208 movie titles, 505 TV episodes, 3880 song titles, 26 music videos, all either ripped from original DVDs/Music CDs or legitimately received from iTunes.
My way with doing things when it comes to my movies:-
1 - Soft copy inside Time Capsule served media-server style to Apple TV. Couldnt be bothered to be holding hard copies in DVDs and then ripping them out into formats recognizable by Apple TV.
2 - Blockbuster titles in Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats. Only very select titles I would still buy in DVD discs, like the two Futurama titles. Otherwise, it is all Hi-Def for me.
You wanna stay old-school with collecting DVD discs and boxes? Be my guest. I'm running out of space putting the boxes into shelves and arranging them in boxes. With all of them stored inside as a file format in Time Capsule, they can be served away as "video-on-demand" for a futuristic movie delivery service to every TVs in my house connected with Apple TVs. And what's even better , they are served wirelessly. No more plunking archaic DVD players to each TVs and have one guest fighting over one copy of "Harold and Kumar :Escape from Guantanamo Bay", when I can serve them to multiple Apple TV. This works great for "movie nights" and "popcorn dates" when buddies and friends come over to watch a movie or the latest episode of Lost. We have those regularly at my place. All thanks to iTunes having the latest DVDs and TV Shows ONE day after it is being made available in the States.
For High Definition titles, we definitely would reconvene to my home theater room for that.
Now I can chuck away the DVDs into storage without cramping my living area. Displaying DVDs in racks are so 90s. People show their Blu-rays and HD-DVD titles now, not DVDs.
Your choice.
This post has been edited by stringfellow: Aug 16 2008, 03:58 PM