When I was a kid, my greatest fantasy was to be able to "own" some of the movies I loved. In those days, if they weren't being played in the theatre, I had to hope I'd be around when (and if) they were re-run on TV (almost invariably edited). When "The Exorcist" was re-released in the theatres in 1980, I paid to see it every night it was playing at the local movie theatre, wanting to be able to store every detail of it in my memory banks, as I wasn't sure it would ever again play in theatres and I couldn't conceive that it would ever be shown on TV (I know that sounds more than a bit obsessive, but I was a big "Exorcist" fan in my youth). When VCR machines came out, I considered them an absolute god-send, and started  collecting tapes of movies I'd seen and loved, movies I hadn't seen but wanted to, or movies that I hadn't seen or read anything about, but which might prove to be interesting or entertaining. Imagine being able to watch a revered movie anytime you wanted! I could get up in the morning and watch "Last House on the Left". I could tape "Abbott and Costello" episodes from the TV and watch them 2 or 3 weeks later. I could watch "Frankenstein's Daughter" for the 87th time before I went to bed. I could have friends over and we could watch Bogart and Cagney movies on the same night. How great was that? One of my ancillary worries, however, was that the tapes were going to eventually wear out (my major worry was that I wouldn't be able to afford all the tapes I wanted to collect). Then DVD came along. By that point, I had such a large VCR-tape collection that I despaired. But, being the avid movie fan I am (and hearing that DVD's are supposed to last a lifetime), I bit the bullet, bought a DVD-player, and began collecting DVD's, albeit a bit more carefully and selectively than I had the VCR-tapes. I now only buy movies that I truly revere ("White Heat", "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman", "Arguirre, the Wrath of God") or, if I haven't seen them yet, that are very well thought of by reviewers I respect. After all, there are considerations of space; I'm a collector of books, CD's, VCR-tapes, and DVD's, and my place, not that spacious to begin with, is beginning to look as if it's lived in by the Collier brothers (A few years ago, I was going with a certain lady, and on the first date, she came back to my place. A friend called the next morning to see how things had gone, and when I told him I'd brought her back to my place following dinner, he said, "You brought her to that storage space you call an apartment? Well, that's the end of that romance". Actually, the lady and I went together for a few years, but mostly we stayed over at her far-roomier place. She obviously wasn't the movie fan that I was).

My wife and I have close to 300 DVD's all great movies...but since they are all good and we have so many...it is so hard to decie what to watch...so I just go and buy more and watch them and then put them in a walkin closet that I made our DVD room...we are expecting a baby in 2 weeks...so we have been getting all the disney movies... collecting DVD's is my addiction.

I like movies as much as the next person, and a large library does come in handy on a rainy day. However, I say buy the book first, then buy the DVD.

I think we now have 160+ DVD's, most of them mine. I'm the type of person who can watch the same film more than once and still have the same reaction to it that I had on the first viewing. I love watching films and can happily spend a day just watching them with good company, food and wine.

An almost five. I guess between the four of us, over the last 19 years from the time we bought our first VCR and then eventually, A DVD player.we have managed to have a collection of Videos, and dVDs. they range from Disney movies, to classic movies, Current favorites. All of us have our own videos, and Dvds we have bought for birthdays, Christmas gifts and allowances. so we have a fairly good collection. probably medium sized collection.Something we all enjoy getting every now and then that is pretty affordable.

My collection as well as my Mother's is big enough to fill a 6 shelf cupboard. But we don't exactly collect movies, we keep our favourate shows, Star Trek etc.

I am an avid collector of John Wayne movies on VHS tapes.My collection of DVD movies exceeds 125 in number so far.I am not going for quantity though.I do not buy DVD'd just to gain a high number.

Now you're talkin'. I've got a whack-load of VHS and DVD's on my bookshelf. I've got more of them than books. It's fun to watch movies on VHS and/or DVD. Don't you think?

a very small collection