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| Registered: March 29, 2007 |  Posts: 410 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Jericko1: Quote:
How do you organize your video collection? Do you put them in sections? What Knd of Shelves do you use. Post pictures if you can and are willing to. I am looking for ideas because my collection a new form of need organization. I have no system at all  put it on the shelf and when it full I add i new shelf or cabinet  |
| | Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | Once there was organization (alphabetical by title, unless otherwise noted):
- General Movies on two wire DVD racks & 4 brown wooden shelves in living room + 1 in hall
- Blu-rays in cubby of headboard in my bedroom
- Animation on shelf in hallway
- Documentaries on shelf in hallway
- Star Trek sets & movies on shelf in my bedroom, in order by series
- Box Sets on shelf in my bedroom
- Criterion Collection on shelf in hallway
- Midnite Movies in dresser drawer
- Anime on black wooden shelf in living room
- Hentai on shelf in living room near fish tank
- Music on top of the entertainment center, behind The Lord of the Rings
but now we have this to contend with ...
OVERFLOW! - no order at all!
- Criterion Collection stacked on top of computer
- Box Sets in closed cabinet space with VHS in entertainment center
- Box Sets in dresser drawers in my bedroom, some mixing with the Midnite Movies
- General Movies & Animation in plastic bins in my bedroom, mixed
- General Movies in plastic bins beside couch
- More General Movies & Animation stacked in closet, mixed
- More General Movies & Documentaries stacked on shelf with printer
- Anime in plastic bins in my bedroom, no order but separated from General movies
I NEED A BIGGER HOUSE!!!
Right now the plan is that I'm reworking a bookshelf in my bedroom, where I'm going to move the Criterion all together. Then I'm going to put something on that shelf in the hall. Don't know what yet. Anime is all coming off of the black shelf in the living room and general movies are going to go there. After that I'm not sure where I'm going. I might have to resort to putting a shelf in the bathroom... | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| | Registered: October 19, 2008 | | Posts: 409 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting themoviemaster: Quote:
Haven't found many movie enthusiasts in the RI area, most people I run into claim to have a "huge" collection, which to them is only about 500 or so....rookies. and true move fanatics don't measure their screen size in inches, we measure in feet. still touching up the basement here and there, never gonna be done with that. working on finishing the den at the moment than moving back into the basement for round 46. how's your room moving along? any ideas I can shoot your way? I have a 1956 popcorn machine, still works, that I may be willing to part with, no more room for that kind of stuff, and would like to part with it to another movie fanatic, will take a reasonable offer, or you can pay me with DVD's....
Dave. Yeah there really are not that many people that are into movies in Rhode Island. My set up is under constuction. I might be intrested in the popcorn machine. I very rarely find anyone else who have more than 100 movies. |
| | Registered: October 19, 2008 | | Posts: 409 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ralliart: Quote:
Quoting Jericko1:
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How do you organize your video collection? Do you put them in sections? What Knd of Shelves do you use. Post pictures if you can and are willing to. I am looking for ideas because my collection a new form of need organization.
I have no system at all put it on the shelf and when it full I add i new shelf or cabinet Sound a little like me. |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,741 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've got a few shelves for TV shows which I summarize by pseudo genres (e.g. "the 80s", "everything in relation to law, ...) if they aren't enough to warrant their own space. Then I have the shows that warrant their own space because they have enough seasons. On the movie shelves I have more classical genres (e.g. Fantasy, RomCom, ...). Within each genre the movies are sorted alphabetically. Pictures | | | Karsten
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 681 |
| | Posted: | | | | On shelves from floor to ceiling, 2/5 units are with glass doors. First I divide the collection to DVDs and Blu-rays and then both of them to keep cases and other case types. After that I divide all these sub-collections by first letter of the original title and put them. I don't order the strictly alphabetically - i just put titles beginning with A... first, titles beginning with B... next etc... I order all the titles, within that initial letter of title, approx. by colour of spine: {A} black spines....white spines {B} white spines....black spines {C} black spines...white spines..... The other coloured spines are placed in between the white and black ones, where they visually fit the best The reason for all this is that strict alphabetical order looks really "restless" and fragmented on the shelves. This way it looks better and you don't have to place every release in any exact spot in order to maintain the order, but I still find the movie I want easily because they are ordered by first letter anyway. edit: Fox Film Noir collection, despite being in keep cases, is stored together separately, with box sets. | | | Mika
I hate people who love me, and they hate me. (Bender Bending Rodriguez) | | | | Last edited: by Draxen |
| | Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,945 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, I have my collection on shelves in my living and sleeping room  Organized the following: Blu-Ray: Alphabetically HD-DVD: Alphabetically DVD: TV Series: Alphabetically DVD: All DVDs in special packaging: Alphabetically DVD: All DVDS with a slipcase: Alphabetically DVD: Animation: Alphabetically DVD: All the rest: Alphabetically If I got the time I make some pictures this weekend cheers Donnie | | | | www.tvmaze.com |
| | Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,737 |
| | Posted: | | | | I built shelves of my own design that are free standing, with an anchor bolt at the top and tipped ever so slightly backward with a 1" piece of lath on the back side. The shelves do not have any braces that impede the cases sliding from one end of the shelf to the other. The shelves are approximately 5-3/4" deep and 9-3/4" high. I'm not at home right now to measure them. To give you an idea, the Harry Potter Blu-ray trunk (years 1-5) fits with about 1/4" at the top and just to the front edge of the shelf. The units are 10, 8' shelves and 10, 5' shelves which are almost full, I have the material to build another 10, 10' shelves when I need them. They can be disassembled for transport if need be.
