DVD Collections

Just for the hell of it... everyone list your collection of dvds.

You can check my collection out here. List isn't done yet though, 'cause I only ever add to it at work... so it's all basically from memory.

OMG, Grant... I knew that you had a TON of dvds, but that's insane!

And, you said that it's not all of them.

So, if you had to guess, what is the number of dvds that you own?

I honestly have no idea. They're not even together in one place... there're cupboards upstairs and drawers in the bedroom and shelves in the lounge room... I'd like some shelves dedicated to these, but what can I do?

Also, in my defense, I bought a lot of them cheap or second hand (ex-video shop rentals and that kind of jazz).

That's what we do. A lot of times we will purchase previously viewed dvd's from Blockbuster. They have some great deals... 3 or 4 dvd's for $20.

Shan just bought 3 for $20 today:

Superman Returns
The Da Vinci Code
Stick It

I like that... you can get great movies, they've just been viewed... used as their rentals. They are still in great condition.

Yeah, we usually go to Blockbusters too. Lately we don't even bother renting most of the movies we want to see, we just wait for the ex-rentals to go down in price a bit and grab them then.


I've noticed recently a lot of TV show DVD set prices have gone down. I hope this is a sign of things to come, there's so many shows I want to see.

I've noticed that too, and I like it. Though, I don't know how often I would watch them.

True, but I'd seriously buy a lot more shows if the prices were good. A DVD costs a producer only a few cents, and the packing isn't much more. You've got the graphic designing and all that stuff to deal with, and the little production costs, but after all that, they're still making a fortune on top of it for these shows, and there's really no need for it. DVDs and CDs seem to be going down in price, though, so I think they've realized the way to solve the sales slump isn't by getting the FBI to arrest people...

I would purchase a lot more shows too, if I found them for decent prices.

The one show that I really want to get:
All seasons of 21 Jump Street


And you're right... it doesn't cost them much to make the dvds. So, they are making a KILLING on them. It's amazing, if you really stop and think about it.

Hahaha 21 Jump Street. Me too! If it was a good price, I'd get it... but right now, there's no way I'd spend that much.

It's only like $25 for the season. That's not much, at all.

I was gonna say Lawless had a ton of DVD's, gabo has muy mucho.

I have about 30 or so. The ones I can think of- Die Hard trilogy, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Bachelor Party, Old School, X2, Swingers, Pirates of the Caribbean, DS9 season 6 & 7 (Chinese bootleg from ebay), Simpsons season 3 & 4, Friends (best of), Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, Robot Chicken season 1, Superman 2: The Richard Donner Cut, Made, Star Wars Holy Trilogy,

I want to buy so many more, like all my favorites... but with HD-DVD and Blu Ray gaining steam I don't want to lay the coin. I saw the DVD revolution coming in 1996 while working at a Blockbuster and no one believed me. Same thing with the HD-DVD/Blu Ray now. The writing is on the wall. They're going to consolodate the technology and one will go the way of Beta and then their next generation players won't accept regular DVD's. Give it about 5 years. That's why DVD players are like $30 at Target now.

-HECK!

HECK! wrote:

DS9 season 6 & 7 (Chinese bootleg from ebay)

How much did you pay for those? Some of my DVDs are from China, but the boxes and quality are nice, so I don't give much of a toss. I heard they tend to overcharge the yanks, though.

We have season one of Queer As Folk from China. Great quality, and much cheaper.

Hmm, didn't think the Chinese DVDs were actually that popular world-wide. I'm sure the DVD distributors are doing everything they can do stop them from being produced/sold... but seriously? If someone can produce the DVD sets at that price, and you can't, then fuck ya.

Well, sometimes you can get imports on certain things, and for MUCH better prices. Depends where you look.

gaboman wrote:

HECK! wrote:

DS9 season 6 & 7 (Chinese bootleg from ebay)

How much did you pay for those? Some of my DVDs are from China, but the boxes and quality are nice, so I don't give much of a toss. I heard they tend to overcharge the yanks, though.

I ended up winning the bid and with shipping it was like $20 - $25. And that's shipping from China. Saw the weirdo Chinese postage marks and everythign. It was cool. Almost kept the package.

The DVD boxes look cool but the pictures are kind of random. Don't really jive with that season. Overall box quality is great. Inside each DVD just has it's own little sleeve. The quality and menu is awesome. Except on a few I had to turn off the Chinese subtitles. I have no problem with them at all. It was a bitchin' deal and keep meaning to get more.

