Showcase your movie collection and viewers

[Alan Castillo]

What led to the creation of this site dedicated to props ? - Movies of course.

Having those movies at hand so you can gloat to yourself while watching "I have THAT :love" is an important part of the hobby.

IMO, where and how one sees that special movie contributes to this enjoyment and the delight taken when that prop shows up on screen

So, let's showcase movie collections, where you keep them, and where you watch them.

Here is my collection, which lies on the opposite wall of my prop showcase

My favourite area of the house is the bedroom (no kids etc :lol), and we only watch movies after we have had dinner etc and are exhausted. So that's where we have our movie set up.

We have a screen controlled by a switch next to the bed that goes down over the wardrobe

And on the opposite wall, we have the projector housing

Nothing out of this world, but we are happy with this

 

[ave4uevoli]

Still a work in progress (home theaters always are)- but I couldn't resist watching the trench scene :love
That's me in the pic trying to look into the x-wing cockpit :cool

Edit - I dont want to take up more than one post to clutter this thread - Others should share their goodies.
List of stuff:
1) Da lite dual masking electrol screen: Converts from 2.35 to 16:9 It's about 160"(?) in 2.35 mode.
2) Panamorph anamorphic lens and motorized tray
3) JVC HD-750 projector
3) Polk 7.1 surround sound
4) House is automated with a control4 system (cuz I'm too lazy to get up and turn off lights on my own)
5) Onkyo 670 (?) receiver
6) Samsung 55" LCD tv 8000 series
7) homebuilt HTPC to run XBMC
8) 3 Drobo FS's housing 240GB of music and about 16 terabytes of all my backed up movies. (networked throughout the house so every room houses a HTPC and can play everything)

.... funny thing is - I built all this - had a baby and I only have about 9 hours on my projector. It's so sad.


Pics of the room during the day - (Looks a bit different now because I got shades for the windows since these)

screen retracts into the ceiling so I can watch regular tv (The HDMI signal is split and amplified so that the image on the projector is the same as the tv)

All those "pedestals" that you see around the room house about 150 DVD's and various box sets. They open up. I figured it would be a nice way to display props and utilize the space.

<---not my pic

 

[propologist]

damn the X-wing is life SIZED..I would never leave that room

 

[Alan Castillo]

That's me in the pic trying to look into the x-wing cockpit :cool

... boy, am I glad to see I'm not the only one with my nose up against the screen sometimes ... gonna show it to the Mrs so she doesn't think 'white jacket' about me any more... :lol

 

[NkySpike65]

What is your screen size? Looks like 140" :confused

Still a work in progress - but I couldn't resist watching the trench scene :love
That's me in the pic trying to look into the x-wing cockpit :cool

 

[PHArchivist]

Here's mine...

My DVDs are behind the Indiana Jones posters.

 

[TK1536]

I spent the last few years converting all my DVDs, movies, etc. to smaller digital files to store on a local RAID device. Just like all my CDs before, the DVDs are now in storage not taking up large racks in the corner of the room...

Here's my movie collection.

A Mac Mini running iTunes connected to a Drobo S with 5.5TB of storage space and expandable to 16TB.

Over 500 movies, 6800 songs, over 780 TV shows and about 120 music videos taking up only 1TB. All accessible over the network and streamed instantly to an Apple TV here...

With the Apple TV I also have streaming access to NetFlix. I've also started a small Blu-Ray collection of about a dozen titles, but I would LOVE to also convert and store them on the Drobo as well. I detest loading slow optical media... it's so 1990s.

 

[Alan Castillo]

My DVDs are behind the Indiana Jones posters.

You mean like in a hidden safe ?

... and is that a cool looking IJ Monkey Head I see peeking out the side ? Looks great ! Any more pics of it ? Where did you get it ?

 

[PHArchivist]

I have all three posters on the wall, and each one is a cabinet door, accessing an 18cm deep cabinet.

Each cabinet holds 250 SD DVDs.

But including Blu-Ray and over-sized packaged DVDs, I have probably closer to 1,500 and I am over-flowing.

What is a RAID device...?

The monkey head was the first RPF prop I bought, and I got it from trusted RPF Veteran Tom Spina close to ten years ago. He no longer offers them, but in the past year another RPF member did one.

 

[PHArchivist]

To your point of having the props available for viewing while viewing the movie they are from, this is from Sleepy Hollow (shown on my older 36" tube TV):

 

[TK1536]

...What is a RAID device...?

Redundant
Array
Individual
Disks

The Drobo is simply a type of RAID device.

Basically, all the drives in the array work in tandem to create a large volume (storage pool), that's expandable and redundant because hard drives will inevitably fail. In my Drobo S, I have it setup so that two drives could simultaneously fail and I still have all my data.

I used to have the Mac Mini connected to the TV and I would control it with a Bluetooth KB and Mouse, but with the new Apple TV, I wanted to streamline everything. Also, the Drobo (much like all RAID devices) has a large cooling fan and generates some low volume noise, so I moved it to the back of the room.

 

[Jedifyfe]

And mine:

YouTube - M4H00998

 

[badmojo]

Bought the TV last January. 60" Mitsubishi DLP. Total wall unit measures 12'.

 

[dualedge]

:confused

Yeah, you guys are kinda making me feel inadequate.

I'm hoping to upgrade my tv this Christmas. Since my 32" HD set died about 6 months ago I've been rockin' a 27" Sony that's about 12-14 years old. :lol

 

[Wes R]

I agree about feeling inadequate. I have a beat up 10 year old 32" tv i use setting on a cheap stand i got for 8.00 and put together with a hand me down cheap home theatre i got from my folks lol.

 

[CTF]

Mark Hamill must be rolling in his grave.

 

[badmojo]

Updated the shelving a bit.