I made yellow genre dividers that stick out about 1" with a few special genres of my own, such as James Bond, Christmas, Special Interest/TV and Animation/Family, the latter being at eye level for the grandkids. The genres are alphabetical except for James Bond which is first and horror 2nd, which keeps the horror section way above my grandchildren's heads. Inside each genre the movies are alphabetical. At present, my Blu-rays are last and with just shy of 200, they are all alphabetical. The only Blu-rays that are not with the rest are James Bond...in case you can't tell, I like James Bond. When this becomes to large to quickly look through, I haven't decided what to do. I will probably put them in their respective genres with the DVDs or make a new set of genre dividers for them. | | | | Marty - Registered July 10, 2004, User since 2002. |
| | Registered: May 1, 2008 |  Posts: 503 |
| | Posted: | | | | Movies:Alphabetical by Title TV:Separate to Movies - also Alphabetical by Title Animation (including animated TV):Separate again - also Alphabetical by Tiitle Music:Separate again - also Alphabetical by Title VHS:I only have two now; one music and one TV so these are included within the respective sections. My DVD movies are stored on 2 7' high oak shelving units with enough room to store roughly 50 DVDs per shelf. I have them doubled up to conserve space, so there are 100 DVDs per shelf at present, as the depth is almost a perfect back-to-back double DVD fit.  I have room for about 50 more on those before I have to think up a different storage solution... My TV, Animation, Music, and VHS are all in a smaller glass fronted cabinet in the same room. My wife's vast Disney DVD collection along with her TV and Music DVDs (which I don't profile) also fits in there. At the moment, her movies (which I also don't profile) are sorted with mine alphabetically; I may decide to move them into this cabinet eventually. I have another (at the moment empty) glass fronted cabinet available, which I may have to use as an 'overspill' cabinet for my movies. | | | DVD
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | Several separate collections are together:
1) Disney Animated (arranged chronologically)
2) Criterion Collection (by spine no.)
3) Silents (no particular order)
4) TV series (no particular order)
5) HD DVD/Blu-ray (no particular order, though they're getting to the point of needing to be alphabetized)
Everything else is separated into watched and unwatched. Watched is on shelves alphabetically; unwatched is in piles by initial letter of title (e.g. Harry Potter movies in the 'H' pile). | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
| | Registered: June 2, 2008 | | Posts: 39 |
| | Posted: | | | | I organize mine first by 1) movies and 2) TV series
Then I orgaize my movies by genre and subgenre (subgenre is like Spaghetti Westerns, Euro Crime, Giallo, etc) | | | | Never judge a movie by its sequel or remake |
| | Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | None at all  All my movie are place randomly in my wall shelves, but I know exactly where a dvd is when I want it. The only semblance of organization that my collection had is that my harcore dvd aren't with the others, because of my young nephews... |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 360 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am in Rhode Island and to date I am just under 2000 movies in my collection and my screen is close to 9 feet diagonal. There are more of us Rhodies than you think that have the disease. Quoting Jericko1: Quote:
Quoting themoviemaster:
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Haven't found many movie enthusiasts in the RI area, most people I run into claim to have a "huge" collection, which to them is only about 500 or so....rookies. and true move fanatics don't measure their screen size in inches, we measure in feet. still touching up the basement here and there, never gonna be done with that. working on finishing the den at the moment than moving back into the basement for round 46. how's your room moving along? any ideas I can shoot your way? I have a 1956 popcorn machine, still works, that I may be willing to part with, no more room for that kind of stuff, and would like to part with it to another movie fanatic, will take a reasonable offer, or you can pay me with DVD's....
Dave.
Yeah there really are not that many people that are into movies in Rhode Island. My set up is under constuction. I might be intrested in the popcorn machine. I very rarely find anyone else who have more than 100 movies. | | | | Last edited: by Bill MacNeill |
| | Registered: October 19, 2008 | | Posts: 409 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Bill MacNeill: Quote:
I am in Rhode Island and to date I am just under 2000 movies in my collection and my screen is close to 9 feet diagonal. There are more of us Rhodies than you think that have the disease.
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Quoting themoviemaster:
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Haven't found many movie enthusiasts in the RI area, most people I run into claim to have a "huge" collection, which to them is only about 500 or so....rookies. and true move fanatics don't measure their screen size in inches, we measure in feet. still touching up the basement here and there, never gonna be done with that. working on finishing the den at the moment than moving back into the basement for round 46. how's your room moving along? any ideas I can shoot your way? I have a 1956 popcorn machine, still works, that I may be willing to part with, no more room for that kind of stuff, and would like to part with it to another movie fanatic, will take a reasonable offer, or you can pay me with DVD's....
Dave. Thank God, I am not alone
Yeah there really are not that many people that are into movies in Rhode Island. My set up is under constuction. I might be intrested in the popcorn machine. I very rarely find anyone else who have more than 100 movies. Tha |
| | Registered: October 19, 2008 | | Posts: 409 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thank God I am glad I am not alone |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 360 |
| | Posted: | | | | First post is my theatre room. I am in Johnston. Click here to see my collection is stored in my basement. It is about half way down. Quoting Jericko1: Quote:
Thank God I am glad I am not alone | | | | Last edited: by Bill MacNeill |
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