Buckraked bums love to hug and show off their “collections” of DVD’s and Bluray’s. When hanging out with these media addicts, you will notice that they often like to bring up discussions about actors by their first names. This of course is because they saw them once at a film festival and are therefore best buds. They always let you browse their “collections” and let you know that they have been arranged either by title, genre, year, or sometimes by actor for the true connoisseur. You can even rent these prized possessions, but don’t forget to sign their take out sheet so they can bug you in two weeks to return the movie.

Unfortunately, there are a good number of DVD huggers in our world. The average size of a movie collection is 114 movies. That is $2,521 with the average cost of a DVD at $22.11. Not too shabby. We looked around to find some of the larger collections that were being displayed like collections of exotic cars.

One bloke by the name of PS3 Linux had an impressive 4000 DVD’s. But the largest we could find was a douche named Rob1 with an ever growing collection of 17,428 DVD’s and Bluray’s. These jokers spent around $88,440 and $385,333 respectively on movies. Talk about buckrakeage!

One true collector named Neal, was kind enough to do some calculations for us:

If I average that each of my 2665 DVD’s is 2 hours long and that I sleep 8 hours a day and spend the other 16 watching movies (doing nothing else, like, oh let’s say…work) it would take me 333 days. But, I do work, sleep, and have a life. Therefore It would take me about 4 times as long to watch all of my DVD’s. Infact, at any given time I can probably count an average of at least 50 discs I’ve never even opened. And one more thing to keep in mind is that I purchase an average of 7 DVD’s a week (or 1 a day). My point being that I believe I have a “small” movie buying problem and that I may NEVER catch up in my viewings.

So what is so wrong with the DVD and Bluray “collections” that are just about everywhere? Answer: They are getting dumb and dumber. Remember CD’s? How lame is it when your grandma breaks out a CD? Why don’t they make iPods with big buttons so old people could figure them out? Why doesn’t anyone realize how idiotic a wall of DVD’s looks? Any why doesn’t the world realize that with a little Hulu and Netflix you will never have to buy a DVD again, waste weekends organizing your “collection”, or trying to impress your friend’s by dropping first names of actors as if you were buds.

For those readers saying, I want to keep a collection of my favorite DVD’s so I can go watch them over and over and over again with popcorn and bon bons. There are much better solutions for you like Windows 7 Media Center or XBMC for PC or Plex for Apple.

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