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bigdaddy2003

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Nov 27, 2012 10:34 AM
So in the last few days I've been going through my movies and I realized I had a lot of impulse buys. I used to go to Wal Mart and buy 4 or 5 at a time. I've been slowly narrowing my collection down as there are movies I won't watch again or ones that I don't find as amusing as I did 10-15 years ago. How many movies would you say you have?
Nov 27, 2012 10:34am
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Nov 27, 2012 10:36 AM
Between my fiancee and I, I think we have about 20 DVDs. Probably 18 of those are hers originally. I'm just not one to buy movies.
Nov 27, 2012 10:36am
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Nov 27, 2012 10:37 AM
I had a butt load of DVDs that I sold a year or so ago on ebay. I have probably 40 or 50 blu rays that I'll be thinning down soon. I think I'm going to limit myself to 20 and sell the rest.
Nov 27, 2012 10:37am
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ernest_t_bass

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Nov 27, 2012 10:38 AM
Too many. Really, all I care about owning right now are kids movies for my daughters. Not only that, but they can be passed down. My children are watching movies that my wife and I watched as kids, and even some that our parents watched as kids (Snow White, Cinderella, etc.)
Nov 27, 2012 10:38am
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ernest_t_bass

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Nov 27, 2012 10:39 AM
justincredible;1330325 wrote:I had a butt load of DVDs that I sold a year or so ago on ebay. I have probably 40 or 50 blu rays that I'll be thinning down soon. I think I'm going to limit myself to 20 and sell the rest.
Did you sell them in bulk, or each individually? And did you get much for them?
Nov 27, 2012 10:39am
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Nov 27, 2012 10:42 AM
I love movies and I have a few. (no clue how many, but probably not enough to impress people.) I am a sucker for the $5 bin at walmart.
Nov 27, 2012 10:42am
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Nov 27, 2012 10:46 AM
ernest_t_bass;1330329 wrote:Did you sell them in bulk, or each individually? And did you get much for them?
Bulk (except for tv seasons). I honestly don't remember how much I got or how many I sold. I know I didn't get much for them. Less than $1 a piece, I think.
Nov 27, 2012 10:46am
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ernest_t_bass

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Nov 27, 2012 10:48 AM
justincredible;1330341 wrote:Bulk (except for tv seasons). I honestly don't remember how much I got or how many I sold. I know I didn't get much for them. Less than $1 a piece, I think.
I need to sell mine. I know that I have to have a couple that I bought and never watched, nor will I ever watch them.
Nov 27, 2012 10:48am
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Nov 27, 2012 10:50 AM
If you have movies you guys want to sell, you should put them in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum. (I seem to remember someone did that, but I don't remember who)
Nov 27, 2012 10:50am
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Nov 27, 2012 10:51 AM
About 3TB of hard drive space full of movies. But I only watch them at about 5 minutes at a time.
Nov 27, 2012 10:51am
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Nov 27, 2012 10:53 AM
TedSheckler;1330347 wrote:About 3TB of hard drive space full of movies. But I only watch them at about 5 minutes at a time.
LOFL. I just search the internet for something new.
Nov 27, 2012 10:53am
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gut

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Nov 27, 2012 10:54 AM
There are only a handful of movies I will watch multiple times, and usually they pop-up on tv often enough and at just the right time that I'm ready to watch again.

At $20+ to buy a movie, that pays for quite a few rentals. The main problem is usually when I'm in the mood to watch a movie, I want to see something new. Although I thought that's why Netflix would be great so I could occasionally watch a classic when I wanted. Of course, the classics aren't available on-demand (because the studios think, perhaps correctly, they'd lose a ton on sales and rentals).
Nov 27, 2012 10:54am
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Nov 27, 2012 10:56 AM
gut;1330358 wrote:Although I thought that's why Netflix would be great so I could occasionally watch a classic
when I wanted. Of course, the classics aren't available on-demand (because the studios think, perhaps correctly, they'd lose a ton on sales and rentals).
I'm a big fan of red box but they never have the classics I want. (Blockbuster was much better for that but you can't be beat redbox's price.)
Nov 27, 2012 10:56am
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gut

