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How many movies and TV shows do you own?

Not sure of the total, but I have probably close to 1k movies and maybe 50 TV Shows, mostly on physical, but some digital.

I have a Plex media server, and while not all my content has been added yet, I just checked and I have a total of 681 movies, and 39 TV shows. Not all the TV shows are complete, but most are.

Between the physical media that I have not finished adding, and the digit purchases, it is probably over 1k movies. Most of the TV shows are added, and I have a handful of digital purchases, and only like 5 complete TV show digital purchases.

I am still buying physical media, almost all Blu-ray's, and plan on adding them all to my Plex server eventually. I don't buy too much digital anymore.
 
840 movies, 760 tv episodes and 6700 songs for a total of 2.2tb on a 4tb SSD connected to a 2014 Mini running iTunes with home sharing on Mojave. I access them via two Apple TV's, a Mac, iPad and iPhone. The Mini is also connected to my home stereo system with speakers in different rooms for listening to the music plus streaming Sirius/XM.

Most of the video was ripped from my large DVD collection, but I have a growing number of purchased movies too. I stopped buying and using physical media about 10 years ago but still get them as gifts from time to time (I have a small stack that I've been putting off ripping for awhile actually).
 
about 100 digital? Lots and lots of discs but I won't count those because they are all collecting dust.

I've noticed our purchasing, and especially rental habits have decreased dramatically with the abundance of streaming platforms. The last movie I bought was Dune 2.
 
Some impressive collections here. Mine is very modest, maybe still only double digits, but mostly because I just haven’t had time to hunt for sales. Also I only buy content that I think I’m going to watch more than once, so that is a limiting factor. I only buy physical media (4k as much as possible) in order to have the highest quality and so that I can lend or give it away freely at any point. I would prefer if I could do all this digital-only, but I don’t know if we’ll ever get there (legally—won’t go the stealing route).
 
I own the Mad Men series on Apple, as we consider it the most re-watchable show. We have maybe 12 films on DVD, one or to Blu-ray. To me, buying media these days doesn't make alot of sense, and I'm not a huge A/V aficionado. Even buying Mad Men was only because AMC+ (or whatever they call it now) is a terrible service and that's the rare show we always want available.
 
Easy answer - Zero.

I've never had any desire to "own" a movie, since I never watch one more than once.

You'd be surprised at how much time (and storage space) this frees up ! 😀
 
I have mostly movies and TV shows purchased in iTunes since 2012. I did start buying the Blu-Ray copies of those same TV shows over the last two years as well. Movies, I have about 400. About 200 were bought in iTunes and the rest downloaded elsewhere over the years.
 
about 370 ripped from DVD and ~ 250 purchased on iTunes. I use the TV app on the Mac to manage them on an external drive.
 
<100 movies ripped (NAS)
A bunch of old TV shows, mostly cartoons (NAS)
<20 Purchased digital from Apple
 
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