RavenholmDX – the new arrangement looks great!
Hi Everybody - I'm a long, long time lurker and year after year this has been one of my favorite threads. So many awesome set-ups!
Some of my earliest memories are connected to video games. My father brought home the original Magnavox Odyssey (complete with the translucent plastic overlays) when I was 4 years old. We all thought it was amazing, but honestly it didn't get much use after the first week or so. We later moved on to the Atari 2600 (when it still went by the name Atari VCS) and we ultimately scored the love of my gaming life, the ColecoVision, and then a bit later the Adam computer expansion module. That pretty much ended phase one of my personal relationship with video games. I still vividly recall how exciting it was when the NES hit store shelves and at the time, it seemed to pick up where ColecoVision left off. My brother picked up one - - - - and later a Sega Genesis, which I played around with a bit, but my contact with video games pretty much ended there until 2009 when we picked up a PS3 slim for my wife and I, with the primary intention of using it as our blu-ray player.
I've been collecting physical DVDs and Blu-Rays since the formats were introduced and slowly but surely, I got sucked back in to gaming too..
About a year or so ago, I made a
short video showing how I've squeezed
6000+ Discs into my apartment with the intent of helping hopeless collector types like myself who may be facing storage issues.
It's a little shaky & the audio could be louder, so apologies...
Big 6000+ DVD & Blu-ray Collection Storage Solution - YouTube
I also took a some photos...
Fortunately, my wife and I have a large living room in our apartment, so it doubles as our home theater.
The back wall is where we keep all of our discs. Films are always on disc, but we've been going more and more digital with our game collection (to save on space!).
In the front of the room, we use a splitter to feed the consoles to both the projector (optoma hd3300) and the television. The screen is painted on the wall and measures nearly 150”.
Even though the room is bright, when the shades are pulled down, we can get it very dark and get great color and contrast. This picture was taken during the afternoon.
Under the TV we have a European PS3 slim (for Region B for Blu-Rays), a U.S. PS4 (for Region A for Blu-Rays), a Wii U, Playstation TV and an additional Blu-Ray player used primarily for other DVD regions and old field sequential 3D DVDs that require an interlaced signal.
The trays to the left hold Buzz controllers, Wii controllers and various cables.
The trays to the right are for additional 3D glasses..
We're just console gamers, but at the computer desk (to the right of the projection screen), we have a 3DS XL (with a grip) and a second O.G. OLED Vita.
DVDs that don't come in traditional cases go on the shelving units mounted on the wall in the back of the room.
We can't easily reach the top shelf, so boxes on the very top are empty and for display only. I primarily collect older films and 3D discs.
Here are some games on one of our three large spinning towers. These towers are the largest capacity I've been able to find. In the middle you can see all three of the fat 3DS steelbook cases. I LOVE them. They are so ridiculous!
Each tower has a capacity of 756 DVDs, but since blu-rays in the USA come in thinner cases, you can get 34 BRDs per shelf. With 7 shelves per side (when spaced equally), that comes to a capacity of 952 blu-rays.
The towers are represented as holding more (1056 Blu-rays),so technically you could stack a few in on their sides, etc - but it will look a bit awkward. Results will be different with thicker PS3 cases, UK BRD cases, etc.
Here's a detail of the center shelving with some Arrow Video Blus, Cinerama movies,
and a couple of Charlton Heston epics.
Center shelves and some 3D Blu-rays.
This cart fits nicely under the center shelves.
More 3D discs and some EC slipcased box sets on the bookshelf to the right.
DVDS that originally came in cases have their cases removed,
are inserted in vinyl sleeves, and are filed in these drawers.
I had the drawers custom made for DVDs, but this would work for large game disc collections too. We use divider cards to organize by genre, star or director.
Here are some DVDs in the vinyl sleeves.
...and some Blu-Rays in the vinyl sleeves too.
I talk a bit about how I arrived at this storage system in the video link up at the top. It will also give you a better look at the discs and a quick overview of the room..
Thanks!
