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This video has been requested a few times by the Patrons, so I thought I'd oblige. Here's early access to a new YouTube video I made: a tour of my Blu-Ray shelf, featuring all the random shit that I've accumulated over the years. 

A lot of this stuff I'm proud of. A good chunk of it I'm ashamed of. Some of it is just weird and random. Either way, I hope you enjoy, and know that it was your support that made this video possible.

(PS: Sorry the video is a bit shaky at times. Still trying to figure out the best way to vlog with this camera!)

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A Tour of my Blu-Ray Shelf (October 2020)

David takes folks on a tour of his Blu-Ray collection and the weird bizarre collectibles and knick-knacks found within. Back David on Patreon: http://Patreon.com/davechen Follow David on Twitter: http://twitter.com/davechensky Listen to David's podcast: http://www.culturallyrelevantshow.com Subscribe to David's newsletter: http://davechen.net/letters

Comments

Adam Rosalky

This was great! A view into the mind of Chen.

Anthony Ramil

This was way more fun than I thought it would be! The premise seemed a tad self-indulgent, but it was actually a hilarious exercise in self-deprecation about all the double-dips and unopened cases. I'm surprised @joyofnapping hasn't done a midnight cleanup 😉

nw

If you have a PSVR headset, you should be able to watch your 3D Blu-rays via a Playstation 4. If you own some other type of VR headset that connects to a computer, than you might be able to play the disc directly or rip it to play the 3D file. While it might not be as good as theatrical experience, it is a work around to actually enjoy certain films in 3D again. I recently tried it on a few scenes of Tron Legacy with PSVR and it did a pretty good job of stereoscopic presentation.

Anthony Ramil

P.S. The only thing I can't understand is why the two Wire box sets are stacked. Doesn't make sense aesthetically!

David Chen

Thank you for single-handedly justifying this purchase for me.

USNA 98

Glad to see I'm not the only one who has a bunch of unopened discs on their shelves. Also have The Rock Criterion DVD along with Armageddon and the long OOP Criterion Hardboiled and The Killer DVDs.

Mike Shaw

This is great! Love seeing the collection, but also I think my favorite part is listen to @joyofnapping trying to get you to pare down the collection. Classic.

Judson White

This is so geeky in the best of ways. I’m personally still resistant to completely shifting to all streaming content, mainly because I love organizing my Blu-ray shelves in such a way. I especially miss the big TV series box sets that would come out (like Six Feet Under) and am bummed to see them becoming less & less available. Fargo Season 3, for example, is nowhere to be found in physical format!

Jonathon Sutton

This was so great. Loved @joyofnapping’s commentary throughout.

Mich

This is amazing. : )

FilmWonk

This was most entertaining. We recently rearranged our living room to accommodate a second work-from-home desk, and my vast DVD/BD collection went into storage tubs in the basement. I only found two doubles that weren't specific to increasing resolution (DVD-> Blu-ray), and those were: -A Knight's Tale -Moulin Rouge -Titan A.E. They were overlaps from my wife's much smaller collection that she brought into the marriage. I also own a 3D Blu-ray of "Hugo" that I've never watched in its intended format, so I may have to follow Nathan's suggestion and try to make it happen on my Oculus Go.

FilmWonk

Also: I can relate to the furious DVD-ripping of @joyofnapping's Poirot collection - I plan to do the same with my snazzy Rambaldi puzzle-box DVD set of the TV series "Alias", since the widely-available streaming version changed a bunch of the licensed music, which bothers me...probably a lot more than it should.