Jambo
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I have 450+ DVDs and 20odd blurays.
I am getting a bit fed up of them taking up my entire room, i dont know what to do with them. Im always watching films so i need constant access to them.
Been suggested i removed the discs and put them in one of those case logic folder jobs, and it would be like a catalougue. Im not convinced because i quite like the boxes to look at spines when im not sure what to watch?
What do you do? Pics of storage?
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Dom
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Media server, back them up, box up the dvds and loft them 
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DaveyLC
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I've got 500+ DVD's.. I love being able to grab a random movie and watch it 
Thats a pretty good idea Dom but there is something satisfying about going through a physical collection
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Jay
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
I love being able to grab a random movie and watch it
Thats a pretty good idea Dom but there is something satisfying about going through a physical collection
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John
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One of these
Or a massive hard drive.
I'd much rather have a look through a folder than go hunting for a dvd.
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Pip308
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a shelve dvd length from the celing, its out of the way enough yet handy to browse, and kids cant get them, if you went all the way round them room it'd be
1 Handy
2 Cool
3 A feature point in the room
win win win
Phil
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Marc
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One of the main reasons I don't download cds/dvds, I like to have the collection!
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Jambo
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Media Server??
Blueray multi stakc? Bet they both cost a fortune 
Pip it sounds cool, but i think it would affect the ceiling height and make it all seem a tad claustraphobic and im trying ot minimalise in here 
Folders i guess would be the cheapest.
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Dom
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The Sony BDP-CX960 multidisc has just been released and is set to cost £600 quid or so. A media server would probably cost half, with most of that being storage.
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Jambo
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case logic ftw
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Colin
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Move out into your own gaff & have a multimedia room in the spare room =D
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oceansoul
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quote:
Originally posted by John
One of these
Or a massive hard drive.
I'd much rather have a look through a folder than go hunting for a dvd.
bet that'll cost a tad
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richc
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Mates bro had one of them. They are daddy
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Jambo
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how are you supposed to rmember where each disc is? i bet the swop over time is painfull as well
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Jay
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
how are you supposed to rmember where each disc is? i bet the swop over time is painfull as well
Uncle had a 100 stack CD player, was a pain in the arse for the above reason
I always used to forget what was in my 3 disc Stereo never mind 400
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Jambo
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i had a 6disc home cinema system, alltho handy wasnt really worth it. Regularly lost dvds then realised that it was in tray 6
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Conway563
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I've only got about 1/2 as many as you but just got a 'Billy' bookcase from Ikea and it's only 2/3 full
I'll try and get a pic tonight but for about £40 I thought it was cheap yet solid enough
[Edited on 27-07-2009 by Conway563]
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Cosmo
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media centre is what you need. Shouldnt cost too much really, and is more a case of time putting them all on it.
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Tommy L
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I wouldn't get a wallet, as it will be gash having to flick through.
Get a media centre, then you can categorise them in comedy etc, and they will be easy to flick through.
Plus it's cooler if you have company 
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willay
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I'd stay with the collection/storage, media centre is good but
1) it needs to be HD output to take advantage of the BR discs
2) needs to have multiple disks for RAID backup or you may risk loosing it all in your first disk failure
3) it will take an age to rip that amount of DVDS/Bluerays to hard disk
4) you need to employ a method to rip said DVD/Bluerays where you keep the quality and dont use a shit ton of diskspace
5) diskspace
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James
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Is there any software that will put a DVD onto a media centre PC and still keep special features, the menu etc....
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James
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Just found one but apparently it's 8GB per DVD 
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willay
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3.5tb ish for 450 DVDs then?
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Tommy L
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Woooooah, going to need a lot of disk space
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willay
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can pick up 1tb samsung drives for about £60, so you'll need around 4 of them, or more if you want a backup.
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