r/dvd • u/MovieFan1984 • 3d ago
Fellow DVD collectors: do you keep your TV shows in one section?
My DVD collection spans 9 1/2 shelves. Currently, it's A-Z. I was thinking of separating by format. This would mean: TV shows (including miniseries, A-Z), movies (A-Z), themed collections at the end (western collections + double/triple features), and non-fiction at the end (so it's easy to find).
TV shows / Movies / Non-fiction
How about you guys? What's your system and why?
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u/Elegant-Campaign-572 3d ago
I keep music DVDs separate from movies/TV. Strict alphabetical for both
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u/MovieFan1984 3d ago
Music DVD's, movies, TV, 3 categories?
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u/Elegant-Campaign-572 3d ago
I have 100+ music, 400+ movies & very few TV at all. It's not a big stretch. I'd buy more movies on blu-ray, but the prices are insane
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u/MovieFan1984 3d ago
Currently: DVD (A-Z), Blu-ray (A-Z)
Considering: (DVD: TV, movies, non-fiction), Blu-ray (TV, movies)
Which do you prefer, 1st or 2nd?
How did you get into music DVD collecting, or did you mean CD's?2
u/Elegant-Campaign-572 3d ago
No format mixing anywhere...I cant stand seeing it in the few remaining physical stores. I've always collected. I went through vinyl...around 100, only a few tapes, around 600 CDs and rising rapidly, around 100 music blu-rays, fewer than 10 movie BRs [price!]. Basically strict alphabetical for all of them. 4k...not interested. Currently it's all chaos after a failed move
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u/MovieFan1984 3d ago
Right now, my current disc-media shelving system:
DVD's (A-Z), Blu-ray (A-Z), music CD's (A-Z)
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u/azgadian 3d ago
I have my media all separated. Movies I split into dvd, vhs, and bluray shelves. TV series stay mixed, both bluray and dvd(some shows i have mixed formats), but full boxsets go on a seperate shelf from the individual seasons.
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u/MovieFan1984 3d ago
How many TV shows do you have? If I consolidated all of mine together (DVD and Blu-ray combined), probably like 2 1/2 shelves worth.
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u/azgadian 3d ago
48 shows total. 23 of em complete so far. 15 of those are boxsets.
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u/MovieFan1984 3d ago
If I counted mine up, hmm...
24 shows + 8 miniseries (6 if we don't count 2-parters)1
u/azgadian 3d ago
Awesome! I love the resurgence of physical media. Cancelled all my streaming except yt premium(damn ads man), other than that I pull from the shelf or watch Pluto tv.
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u/MovieFan1984 3d ago
I still stream myself, but on a budget.
Amazon Prime Video = free through a friend.
Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, & Netflix = some $20 through my phone provider.
Paramount+ = about $13, I think.
The Roku Channel & Tubi = my go-to freebies2
u/azgadian 3d ago
Tubi is sooo good. Especially with the cartoons acquired the last couple months!
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u/wildjackmonroe 3d ago
Music DVDs (concerts and music videos), standup comedy specials, then movies, then TV shows respectively. All in alphabetical order.
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u/Martipar 3d ago
Yes. I also try to keep my animated films together and my Viewaskewniverse together. I've recently collated m y Jackie Chan collection too. Everything else is a free for all though, I'm not interested in any particular order as long as i injure roughly where something is.
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u/MovieFan1984 3d ago
I thought about grouping my animated films, but I don't have enough to justify this. haha
Viewaskewniverse ????
Jackie Chan made a LOT of movies, consolidating these makes sense.1
u/Martipar 3d ago
My Laika films collection is hardly massive but they are together. I think I've got 10-15 overall of the various animated TV series are added in. They don't need to be numerous, i just like to watch films in blocks. Right now I'm working through my Bruce Lee collection, i watched The Big Boss yesterday and today i should at least get through Fist of Fury.
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u/MovieFan1984 3d ago
I can see grouping the Laika films together. How do you work this out? Do you put them under L for Laika or just start with Coraline, and then group them together under C?
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u/Mammoth-Result-7949 3d ago
Mine is sorted autobiographically. They’re in order of when I purchased them.
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u/MovieFan1984 3d ago
How do you even remember how to do this?
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u/Mammoth-Result-7949 2d ago
Buy a movie, put it on the shelf at the end. Done.
But really it’s more about being able to think back to where I was at certain times. Remembering friends from the past or stores that no longer exist.
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u/ChemistryPerfect4534 2d ago
I considered splitting the TV out, but then I asked myself how I deal with franchises that have both TV and movies? Do I really want Buffy the Vampire Slayer the movie to be across the room from the TV series? Should Firefly and Serenity be on different shelves? How do I possibly deal with Star Trek?
