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DVD Storage - Cheap Ideas
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DogBomb
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4. March 2005 @ 03:08 |
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Here's the spindle cakeboxes you can buy to store your burned DVDs. 3 of the 25-spindle cases are only 99 cents. :) Shipping might kill these deals but if you order anything, just add it. I don't know if Newegg or Supermedia has these too, but I'll check. http://www.meritline.com/99-cents-store.html
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babelfish
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4. March 2005 @ 06:04 |
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just buy some dvd case you cheap ass :)
they are like 100 for £7 or something! :)
also when you get quite a few disks you really want an easy way to find them... i built a dvd cabinet on my wall... holds about 550 dvds and mine is almost full ! :eek:
also with the cheapness of ink these days printing labels is a doddle..
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dlc2000
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4. March 2005 @ 07:28 |
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4. March 2005 @ 12:54 |
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I use binder pages that hold eight discs. 50 pages cost me $15 and will accomodate 400 discs yet fit within two big binders :)
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4. March 2005 @ 12:55 |
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My killer sig came courtesy of bb "El Jefe" mayo.
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"And there we saw the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight" - Numbers 13:33
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h-k
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4. March 2005 @ 13:38 |
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Grampaw
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4. March 2005 @ 13:49 |
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I've been using paper sleeves ($5 USD for 100) for years now, and storing them in shoe boxes. Actually I've graduated to those bulk copier paper boxes - they hold 3 rows. And I haven't seen any scratchs from the paper sleeves...
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DogBomb
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4. March 2005 @ 20:01 |
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I personally use the slim DVD cases (100 for $10) for all my movies just because it's easier to find and protect my movies (they will hold 2 DVDs per case). But for my data DVDs for videos and music - mostly backups of FLAC/SHNs, mp3s, music videos - I use these space saving spindles. I threw out my DVD cases long ago. They are only slightly less bulky than a VHS tape. Five hundred DVD cases would fill up a wall whereas it would fit in one shelf in my stereo cabinet in the slim cases. Cheap ass, huh. I'll remember that babelfish. ;)
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dbennion
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5. March 2005 @ 15:02 |
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I use the two-sided translucent vinyl sleeves (better on the disks than paper sleeves). For movies I spread across two blanks, they fit into the one sleeve. I'm up to about 900 movies, so I need a cabinet or two ... maybe like something from here
http://www.spinkeeper.com/cdcabinets.html
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5. March 2005 @ 16:35 |
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i got the binder that holds 240 discs for only $10
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dbennion
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5. March 2005 @ 18:54 |
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I tried the binders and sheets. I had two problems with them, although the price was excellent.
I have two kids, and they were always removing the disks and carrying them around unprotected. Now they carry them around in sleeves. Me too.
Also I had problems keeping the disks in alphabetical order ... always having to insert sheets that ended up 1/4 filled .. moving whole sections of DVDs .. you know the drill. Sleeves are trivially sorted.
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Pony321
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6. March 2005 @ 07:47 |
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I use the colored slim cases. One color per movie gender. They protect the dvd very well and take up very little space. I print a front lable insert for the front of the case which includes movie title, cast , director and a short summory of the movie.
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sadsac
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6. March 2005 @ 08:41 |
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I usually just throw mine around anywhere they may land. Some in the desk drawer. Some on top of my desk. Some on the floor in the living room. Some on top of the TV. Some on the floor of the car. Some on the kitchen counter.
No storage. It's the perfect filing system. They like to go commando!
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6. March 2005 @ 09:37 |
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i use double dvd cases, really cheap from ebuyer. i just scribble neatly on a piece of paper and insert thru the see-thru section. i live on a boat and space is priority, but i also want to find films quickly, so stopped using those 240-capacity cases.
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Mike5150
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6. March 2005 @ 21:55 |
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6. March 2005 @ 22:01 |
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i'd chuck that cabinet in my woodburner, but not at that cost :)
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dbennion
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7. March 2005 @ 05:41 |
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OK I just solved my storage problems. I have >900 DVDs, and growing. I use two-sided vinyl sleeves ... better on the disks than paper, ideal package for DVDs spread across two blanks, easily sorted alphabetically, very thin profile, and at $0.07 or so per, cheap. The problem is where to store them when you get tired of looking at the shoeboxes in your bookshelves.
A standard 8.5x11 letter-sized file drawer holds two rows of those sleeves side-by-side ... they just need a divider (piece of cardboard or whatever) running down the middle of the drawer back-to-front to separate the rows.
I figure one drawer will hold approximately 250 sleeves, 125 per row, and that is loosely packed so searching through the sleeves, and updating them alphabetically, is easy. A four-drawer cabinet (or two two-drawer cabinets) will hold ~1000 sleeves, loosely packed. If you jammed them together you could probably get 1200+ into four drawers. Locally (Toronto) I can easily find four wooden drawers for considerably < $100.