-HECK!

gaboman wrote:

Hmm, didn't think the Chinese DVDs were actually that popular world-wide. I'm sure the DVD distributors are doing everything they can do stop them from being produced/sold... but seriously? If someone can produce the DVD sets at that price, and you can't, then fuck ya.

I never saw one until I ebay'd it. I will do it again for sure. I figured it was a bootleg, kind of looks like it but I don't know. Maybe that's how they do it.

-HECK!

Yeah, those are the same ones we get. They say they're "official chinese releases" or some shit, but they're really just bootlegged... it's just not illegal over there, I think. $20-25 bucks for 2 seasons is not bad, but the person we buy them from sells them to us for about 80 cents per disc... so, like, we got Entourage (season 1 - 2) for about 7 bucks. That's My Bush cost me about 3 bucks.

I think they said postage to the US is more, and they have to use special shipping folks to avoid customs... but there should be a way to get to know these folks and just buy direct, or bargain the price down with them. That's kinda what the Chinese always expect you to do.

The Chinese subtitles are kind of necessary for us, 'cause the wife likes them... but they're also pretty shit, from what I can see. Half the time they don't make sense, like they shoved the English into babelfish.altavista.com and just put the results there.

There's no way that I'll be able to name them all off the top of my head for two reasons: 1.) I was never really good at memorizing long lists of things, and 2.) I'm too tired right now to give it much effort. I'll just make it easy on myself and list the ones that I can think of at the moment.

Nanny McPhee
Cars
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Finding Neverland
Finding Nemo
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Pirates of The Carribean: The Curse of The Black Pearl
Pirates of The Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
Spidermnan
Spiderman 2
Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Legacy
Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express
Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kind
Star Wars Episode I
Star Wars Episode II
Star Wars Episode III
Clue
Garfield And Friends Volume I
Family Guy: The Untold Story
Family Guy Season One
Family Guy Season Two
Family Guy Season Three
Family Guy Season Four
The Illusionist
Date Movie
Garfield The Movie
BeWitched Season One
Bewitched Season Two
Bewitched Season Three
Bewitched Season Four
Blade
Blade II
Blade: Trinity
Matrix Reloaded
Underworld
XMen III: The Last Stand
Chipmonk Adventure
Drawn Together Season One
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
Pump Up The Volume
Vampire Journals
Vampire Hunter D
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Mr. Destiny
America's Sweethearts
Medicine Man
Cut Throat Island
Sleepy Hollow
Secret Window
The Incredible Hulk
Brother Bear
Brother Bear II
A Nightmare Before Christmas
Corpse Bride
Godzilla (we have so many different Godzilla movies it's not funny)
House On Haunted Hill (Vincent Price)
The Bat (Vincent Price)
Don't Look In The Basement
Killer Shrews
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Edward Scissorhands
The Crow
Narnia
Madagascar
The Village
Visitors
Primal Fear
Matrix Revolutions
Lady In The Water
White Noise
Kingdom of Heaven
Conspiracy Theory
The Dark Crystal
Hidalgo
The Craft
Fantastic 4
Buddy
Willow
Zathura
Shrek
Shrek 2
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Polar Express
Mortal Thoughts
Along Came A Spider
The Abyss
King Arthur
Troy
Paycheck
Dragonslayer
Short Circuit
Peterpan
The Haunted Mansion
The Phantom Of The Opera
The Devil's Own
Eye Of The Beholder
That 70's Show Season 2
That 70's Show Season 4
The Santa Claus 2
The Terminal
Batman Begins
Beverly Hills Cop
The Cat In The Hat
Amnesia
The Pink Panther Returns
Mazes And Monsters
i Robot
Labrynth
Virus
Night Of The Living Dead
Jumanji
A Series Of Unfortunate Events
And I just ordered Dracula Dead And Loving It the other night too so it should be here in the next week or so.

Pulse, that's okay!!! I just have my list all typed up, so that I know what we've got!!! I can't tell you how many times someone has "Borrowed" a dvd, and I've never seen it again. So, I wanted to list what I've got, so that it doesn't happen again!!!

Pretty nice collection by the way.

My roommate made me borrow his Lost season 1 & 2 sets. I don't know if I will watch them.

-HECK!

Well, at least the first two seasons were good!

Don't watch it HECK, you'll feel you wasted a hell of a lot of your time for nothing.