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friendly DVD collector
Member

NYC
83 Posts
12/99
Posted - Jan 7 2000 : 8:50AM
Hey guys-
As I was arranging my DVD collection this morning I was wondering where you guys keep your adult DVDs? Out on display with your regular DVDs for all to see? Hidden away? Locked up? Out in the open but with "altered" covers? I personally keep my general DVDs out on display in bookcases and my adult DVDs in a box in my closet (by request- my girlfriend doesn't like to see the covers ) Just curious!
- FDC
Saki
At-Large

2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - Jan 7 2000 : 8:59AM
Well, at the moment, mine are strewn all over my bedroom or sitting on my desk, but they are normally in a closet. I have too many non-porn friends and relatives that visit that I don't feel comfortable putting the adult stuff out with the mainstream. The only concession I make is that I leave the softcore stuff (like 9 1/2 Weeks and Embrace of the Vampire) on the shelf.
I'm looking forward to the day when DVD jukeboxes are fast, quiet, cheap, cascadable, password protected, and can play both sides of flippers and DVD-18s. Then I can just load up my collection and not worry about it.
Saki
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zaxx
Member

Great White North
134 Posts
12/99
Posted - Jan 7 2000 : 9:17AM
I travel a lot and watch my DVD's on a lap top, so space is a major concern. I keep mine in the cheap paper holders, but would like to find a better solution since some are getting scratched. No one goes in my briefcase so I don't worry about privacy.
By the way, does anyone know how scracthed they can get before they are no longer readable? Some of mine look bad but play just fine.
friendly DVD collector
Member

NYC
83 Posts
12/99
Posted - Jan 7 2000 : 9:55AM
DVD jukeboxes... yeah. Anything remotely close to hitting the market? The only multi-DVD player I've seen so far is the Sony 5 disc changer. Seemed like a waste at the time (who the hell is going to watch 5 movies in one sitting?), but now that I think about the benefits of just being able to load up all the porn and throw away all those blasphemous cases... I kind of like having all my general DVD cases on display to look at though.
I would like to put all my adult DVDs in jewel boxes and throw away the original cases (to make it look like I have less porn than I actually do, and so I would feel better about myself ), but this would obviously make them harder to sell/trade.

- FDC
Saki
At-Large

2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - Jan 7 2000 : 11:16AM
Yeah, there are such animals: The Sony DVP-CX850D (200 disc DVD/CD) and the Pioneer [url=468188]DV-F727</A (300+1 DVD/CD).
The Sony lists for $899 and has cascade (one unit acts as a master and the other as a slave) support for a second mega CD changer (but not another DVD changer). That sucks because I have a real shot of exceeding 200 DVD titles this year. And reports are that the on-screen disc navigation system is hard to use.
The Pioneer sounds promising, although I haven't read any reviews on it. It's expensive, listing at $1125, but can cascade to a second DVD changer (for a total of 602 DVDs and CDs). The database sounds cool--it memorizes the TOC track on each disc, rather than the position in the changer. That means you can put the discs into the changer in any order and then sort and search on the title, not the slot number.
Unfortunately, jukeboxes are generally slow, very noisy, and, of course, expensive. I don't think there's a player out there that has two lasers so that it can play both sides of a disc, so you'll still have to manually flip discs.
I still want password protection so that I won't have to explain why "Angry Anal" comes up on the display when someone is trying to find "Antz"
Saki
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[This message has been edited by Saki (edited January 07, 2000).]
 
Saki
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2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - Jan 7 2000 : 11:35AM
zaxx: Depending on how tolerant your DVD player is (mine tends to throw a fit with just dust and fingerprints), you can generally get away with scratches so long as the substructure of the disc (where the data is encoded) is still intact.
There are several products on the market that will repair scratches in the protective plastic of the disc surface. I'd also recommend QuickShield from [url=468187]CD Playright</A, which you spray on the DVD to give it scratch resistance.
Saki
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[This message has been edited by Saki (edited January 07, 2000).]
Gargoyle
Member

Portland, Oregon USA
23 Posts
12/99
Posted - Jan 7 2000 : 1:25PM
I haven't been at this long enough to have a system perfected. At this point I have a shelf full of 'mainstream' DVDs and a shelf of VHS tapes that is starting to lose the battle as my DVD collection grows. In the same bookcase I also have a shelf of adult DVDs and VHS tapes with a few recorded TV shows and miscellaneous thrown in. I'm a bachelor with very few under-age visitors to protect and I'm not too concerned with what other adults think of my porn collection. It would be even more embarrassing to have someone spot a piece-o-crap movie like "Godzilla" on my shelf than to catch me with "Rocki Roads' Wet Dreams."
alanbenson
Member