That VERY expensive cabinet in an earlier posting gave me the idea ... that cabinet is just an extra-wide three-row version of this cheaper way to go ... It has 3x3 rows instead of the 4x2 route I'm going to go. Vinyl sleeves have a much thinner profile than DVD/CD cases. Those DVD cases would be difficult to search if packed tightly ...
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sadsac
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7. March 2005 @ 10:12 |
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900 dvd's???
It would take 2-1/2 years to watch all those if you only watched one per day!
I've got about 20.
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dbennion
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7. March 2005 @ 10:29 |
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Yes it grew like topsy. I've been collecting for about two years. I started off wanting my very top favorites, thinking maybe one or two hundred would do it. Then I started watering down my criteria, from ***** to ****, from great to merely good.
Then, because using Netflix and time-shifting was way cheaper than renting them at the local Blockbuster, I started doing that as a proxy for viewing those expensive routine rentals, so the **** has dropped to *** and there is some junk beginning to collect there ... :-)
I actually measured my current 'shoeboxes' and I was fairly close, but conservative, with my earlier guesstimate of a four-drawer unit holding 1000 movies (some doubles, mostly singles). It despends of course on the depth of the filing cabinet, which range from 16" to 22+", but with the smallest 16" size, 1000 will fit 'loosely', and maybe 1400+ will fit 'snugly'. With deeper units, those numbers will increase proportionately.
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8. March 2005 @ 10:36 |
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dbennion
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9. March 2005 @ 05:40 |
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Oops Kinza too late. I went out and bought a maple two-drawer filing cabinet for $120 CAN. There was three friggen hours of assembly, including many curses and beers. The filing area per drawer was about 26" wide by 16" deep, wide enough for four rows of sleeved DVDs. I even did the carpentry thing with an 8' length of 4" by 1/2" pine .. cut into six pieces about 16" long to serve as row dividers.
The cabinet looks like it was made for a DVD collection, everything fits so well. My collection of 900 DVDs fills six rows, loosely. Looks to me like it will hold close to 1500 in total in all eight rows, packed snugly, all in a unit about 18" deep by 28" wide by 30"? high.
By vinyl-sleeving the DVDs I can (1) store alphabetically (2) update easily (3) minimize storage space (4) carry DVDs around safely. I keep newly time-shifted DVDs in a separate binder (now maybe 70 of them) and bulk-update the cabinet every couple of months, at which time I also update an EXCEL spreadsheet that I print out for easy reference.
Any standard letter-sized (8.5 x 11) filing cabinet will hold two rows of sleeved DVDs (with skinny divider) at say 10 movies per inch per row of drawer depth, so a three drawer unit with usable 20" deep drawers will hold ~ 10x2x3x20 or 1200 movies.
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DogBomb
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9. March 2005 @ 07:33 |
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Rule of thumb for me: the cost of printing labels on DVDs or storing them should not cost more than the DVDs themselves. I spend less than 30 cents per DVD disc. It kills me that I even have to spend 10 cents for a slim case much less a storage cabinet for them. ;)
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dbennion
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9. March 2005 @ 08:53 |
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OK let's see I'm currently using DAXONs (BenQ brand) which in my experience are as good as ANY media, and God knows I've tried a lot of brands. The 8X version burns effortlessly at 16X, scores 93+ EVERY time on Nero, ZERO coasters out of hundreds, plays on everything, as good as anything including TYs and Verbatim which I also have. They cosr me $60 CAN for 200 ... $0.30 CAN each.
After I have stuffed the cabinet with say 1500 movies, and the cabinet cost $120, and sleeves cost $.06 each, that's $0.14 each, in storage costs. Total cost per movie is $0.44 CAN.
LOL current exchange rate with US makes that about $0.35 US .. pretty damned close to your standard, and mine are all stored nicely and off the floor :-)
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shark29
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9. March 2005 @ 17:16 |
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dbennion,
Just curious, where do you buy your vinyl sleeves from? I have been looking for something other than paper sleeves. From the sites I have looked at, I only see paper sleeves for the most part.
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dbennion
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9. March 2005 @ 17:52 |
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Got them here
http://www.blankmedia.ca/
but it's a Canadian site, and I notice they only have paper in stock right now.
Coincidently I was in Futureshop yesterday (Futureshop is owned by Best Buy CAN, but operates independently) and bought two 100-packs of vinyl sleeves ... the last two ... at $7.95 each I think. That site was selling at $6 I think. Subtract 20% for US comparison.
Yes paper sleeves are easier to find for sure.
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