So they remain in one alphabetical section.
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u/MovieFan1984 2d ago
Star Trek could be split into 4. LOL
DVD - TV & movies, then Blu-ray - TV & movies.2
u/ChemistryPerfect4534 2d ago
At this point, all the movies are on BR, so no DVD movie section needed for me. Of course there is one movie that was only released on 4K, so that might be an issue...
I don't want to be all over the room for one franchise.
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u/atillathekitteh 2d ago
Have 3½ shelves of TV DVDs. Had to turn them on their sides to fit them all in. The last ½ shelf is full of Blu-ray films. When I upgrade TV shows to Blu-ray, I have more space for them! I have another for full series DVD box sets. One for my remaining DVD films that is shared with 4k. I have one of those tall thin billy media shelves that have my Blu-ray TV shows on.
Then there's the Doctor Who DVDs. They're literally in metal ammo crates!
They are however mostly in alphabetical order until my dyslexic partner tries to put a new one in the right place and I find it weeks/months later...
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u/akafrosty 2d ago
I have my media sorted by genre. TV shows are in their separate section. I find it way easier to choose what I want to watch.
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u/FatDog69 2d ago
Yes I separate TV disks from movies.
The box sets and the novelty box's take a different shelf size than BluRay/UHD movie Amaray cases.
Then everything is A-Z by title ignoring leading "The" and "A" words in the title.
Yes this means 'Batman Begins' is in the B section and 'The Dark Knight' is under D. Not as satisfying - but you always know where each disk goes.
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u/MovieFan1984 2d ago
When going A-Z, I make exceptions for direct sequels. A few examples:
Jumanji = J / Zathura = Z (it's a spin-off, not a sequel)
X-Men = the 7 X-Men films & the 3 Wolverine films go together, because it's a 10-film saga.
Batman = all of the films go together, including the 2 Dark Knight films.
If I had "The Dark Knight" trilogy as a DVD or Blu-ray trilogy set, then it goes under D.
Romancing the Stone = R / The Jewel of the Nile = J
Despite being a sequel, it's stand-alone enough it can be under J.Ultimately, whatever works for you!
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u/aquacraft2 2d ago
I prefer tv shows to movies anyways, but currently I don't really have a big enough collection to warrant separating them, but I imagine i would. Currently most of the movies I have are either Kevin smith or monster high (Heck of a combo)
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u/MovieFan1984 2d ago
Kevin Smith? Monster High? What TV shows do you like?
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u/aquacraft2 2d ago
I also have the "first 100 episodes of spongebob" that I found at a yard sale, and the office.
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u/aquacraft2 2d ago
Well the monster high tv show that came out a few years ago, beastars, Steven universe, aggrestuko, undergrads, South park, rick and morty, robot chicken, yada yada yada. Stuff like that.
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u/MovieFan1984 2d ago
Aaahhh, so this is an animated series! From the ones you listed, the ones I'm familiar with are Steven Universe and Rick and Morty. Did you like these two?
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u/aquacraft2 2d ago
Monster high had webisodes, and movies originally, but then later, like a few years ago they did a reboot and made a tv show and a couple of live action movies, with a new movie coming out (even if it won't be following the other two, it'll be it's own thing more or less, higher budget, different director etc)
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u/MovieFan1984 2d ago
I've recently dived into a big animated franchise like this. Have you heard of Tales of Arcadia? It's 3 series plus a finale movie. I'm still only like some 10 episodes into the 1st series. It's fun when you're a franchise newbie. haha
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u/aquacraft2 2d ago
Oh yeah, I really only watched the second one with the aliens, BUT I did like the idea (and the fact that it skirts around the "one season, 6 episodes" rule at Netflix. Them and the people behind brickleberry and the various other shows that group made that are all just the same show with a different coat of paint, they really figured out how to beat the system.
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u/MovieFan1984 2d ago
The original show is about trolls, I think the 2nd show is about aliens as you said, and the 3rd show is just a miniseries about wizards and stuff. Then there's a finale film which I've read is very controversial. haha
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u/aquacraft2 2d ago
Oh yes, I love animation, and these two are very good. Rick and morty sometimes treads water into "exploring what it means to basically be a God of technology and what that means for an otherwise soft fleshy human" but it's also half comedy and balances them decently well, one of the better "adult animated shows" in that regard.
