dazed&confused
Prominent Member
I have a few Maplin disk cases. Each one measures 45cmx30cmx19cm, and holds 500 disks. When I buy a new disk I scan my phone over the barcode on the box, put the disk in a Maplin case, and chuck the empty disk box into a cardboard box, which gets taped shut and put into the loft with all the others once it's full. The barcode scans all the details about the movie into the 'My Movies' app.
The app sits on my phone, tablet and PC, so any device that's at hand can be passed around for people to peruse the 'movie wall' and all of the information the app contains. You can use filters to flick through categories such as English/foreign langauge, watched/ not watched, etc. People can take their time browsing and, once we've decided on a movie or three, I go and get them from the Maplin box. Sometimes people just like to look through the collection on the app out of interest, when we're listening to music or whatever - ordering the movies by year, or by director, for example. It's like an interactive movie encylopedia.
I find all this very cost effective and convenient, and I don't have to learn any new skills to do with ripping. Maybe one day I will rip my collection, maybe not, but I'm very happy with my system for now.
The app sits on my phone, tablet and PC, so any device that's at hand can be passed around for people to peruse the 'movie wall' and all of the information the app contains. You can use filters to flick through categories such as English/foreign langauge, watched/ not watched, etc. People can take their time browsing and, once we've decided on a movie or three, I go and get them from the Maplin box. Sometimes people just like to look through the collection on the app out of interest, when we're listening to music or whatever - ordering the movies by year, or by director, for example. It's like an interactive movie encylopedia.
I find all this very cost effective and convenient, and I don't have to learn any new skills to do with ripping. Maybe one day I will rip my collection, maybe not, but I'm very happy with my system for now.