but there is less and less I want to watch nowadays so the 'to watch' pile is diminishing fast.
I have about 400 DVDs and about 20 cases (kept the boxsets). My declutter meant sticking the discs into CD wallet files and chucking the boxes. Space galore.

Well technically 6, because one is a 5 DVD box set.

1 - The Clash - The Essential Clash

2 - Blade Runner: The Final Cut (in a tin)

I did have The Wire Season 1 box set, but I gave it away

I only own about 20 DVDs, mainly complete series of comedy shows (Alan Partridge, The Thick of It, Phoenix Nights, that sort of thing). Most of them I'll only watch once. It was the same with video cassettes - I only accumulated a relatively small collection before they became obsolete.

I don’t know why this is - when it comes to books and CDs, I’m omnivorous!

I can't remember when, but DVDs suddenly seemed clunky and old, so I stopped buying. I gave a lot away to Oxfam and now have only about 25 left. Eventually they will go; the iPad seems to be the right way to view films for me.

DVDs are a convenient and cheap storage medium, I put films and TV series on them so that they're quickly available but I would imagine that in the next couple of years I'll have put them all on a file server of some kind for instant access. We have loads and it was handy to be able to grab a few to take on holiday so that we, as people used to watching everything from a PVR, actually had something to watch in the evenings! The problem with ripping DVDs is that so often they're only watched once so it seems such a waste of effort and they have to be dealt with individually, not like the process of ripping CDs which was pretty much, stick it in, check the track listing was done by someone that could spel and press go.

Jus' wondering. Thanks.

Have to hold my hand up to that, at least with films, as a couple of hundred discs appear to have materialised in some very stealthy manner. I am another who has been undone by bargains: often I'm not sure just how badly I want to watch a particular film, but when I see it available for the price of a pint, and the only effort involved is a couple of mouse clicks, I tend to think "Why not?". After all, if I'm not prepared to buy a film when it's £3, then it's clearly not speaking to me all that loudly, and I don't really want to see it at all. Hence the To Watch Pile probably has enough to keep me going for the next couple of years, even if I stopped now.

I find myself somewhat behind the curve, of course, if talk down the pub with friends turns to what we've enjoyed watching recently (I can heartily recommend In Bruges and In the Loop; give me another month and I'll be ready to deliver my verdict on Terminator: Salvation and District 9).

That idea with the wallet files is a good one. I'm assuming that in the not to distant future, it'll go like CDs / mp3s, and the plastic box / silver disc method of delivery will no longer be the default, which would really help me reclaim my living room.

I have Series 1 of the Wire, bought about 2 years ago, still in its shrinkwrap. Ditto for Inland Empire, No Country For Old Men, the Departed, etc etc. On the other hand I also apparently own the entire ouevres of Peppa Pig and of Horrid Henry, much of which I can (and indeed probably do) recite verbatim in my sleep.

NIN ~ and all that could have been (watched several times)
Type O Negative ~ Symphony for the Devil (watched several times)
Yes ~ Keys to Ascension (watched several times)
ELP ~ Pictures at an Exhibition (watched three times)
The Matrix (watched several times because it was the only DVD I had for more than a year)
a mate bought me The PInk Floyd ~ Pompeii for my bidet a few years back and it still gets a regular airing

Just looking Laurel And Hardy Boxset, best thing ever, Thunderbirds, The Wire, West Side Story, South Pacific a few music DVDs Crowded House Live, Talking Heads, ELO Zoom, Roger Hodgson.

That's about it I rent from Love film so don't own many films

Oh Fawlty Towers complete set perfect

... and they took all my DVDs amongst other things (and all my guitars, but I got those back). I realized afterwards that I didn't miss them at all (except one) and when I got the check from the insurance company I didn't bother replacing them. I rarely ever watched any of the DVDs more than once.

The one I did miss was a present from my dad - the complete Lovejoy, which I never got to watch.

