Well here's my DVD collection. Nothing too esoteric, I could imagine afew people have seen these films at some point.



Mystery Science Theater 3000 films
I decided to put the MST3K films in it's own special category.
* donates that I 'aquired' them and don't own the originals - I don't think they were even released.

This is as clear as I could get the pictures.
Oh and anything that looks like a bootleg, that's not a bootleg.

Holy, that's a huge collection.

So colorful. Are most of those DVDs sci-fi titles? My DVDs are mostly all boring colors like black and white.

Yup, that's an impressive collection you got there Dr Toxicophilous.

I've got a few dvds and videos in my room, but in recent years I've tried to avoid getting dvds and also asking for them since I barely ever watch anything twice. Seems like a waste to spend £12 on some movie just to watch it one time, especially when chances are it'll be coming on Sky at some point in the near future. Also looking into the future again I think soon dvds and blue-ray discs will die out and people will store all their movies on harddrives, it'll all be digital. There'll be no need for physical discs or anything anymore. I'm not sure if that made sense or not, I'm pretty tired right now...

I doubt it. Most people aren't tech-savvy enough for that to be feasible. Simply the concept of torrents is incomprehensible to about a quarter or more of the population. Also: Remember that hard-drives fail. Hard-drives will definitely get more advanced with time, but still. If you were to purchase a lot of media and your hard-drive would break or get stolen, you'd be fucked. For this and other reasons I believe that media will always be available in physical formats.

But yeah . . . I agree with you that buying DVDs is pretty pointless when you only watch a DVD once and never watch it again. I'm pretty much the same which is why I mostly burn DVD-R backups that I download from torrent sites (hey - piracy is allowed here in Canada as long as you don't sell what you download).

What about Cloud storage, where media can be stored by a third party network? That would sort out issues involving hard-drive failures or theft. I definately see films and games being downloaded and saved on HDs or other ways as the natural progression. Only time will tell I guess.

Those first three shelves are pretty easy to see. There's Sasuke tournaments I've taped, documentaries taped and on disk, nostalgic christmas cartoons, and lots of anime. The black cases are mostly Miyazake movies, the grey ones are Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Trigun, Claymore, etc.

Then there's a shelf of action movies, superhero movies, a few dramas and comedies. Then a shelf and a half of Star Trek. Then Farscape, Battlestar, Firefly.

A shelf of Stargate. Babylon 5, Andromeda, Outer Limits, Star Wars, Matrix, a bunch more sci-fi movies.

Then comes fantasy. Narnia, LOTR, Harry Potter, etc. Then Horror.

Then cartoons. South Park, Futurama, Drawn Together, Simpsons, Boondocks, etc.

Yeah I only try to get stuff I think I'll want to watch again or show people. Even if that will be ten years in the future.
I don't know how long it will be until movies go completely digital like music but I think it will still be a while. I think people are getting tired of changing formats and bluray has got to be about as good as it gets in terms of quality so I think whatever players are made in the future should still play our old disks too.
And I trust clouds to store my stuff about as much as I trust real clouds.

You can actually already buy films and watch them online but it's not like everyone does it. There are too many people out there who can't fathom anything that has to do with computers/electronics and lots of people simply prefer to own their stuff in physical formats anyway. It'll probably always be like this.

I doubt everyone in the future will be nerds who'll download all their media, but you never know.

IMO, I think physical disks will bite the dust in the next 10 years. Or, they'll exist in the same capacity CDs still exist. It's still not yet totally convenient for digital movies, which is why not a lot of people do it, but once TVs with wi-fi capability become the norm, I don't see why people would continue to purchase disks. Blu Rays are $30 still, whereas streaming services are dirt cheap, with movies offered in 1080p. And they're easy as hell to use. Even my technoilliterate grandpa can use Netflix.

Anyways, in regards to this thread, my entire movie collection is contained in a desk drawer(along with an opened, half-eaten bag of BBQ chips I bought sometime this summer...):
Star Wars I, II, III, and the DVD box set.
Harry Potter 1-5
Twin Peaks complete series
Inland Empire
Mulholland Drive
Spellbound
8 1/2
Persona
Loving Annabelle
A Scanner Darkly
Heavenly Creatures
Eulogy
Hyper Police
Rigoletto
But I'm a Cheerleader
V for Vendetta
Audition
Ichi the Killer Special Edition, with the nifty bloodbag
Dawn of the Dead/Land of the Dead
The Animatrix
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Two Ani DiFranco DVDs
A Stanton Moore drumming DVD

Then Strawberry Panic burned DVDs and a few disks of Cowboy Bebop dubbed in Spanish, from the days before I had HDMI.

I shouldn't have posted, you'll all be jealous of my epic collection.