DVD/Blu-ray cases - what do you do with yours?

[dowie]

Do you guys bin all cases? Keep all cases? Or something in between?

Have considered getting rid of most (aside from boxed sets with nice/non-standard cases) - on the plus side it frees up space, on the negative side if/when I move to a bigger property (currently in a flat) it might be nice to have them all on shelves, easier to find, easier for others to scan through the collection if you have friends round for a movie etc..

Anyway, what do you do with yours?

 

[dowie]

At some point I need to buy a lot of the sleeves you get in DJ cases and make a storage unit that has rails for them (or adapt a set of drawers).

You can get drawer inserts for the cases btw... though yeah I guess thin sleeves and some sort of storage system for them could be ideal.

 

[dowie]

I think I've got about 500 DVD's in DJ cases and about 300 blu-rays in "book" style storage at the moment.

As an idea of some of my storage, this is one of 3 drawers in a unit I made ~15 years ago (I made 2 the same and a larger version that had 8 drawers but turned out too big to move and I used the wrong runners*).

That's pretty cool, though you've perhaps got double the number of DVDs/Blu-Rays that I have - I've only got circa 400 or so total.

Making some storage might well be a good idea. One thing I did see during lockdown was some guy in the US who made his own replica blockbuster video store in his basement, while obviously I don't think I could do one the size he made, it would be quite cool if/when I move into a house to not only have a cinema room but to have a mini blockbuster video style set up (some yellow shelves etc..),