Man’s $300,000 movie collection, probably largest personal collection

[Svnla]

And I thought my estimate 1,000 DVD collection was too much

Theo Kalomirakis, a designer of custom home theater systems, has one of the largest private movie collections in the world. His library is made up of over 15,000 titles and is valued at $300,000. Although Kalomirakis says he has only seen about 200 films or so in his collection, that hasn’t stopped him from adding to it. Not simply composed of DVDs and Blu-rays, the vast movie library also contains a sizable amount of laserdisc and VHS releases.

http://nerdist.com/this-mans-300000-movie-collection-makes-us-jealous/

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

The guy is an idiot. 'nough said

 

[ImpulsE69]

They didn't mention that except to collectors, that collection has pretty much $1 each tops street value

 

[Nashemon]

He's only watched 200 of them? What a maroon.

 

[WilliamM2]

They didn't mention that except to collectors, that collection has pretty much $1 each tops street value

Actually, collectors would also know that most are only worth $1 each.

 

[MongGrel]

Meh.

 

[Blanky]

The guy is an idiot. 'nough said

yep

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Kind of reminds me of my dad, who has one of the largest music collections of anyone I know. He has about 2,000 CDs, pretty much all classical, and I bet he has not listened to at least 2/3 of them. For a while there it was just a compulsive thing to buy them.

 

[purbeast0]

valued at $300k by who?

 

[deadlyapp]

valued at $300k by who?

If you value it like the RIAA it'd be worth millions!

 

[kranky]

Yeah, that value is nonsense, thinking a collection of movies has an average value of $20 each. Maybe $300,000 is what he paid.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ehh, Im with the crowd here, most movies are worth nothing on the resale market. There are exceptions of course, criterion collection blurays still will sell even used for 20+, and if he had a film vault with 16 or 35mm prints ... then he would probably have value, but, VHS and DVD are generally worthless and blu is maybe a few bucks a pop nowadays.

Anyhow, I still tend to buy movies, but, only ones I plan to watch multiple times, and I trade/borrow with coworkers and friends to increase my pool of available titles. And I stick to $10 or less price usually most of the time.

 

[purbeast0]

i buy movies all the time. a lot of the movies i buy are $5 blurays i find on amazon that are old flicks i just like. i buy some newer movies but it's gotta be a movie i really want to see or like. i enjoy watching extras on some movies too. the extras on life of pi and the newest planet of the apes movies were awesome.

 

[TheVrolok]

300k? lol

 

[SKORPI0]

So each movie on average cost him $20?
Probably be "worthless" once 4K movies will be mainstream.

https://technical.ly/brooklyn/2014/...e-tech-home-theater-pioneer-theo-kalomirakis/

Kalomirakis’s personal collection of 14,000 films is also automated, stored on a Kaleidescape movie server. At the touch of a button, a stored film appears on the Stewart CineCurve screen. (The discs themselves are kept on floor-to ceiling shelves, which line the hallway leading to the theater.)
Unlike movies streamed from Netflix or another service, the films stored on the Kaleidescape server have full Blu-ray-level resolution and sound, delivered on ultra-thin California Audio Technology speakers. But Kalomirakis is not against streaming.
“I am very much pro-streaming. You are able to put in your fingertips movies that were not available before,” he said. “I have access from the theater to over 3,000 movies that I don’t have in my library. But I’m a little bit of a purist … when I have a movie on Blu-ray, I will watch it on Blu-ray because of the picture quality.”
“For me,” he added, “high resolution means high proximity to the quality of the movies … I can’t wait to go to the next phase of transforming my library to 4K.”

 

[JulesMaximus]

That collection is worth what someone would pay him for it... not what he paid for it.

He's an idiot. I'd be shocked if he could sell it for more than a few grand.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

If you value it like the RIAA it'd be worth millions!

If you valued it like the RIAA, it would be worth more than the combined economic product of the entirety of human civilization squared.

 

[JujuFish]

His library is made up of over 15,000 titles and is valued at $300,000. Although Kalomirakis says he has only seen about 200 films or so in his collection, that hasn’t stopped him from adding to it.

Sounds like a more extreme version of the problem I have with Steam.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

"Although Kalomirakis says he has only seen about 200 films or so in his collection, that hasn’t stopped him from adding to it..."

What's the point of collecting films if you don't even watch them? My mother hates movies, and I'm pretty sure she's seen more than 200. Collecting movies to not watch them is like Stevie Wonder collecting Ferraris (except Ferraris eventually appreciate in value).

 

[futurefields]

if i could go back in time wouldnt waste a penny on dvds

still aint bought a blu ray, though i do have a sony player for netflix and youtube on my tv.

 

[Rakehellion]

They didn't mention that except to collectors, that collection has pretty much $1 each tops street value

He is a collector and I'd imagine they're worth more than that to him.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow I don't know if I want to be impressed or think it's absurd. I prefer digital, but he is more interested in the physical disc/packaging than the movie, so all the power to him. Ironicly his home theatre probably breaks some kind of law, like the number of seats or the size of the screen. There are really weird laws pertaining to movie viewings especially if you are inviting people over. So he paid all this money but he could still end up be breaking the law.

If he bought them right at release 300k does not sound that far fetched. And if he pirated just one and got caught he'd probably have to pay even more than that. Puts things into perspective when you think about it.

Personally, I prefer a more low profile shelving system for my movies. :sneaky:

 

[skull]

I'd still have trouble finding something I wanted to watch too.

 

[Chapbass]

If he was really sneaky, he'd collect movie boxes from other people and leave out teh DVD/blurays. Could probably save a lot that way

 

[ImpulsE69]

Sounds like a more extreme version of the problem I have with Steam.

^^ Yup. :biggrin: