As a Plex user I like to have ALL of my collections of movies, TV shows and music videos available all the time wherever I am on any device. So I looked to see how many movies I have and discovered it had grown to 7800+. So without wanting to start a competition of mine’s bigger than yours I wondered what other hoarders and multiple hard drive addicts (I know there are plenty of those here) have and what ‘drives’ them to gather so much stuff they can never hope to watch even if they lived multiple lifetimes. For me it’s the video store experience, you know when you used to go in and pick out what you were going to watch for the weekend? But without the popcorn.
How Big Is Your Movie Collection?
MontyMacaw on 17/10/2021 - 13:26
Last edited 17/10/2021 - 13:27
Last edited 17/10/2021 - 13:27
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it’s a weird thing when it comes to digital content piracy. If you ask the folks that do it they say why would you pay x y and z when it can be downloaded for free and another would say they pay decent amount of $ to vpn and usenet service so why should they pay for anything thats available in that 🤷♂️
I have Kodi with dodgy addons and a real-debrid account.
My collection is infinite.
I win.
Edit. Out of curiosity decided to see the source counters:
695,580 movies.
119,447 tv shows.
2,858,301 tv episodes.havent used the kodi addons for a couple of years now - do they still break quite often? How much do you pay for the debrid account? Worth it?
RD is like $5 a month.
Been using The Crew addon for years without breakage.
Will give it a look
ThanksYeah using RD is a game changer. I’m kinda looking for an excuse to setup a Plex server but I know at the end of the day I’ll just be using RD to download movies to the server to play them so I wonder what the point even is if I can just stream them directly, buffer free.
You should check out Seren and using widgets in the Arctic Horizon skin on Kodi, super clean setup. I much prefer it over The Crew and it’s had everything I want.
@JuryWheel: So the debrid service I use is called Real-Debrid (hence RD), I use it because it works well for me and is cheap (~$5pm). Site looks a bit sketchy but it's fine. Another one that has good feedback is Premiumize which also has Usenet capabilities and some other stuff but it's more expensive and certainly not necessary.
If you're wanting an easy way to use RD to stream movies etc then I suggest looking into Kodi which is a media player and getting an add-on called Seren for it. There's guides on the internet.
With RD you don't need a VPN because you're downloading or streaming content from RDs servers so you're not part of any swarms or anything. When you add a torrent to your RD account (via magnet link) they download it to their servers and you can download it from them at your full broadband speed.
@Castcore: Thanks Mate - yep, familiar with Kodi and the addons (used to be all over it maybe 5 years ago, but they kept on breaking/getting shut down/requiring RD accounts so i gave up) but may well give it another go. Ive got The Crew going but only get 720p links with no RD account. Will investigate Seren too - any major differences?
@JuryWheel: They're pretty much the same concept but Seren is debrid only. Also the way Seren has been designed means it shouldn't ever get shut down, kinda like how Kodi can't get shut down. I much prefer the layout and source select of Seren.
With Seren and the a4kscrapers packaged added to it I always get a wide variety of 1080p to 4k links, buffer free because I only play cached videos (stuff that's already on the RD servers).
There's a few settings you can mess around with such as max min file sizes and resolutions and whether you want it to let you select a source when you hit play on a video or just automatically pick one.
You should definitely setup a Trakt account and hook that up to Seren as well, that way it'll keep track of your movie/tv progress providing you with resuming where you left off or a list of collected content or up next episodes for tv. Like how Netflix tracks it.
Can you suggest a particular RD site to use? Cheers
wth those are crazy numbers. Do you just download everything that drops?
Real debrid is amazing, just wish there was a replacement for warez-bb, so hard to find older movies these days
Hmm. I'm still sad about warezbb. Might send you a link to something when I get home.
See earlier answer
….695 580 movies
Includes Bollywood and Asian movies?
How many US movies have been made?
Though the number isnt known, it has been estimated that there are approximately 500,000 movies (or, narrative fiction feature-length, theatrical-cinema films) currently in existence.They made 236 in 2021 including Canada.
I have it all but nothing at all.
I only stream. How do you even download movies legally?
From YouTube or Netflix? They have an off-line option
iphone
I have ONE! it is an 8k res and oh bugger struggles on the macbook!
I have been actively trying to reduce my collection. Too many crap movies I will never watch again.
There wouldn't be 7800 movies out there I like…
Used to be quite big (downloaded movies/tv shows, dvd collection of both also) - now ZERO.
6111 when I cared to download them according to my spreadsheet from up until 2015. Used IMDB to download the top 100 movies of each year until the 40s or 50s. But lost interest and no way I will ever get around to watching them all in my lifetime so was pointless to keep updating the collection.
These days pretty much I have everything I need through online services thanks to Real-Debrid with zero buffering issues.
Don't watch movies anymore, best movies been made, now just endless recycling.
agreed, after DVD i haven't even bother to get any of the new movies on blu ray or now 4k.
Every movie released after 'The Room' is redundant.
I used to burn CD and DVDs in the 2000s when a typical movie was 700MB or 4GB. When HDDs become large enough, I kept the files on disk. At some point I realised that I'd never re-watched any of them. Selected all, hit the delete button. So, currently haze ZERO in my collection.
