'Robocop 3', anybody?...

Like many of you sweet B3tards out there, my house holds a number of PC’s Laptops, and electronic devices.

That’s not strange, and before you run away thinking ‘holy buggerflaps’, this is going to be one of those dreary ‘Ooh. look at all the retro IT shit I have in my loft’ posts, that makes you want to cut off your own nipples and post them to a local Wildebeast...let me stop you there. No, this is not one of them.

This is worse.

The present Mrs Cheeky and my two mini cheekies like watching TV shows and movies. Of course we do. However, due to our hectic schedules we rarely get to see them at their designated broadcast time, so I invariably find my self downloading them to watch at our convenience. Being a caring husband and father, sometimes I will get shows or Movies that I think we ‘might’ like. Occasionally one, or all of us will take a liking to a programme, and we’ll look forward to watching the whole season. I know, this shit is so mundane and normal that you’re most likely confused as to what the quantum leaping fuck I’m twattering on about.

Well, to cope with the increasing demand of the family’s televisual requirements, I purchased a server. Nowt too grand, just a little old Dell unit that was powered by coal and gerbils, and was booted up by a combination of gentle encouragement and a crank handle in the front. I stuck a couple of Terabytes in it, and promptly started to fill it up with crap…

And fill it…and fill it...and fucking fill it.

Now I’m pushing 6TB, and the poor old warhorse is veritably straining at the gizzards with the utmost bollocks the likes of which will never be seen again in our house. Now, having every single episode of Blackadder / Fawlty Towers and Monty Python are worthwhile to have – They’re timeless classics and we find ourselves regularly going back to them. But every episode of ‘Flash Forward’? Really? Does anyone even remember that anymore? Why is it there?

Every episode of ‘Lost’. I guarantee, we will NEVER go back and watch that fucker again from the beginning. But there it is…just in case…

And movies...yup, the Star Wars collection (including the garbage Holiday special) are there for keeps. ‘Batman Begins’, yes, but ‘Batman and Robin’? Noooo. Why in the name of Blithering ballsacks do I want to keep ‘Night at the museum 2’ and ‘Bedtime Stories’ with Adam ‘shitcake’ Sandler? I even have every.single.’Carry On’ Movie FFS.

It’s so easy – it’s one button. It’s called ‘Delete’. Why don’t I use it? Why do I keep buying Hard drive after Hard drive to cope with the useless dismal shit that I insist on storing forever, just in case I get a hankering for watching reruns of ‘Mr Sunshine’? I can’t explain it. I know it’s preposterously stupid, I know it’s wrong….and I suppose as far as OCD goes it could be a lot worse, but I just find it so difficult to rid myself of something after I have expended 8 seconds of my life to download it.

I even back it all up *facepalms*. I’d say ‘help me’, but quite clearly I am beyond any help. Just leave me here, I’ll only slow you down…
(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Tue 8 May 2012, 10:30, 27 replies)

No-one i ever show my collection to...
is as impressed with it as i am myself. i feel your pain.

Star Trek Enterprise? i grabbed the lot.
Battlestar Galactica? original AND new.
Lost? I also planned on re-watching it if only for the 'Pennys Boat' episode. nope.

Funnily enough, just this weekend there was a Robocop Collection. All the films, the TV Series AND the TV Films.

it's a proper addiction!

I'm planning on some sort of 'injury' or 6 month long disease/surgery where i'm house bound and i will catch up on them all... one day..
(TheManofScience, Tue 8 May 2012, 11:17, closed)

Ha ha - you managed to find a couple that I don't have...

I do, however, have every original Star Trek and every episode of Next Gen.

Lordy, I am a massive sad twat.
(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Tue 8 May 2012, 11:21, closed)

Stargate
i was looking at that the other day - SG-1... Universe... the underwater one. If u get one, u have to have them all to be 'complete'

it's an illness, i realise that now - but it looks so good in MediaBrowser!
(TheManofScience, Tue 8 May 2012, 11:27, closed)

I'll see your high budget
glossy American sci-fi series and raise you every episode of Blakes Seven.
(username failed moderation, Tue 8 May 2012, 11:30, closed)

ORAC FTW!...

That's what we call the remote control in our house...

I'm not really doing myself any favours here am I?
(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Tue 8 May 2012, 11:32, closed)

NERD!

(username failed moderation, Tue 8 May 2012, 11:35, closed)

Guilty as charged...

(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Tue 8 May 2012, 11:54, closed)

Have got those on DVD
As well as every episode of the Sweeney
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 9 May 2012, 10:39, closed)

I've also got all the sweeney DVDs
plus the two films, and the pilot, which IIRC is just called 'Regan'.

Haven't watched them for 5 years, I'm planning a watchtrough of them all in the next year or so.

Also got most of the Professionals on DVD.
(username failed moderation, Thu 10 May 2012, 9:09, closed)

yeah
The first Sweeney film is not great and the second one is ok. The pilot Regan is fantastic though.
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 10 May 2012, 9:55, closed)

There are I think a lot more of us than you realize.

My digital collection started a little like yours, pulling together 100 or so of our most-loved movies that could be watched around the house at the push of a button. Lovely little tech project that allowed hours and hours of tinkering and ample opportunities to show off to technophobe friends and relatives.

