The 'No More Buying DVDs Until I Have Watched the Ones I Already Own' Thread

Giggles86

I haven't completed any yet, but not seeing my OH as he's properly snowed in means I'm working my way through Frozen Planet and CSI Season 9 I only have one disc left of each to watch and it depends how awake I am as to which one I watch. I'm trying to be good with LoveFilm as well so am watching QI as I do other things this evening so I can post it back.

Giggles86

Finished CSI season 9 and Charmed Season 8, meaning 2 DVDs watched I've started the last disc of ER season 4 (it's not really that long since I watched the other 2 discs)

Thrifty_Pixie

i think i need to join this thread. we moved into a wee cottage last summer and decided that we didn't have the room or the desire for shelves of DVDs everywhere. therefore we stuffed them all into the drawers in the base of the spare bed and forgot about them daft, i know, as they are just taking up room as they are not easily accessible to watch.

we have a basic LoveFilm membership, however DH does have a habit of smuggling boy films in with the shopping occasionally because he's too impatient to wait for LoveFilm...

i know we have a lot of DVDs under the bed that

a) we've never watched
and
b) we will never watch again

therefore, my plan is that sometime in the VERY near future i will dig out all our DVDs and sort through them, either selling or donating the ones we'll never watch again, and piling up the ones we haven't watched next to the TV so that they annoy the hell out of me until we've watched them

how does that sound?

*meep*
TP
:coffee:

Thrifty_Pixie

er. ahem.

so i’ve been through my spreadsheet and worked out that we have 516 items in our collection. this includes normal film DVDs, box sets (counted as one) and films on our hard drives. i’ve highlighted some ones that we’ve watched and that i think we can definitely get rid of, but need the DH to agree before taking any action.

however what i can say is that i have 76 items to watch, two of which are box sets or parts of box sets. 63 of these are on DVD and the rest on a hard drive...which is a little more fiddly for me to set up as i’d need to connect my laptop to the tv.

my DH is being deployed for 2 weeks shortly, so i plan to watch some of the films i either know he’s already watched or won’t want to watch. here’s the list:

A Handful of Dust
Babylon A.D.
Beowulf
Bitter Moon
Contact
Juno
La Dolce Vita
Like Water For Chocolate
Love Story
No Country For Old Men
Paradise Lost

Penelope
Slap Her, She's French
Sunshine

The Beach
The Island
The Science of Sleep

Dear John

Me, You And Everyone We Know
Ondine
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
The Hole
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

also, what are your thoughts about putting all your DVDs onto a hard drive to run through an entertainment system? would you have to keep the hard copies as proof of purchase for copyright reasons? i’m guessing so, but am not sure how digital versions of films stand legally, and we were hoping not to have to keep loads of DVDs as backups...

InaPickle

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

i have so failed with this challenge, well its more my DH he hoards dvds he hasnt even got round to admitting the videos are useless so we still have all of those as well.

I think we should be careful how we phrase what we say and be more positive: we have not failed, we are just going to do much better in the near future!

Thrifty_Pixie wrote: »

also, what are your thoughts about putting all your DVDs onto a hard drive to run through an entertainment system? would you have to keep the hard copies as proof of purchase for copyright reasons? i’m guessing so, but am not sure how digital versions of films stand legally, and we were hoping not to have to keep loads of DVDs as backups...

I'm not sure about that, but I have had the same problems with my CDs: I have bought a large box with space for all my CDs and have donated cases to the charity shop, and have kept the insided sleeves to the CDs in a bag. I will have to find a box to put them in, or throw them away, but I REALLY don't want to do that, as sometimes the information is useful. What to do, what to do?!

I've just watched another DVD! :j OK, so my UU (use up) rate is very slow, but it's better than nothing, and the film was the excellent M by Fritz Lang, which is now over 80 years old and still totally relevant. Can't wait to see more of his work! :T

Thrifty_Pixie

i watched two films over the weekend, but both were recent recordings on the hard-drive. doh!

Thrifty_Pixie

InaPickle wrote: »

I'm not sure about that, but I have had the same problems with my CDs: I have bought a large box with space for all my CDs and have donated cases to the charity shop, and have kept the insided sleeves to the CDs in a bag. I will have to find a box to put them in, or throw them away, but I REALLY don't want to do that, as sometimes the information is useful. What to do, what to do?!

i know! i thought of putting them all in a file box...you know with the wallets for just the discs that you flip through...but then i wouldn't want to get rid of the boxes in case i wanted to sell them....so i'd end up storing the boxes somewhere anyway! grr.

mrs-moneypenny

InaPickle wrote: »

I think we should be careful how we phrase what we say and be more positive: we have not failed, we are just going to do much better in the near future!

thank you, we are trying harder to watch stuff
i gave millers crossing to my mum as we watched it and wouldnt watch it again
hanna and wrecked are earmarked to pass on

watched three musketeers, lord of the rings (again) iron man and columbiana over the last week

even gave ali g the movie to a CS which was probablly unfair as they sell them for 20p so it will probably be sitting around forever.:o

also made a start finally on watching prison break we have the complete set i bought it for DH a couple of christmases ago and wed never found time to watch any, but tonight we are on episode 3:T

InaPickle

I watched No Country For Old Men yesterday as well. Pretty good indeed, but had to watch the end twice to get it properly.

mrs-moneypenny

agree no country is well worth a couple of watches, its in DH definately keep pile.

watched the terminal friday night, enjoyed it but hoping we can pass it on to my mum as its a one watch