As much as I dislike the idea of digital distribution overtaking packaged media, I'm beginning to think perhaps it's necessary... for quite a while I've struggled to find space for my DVDs and games, and I think I'm at breaking point: What the image doesn't show are the few hundred "last gen" games packed away in boxes under my bed, my room really is full now and I'm running out of ideas. The most annoying part are all those DVD box sets that come in various shapes and sizes and don't fit in a freakin' DVD rack... man I hate those. They end up scattered over the top of everything else and it just looks messy. Anyone thought of an ingenious space-saving solution?
for all the movies and tv shows.....the only thing i can think of is to build a file server with several terbytes of disk space...hook your computer up to your tv..problem solved
anybody remember the boxes from the mid-late 90s and early millennium for PC games - I had tons of those that I eventually just had to junk because they fit nowhere. They were all huge and slightly different sizes from each other - all the Eidos boxes I had were triangle boxes for whatever reason. Ah... I miss those days... getting Blood and Duke Nukem 3d from the wal-mart. Good times.
The cardboard ones? I hated those with a passion. Although I didn't have a good PC back then so I didn't buy too many games.
Ah, missed those. Of course I'll take them. And along with Lost, got any True Blood or Gossip Girl? What? Ripping a good 500-1000+ hours of music and video and uploading into onto a server? No work at all. Shouldn't take more than half a year.
Alas, I do not. I considered True Blood when I saw it at the store, but I started thinking about hipsters and Twilight fans and it put me off.
Wow, that's an extremely impressive collection. If you don't mind ditching the boxes for the discs (or just store them elsewhere), I would buy a couple / few of these. It's a disc carousel that stores 150 disks. It allows you to choose discs by typing in a number on the keypad. It apparently also lets you hook it up to your (Windows) computer and you can choose discs from on your computer. Here are two lower-tech and cheaper alternatives (click picture for respective Amazon pages). There seems to be a drawer at the bottom for an index. I think you slide the lever to the disk number you want and open the device up, bringing that disk with it.
Damn, that's a crap load of games you have, maybe you should just buy games for one console instead of having both PS3 and 360 games. I also kinda hate having digital distribution although I do get some games here and there.
Try reading it again They have lasted me years, just about every year since the consoles were released to be precise That is pretty awesome. Have you used one? This is what happens when you're a gamer, you need to play every great game that comes along, not just 2/3rds of them. My Wii games are in the other room
Agreeing with others, the easiest solution would be to take the discs out of the boxes, stick the boxes under the bed / in the loft, and buy files for the discs. Or build a fort out of them =D edit: also you could consider storing them differently if you want to keep them in the boxes, so instead of having them 1 layer think on a shelf, maybe 3 layers thick. You'd still be using the same amount of space of course, but it'd be compressed into a nice little (companion) cube (well maybe not that little)
