I currentlty have 230+ DVD's and we add more to that every so often. So the number continues to increase. I have most of them in a big storage thing with doors. Its pretty nice. Although it only holds around 200 give or take some. Well thats all its supposed to hold. I have probablly 10-12 more in thier by putting them on top of the others. The rest are all sitting on my entertainment center right now.
Knowing I will continue to add DVD's to my collection. I am wondering what I shoudl do to store them. I could obviously just buy another storage unit, but while I can probablly make room for it, I don't have the room right at the moment as things are. I could also just stash them in other places, like on my book shelf, or in my entertainment center, which can hold a few more. But those are kinda tempory solutions.
SO I am considering other options, the 2 that come to mind is buying a 300+ disc DVD changer. Although depending on capacity and models and stuff, they can get pricey, with the low end running 300.00 plus. I also hear that they can cause trouble searching for a certain movie. Not sure how they work, if you can just search for a title, or if you have to go through all click through all the movies to get to one near the end. I will have to research them more.
Another option is putting them all on an HTPC hooked up to my entertainment system. In both this case and the DVD changer, I would be storing either the cases, or the cases and the DVD's themselves inside a box, likely in the closest. This option seems the neatest, as I kinda want to get an HTPC up and running anyway because you can do a lot of neat stuff with them. I am just not sure how well this would work either. I assume for sake of hard drive space, they would need to be encoded in Divx or something like that. Not sure how good of quality that stuff is, do you lose the menus and extras when you do that? Anything else I need to know about that? Again I will have to look into that more as well.
SO what would you do?
Knowing I will continue to add DVD's to my collection. I am wondering what I shoudl do to store them. I could obviously just buy another storage unit, but while I can probablly make room for it, I don't have the room right at the moment as things are. I could also just stash them in other places, like on my book shelf, or in my entertainment center, which can hold a few more. But those are kinda tempory solutions.
SO I am considering other options, the 2 that come to mind is buying a 300+ disc DVD changer. Although depending on capacity and models and stuff, they can get pricey, with the low end running 300.00 plus. I also hear that they can cause trouble searching for a certain movie. Not sure how they work, if you can just search for a title, or if you have to go through all click through all the movies to get to one near the end. I will have to research them more.
Another option is putting them all on an HTPC hooked up to my entertainment system. In both this case and the DVD changer, I would be storing either the cases, or the cases and the DVD's themselves inside a box, likely in the closest. This option seems the neatest, as I kinda want to get an HTPC up and running anyway because you can do a lot of neat stuff with them. I am just not sure how well this would work either. I assume for sake of hard drive space, they would need to be encoded in Divx or something like that. Not sure how good of quality that stuff is, do you lose the menus and extras when you do that? Anything else I need to know about that? Again I will have to look into that more as well.
SO what would you do?
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