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Nov 27, 2012 11:08 AM
FatHobbit;1330361 wrote:I'm a big fan of red box but they never have the classics I want. (Blockbuster was much better for that but you can't be beat redbox's price.)
The thing that was cool about Blockbuster if you had their monthly membership was you could exchange in-store and had basically until the next movie from your cue arrived. Not sure if that changed or not, but it became a moot point after they started shuttering all the brick-and-mortar stores.

Actually, if I remember correctly it started out with unlimited exchanges in store. Then they knocked it down to maybe 4 a month or 1 a month (and maybe it was different for different subscriptions). It WAS a nice program.

These days I mostly just pay thru the nose renting on demand thru cable when a new release I want to see comes out. I should check out Redbox, but as far as Netflix it doesn't work for me because when I want to watch a new movie, I want it now and just can't plan far enough ahead for Netflix to work for me.
Nov 27, 2012 11:08am
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Nov 27, 2012 11:11 AM
I probably have about 20 or so, but I haven't bought a DVD in over 5 years. Don't see the point, I rarely ever watch them.
Nov 27, 2012 11:11am
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Nov 27, 2012 11:48 AM
Probably about 1,500 downloaded movies, 400 burnt DVD's, and 100 or 150 original DVD's.
Nov 27, 2012 11:48am
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Nov 27, 2012 12:14 PM
I've got around 130 blu rays. Plus a 1tb hard drive full of movies and tv shows.
Nov 27, 2012 12:14pm
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Nov 27, 2012 12:15 PM
We have like 130-150 DVDs....About 30 blu rays.

We were up to about 50 blu rays...I recently went through them, a lot of them were impulse buys when blu ray was new and exciting...I just dumped all of those on ebay for about $5 a piece. I'm going to go through our DVD's and throw a big lot on ebay, only keeping the good stuff (TMNT, Mighty Ducks, Blank Check, Boy Meets World, Magic School Bus set, etc.).

Going forward I'm only buying must-have movies on blu ray (like 2-3 per year), and any kids movies for my daughters...Like I just bought "Brave"...
Nov 27, 2012 12:15pm
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sjmvsfscs08

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Nov 27, 2012 12:37 PM
I have about 2TB of movies and shows. And here I thought I was alone in my desire to store all of the shows/movies I pirate...

I love to introduce friends/coworkers to good shows; I've probably given The Wire to four kids from classes via a flashdrive haha
Nov 27, 2012 12:37pm
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Nov 27, 2012 12:41 PM
sjmvsfscs08;1330470 wrote:I have about 2TB of movies and shows.
That's a lot of porn.
Nov 27, 2012 12:41pm
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Nov 27, 2012 2:08 PM
We have around 1500 DVDs, My Grandpa had about an 8 year stretch where He went to Walmart and bought 3-4 new releases a year , When He died We got the collection. That added to our collection of a few hundred
Nov 27, 2012 2:08pm
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Nov 27, 2012 2:14 PM
Enforcer;1330564 wrote:We have around 1500 DVDs, My Grandpa had about an 8 year stretch where He went to Walmart and bought 3-4 new releases a year , When He died We got the collection. That added to our collection of a few hundred
You mean 3-4 a week or month?
Nov 27, 2012 2:14pm
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Nov 27, 2012 2:16 PM
Sorry 3-4 new releases a week
Nov 27, 2012 2:16pm
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Nov 27, 2012 2:17 PM
Twist: Your grandpa was Methuselah.
Nov 27, 2012 2:17pm
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Nov 27, 2012 2:18 PM
sjmvsfscs08;1330470 wrote:And here I thought I was alone in my desire to store all of the shows/movies I pirate...

I keep my hard drives plugged into my Media Player thats hooked up to my TV so their always right there.
Nov 27, 2012 2:18pm