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Jun 28, 2015 - 12:15 PM
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CinemaScope
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I'm a few years past where I can make a list that isn't long & boring. Lots of 'em, from the 30's to the present day, plus far too many box sets. The last one bought, In The Mouth Of Madness, the last one ordered, the 60's TV Batman set. Help! I've become a collector again. Blu's are mostly very cheap for what they are, a lot cheaper than DVD's ever were back in the day. I'm a film nut, & have been since the late fifties, & as someone once posted, having a Blu-ray is as good as owning your own print.
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Jun 29, 2015 - 6:17 AM
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Tall Guy
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I'm a few years past where I can make a list that isn't long & boring.
Same here. Our collection was boosted (sadly) when Blockbuster UK went pop, and we picked up armfuls from a number of their shops. It seemed as if we were taking advantage, but then rationalised that we were probably helping to pay the staff their redundancy money, which salved our consciences.
We have several that we haven't watched yet, for which you can blame Netflix (watching Breaking Bad, notably), and I have several prized DVDs which I haven't yet replaced with blurays. For instance, we watched the DVD of Amelie on Saturday night, and I resolved again to hunt it out on BR.
If I had to put a number on how many are in our collection, I'd hazard a guess at 150 - counting boxsets (Bond, Alien, Matrix, True Blood, Cornetto Trilogy etc) as one.
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Jul 3, 2015 - 3:38 AM
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Francis
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Right now I own over 200 blu-rays. I managed to upgrade my DVD collection by selling off most of it, I think I have about 50 titles I'm holding on to (cause there are no blu-ray versions) and another 50 I still need to sell.
Amongst the blu-rays a lot of horror; anything from the Masters of Horror: Romero, Argento, Cronenberg, Barker, Hooper, Fulci, Craven, Stephen King,... There's also a niche in my collection for crappy Italian horror movies that have no business being available in remastered HD. 
The boxsets include Alien anthology, Apocalypse Now, POTA (old movies), Indy, LOTR ext, Jurassic Park trilogy, Star Trek TNG movies, Universal Monsters, Twin Peaks and Nightbreed. I also own Star Trek TNG complete on blu as well as the first seasons of Walking Dead.
I gravitate mostly towards special editions with lots of extras (commentaries, documentaries, ...) and shy away from barebones releases unless I really like the movie. I also own a handful of mediabooks and steelbooks, but those were bargain buys as I'm not a collector of either packaging. And about a dozen or so 3D titles.
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I would like to get ST-TNG on Blue Ray. BBC-America regularly runs TNG and for some reason only has season 2 in Hi-Def. But damned if hi-def doesn't make even season two highly watchable.
I did splurge on the 50th anniv James Bond set. It was a double dip- but so very worth it. I started watching with OHMSS and gods damned that movie looks good restored to Blu-Ray.
I also have the Werner Herzog documentary about the pre-historic cave paintings. That movie looks about average, I guess, considering the filming conditions.
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I have a large collection of movies overall – a mix of ancient VHS, old LDs, and newer DVDs. I probably have close to 3,000 movies. But the "new" bluray contingent is only about 200. I won’t list them all – my latest blu purchases this month have been:
3D Rarities
Absolute Beginners
Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension, The (UK edition)
Biggles: Adventures in Time (UK edition)
Curse of the Werewolf (German edition of the Hammer film)
Far from the Madding Crowd (amazing UK edition)
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Gorgeous UK edition of Hammer film with isolated score/effects track)
In Like Flint
Incredible Shrinking Man, The (German bluray edition – just delivered and can’t wait to watch!)
Librarian Trilogy
Our Man Flint
Raven, The (UK edition of the Corman film with isolated score/effects track)
Tales of Hoffman (amazing UK edition)
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Hello Dolly!
South Pacific
Lost Horizon (1973)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Criterion)
The Sound of Music
The Manchurian Candidate
Gone with the Wind
Seconds
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Jul 16, 2015 - 5:28 AM
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Joe E.
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The reportedly heavy DNR on most of the original crew movies, along with the cuts used (I was under the impression they do all use the theatrical cuts, actually, or close to it in the case of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), plus the lack of supplements that were on the DVDs have all kept me from getting any of them yet (well, those facts, plus the fact it's still very early in the BD game for me, and I'm still getting around to getting even some of what have always been the most basic pillars of a video library for me). I also find it kind of insulting that they've replaced the old commentary tracks with new ones by people who worked on the J. J. movies, though that alone wouldn't keep me from getting decent editions that presented the definitive cuts of TMP, TWOK, and TUC (but ideally with the other versions as well, of course), and retained the extras from the previous special-edition DVDs.
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