So my "friends" offshore plex server has rss crawlers and a webpage to request media for the system to download in minutes.
Being hosted from an offshore gsuite/workspace I'm not sure how much storage limit it has. Everything in the last 5-7 years has lossless rips. There was atleast 11000+ movies in it, most likely due to the diverse nationality of the members using/requesting movies from all nations.
your “friend” has a name?
Jeff
I've had the same setup with approx 5000 movies and several series.
2 years ago, with a shaky hand, I deleted them all as I realised I didn't watch that much tv and kept them as a collectible item.
Mine is smaller. :sigh:
I have access to a friend's Plex Server that he also shares with his wider family and I thought it might be nice to hold a few of his as a copy/backup of sorts and I could start my Plex Server that way. So I offered to send down a new 16TB USB drive with postage paid to come back.
"He said what do you want me to put on there?" and I replied just the movies <shugs>; he laughed and said the movies wouldn't fit on 16TB! With the movies and TV series, no Anime or Music it's currently about 46TB!
We agreed that I would just keep using the Plex Server from his place via the Internet 'pro re nata'. LoL!!!
Yeah when you have a pirate ship like that, it's cheaper to get an offshore gsuite lol
In my Plex collection I keep a maximum of 2,000. When I reach that limit I go and find 50 that I didn't like much or that I know we won't watch again and I nuke them. Out of that I'd say there might be 1,200 that I'd actually want to watch again and the rest would be wife/kids movies.
I was once a movie hoarder of the physical kind (2,000 DVDs and 500 Bluray) and I got rid of those. Now I try to keep the digital hoarding under control too.
Everyone is getting rid of their DVDs and Blu Rays, so I cruise the op shops and pick up stuff I like. Just feels good having a physical copy.
That is a lot of movies OP.
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I have a lot of grandchildren 🙃
i use Synology DS918+ with RAID 5 and 4 x 4Tb drives.
then I use docker for radarr, and sonarr to download movie from rarbg and put it in plex (in the same synology).
the only problem is that when i watch it on my sony bravia sometime it cant handle 4k transcoding (ie when you play 2 hours movie it will stop in middle for 1 min then continue again) probably the synology cant handle transcodingHad many terabytes full even before streaming became a thing
All depends.
People can easily say they have 1000s but they're Yify copies or some shit.
I've been moving my collection to 4K remux files which are 60-120gb each. Around 600-700 movies in the collection currently with most being 4K, using plex to manage the library
Just getting your opinion here. Isn't that overboard? For example, I used to get 4GB 1080p movies, by really experienced encoders, they looked awesome, but 75" TV you start to see that degrading. Now, I get 8-12GB files for 4K movies, they sound and look fantastic. In your opinion, why don't you settle for the smaller file size?
Sorry to hijack… But I think it becomes a mental thing with afficionados. Back in the day when I had the top of the line plasma and B&w speakers, I refused to play anything but remuxes with dts-ma on them.
It's like you ask someone with high end speakers/headphones why they don't use Spotify vs tidal/flacs, they'll tell you the quality is just not there. Give them a double blind test and I bet you they won't be able to tell the difference 9 times out of 10.
There's always a voice in your head saying "this would look/sound so f*kn awesome if it was lossless"
Ah yes, good point. Thanks for chiming in, makes sense!
Trying to future proof a bit more. Currently have 5.1 surround but looking to go atmos, so between the better video and audio it just makes sense.
Do it once, do it right
Agree, I have approx. 3000 but nothing less than BD Remux.
My problem is, maintaining the collection. Like, now, I sit there, and if I think I didn't enjoy the movie or the family didn't or I enjoyed it but I don't believe I can watch it again, I delete it. Saved a few HDD space by doing that. Realistically, we're gonna die before we watch all of them, but I understand, as a collector, that it's not necessarily getting through them, but it's having the option available to you. So one day you browse through the collection and you're like, OH THAT ONE!
(Mx2000)P = Collection size
P = porn
M = movies
No back up?
That is the back up lol
What's the monthly plan cost on that if you don't mind me asking?
$16.80 per month, G Suite Business. Could be a legacy plan though that offered unlimited storage. Haven't looked if it's still available
Including Pron movies, it's 69.
Are those 7800 movies in 720p or 4k…
Usually just blu-ray. When I started they were whatever fitted on a CD or several CDs then as things evolved I had boxes and boxes of DVD’s in 50 disc packs and over time replaced with newer versions where possible. This has been a several decade hobby which probably explains the numbers.
Movies: 2,267,212,565,687 bytes.
TV Shows: 523,916,035,220 bytesIt depends on the mood and the hype but nearly always the rating trumps all. Plex can give all types of sorting features and I find a lot of really good movies to watch by choosing Critic Ratings. Many have sat in my collection unseen then when I use different sorting criteria I have discovered some absolute gems that I had not previously considered worthy of my time - the release date shouldn’t put you off either. This led to a philosophy of collect good rating movies now and you might “discover” it later. Again this increases the numbers. So the video shop experience is what becomes sort of feel that keeps me going.
I have 12,000 YIFY rips on my 32gb usb drive
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Why do some OZBers like to inform everyone how many movies they pirated? I just use paid streaming services and I don't even have time to watch them all. I missed the old days where I just go to my local video store to rent 10 movies for $10.