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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Nope, I've never lost any. I've certainly misplaced or overlooked some on the shelf before, but they've always turned up. | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 756 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Lord Of The Sith: Quote:
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My daughter took a few to college with her (each year a few more; none have returned). We made a list, but I suspect I will never see them (in my collection) again.
Ah yes, a scenario which is not unfamiliar in Mole Towers. Our collection is distributed between MT, Oxford and Exeter universities.
At least you have a list! 
But I have a plan. I now buy mostly BluRay........ the mesdemoiselles Mole only have playback facilities for DVDs!
Old age & cunning always beats youth and enthusiasm.
Until the young ladies tell you they need a new laptop for college and the new one has a Bluray player in it. LOL Tell me about it! In the case of daughter #2 it was £171 worth of Razer Chimaera 5.1 headphones (Mass Effect 3 edition) for Xmas. We packed both of them off to uni with high spec. gaming machines that I built, with the expectation that they'll last the 3/4 years until they graduate....then the little darlings will get highly paid employment, and be able to buy their own d@mn PCs... "Yeah, right", I hear you all saying! | | | | Chris | | | | Last edited: by Mole |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,744 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm not an overly tidy person (read: I'm a slob) and I don't treat my DVD particularily carefully. They are put into the first open case when I remove them from the drive - sometimes not even that.
Sometimes that leads to scratches that make them unreadable (I had that only once or twice so far). If I like the movie enough, I get a new copy which by then has dropped in price dramatically anyway (usually to be found in the bargain bin).
Bu before I put them back into the shelves when I'm eventually cleaning up I check if all the discs are in the right cases.
Unfortunately I still lost a disc. I recently wanted to watch Glee: The Concert Movie and it wasn't in the case. I have no idea in what case it could have ended up and I'm not overly keen on opening my 1300 cases just to find it. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,272 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
I'm not an overly tidy person (read: I'm a slob) and I don't treat my DVD particularily carefully. They are put into the first open case when I remove them from the drive - sometimes not even that.
The horror!!! | | | HDTV: 52" Toshiba Regza 52XV545U AVR: Onkyo TR-707
Speakers: Paradigm Monitor 7 v6, CC-190 & Atom Monitors Subwoofer: Definitive Technology ProSub 800
BD/DVD: Oppo BDP-93 (Region Free) HD PVR: Motorola DXC3400 500GB w/ 1TB Expander
BD/DVD/Game: 250GB PS3 Slim DVD/Game: 250GB XBox 360 Elite Special Edition (Black) Game: Wii
Remote: Logitech Harmony One w/ PS3 Adapter WHS: Acer H341 Windows Home Server |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
I'm not an overly tidy person (read: I'm a slob) and I don't treat my DVD particularily carefully. They are put into the first open case when I remove them from the drive - sometimes not even that.  To borrow this dude from the slip cover thread... | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- Thorin Oakenshield |
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| Registered: June 3, 2007 | | Posts: 706 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have had a few die from DVD rot, I replaced with BluRays.
I had a few go "missing" as long term loans but I did get them back.
I have Bruce Almighty that looks like someone tried to push a nail through it, not sure how that kind of damage happened.
What I do for unplayable discs is they are movied to my junk category, the count as is set to 0 and the collection number is removed.
When I get a DVD that have replaced with a BR I move it to the dups, remove it from the juke box ( clearing out a slot ) and put it into a binder of my dups with the slip cover.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Eagle: Quote:
Sometimes when I buy new movies, I hide them from the wife for a while so she doesn't think I'm spending too much $$. Then, over time, I'll gradually just "slip" them into the collection. Glad to hear I'm not alone  though that was a lot easier when I could have them delivered to work... Quote:
EDIT: And Hunger Games has been found!  Happy to hear that | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: January 11, 2009 | | Posts: 23 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Eagle: Quote:
Sometimes when I buy new movies, I hide them from the wife for a while so she doesn't think I'm spending too much $$. Then, over time, I'll gradually just "slip" them into the collection. Isn't it usually the other way around. Wife: No, honey, I didn't go by the Candy isle. (Bag of Peanut Butters Cups falls onto floor. The husband just stares.) Wife: Crap.  |
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