But as the collection grows, and your storage requirements increase, it stops becoming a mission to have easy access to your favourite movies and more some twisted techno version of pokemon. It's less about the quality and more about the scale. I can't stop collecting, even though 70% of my media is probably rated as less than 7/10 on IMDB. I especially like franchises where there are three or more movies. Somehow I MUST have all the Resident Evil and Stargate films in my collection even though I know I will never watch them.
(BinDipper, Tue 8 May 2012, 11:41, closed)

I'm the same with mp3s.
I have enough music to listen to back to back for three months without stopping it. All nicely catalogued, with the correct ID3 tags, album art, and so forth.

I'll never listen to it all.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 8 May 2012, 11:41, closed)

Oh god you've set me off now...

I forgot to mention that I catalogue them all to a distinct file system. When I download something called for example: 'scrubs.S04.e02.xvid.hdtv.lol' I have to rename it so that it says the correct episode name etc.

Kill me now.
(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Tue 8 May 2012, 11:46, closed)

I do that too.
I can't stand all those scruffy looking letters and numbers.

nameofshow-seriesnumber-episodenumber.avi. Hundreds of them.
(username failed moderation, Tue 8 May 2012, 12:04, closed)

To be fair, I'm the same.
It gives me something to do on those long, winter nights.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 8 May 2012, 12:33, closed)

TVRename
Oh wow, I used to do that too. Nowadays I try to use TVRename to speed up the process.. www.tvrename.com/
(netsharc, Wed 9 May 2012, 16:18, closed)

I'm on this path
Got a nas box, love it and use it alot. Stream to the xbox? Yep! Getting it to download films that I suddenly think of while I'm away? Yep!

At what point should you just start burning to dvd/blu ray?
(skgorsky, Tue 8 May 2012, 11:54, closed)

I'll join this Media Hoarders Anonymous group
One episode is not enough - I have to have the full set, and correctly named with series / episode numbers and episode names.

My excuse (to myself) is that, at some point in the future, TV will reach a level of such utter, mind-numbing, spirit crushing shittiness that there is no longer anything a) worth watching, and b) not featuring Simon Cowell or Keith Lemon. At that point I will be smug in the knowledge that I have several years' worth of great TV safely squirrelled away.

My particular weakness is Gerry Anderson. Now, having every episode of UFO, Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds is understandable, for chaps of my age. But Four Feather Falls? When will I ever even finish watching that? I don't even like westerns! And Space Patrol - it wasn't even made by him, but just by people who used to work with him!

It's good to know I'm not alone...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 8 May 2012, 12:09, closed)

You see? I read that, and my first thought was...

'Everything by Gerry Anderson - that's cool! I'll see about getting that when I get home...'

I really should be escorted to the back of the barn and shot.
(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Tue 8 May 2012, 12:15, closed)

Amen to that
If there's a 720p version of it too - i'm laughing!

Yes, i know it was never originally HD but they often tart them up and re-release them!

Anyone turning into a HD snob? Even Simpsons i get in HD - WHY?!?! it's a cartoon!
(TheManofScience, Tue 8 May 2012, 12:47, closed)

The remastered Thunderbirds are a joy to behold
but I deleted them to make room for last years Tour de France that has now been removed to make space for the Giro.
If I had an income to buy more disks, I'd still have them all...
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 8 May 2012, 14:52, closed)

click for
'what the quantum leaping fuck' and 'Blithering ballsacks'
(The Magic Number is neither magic nor a number, Tue 8 May 2012, 12:25, closed)

That's just most of the single films I've bought. The bottom two shelves and the box sets aren't in that picture. Neither are all the films/programmes that I've recorded and burnt onto disc.
( Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 8 May 2012, 12:51, closed)

jesus titty fucking christ!...

That is awesome!
(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Tue 8 May 2012, 14:57, closed)

By the Power of Greyskull!

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 8 May 2012, 16:46, closed)

Me too!
I've found that the original incarnation of Windows Home Server was the best for me when things got a little big. It stated off with an od machine, then I acquired a storage server. (two processors, 15 hot swap sata drives and two pci-x raid cards) the drives get upgraded when i run out of space, but the films, tv, music and pictures take a lot of room up. Added to that the rediculous habit of backing up laptops of friends of mine, and their external drives too, half this crap isn't even mine! The worse thing came when I decided to add a HTPC with twin tuner satellite AND freeview cards, along with a second satellite dish for "foreign interest" programming, I end up adding more daily than i'll ever watch. It wouldn't be so bad, but one of the network shares is dedicated to inbound, unsorted content. This is unsorted crap, funny filenames with lots of unecessary letters etc. It's 4TB alone. Still, at least it's neatly housed in a 18u equipment rack!
(sunray18, Wed 9 May 2012, 16:03, closed)

Wow...

All I can say is 'wow'
(Mr Twisty Cheeky The worst kept secret in B3ta..., Wed 9 May 2012, 16:15, closed)

Porn
The porn is all on a share named "W Drive", and friends have taken to mapping it under letter W!
(sunray18, Wed 9 May 2012, 17:44, closed)