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General => Home Theater Misc. => Topic started by: AVSCraig on July 28, 2020, 03:05:49 PM
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My collection has been culled a couple of times. If my wife and I both won't watch a movie again, it gets sold or gifted. That said, the current collection stands at 229 4K Blu-rays, 484 Blu-rays and 1 DVD ! I have my own private " Netflix ". And that counts Band Of Brothers, The Pacific and Battlestar Galactica as 3 of those " movies ". I have a lot of stuff to watch in my theater. Any other disc collectors out there ?
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Now I'll have to take some pictures...I have discs all over the house :)
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Here is my colletion. By MyMovies app I Have 402 4k UHD. I will keep buying discs until I'm forced to stream.
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Just past 415 4k uhd discs this week :) I almost have more 4k than reg Blu-ray now
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Here's a link to my collection: https://www.blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?u=21148&action=hybrid
I'll try and add some pictures. One wouldn't do it justice :)
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Here's a link to my collection: https://www.blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?u=21148&action=hybrid
I'll try and add some pictures. One wouldn't do it justice :)
not fair! you get freebies for review lol
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not fair! you get freebies for review lol
I only see 265 4K titles there, so considering that others show 400+ it looks like David is actually kind of a slacker... ;D
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I only see 265 4K titles there, so considering that others show 400+ it looks like David is actually kind of a slacker... ;D
Yeah that’s me. I have 415+ 4k. I I just assumed his collection. Was huge!
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not fair! you get freebies for review lol
I see a lot of titles in David's collection that I would only have if they were free. Which is why my collection is smaller. They have to have high replay value for me, and be worth shelling out cash for to begin with.
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I only see 265 4K titles there, so considering that others show 400+ it looks like David is actually kind of a slacker... ;D
There are some studios that aren't too friendly with me (Sony), but other's are great (Lions Gate, Warner, Paramount), then Universal and Disney are hit and miss depending on the title. I review 100% of what I request, which I know isn't common. My daughter works at a PR firm and the stories she has about people who request things and never cover them is pretty astounding (and unethical).
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There are some studios that aren't too friendly with me (Sony), but other's are great (Lions Gate, Warner, Paramount), then Universal and Disney are hit and miss depending on the title. I review 100% of what I request, which I know isn't common. My daughter works at a PR firm and the stories she has about people who request things and never cover them is pretty astounding (and unethical).
How did you get the hookup?
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How did you get the hookup?
Long story, but it started with Kris Deering recruiting me on www.hometheaterspot.com back in February 2004. I still remember my first title "My Bosses Daughter," which was absolutely horrible. I literally almost backed out after wasting two hours of my life on that one. Thankfully, things looked up from there.
Anyway, as time went on, he gave me a couple of studios and you get to know the PR agents that are either in house or with a firm. You start getting press releases and as people move around to different outlets they take their mailing lists with them.
So yes, it's good that I get "free" movies, but I've spent countless hours watching films that in some cases I had very little interest in or I ended up hating. On the other hand, I've found some absolute gems over the years as well, but this year has been quite nice with a low workload. In fact, it has given me pause to potentially hang it up at some point in the future. I've kind of liked watching what I want and have enjoyed getting back into watching shows of my choice, such as "The Expanse" (arguably the best sci-fi show I've ever seen) and some old sitcoms. My wife, son and I have been watching Frasier for the past 6 months or so--we are half way through the 10th season and it's been a blast even though I've seen them all before.
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Long story, but it started with Kris Deering recruiting me on www.hometheaterspot.com back in February 2004. I still remember my first title "My Bosses Daughter," which was absolutely horrible. I literally almost backed out after wasting two hours of my life on that one. Thankfully, things looked up from there.
Anyway, as time went on, he gave me a couple of studios and you get to know the PR agents that are either in house or with a firm. You start getting press releases and as people move around to different outlets they take their mailing lists with them.
So yes, it's good that I get "free" movies, but I've spent countless hours watching films that in some cases I had very little interest in or I ended up hating. On the other hand, I've found some absolute gems over the years as well, but this year has been quite nice with a low workload. In fact, it has given me pause to potentially hang it up at some point in the future. I've kind of liked watching what I want and have enjoyed getting back into watching shows of my choice, such as "The Expanse" (arguably the best sci-fi show I've ever seen) and some old sitcoms. My wife, son and I have been watching Frasier for the past 6 months or so--we are half way through the 10th season and it's been a blast even though I've seen them all before.
I’d be happy to accept if you ever wanted to “pass the torch” I watch so many bad movies cause I just try everything. It’s part of it for me :)
thanks for what you do!