...judging by some of the responses so far. I can't say I've counted, but I've probably got the best part of 700-800 DVDs.

Yes, I am a filmaholic (filmophile? filmiliac?). So for me, none of the money has been wasted (although I wish I'd sold my collection of 1,000+ videos before they became utterly worthless and I had to take them to the tip). My first was The Matrix back in DVD's early days, and I've been picking them up now and again ever since. But I don't drink, smoke or pursue another expensive hobby, so I can live with my addiction.

I've probably watched 90-95% of them, and I know I will get round to watching the rest one day.

Yes, Blu-ray or whatever comes next will probably make this collection worthless at some point, but for now I think DVDs are a great medium: good picture, good sound, extras, affordable TV series sets, etc.

We live in Canada, and TV here is so unbelievably, shockingly, offensively bad that if we didn't have our DVDs we'd have nothing to watch on a snowy evening.

I keep a list of every DVD and CD I buy and save it to a memory stick periodically, for insurance purposes. I hadn't looked at the numbers for ages, but I'm fully aware that I have too many. A quick check now tells me I have over 700 DVDs and over 50 box sets.

I used to have a stupid amount of vinyl and videos and swore as I made the change over to CDs and DVDs that I wouldn't do the same and would only buy ones that I will regularly watch/listen to. That soon went out of the window (I have around 2,000 CDs too).

With 2 young kids, including a 5 month old, and a Sky+ box that is regularly full, there is very little chance of me making inroads into the DVDs at any point in the foreseeable future.

too many.

Sorry gotta dash, got Leonard Cohen 'Bird On a Wire' and 'Bill Hicks:American' to watch

My name is Chris Young and I am an addict. Cannot resist those £3 bargains as someone else has said. Also have the first series box sets of the Wire, the Sopranos and Six Feet Under gathering dust.
I keep meaning to start at the top left and work my way through but there are so many books and magazines unread plus all that unmissable stuff on the sky box. Not to mention time spent on here!Oh and real life of course.

...Sure, I may only watch them once or twice, but then I can hide the box away, and the film is instantly available, shorn of dire warnings from the FBI, the BFI and the BFG. Disney movies don't have their egregious "Quick play" (hint: choosing 'quick play' gives you 10 minutes of Disney promos).

Best of all, my daughter can watch something as often as she likes without risk of scuffing, buttering or breaking the media, something she has a talent for.

Perhaps the best reason is instant availability - changing media seems so 20th century and I'm more likely to watch something when it doesn't involve having to get off my lardy arse.

But fortunately have a Sharleen Spiteri DVD rack in the stairwell ;-)

Sadly now out of production (we also have its 400 CD twin)

http://news.scotsman.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=2559146

As for wasted money, where do I start ... "the rest Ijust frittered away" etc etc ...

I admire people that work their way through an entire series on a box-set. I am thinking that at some stage I might have a painless but serious-enough-to-be-bedridden short term illness that will mean ample opportunity to do that kind of thing.

And most of them were bought for me as presents. I watch very little TV and not much film.

For all those who have moaned about their lack of readies on the "It's a wages thing.." thread, please look at your DVD and CD racks. How much unlistened-to and unwatched stuff resides there just because it was easy to order with a cick? How much did they all cost? Those £3 purchases add up. Don't forget the P&P charges. And how much the shelves cost.

of my DVD's except for a couple of Costello concert cd's. However i have about 1600 films streamed on my Apple tv plus a naughty section of about another 250. Should I own up to that last bit?? They are the wifes collection really!!

That tells you which CDs you'll never listen to, or DVDs you'll never watch again. That would be a massive help...

They scratch too easily, have increasingly too many adverts on them, and are prone to shoddy packaging.

How many do I have? About 100 or so... Like a few have already said, I can't resist the £3 bargains.

Gems in my collection:
- Bladerunner 5 disc set
- Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Criterion edition
- The Thick Of It