Lompoc, CA USA
156 Posts
11/99
Posted - Jan 7 2000 : 8:21PM
My situation sounds a lot like Gargoyle's. I don't have to worry much about kids, or anyone who'd be offended by my adult titles. My collection of DVDs is just starting, so right now they're in the same bookcase as all my old paperback novels. (Not side by side, but in front--my books are slowly disappearing from view...) I'll have to work something out eventually!
Busta Hymen
Member

Simi Valley
49 Posts
12/99
Posted - Jan 7 2000 : 10:56PM
Fortunately, my wife doesn't read me the riot act about my DVD porn purchases. It is just something she accepts as the lesser of two evils (me cheating on her, not that I would). I pretty much leave them out in my office (aka "The Pleasuredome") That woman is a saint, tailor-made to put up with my evil ways.
[This message has been edited by Busta Hymen (edited January 08, 2000).]
Pasky
Member

UK
29 Posts
12/99
Posted - Jan 8 2000 : 11:14AM
Hi
My Name Is (insert your name), And I Am A DVD Addict!
But seriously, at present, the shiny little coasters are slowly taking over my life.
I've sold all my video & LD collection and the DVDs have replaced all the space my videos used to occupy (which was occupied by books prior to that)
I tend to keep the Adult stuff separate from all the mainstream, not because of people getting a look at what I've got, rather to minimise the effort I'd have to go through to find a particular disc.
At the mo' I've about 50 discs & tenfd to keep them in the little compartments set aside for videos/discs/whatever on the TV/video cabinet. It's rather convenient since they have little doors which close & no-one can see what's behind them. Good idea if the local minister comes to pay his XMas visit.
friendly DVD collector
Member

NYC
83 Posts
12/99
Posted - Jan 10 2000 : 6:07AM
I really wish I wasn't so ashamed of my adult DVDs Not necessarily embarrassed, just, well, I just don't feel good about having porn. Is there anything to be ashamed of about watching adult movies? I AM A PORN WATCHER!
There, I feel much better now.
- FDC
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8011 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 10 2000 : 9:56AM
I used to keep the porn carefully tucked away on the top shelf of a seldomly used closet. Now you can walk into almost any room in my house and find something pornographic. The DVDs are in the living room on a shelf in plain view.
Decker
Member

California
13 Posts
11/99
Posted - Jan 10 2000 : 4:24PM
My miniscule adult DVD collection just sits in a shelf in my closet.. I live with 3 other college buddies (rent is expensive!) so sometimes its just laying around my workspace here.
Over the break though I brought the DVDs home.. they were nicely tucked in my backpack
cohiba
Member

11 Posts
11/99
Posted - Jan 10 2000 : 11:52PM
With children I have to keep them in out of reach in my bedroom. But even if we didn't have them, I would not keep them in the open--not because I'm embarassed, just because I would rather keep certain things private.
The only gripe we had was that we had to go downstairs to watch them, so for Christmas we got a 32" TV and DVD player for our bedroom! Now, the bedroom is not only the most private, but also the most convenient place to keep them.
Startide
New Member

Seattle, WA, America
5 Posts
11/99
Posted - Jan 12 2000 : 7:41PM
I keep my dvd/vcd titles in a glass-doored bookshelf unit. Anime on one shelf, mainstream titles on their own shelves, and porn on its own shelf. For discretion, the porn items have a dark cloth draped over the front of the titles.
DISCRETION BAR:
Ingredients: piece of cloth (as sized), wooden slat (imagine a thin piece from picket fence lath), staples.
With all the dvd titles in the bookshelf, cut the piece of lathe so that it is just wide enough to fit across the bookshelf while resting on top of all the dvd cases. Now, cut a piece of cloth wide enough to wrap around the piece of lath. Staple the cloth onto the lath neatly; what you now have is a cloth-covered wooden lath. Now you will need to cut a larger piece of cloth that will be stapled to the lath. This second piece of cloth needs to be large enuf to drape over the front of the dvd cases while the lath rests on top of the dvd cases. You may want to cut the cloth a bit bigger so that you have enuf edge material to create a hem that will not fray. If you use non-fraying cloth weaves, then you might skip the hemming. If you don't feel like making a lath section, then you can use velcro to make a removable cloth barrier in the bookshelf. Once done, you can increase the privacy effect by stacking a bunch of books sideways in the shelf to cover up the dark cloth. -- Startide
 
Shadow77
Member

San Antonio, TX
56 Posts
11/99
Posted - Jan 13 2000 : 8:55PM
I always keep my newest porn purchase out in the open, because I usually watch a bit of it each night before bed. (Helps give me goooooood dreams ) The rest I keep in my closet with my Playboy collection. (Every issue since Feb. 95.)
DVDBing
Member

Chicago
31 Posts
1/00
Posted - Jan 13 2000 : 10:48PM
I am married and we have two teenage kids. So the Adult DVDs are kept in our bedroom closet. The kids know we have them, but they are not allowed to see them.
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