How do you organize your DVD/Blu-Ray Collection?

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#1  Edited By cms64

I think I'm a bit unusual because I organize them by studio, then chronologically, but series stay together with the first one.

TV Shows go after the movies within the studio.

I keep Blu-ray's with my PS3 games because I only have 12.
I guess I just like to see the logos line up.

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#2  Edited By Claude

I have a t-shirt with your icon on it. It says Nintendo beside the logo. I bet that t-shirt is older than some of the users here.

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#3  Edited By iam3green

wow, OCD much? i think that is kind of wierd to have the movies organized by studio.

i just organize my movies by what i watched last. if the movie was transformers or something then transformers would be on the top of my pile of DVDs.

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#4  Edited By N3onThr33

I organize them alphabetically.

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#5  Edited By Captain_Insano

My two dvd shelves are split into TV shows and Movies.

The dvds themselves are organised alphabetically, it just makes it easy to find what I want

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#6  Edited By Ineedaname

Weirdly enough size of the box.

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#7  Edited By gingertastic_10

The ones I watch the most are at the front of the collection, then the ones are don't watch much are at the end.

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#8  Edited By absinthetic

speaking of which, does anyone know of a program, preferrably free, that catalogues your movie collection and can retrive movie info by entering the bar code?

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#9  Edited By HandsomeDead

Alphabetical then with any overlaps like Crash where I have 2 of the same name, I put those in chronological order.

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#10  Edited By killdave

Oldest to newest, with my 3 PS3 games inbetween them

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#12  Edited By T0mF5

I organize it alphabetically.

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#13  Edited By KamasamaK

I sort them by their IMDb rating descending left to right.

Okay, seriously though, I sort lexicographically.

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#14  Edited By Deathdealer108

I don't sort them at all. Yay random order!

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#15  Edited By Snail

At random? Isn't that normal?

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#16  Edited By KaosAngel

In a pile from awesome to shit.  Shit normally stays down below for a long-long-long time.  To the point when mold is coming out of the case.

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#17  Edited By Zajtalan

by the order which i bought them if i somehow mess that order up i get really pissed and just go by color

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#18  Edited By ArchScabby

i throw it back on the shelf after I'm done waching it.

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#19  Edited By demonbear

Organizing dvds?

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#20  Edited By Sooperspy

Alphabetically, first movies, then tv shows

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#21  Edited By Xeiphyer

Hmm.. I haven't bought a shelf yet so they are sitting in a stack beside my games. I keep each game /dvd/bluray stack seperate though. Games being split into console.   My sort order is: Most recent on top. Because i'm lazy and im not organizing stacks of stuff.

Also if they are organzied from shit to best, why are you buying shit movies? That makes no sense! I bet you like fishdicks!

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#22  Edited By JoeyIA

By genre, then alphabetically but I keep sequals/series together, like Clerks goes w/ Mallrats w/ Chasing Amy, etc.

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#23  Edited By Hughes

A big stack. It's getting pretty tall. I need a rack or something.

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#24  Edited By NinjaHunter

I don't really organize them. But I keep the movies I like within view so if I ever feel like watching something I don't have to go and dig anything out. I do keep sequels together though. 

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#25  Edited By Linkyshinks

Alphabetical keeps things easy.

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#26  Edited By LiquidPrince

Random, but movies and their sequels go together.

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#27  Edited By bubahula

stacked up in order of colour darkest to brightest. 

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#28  Edited By Manatassi
@Bubahula said:
" stacked up in order of colour darkest to brightest.  "
Yeah I kinda do the colors in order as-well. I have no Idea why but I associate games boxes by the way they look. I guess I have a visual memory. 
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#29  Edited By Tordah

I have all my TV-series and boxes in one place but the rest of my movies are not that well organized.

When I first set up my shelf I tried to organize them by genre so I'd have all my war movies next to each other and all my mafia movies in one place, and so on...but since I keep buying more DVDs all the time I've gotten lazy with that. I also need to find some better shelves to put them on before I re-organize them.

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#30  Edited By s-a-n-JR

Genre

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#31  Edited By Freki

I've filled my cabinets but can't stop buying, so now I balance them into stacks on the floor..


It's not pretty and I really need to do something, but digital storage would demand a heck of a lot of TBs and I don't want to seperate case and disc just yet..


Anyways the stacking system works okay, it's easy to get an overview and  recently seen end up on top of the stacks and unseen remain in plastic so easy to spot... 

But messuring your films in meters rather than numbers aren't exactly a perfect system...


Back before my cabinets overflowed I usually kept them organized in genre - these days the only organized one that remains in the Zombie one :)
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#33  Edited By KillaMaStA

I sort them from awesome to not awesome because the bottom half of my dvd rack is really hard to reach.

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#34  Edited By Red12b
@Deathdealer108 said:
"I don't sort them at all. Yay random order! "

But you have just categorized it random, so you do sort them but in random order, but if  it was truly random it would not be sorted, but you just said it's in random order.



ARRH PARADOX ARGH
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#35  Edited By TheGreatGuero

Alphabetized!

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#36  Edited By c1337us

I dont organise them at all.

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#37  Edited By Dynamitekyle

Blu-rays on one rack, DVD's on the other.

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#38  Edited By raggedglory

movies are just kept together if there the same series or director, but other than that its where it fits.  TV series and music dvd's are on a seperate shelf and thats as deep as it gets.  My music on the other hand is all over the place, like 'progessive' music together, old psycadelic together, singer songwriter, etc, although some areas I put albums with producer and bands with members involved, like having it go roxy music, than brian eno, than talking heads because he produced them and was practically a member for their best album, or having nazz, than todd rundgren, than XTC because he produced skylarking, one of my favorite albums ever, than meat loaf since he produced and played on it, etc

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#39  Edited By Benjaminvdv

I hardly have any DVD's, my 360 and Wii games however are in order of when I bought them, though I'm considering doing them in alphabetical order, with like 10-15 games it wasn't a big deal and it made it quite easy, but as i got like 65 games now it becomes a bit annoying.

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#40  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

The DVDs in my house are a bit all over the place. I don't think there's really any system of organisation but that's not to say I can't find a DVD when I need it.

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#41  Edited By dj
@iam3green: Yep, I go with chronological. I'm more likely to pick up a movie and watch it if I just purchased it. I rarely watch films twice. 
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#42  Edited By penguindust

Everything is either on a shelf, in a cardboard box or in a cardboard box on a shelf.  Now as to how they are organized after that, well, usually by genre and franchise. All anime in one area, all western animation in another, all superhero, all sci-fi, etc... I don't bother with the alphabetizing once they are assigned a genre box.  There are a few out of place DVDs, though.  I keep my Futurama discs right up front because I watch them often.  And whatever I plan on watching fairly soon, I keep off to the side. 

Netflix movies are kept next to my PS3.

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#43  Edited By RetroIce4

Alphabetically for me.

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#44  Edited By damnboyadvance

Mine collection has no organization, yet. But I usually have a place for newer movies. Also, I don't have a Blu-Ray player, therefore I have no Blu-Ray movies. :(

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#45  Edited By pirate_republic

Series' in one shoe box (LOTR, Star Wars, Bourne, etc.), single DVDs in another. Hurray for shoe boxes?

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#46  Edited By copycatzen

Blockbuster does it for me

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#47  Edited By Shermanator

I organize by whether its a game or a movie.  I keep the bluerays and dvds together and the videogames together

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#48  Edited By ValkyrieGoddess

I alphabetize them and then take the T.V. show series and put them together in alphabetical order too.

Took along time to do that because me and my husband own 800+ Dvds. Still need to build another shelf to house them all to....