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Long story, but it started with Kris Deering recruiting me on www.hometheaterspot.com back in February 2004. I still remember my first title "My Bosses Daughter," which was absolutely horrible. I literally almost backed out after wasting two hours of my life on that one. Thankfully, things looked up from there.
Anyway, as time went on, he gave me a couple of studios and you get to know the PR agents that are either in house or with a firm. You start getting press releases and as people move around to different outlets they take their mailing lists with them.
So yes, it's good that I get "free" movies, but I've spent countless hours watching films that in some cases I had very little interest in or I ended up hating. On the other hand, I've found some absolute gems over the years as well, but this year has been quite nice with a low workload. In fact, it has given me pause to potentially hang it up at some point in the future. I've kind of liked watching what I want and have enjoyed getting back into watching shows of my choice, such as "The Expanse" (arguably the best sci-fi show I've ever seen) and some old sitcoms. My wife, son and I have been watching Frasier for the past 6 months or so--we are half way through the 10th season and it's been a blast even though I've seen them all before.
Frasier was a hoot ! I'll have to check out The Expanse.
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Another BIG thumbs up for The Expanse, which I've mentioned elsewhere before.
To make it relevant to this thread - I'll probably wait for an "all season" 4K box set but add it to my collection when that's available.
Also, my collection on blu-ray.com is at 115 4K movies (94 SKUs due to some box sets), but growing slower now.
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Another BIG thumbs up for The Expanse, which I've mentioned elsewhere before.
To make it relevant to this thread - I'll probably wait for an "all season" 4K box set but add it to my collection when that's available.
Also, my collection on blu-ray.com is at 115 4K movies (94 SKUs due to some box sets), but growing slower now.
I'm not currently streaming anything, so that's probably going to be what I do too.
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To clarify I mean in terms of purchasing the show in any form. I'm watching on Amazon Prime in 4K as it airs. In contrast, I watched GoT as it aired but then bought individual season BD sets. (Ironically now that the GoT 4K series box is here I'm conflicted because of the botched final season that just keeps getting worse in hindsight.)
Craig - do you watch any TV shows, or only wait for BD or UHD discs? The first 3 seasons of The Expanse were on Syfy Channel before getting canceled and snapped up by Amazon. It's likely to be several more seasons - there are 9 books, the current season is 5 and will run through Feb '21. So an all seasons box would probably be 2025.
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To clarify I mean in terms of purchasing the show in any form. I'm watching on Amazon Prime in 4K as it airs. In contrast, I watched GoT as it aired but then bought individual season BD sets. (Ironically now that the GoT 4K series box is here I'm conflicted because of the botched final season that just keeps getting worse in hindsight.)
Craig - do you watch any TV shows, or only wait for BD or UHD discs? The first 3 seasons of The Expanse were on Syfy Channel before getting canceled and snapped up by Amazon. It's likely to be several more seasons - there are 9 books, the current season is 5 and will run through Feb '21. So an all seasons box would probably be 2025.
My wife is busy working on a start up business. She rarely has time to watch anything, and I've easily got 20 movies she's never seen right now. We just finally got around to watching End Game, after watching all of the Marvel movies in order over the last 7 1/2 months. That's how far behind she was movie wise ( and I hadn't seen a lot of the Marvel movies either until buying them on 4K this year ). So no, generally I watch 99% movies and almost no TV shows. Currently we are not subscribed to any streaming services - too busy. Typically I watch movies with friends 3 nights a week and with my wife on Friday or Sat. night. And that's about it. The exception was March when there was free / cheap streaming during the pandemic - watched a bunch of shows ( Picard, Homeland season 8, Tales from the Loop, Mrs. Maisel and Electric Dreams ) on Prime, then canceled everything.
TV shows are a big time commitment - where as a movie is like a one night stand!
Homeland - we bought each season on Blu-ray and watched it, as we didn't want to subscribe to Showtime, and probably wouldn't have watched anything else on it anyway. Only watched season 8 on Showtime last spring because they had 30 days free !
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Here’s my collection. I got 284 4k movies and not even sure about the blu rays. Quite a bit. 900 at least. The first photo, I got 2 other shelves like this. Plus around 300 3D blu rays. The second photo :)
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300 3D Blu-rays - wow. Didn't know there were quite that many out !
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300 3D Blu-rays - wow. Didn't know there were quite that many out !
I was rounding up. Hehe. 8)
more around 250 or a bit more I have. Without having to count.
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300 3D Blu-rays - wow. Didn't know there were quite that many out !
Ok. My ocd made me have to manually count my 3D’s. 241. Now that that’s over. On to the next thing. Lol. :D