How do you arrange your DVD/BD collection?

[HungFist]

In my Excel listing I have half of the Japanese films by Japanese title and the rest by English title. Sometimes I forget which one I have used...

[bradavon]

Haha, with that one I prefer 'Miracles' but it's different with other things, I prefer Kairo to Pulse, for instance.

Me too. I tend to mix and match. For example Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her and Bad Education are known in the English world under their English titles but Volver is only known by it's Spanish name (English "To return"). The same goes for Y Tu Mama Tambian of course. I've never seen it written in English ever.

I think of films by their most common name but would too use Kairo over Pulse but that's because I knew of it by it's Japanese name way before it got an English release.

Remembering a Chinese film by a name I've literally never heard of would be far too confusing for me.

[Markgway]

I don't know anyone who stores their DVDs/BDs/CDs in alphabetical order

The vast majority of people who put their collections in some kind of order do so alphabetically.

What would you suggest? Colour coding? Barcodes?

Arrange you films in alphabetical order by original title, and the respect goes through the roof

Yes, but that's the Mandarin title for Miracles. If you want to be really pretentious you have to know the original language and go by that. Actually the original English title is Mr. Canton and Lady Rose. Miracles is the title of the dubbed export version. I list my HKL under Miracles because that's what it says on the case. Saves confusion.

[bradavon]

Agreed. No matter how you order, order by what's on the case. I could see it getting really confusing trying to find Miracles under J.

In my Excel listing I have half of the Japanese films by Japanese title and the rest by English title. Sometimes I forget which one I have used...

Is DVD Profiler not your bag?

[HungFist]

Is DVD Profiler not your bag?

Tried a few of these and none of em work for me. Half of my dvds are not in these databases, so I would have to be adding titles to the database myself all the time. DVDAficionado doesn't show any of the technical detail, and some yellow mess (DVD profiler maybe?) didn't let me create proper categories when I tried. Too much work for sub-par quality. I'll just go for Excel and without tech details.

[bradavon]

Yellow mess? DVD Profiler's not yellow. You can create categories in DVD Profiler I think but I wouldn't bother. A list is fine. DVD Profiler takes all the work out of it. I just add the UPC and it adds the rest, including cover art.

There is lots of rare stuff on DVD Profiler but maybe not rare enough for you. I'm unsure. It is more Western disc centric. Excel would be okay but it takes even more work to manage than DVD Profiler. It has no database to start with. You must have some mammoth spreadsheet there.

[HungFist]

Yellow mess? DVD Profiler's not yellow.

Correction. Blue mess

[grim_tales]

Was that directed at me?

[gasteropod]

[luckystars]

For movies, I have 3 bookcases:

1 English language movies
2 World (non Asian)
3 Asian


All films listed by Director in release order - unless it's a series of movies with different director (eg the 6 Star Wars movies, which are listed under Star Wars).

It's a very easy system and it works for me - believe me I've tried every other way over the years.

Example:






John McTiernan
- 1988 Die Hard
- 1995 Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Olivier Megaton
- 2008 Transporter 3

George Miller
- 1979 Mad Max

Monty Python Films
- 1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Dir. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
- 1979 Life of Brian (Dir. Terry Jones)
- 1982 Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
- 1983 The Meaning of Life (Dir. Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam)

Naked Gun Films
- 1988 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (Dir. David Zucker)
- 1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (Dir. David Zucker)
- 1994 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (Dir. Peter Segal)

Chris Nahon
- 1999 Kiss of the Dragon

Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor
- 2006 Crank



Easy quick, and it makes sense

[gasteropod]

Cheers, yeah I had a load by director before I did this change around, it's cool for certain directors I follow such as Wes Anderson, but others can be a bit spotty if I don't like all their films

[luckystars]

Cheers, yeah I had a load by director before I did this change around, it's cool for certain directors I follow such as Wes Anderson, but others can be a bit spotty if I don't like all their films

Yeah I tend not to have many films from Directors I'm not down with.

Anyway always going back to the Director helps me remember who I like, and to check out more of their stuff


Wes Anderson
- 1996 Bottle Rocket
- 1998 Rushmore
- 2001 The Royal Tenenbaums
- 2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- 2007 The Darjeeling Limited

Noah Baumbach
- 2005 The Squid and the Whale

Michael Bay
- 2003 Bad Boys II
- 2007 Transformers

Bernardo Bertolucci
- 1987 The Last Emperor

Shane Black
- 2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Danny Boyle
- 1994 Shallow Grave
- 2002 28 Days Later...

Mel Brooks
- 1974 Young Frankenstein

Tim Burton
- 1990 Edward Scissorhands
- 1994 Ed Wood
- 1999 Sleepy Hollow

Steve Buscemi
- 1996 Trees Lounge

Bruce Campbell
- 2007 My Name Is Bruce

James Cameron
- 1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- 1994 True Lies

John Carpenter
- 1976 Assault on Precinct 13
- 1982 The Thing
- 1984 Starman...

[gasteropod]

Yes, I see you need to add Fantastic Mr. Fox!

[luckystars]

Waiting for the Blu Ray to come down a bit.

LOVED it of course

[grim_tales]

Gas:
I'm just wondering why Hung chose my collection I add stuff to Profiler as soon as I recieve it and, sometimes I take something away, if I get something new, I put that in its place (missing number) its much easier than arsing about reassigning everything.
It doesnt mean everything is laid out on the shelves exactly like Profiler.

[bradavon]

I update DVD Profiler as soon as it arrives or is sold too. Fantastic Mr. Fox is okay but the book was a childhood favourite, so the book is meh in comparison.

[HungFist]

I'm just wondering why Hung chose my collection

Because your signature links to it

I don't mean to diss your collection, I just think dvd profiler looks messy beyond belief. And I bet they don't have any of my fav films and TV shows in their database

[grim_tales]

That's fair enough No worries Hung

[bradavon]

Fair enough too. I think it's neatly laid out with enough info and cover art etc... A search field is needed, with some sort of advanced search. Having to use the browsers Find function isn't enough.