How long is your video collection? Days, weeks, months years, decades?

[yoda313]

Ok I thought I would just leave the title of the thread "HOW LONG IS YOUR..." and see how many responses I get but I thought that would be a bit childish.

Anyway.....

I was thinking the other night of just how large my video collection has gotten. Than I started thinking how much I could play nonstop if I had a large enough dvd/bluray disc carousel. Or even the digital files I do have from amazon and itunes and of course youtube clips.

That got me thinking. It could be forever.

And think of it if you count movies with commentary as more than 1 since you'd want to play the movie again with the commentary. Heck my Lord of the Rings extended edition trilogy on dvd with its 5 or whatever commentary tracks alone would take probably a month to watch consecutively if you rigged it to play each movie with each commentary track plus one play of the original movie track without the commentary.

If you include all my stuff I've recorded off tv on dvd and the couple of boxes of vhs tapes I still have its mind blowing how long the playback could be. Couple that with some complete tv series I have like Stargate SG1 and Atlantis its incredible to think.

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Have you thought of your video collection in this light? How long would you go without stopping?

I haven't even thought about my music videos. Though I only have about a half dozen give or take - maybe more now that I think about it....

[JimmyJoeBob]

DVD/Blu-Ray= 2yrs 2mo 9days 35min.

Music= 13days 21 hrs

[yoda313]

@jimmyjoebob - nice count

I forgot to add the bonus content and features discs on dvds and blurays. That adds a lot more time.

I honestly couldn't count my minutes. I couldn't find em all and I'd lose track and grow bored with the project and just sit down and watch one the videos.

[JimmyJoeBob]

@jimmyjoebob - nice count

I forgot to add the bonus content and features discs on dvds and blurays. That adds a lot more time.

I honestly couldn't count my minutes. I couldn't find em all and I'd lose track and grow bored with the project and just sit down and watch one the videos.

I did it all on an average movie length of 2hrs of course some are longer and shorter. Many duplicates of DVD and Blu-Ray and music on total singles at 3min each. Close enough for Government work.

[olyteddy]

WinAmp says I have 45+ days of music, but that's just what I cataloged in the library. IDK how much video though. Around 500+ movies.

[lordsmurf]

I calculated this about 3-4 years ago.

Based on an average viewing time of 4 hours per day (which is a lot),
it would take 10 years to watch everything.

At that point, I mostly stopped collecting, and starting watching only. I'm a few years in.
Currently, I watch most of my TV from a 13" CRT on a kitchen counter, while I cook. It's "me time".
Some days I can squeeze in a whole movie.

This is another reason I'm not as active on the forums these days.

[vhelp]

i'm mostly coding my own apps for personal use, like we did in the good'old'en days of dos. some ideas i share here, when i have trouble in different areas. i work on multiple projects though usually when i discover the answer through boring debugging. so i bounce back and forth. even have a bare-bones AVIsynth NLE i'm very slowly working on. these are all personal stuff i have the pleasure with in my spare time because its a hobby.

i still capture a lot of analog video, like my directv and vhs and do various kinds of video editing, filtering, and other interesting stuff with it, plus the tools i develope to help the process. but i don't collect vhs/dvd's anymore.

[yoda313]

@vhelp - nice long answer but you didn't answer the question directly - obviously you still have a video collection and no rough estimate :P

Of course I didn't answer my own question but I could be at years in length with my collection if you count old video tapes and tv shows I've recorded on dvd and of course internet video.

[Chopmeister]

@JimmyJoeBob - Yikes, and I thought I had an out of control collection! If you figure a movie is 1 hour 40 min on average, then your hoard comes out at around 12,000 films. Disturbing and impressive in equal measure, at least you have choice when you want to watch something.

I'm sitting on around 2,000 films - about 500 purchased, 1500 recorded off pay TV. Around 1,800 are on DVD, 200 on VHS. Rate of recording has slowed since I figured out how many unwatched films I have accumulated. I am now in the process of converting to files and putting on a hard drive connected to a media player, on the theory that if I don't have to hunt through discs then I might actually watch more of the backlog.

I also have precisely 2 Blu-Rays, both of which I haven't watched yet. They came in combo packs and despite it sitting on a shelf for 8 months, I haven't actually connected my BR player (ever!). I also have all the bits for an HD capturing solution - Matrix Splitter, HD Fury (which has seen some use), HD PVR 1212 sitting on the same shelf. I can sense a reconfiguration of my TV setup coming on.......

[Noahtuck]

It would take me day's, if not weeks, to figure it out

[stiltman]

Counting just the movie at an average of 1h 30m
~350 x 90 / 24 / 365 - 15% (for duplication) = ~3 years

This doesn't count some 50 or 60 DV tapes of home movies

[Noahtuck]

350 ??
I have 1000's of dvd's!!!!

$h!t!!!
I have over 700 concert dvd's alone and that is a small fraction of the "movie" & "TV Series" dvd's i have and have watched!!!

I figure there is no way i could re-watch everything i have before i die!!!!

[fritzi93]

If you stipulate 4 hrs a day as Lord Smurf suggests....close to a year's worth. Not as much as some of you, apparently.