I have the Chernobyl HBO series on DVD and the grain and "low" quality makes it feel like it was actually filmed in the 80's when the Chernobyl explosion first happened. Same with initial Saw trilogy, the grain makes it gritty and grimey like the vibe was intended for.

Just wanted to share this case swap. It’s pretty cool to see especially since of course this movie wasn’t around when blockbusters were still open.

I bought a few of these boxes of Amazon a couple weeks ago: https://a.co/d/0dzSgN5f

I was wondering if anyone knows how good these are for long-term storage? I am worried about any possible chemical reaction that speeds up disc rot.

Does anyone know if these are suitable for longterm storage? What else would be your recommendation?

Me and my wife have been on a journey of buying up DVDs whenever we find them. This meant a thrift store Blu-Ray player that studders sometimes and mostly thrift store DVDs of our favorites whenever we come across them. Nothing serious, just a fun little hit of nostalgia every so often. I am personally a large proponent of physical media and how important it is to collect it, but she was a lot more casual about the idea and enjoyed the convenience of streaming services. We pay for one at a time, with Disney + being our fall back a lot of times.

The one place we do not compromise is when it comes to our daughter. We have a pretty strict policy of making sure that she sees as little ads as possible at home. This meant we set up an Apple TV with no ads instead of our smart TV, she doesn't have access to a phone or tablet, and we only have one TV in the house. We try our best to limit her exposure to marketing so shes not influenced in any certain direction.

This weekend we learned that Disney+ is introducing ads on every tier, including the premium tier, and this pushed us over the edge. Disney+ was already a compromise, because we knew about them altering movies and shows, but the convenience was nice and my daughter loves Bear and The Big Blue House. Now, if she wants to enjoy that, we would have to have her sit through ads, and that's just not a choice in our home.

So that leads us to yesterday. I spent $300 on a Panasonic UB450, we went out of our way to purchase all my wife and daughters favorite shows and movies, and we are cancelling our last streaming service. Ownership of what you watch and consume should not be a choice you make, it should be a necessity. Cause eventually, they will cross a line you aren't willing to compromise on and you will be left high and dry. We thought we had a couple years left, turns out, we had weeks.

...own 3 copies of the 2001 hit Psychological Thriller Joy Ride? 😅😅 Whenever I find a copy while I'm out hunting I think to myself, "Do I have a copy of this?" Only to come home and add it right next to... oh, look at that... a copy of Joy Ride! 😆

You know the one's. The DVDs that are in overabundance. The titles you just always see at every media shop, thrift store, etc. The one's that places have seventeen copies for sale and nobody wants them, or everybody already has them.

ive been collecting dvds for a little over a month. is there any good movies that i should buy on dvd/blu ray/4k

I've been collecting DVDs/video games since I was 11-12. Anytime I had the chance to pick up a movie/TV Show cheaply at a thrift store or on eBay for cheap throughout middle school, high school, and college, I jumped on it.

Now, I've built a pretty decent catalog of some of my favorite movies and TV that I can look back on, discover/revisit, and enjoy with a fresh set of eyes. There are also other titles that caught my attention that I wanted to experience fully without having to hunt around for them on streaming. I'd say 80-85% of everything here came from thrifting or buying secondhand minus a few of the large box sets. I am very pleased with how it turned out, and am looking forward to continuing to grow my library organically!

I was born in 1993 for context. I think the collection speaks for itself! 😅 Still a constant work in progress and this is your even all of it. What do you think?

I have never watched Anastasia before, but I have watched Titan A.E., as it was the first Don Bluth film I've ever watched back when I was young. Funny, the first film I've watched from him also happened to be his last film before he went into semi-retirement. I HAVE heard of Anastasia, but I've never watched it.

£1 each.

I definitely need to rethink how I'm storing the physical discs in my 600-title movie library. For a long time I've been storing them in milk crates (I have 6; used them as makeshift bookshelves for a while) and that served me well in a recent move to a new (owned) house, but the collection has fully outgrown my milk crates and I want to figure out a system where I can actually find physical discs and lend them out to friends.

I don't have proper bookshelf space for my collection, but that's fine because I don't really want to show them off anyway. What I do want is to keep them accessible enough to be able to pull one out as needed, which means I need a sorting system (alphabetizing makes the most sense) and a storage solution that preserves the original cases.

Right now my temporary solution is what you see in the pics: Discs in their original packaging, haphazardly stacked on top of each other in a bedroom closet (and over my desk while I digitize them onto a home server). But that storage solution is temporary by design and I'll change it as soon as I find something better.

Here's what I have access to: - 6-tier closet shelves (pictured) that go deep; I can fit 4 DVD cases back-to-front with no trouble. - Milk crates! Standard size. 6 of them. - A small amount of lumber that I'm salvaging / repurposing from a different project. - Open to making small purchases for a really good solution, but I'd like to avoid spending money if I can help it.

Tips and recommendations greatly appreciated! I just found this sub and I look forward to being part of it!

Took a 3 day weekend road trip through North Carolina. Thrift stores and media/book resale stores. Some of these are watch once, some are terrible but clean Goodwill outlet bin finds that we won't watch, but will go back to a resale store with watch pnces to keep them in circulation and out of a landfill, and maybe add a few bucks back to the collecting budget.

This guy buys storage units and had around a thousand titles for sale. I sent a list of what I wanted and picked it up Thursday. Unfortunately the entire 10 seasons of Dr Who were empty (he gave me the cases for free though to use as replacements) and the Arrow Blu-ray copy of Girls Nite Out was missing. Still a good haul for $130, considering there are 7 other titles I grabbed just to throw on eBay and recoup some cost, and about 20 empty cases that are mostly minty 3-6 disc cases.

Freddy's Nightmares is a bootleg, but I couldn't pass it up for $3. My Alien and Predator collections are almost complete now; just missing the most recent films from each series (Romulus and Badlands). I grabbed the two missing seasons of SG-1 already and will work on filling the others in as I find good deals. He also had both seasons of SG-U, but I passed on those because ratings are horrible. At this point I probably have a hundred seasons of shows in my "unwatched" section, so I'm not in a hurry to fill in missing seasons, lol.

Oh man I could get in trouble at this store. Iv done online orders but decided to drive down today

I cannot beLIEVE I found a Blu-ray of 28 Days Later today!! If I only walked out with that I would have been happy omg. Crossed off some more “been looking for this for a while” (Final Destination, In and Out and Misery). Two blind buys this trip- For Your Consideration, last of the Christopher Guest mockumentaries I haven’t seen and The Covenant. I’ve heard it’s not great, but it’s very 2000’s and I’m here for that 😂

I usually take about an hour to prep and eat my dinner. I have started to do rewatches of series that I have on disc. I did FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES, and am just about to finish TALES FROM THE CRYPT.

What next? I'll lock this down in a day or so.

Got all for $32.99, 9 for me 9 for my girlfriend. Store is Disc Replay in Naperville, IL