Topic: Physical Media Collectors (Movies & TV)

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot, Thanks. Pretty good haul you got yourself.

I saw an Anastasia Blu-Ray a few weeks ago while thrifting, but as I couldn't remember if it's one I liked as a kid so I passed on it.

I'll see an HD DVD occasionally as well, but pass on them as I have no way to play them, and from what I've heard in physical media spaces they have pretty bad manufacturing quality and many of them are starting to rot out.

@RR529 I see HD-DVD's once in a blue moon in thrift stores. But mostly online, like eBay, is where you'll find them alot. Warner Bros. HD-DVD's are pretty bad quality in particular.

I came close to getting Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire DVD/Blu-ray Steelbook from Walmart but I wanted to get Abigail...so...yeah.
My next picks are from Criterion & Shout Factory. Namely, The Blob (1958) & X The Unknown (1956). I already have The H-man on DVD from Toho through Sony's Icons Of Sci-Fi Toho Collection DVD.

The set isn't what I call "definitive" in terms of the transfers of the films. But considering that they are some of Toho's earliest films from the late 50's & early 60's, I'll give them a thumbs up. The translations are top notch as far as I can tell. Plus, Sony did a decent job with the presentation, considering they're released from 2008.

So I'm aiming to complete the "Blob Monster" genre set. Also apologies for the long text...

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Just out of curiosity, why did you want Godzilla X Kong on both Bluray and DVD?

@Dogorilla When I wanted to get the Blu-ray from the Walmart I live nearby, they were sold out for a week. So only the DVD was on the shelf, so I had to wait for awhile before they restock the Blu-ray.

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Ah fair enough. Wish i lived near somewhere that sold DVDs and Blurays, they're getting hard to come by in the UK without ordering online (other than secondhand stock in charity shops). I did recently buy Community season 1 from a charity shop, and also got Star Trek: The Next Generation complete box set for my birthday

The recent price rises for streaming services again. I've cut Amazon Prime now, still leaching Netflix but am paying for Disney+. I'd consider cutting Disney+ if not for the fact that I share it across the family including with my Niece who is pretty much on it 24/7. But yeah, going to start adding to my BluRay collection again I think

And I'm prepared. Migrated my Unraid setup from my old 2014 i5 4950 machine to the 2021 i3 10105F HTPC build I had. 512GB SSD for cache, 2x 10TB + 2x 2TB HDDs for a total of 14TB of usable storage, 2.5Gbps network card. Plus my trusty old 1660Ti for a very overkill hardware video decode acceleration. So very much ready to pick up some movies to rip and add to the collection

........ and probably need to get a bit of a move on because it's getting increasingly difficult to find the movies I'm after

Went on a bit of a shop at JBs, picked up a few:

4K
TMNT - Mutant Mayhem
V for Vendetta

BluRay
The Meg 2
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Midway
Terminator

More I've picked up since my last post (had a huge thrifting haul, usually I wouldn't be able to get this much in such a short time span).

A couple of 4Ks I picked up with a free Walmart gift card:

Thrifting Hauls:

Anime:

• Apollo 13 (4K UHD Blu-Ray/Film)
• Babylon AD (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Beauty & the Beast (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Battle: Los Angeles (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Blade (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Caddyshack (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Deadpool 2: the Super Duper Cut (4K UHD Blu-Ray/Film)
• Dune (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Elysium (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Fury (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Grumpy Old Men (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Grumpier Old Men (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Hacksaw Ridge (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Heaven's Lost Property Final (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Immortals (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Inglorious Basterds (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Jonah Hex (Blu-Ray/Film)
• the Lion King (4K UHD Blu-Ray/Film)
• the Lost World: Jurassic Park (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Man of Steel (Blu-Ray/Film)
• the Martian (Blu-Ray/Film)
• the Protege (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Pompeii (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Ranma 1/2 Set 7 (Blu-Ray/TV Series)
• Ranma 1/2 OVA & Movie Set (Blu-Ray/OVA Series & Films)
• Spaceballs (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Star Wars: the Last Jedi (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Toy Story (Blu-Ray/Film)
• Urusei Yatsura OVA Collection (Blu-Ray/OVA Series)
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (Blu-Ray/Film)

Itty Bitty Thrifting Haul:

The Last Blu-Rays from our town's Big Lots going out of business sale:

Mecha anime haul:

Full Metal Panic! (Blu-Ray/TV Series)
Mad Max (Blu-Ray/Film)
Patlabor: the Mobile Police (Blu-Ray/OVA Series)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (Blu-Ray/Film)
Tiny Giants (4K UHD Blu-Ray/Documentary)
Wild Africa (4K UHD Blu-Ray/Documentary)

Thrifting Haul:

Anime:

Act of Valor (Blu-Ray/Film)
American Hustle (Blu-Ray/Film)
the Blind Side (Blu-Ray/Film)
Cujo (Blu-Ray/Film)
Dallos (Blu-Ray/OVA Series)
the Fighter (Blu-Ray/Film)
the Hangover Unrated (Blu-Ray/Film)
Kite Integral Version (Blu-Ray/Film)
Monster Musume (Blu-Ray/TV Series)
Nadia: Secret of Blue Water (Blu-Ray/TV Series)
Riding Bean (Blu-Ray/Film)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Blu-Ray/Film)
Tona-Gura! (Blu-Ray/TV Series)
Trouble With the Curve (Blu-Ray/Film)
the Wolf of Wall Street (Blu-Ray/Film)