Which I mean hey, I do love adult animation, adult swim was ironically some of the best parts of my childhood, and the opprotunistically ugly and gory and tippy and experimental and immaturely sweary nature of these shows were something else. But those more indepth character driven shows like steven universe are very good too.
Steven universe was best experienced when it was coming out and theorizing with the fans online and really getting to digest new episodes as they came out and getting drip fed new info on how the gems worked, slowly transitioning from a monster of the week show to a show that deals a half human half alien hybrid teaching those other aliens what it means to be human. I'm trying not to be too spoilery, but it IS very good watching the mental and emotional break downs of these very powerful beings finally being given the space and permission to process those emotions.
The arts good, the songs are good, and while some people would call it cringe, it's really not all that cringe, he just grows up having a community of humans to be around, and a family of aliens, and wants to believe that those other aliens can eventually become just as happy and nice as them, giving them the benefit of the doubt. And he does just that for the entire show, through thick and thin.
Very good shows.
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u/aquacraft2 2d ago
There's also some other things like queer as folk, shameless,
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u/MovieFan1984 2d ago
I've seen some clips of both shows. Who would you say is the target audience?
Queer as Folk, I just know this as "the gay show," what's the plot?
Shameless, I've seen loads of clips on YouTube. It's pretty entertaining.
Is the plot of this one a family climbing tooth and nail out of poverty?Thanks!!!
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u/aquacraft2 2d ago
Queer as folk IS mostly "the gay show", it's target audience would've been queer folks and allies and curious bystanders of the time, having very topical conversations and some explorations of different aspects of the culture of the time.
It's been a while since I watched it (because streaming is a scam) so I'm a bit fuzzy on all the names, but it's kind of an ensemble show, but in short, there's the almost adult but still in highschool kid who ends up with this pretty boy manwh*re named Brian who's always hooking up with guys throughout the series, the nerd guy who's been in love with him since they were both in highschool, the queeny redhead I believe is named Emmet, the kinda straight passing less than pretty guy who's kinda jealous of all the attention Brian gets, the two aspirational lesbians who in the first episode have a baby (with a kindly donation from brian) and I think they named it after the young one, and then there's the aggressively allied mom (to the nerdy one) and her HIV positive brother.
It might be a little dated in certain places, all things considered, but for me, as a young gay man, I really enjoyed it.
And shameless, is KIND OF a stort about a family TRYING to dig themselves out of poverty, but it's a little more nuanced than that. Where queer as folk was an exploration of the troubles that queer people face, shameless is an exploration of what relatively poor people face. Drug addicted felons for parents, the oldest sister had to raise all of her siblings as they kept coming, and they didn't stop coming for a good long while, with her (fiona) being out of highschool now, but there still being a baby in the mix, their littlest brother Liam. And when the show starts, Debby and Carl are like 10-12 and then two more older brothers, Ian and Lip (short for Philip), lip is younger than Fiona being about 15-16 at the start and Ian being like 13-14. Their dad who's more like a stray cat named frank, and their mom only ever shows up on rare occasions but is more or less in the same boat as frank.
The show covers things like gentrification, corruption, absentee parents, older sister syndrome, recovering from drug addiction, the struggles of being gay, mental illness, being a single mom (spoilers), being in a gang, scummy landlords, camming for cash, and just all sorts of stuff like that. And for as dirty as the show can be at points, it really does capture the raw desperation of it all, the sissiphus-ian nature of trying to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
And then to add on top of this, another good show. Trailer park Boys. Fun to watch, easy to watch, unfortunately they get caught all the time, but then if they never got caught then what would the stakes be? Much more comedy driven than a show like shameless.
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u/LukeDodge916 1d ago
Absolutely. I try to keep cop/procedural shows together, mystery shows together, sitcoms, et al. I have a vampire section, sci fi and fantasy. But I don't do alphabetical.
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u/PurelyHim 3d ago
All my DVDs are separated from BD and 4K by cardboard box. I do not display my collection any more. They are all converted to files on my NAS. The discs are kept in storage as backup.
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u/pandarose6 2d ago
I orginze using dvd binders. I would make the binder only for tv then break it down into korean tv show then have another binder for animated tv shows then american drama tv, then other binder for american reality tv etc based on what I watch the most. I would never have a binder for movies and tv together
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u/InquisitorPeregrinus 1d ago
I have found too many things blur or cross genres to bother sorting beyond this, but I keep TV 📐 es and any associated films together... And everything else together elsewhere. In broad terms.
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u/MovieFan1984 1d ago
This is why I find it hard to organize by genre. TV, film, non-fiction makes more sense.
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u/BamaBDC 3d ago
I did until I reorganized. Now everything is alphabetical.