Owning movies at home...

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Your are a very lucky man. More power to you.... Hey, you don't even have to buy the new additions either

Library books are available to everyone. No one ever needs to spend money on any editions. Remember, the books themselves are unimportant. It's the ideas inside that are important.

I voted huge collection for collecting only. It wasn't supposed to be that way, I planned to watch them all over and over, but rarely do.

Between VHS, laser discs, and DVD's, I must have 200-300 movies.

Now I rent from Netflix.

I started buying DVDs in Feb 2000, two years later I had over 150 titles. Then I discovered the joys of downloading....
My main server at home has nearly 3TB of online storage with another couple of TBs scattered across the network and in offline storage, at a rough reckoning I've got about 12,000 hours of movies and TV shows.
My p2p client (Azureus with an RSS plugin) automatically downloads the TV shows and movies I'm interested in and even catalogues them. I watch them through my PVR running MythTV which also records any transmitted programming it thinks I might be interested in, it also scans the library when new additions are made and categorises them based on info it pulls from the IMDB.

This may seem slightly obsessive but in my defence I'll say I'm a broadcast engineer at the BBC so it kinda goes with the job description

Man, those are some stories AND collections!

The movies I own are mostly because I really enjoyed the technical aspects of the directing and acting.
This is why I find so many Indie movies enjoyable... much more than the hollywood types.

The foreign films are mainly about story and the actors themselves. To me, there's an excitement similar to visiting another country or speaking in depth with someone from another country/culture and listening to their stories.

Here's some of my foreign collection both Ficitional and Documentary:

VHS
-BARAN (an Iranian story)
- Secret Ballot (another Iranian Story)
-Rabbit Proof Fence (Australian)
-Following (British) by Christopher Nolan who also directed Memento (which I have now on VHS & DVD)

DVD
-Children Underground (Romanian Documentary)
-Bus 174 (Brazilian Documentary)
-Ma Vie En Rose (Belgian)
-Nobody Knows (Japanese - based on a true story)
-Marooned in Iraq (Iranian)
-Le Grande Bleu (French)
-Monty Python's Holy Grail (uh.. British, of course!)

there's many others I want to get someday.

I can watch these movies over and over again.

The problem I have with quite a few rental and library DVD's is that people do not seem to take care of them.
They get all scratched and won't play on my laptop.
Someday I'll get a television again and hook up my DVD player, but I still had a problem with that even when I did have it working.

It just bugs me how careless people are with discs.

That's why I like to own the movies I really like.

As far as pirating... I have a few instructional movies I copied from the library and some I owned on VHS and transferred to DVD then later got rid of the VHS, but that's it.
One of my sisters though... she and her husband along with a neighbor used to copy movies, download on Napster before the legal battles, and they have amassed quite a collection.

I used to collect a lot of VHS tapes, and still have some. But as far as DVDs, I never felt the need. And with Netflix and my DVR I don't have to collect them.

yeah, i buy a lot of dvd's (ive got about 150 now and still climbing) but they have to be a great deal, or they have to have great special features. netflix has really only allowed me to view more dvd's hasnt really stopped me from buying them. i usually dont blind buy though unless its like a 5 dollar dvd and i know its good.

I have maybe 70-80 dvds. Probably more, but it's been a while since I counted. I watch them over and over again. I mean enough to annoy my mom who doesn't understand how someone can watch one movie so many times. I always buy a movie based upon how many times I can watch it in a row without getting tired of it.

MrMark,

There must be something you collect....

What is your special interest?

I'm more obsessed about empty spaces. Right now I'm living in 450 sq ft, so I don't have room for anything I don't need. My life is more about not having.

I think people are possessed by their possessions. I think it's better to seek to have access to things than to seek to have possession of things.

I buy occasionally.

I have stuff organized on Amazon into

Books
movies
music
Video games
and Misc.

Misc being all the ninja gear that I will be buying one day, and all the tactical stuff as well, such as armor.

After christmas, I'm going on a small spree. A book and DVD or a book and music, or Music and Dvd or etc, etc. saving my money for before, so I can make sure i Have enough.

Trying to get my hands on Ah My Goddess the first season and few Tenchi Muyo stuff.

Ditto.



I'm sorta the opposite. I consciously drown myself in materialism. But I never do so at people's expense, and I do use what access I have to get things.

exactly, i buy these dvds so i can watch them whenever i please and not have to wait around to download them or get them through netflix. dvd's are really the only material possessions i own that are considered non essential items.

whenever someone would ask me a question like "what would you do if you won the lottery?" my answer would never be something like "i would buy a sweet car, a big tv and a mansion!!" because i really don't care about those things. i'd probably go out and see the world.

I thought that some of you might enjoy the Ant-Piracy ad from The IT Crowd

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I like having certain books, DVDs and CDs around so that I can just dip into them as needed. I take a profound pleasure in being able to have so many worlds and ideas within reach. It is comforting and inspiring. If I had to go down to the library or DVD shop or even download stuff I'd never do anything - I'd either forget what it was I was after, or couldn't be bothered or couldn't get organised to get the stuff, and would miss the opportunity.

Often I use access to books, movies, music etc to calm down or take time out. By the time I recognise the need for this kind of intervention there usually isn't much time or energy available to put things in place. For this reason I usually take a book wherever I go and make sure I have certain CDs in the car.

I mostly buy movies I've already seen and liked so much that I'd watch them again. It's rare I buy a movie or series I haven't seen, but I've done so. On a whim I spent over $150 for the Secret Agent aka Danger Man Megaset. It's a good show, but I regret spending so much on it.

I have 145 DVD movies/series and 30 VHS movies.