda glad I did it. Some people don’t like that, but Plexing and streaming my flicks is more important to me in this stage than displaying the collection. The only ones on display now are boxed sets and collectors editions of my favorite titles.
I keep my blurays in cases and I use my DVD slipcovers as "file folders"; I put them together in boxes like filing cabinet drawers for those movies I don't keep on the shelves, which are reserved for movies I think visitors are more likely to want to borrow or take as a gift or choose for a movie party. It's working so far. I have about 450 movies and probably won't buy that many more.
VHS did take up a lot of space, DVD less so and blurays (4K) not so bad. I agree they do take up a little too much space. Books are a lot worse though. Builders should make home specifically for physical media collectors, I mean who needs an ensuite etc (that are always mentioned in house hunt programmes), rooms specially designed to store blu-rays etc should be built. I would be happy if an old library or something came on the market, no need to convert it.
I feel for you with all the moves and having to move back in with the folks for a while. Back in 2000, I had a work accident that proved to be a permanent disability. Unfortunately, the place I had at the time was an upper stack (which means the living room, kitchen and dining room are on the second floor and the bedrooms and bathroom are on the third floor. Luckily my parents had a ranch style house so I had to move back with them for a few months waiting for a ground floor apartment to become available. But because I was in a wheelchair at the time, I had to rely on family and friends to do everything. Nothing beats one’s self worth more than watching everyone move your stuff, while you, a grown ass adult, sit by and direct where to place boxes based on what someone else labeled the box as. This resulted in a hunt as the labeling wasn’t the greatest. And because of my physical limitations, it meant I lived out of cardboard boxes for months until I had recovered well enough that I could move or push boxes and things around. The worst part was trying to put my physical media collection back together as my DVDs/books, etc. ended up being thrown wherever they fit. I hope I never have to go through this again. I was also lucky enough that the move was within the same complex I moved into back in ‘96. The next move I plan is when I’m carried out on a stretcher. Good luck with your upcoming move and hunt!
The worst part of collecting physical media, is our community of hateful individuals. I feel bad for all the newbies. Yea it gets annoying hearing Disney Black Diamond. I just keep on keeping on and go about my life. I hate to even identify with this mature, friendly family we have. That’s the worst part for me now. I’m good being lost in my media with little room to move. Hopefully I lose my phone in it soon so I don’t accidentally read anymore childish, crude comments 😂 Watch, give it an hour max and it will be all over for me lmao
My landlord just sold the apartment building i live in.its supposed to stay a apt building on the good side.maybe you should get a apt instead of house.
I never fell for streaming services. I have over 6,500 movies, over 1,600 TV series. I don't get the lure of physical media. If you have a decent collection, you need to devote a room to it, there is dusting, inventorying, etc. If you ever have a fire, flood, etc., you are screwed. If you are comfy in bed, you have to get up eject what you are watching, go into whatever room has your media, find what you want to watch, put the old one back, return to your room, put the new one in and crawl back into bed. Nope, not me, I can switch between any movie, TV series, music track, gaming console emulator or even RU-vid without leaving my comfy bed. I backup my media server onto 2.5" external drives. I can literally hold my collection in the palm of my hands. I am sorry, I don't see any benefits to physical media or streaming, only negatives compared to media on hard drives.
@@kai-lele3328 I don't think any single individual pirate has been charged in forever, unless they try and profit off the stuff they download. We've known forever record labels have been screwing their artists, so we aren't really impacting them, contrary to popular belief. I mean how bad is piracy hurting Taylor Swift? Just recently it was revealed during the actor and writer strikes how badly the actors and writers were being screwed by the industry and specifically the streaming sites. I still have a tier 1 cable package, I just choose to download rather than watch broadcast, so I am technically paying for the TV shows I watch. Over the decades I have sunk 10 of thousands of dollars into the movie industry, so I paid my dues more so than the average bear. I sleep well at night.
I think that people like me who see the prices on these boutique labels are just used to the cheap prices of the older, commonly available used disks for a while.
I only collect to watch at some point. My more premium and favourite blurays stay in their cases. But all dvds and other blurays go into sleeves which you can fit the disc and the cover into. Living in a small house with a wife who doesn't share my passion for physical media, it allows me to collect so much more!
So many great shows from the early to mid 90's on Fox.....Booker, Class of '96, The Heights, Significant Others...none of which lasted more than a season. The old version of Mill Creek released Booker on dvd in envelopes!
Worst part for me is the prices some of these companies are getting the balls to charge. I really love how Cauldron and Severin love to charge 50+ for basic b@%&h releases. That is what got me to step away from most of it.
Sorry dude, that's just bad luck when it comes to renting. This makes me glad that I live on one of my parent's properties (that I will one day inherit). Hopefully you can get a place that you won't have to move out of soon.
They couldn't tell you personally? Sheesh 😒 I also moved back into my family's house in 2020, but I'm still here. At least you got out for a few years ✌️
yeah moving is tough. I've moved a bunch of times and it's such a hassle moving everything we collect. I just got my new movie room about 2 years ago and now I gotta move it out to storage when my daughter needs her own room! pricing is way too much that I cant afford a three bedroom apartment.
I worked at a Hollywood Video when this came out. All of us loved it. We knew that the "new" actors were going to be great in the future. The whole "Vealchop. Pleased to meet you" seen was quoted with our friends for years!
That's rental life and it sucks, if you can, put a down payment on a property. You'll probably pay less monthly with a mortgage than you would in rent.
This is definitely one of the better videos I've seen on this topic. Whilst physical media is obviously not the dominant way in which people consume movies, music and video games anymore, its far from dead and there are more than enough people out there buying it to make it a viable business. As someone who collects CDs I've never had a problem getting hold of any albums I want, and I have still managed to get the vast majority of games on PS4 and Switch that I want to on physical format. As for TV shows and movies, there is a lot of stuff that isn't on streaming services (or not on any I'm subscribed to) that I've brought on DVD without any difficulty either. It may not be mainstream or readily available in supermarkets to pick up alongside your weekly grocery shopping anymore, but its not exactly hard to find online either.
