DVD Statistics 2015

2015 End Statistics:

New Purchase Items: 110 (131 in 2014)
New Movies: 83 (thereof Blu-ray: 61)
New TV Seasons: 84 (thereof Blu-ray: 19)
New TV Specials: 1
New Special Interest: 3

Money Spent: €1,604.02 (€1,552.75 in 2014)
Money Spent on Movies: €679.44
Money Spent on TV Seasons: €874.97
Money Spent on TV Specials: €11.99
Money Spent on Special Interest: €37.62

Avg Spent: €14.58 (€11.85 in 2014)
Avg Spent on Movies: €8.19
Avg Spent on TV Seasons: €10.42
Avg Spent on TV Specials: €11.99
Avg Spent on Special Interest: €12.54

Running Time: 66,424m (46d 3h 4m)
Running Time Movies: 9,550m (6d 15h 10m)
Running Time TV Seasons: 55,441m (38d 12h 10m)
Running Time TV Specials: 84m (1h 24m)
Running Time Special Interest: 1,349m (22h 29m)

Cheapest Item: In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers (€3.02)

Most Expensive Item: Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Complete Series (€133.80)

First Item: Longmire: Season 2 (€0.00 – paid with gift certificate)

Last Item: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (€20.00)

Purchase by Locality:
United States: 28
United Kingdom: 13
Germany: 69

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Purchase Diary 2015 – September to December

Butter (2011)


Sep 19th – €3.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1218

Auf Achse: The Complete Series (1980 – 1996)
(Auf Achse: Die komplette Serie)


Sep 19th – €29.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 13014 – 13025

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)


Sep 19th – €12.90 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1219

Two Night Stand (2014)


Sep 19th – €9.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1220

Dumb and Dumber To (2014)


Sep 24th – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1221

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Purchase Diary 2015 – January / February

Longmire: Season 2 (2013)


Jan 6th – €0.00 ($39.98) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12884 – 12886

Polizeiruf 110: Der Kreuzworträtselfall (1988)


Jan 6th – €11.99 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 12887

Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014)


Jan 9th – €21.72 ($19.99) @ Amazon.com

Collection no. 20041 – 20044

Home Improvement: The Complete Series (1991 – 1999)


Jan 15th – €32.97 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 12888 – 12915

Arrow: Season 2 (2013 – 2014)


Jan 16th – €21.52 ($19.99) @ Amazon.com

Collection no. 12916 – 12924

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Purchase Diary 2013 – November / December

Banana Joe (1982)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1072

Trinity: Good Guys and Bad Guys (1985)
(I Poliziotti dell’ Strada)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1073

They Call Me Trinity (1970)
(Lo chiamavano Trinità)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1074

Trinity is Still My Name! was released twice in German theatres. Back in 1971 in the original release year and then in 1982, this time with a new (more funnier) dubbing and slightly cut (1:58 instead of 2:05). Both versions have their merrit and give the same movie a completely different tone.

Trinity is Still My Name! (1971)
(…continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1075

Trinity is Still My Name! (1971)
(…continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1076

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TV Junkie: A History

I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board.

Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old.

I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story). I watched medical shows like Trapper John M.D. and lawyer shows like L.A. Law. I watched the 80s action shows from MacGuyver to Riptide. I even watched Love Boat every weekday on one of the first private channels in Germany: Sat.1. I got up at 6am on every Saturday morning to watch Rawhide (Tausend Meilen Staub, lit. “A Thousand Miles of Dust”) with a very young and pre-Fistful Clint Eastwood. I knew who Daniel Boone was around the same time I met the Cartwrights as well as the men from the Shiloh Ranch.

And last weekend I binge-watched the first Netflix show House of Cards (Big recommendation! Kevin Spacey is a brilliant Magnificent Bastard!) and I got curious as to how many shows I watched intently over the past two and a half decades.

With the help of the list on the German site Wunschliste.de I created a list of “my” shows.

I only counted live-action fiction shows, no animated shows may they be Saturday morning cartoons like Yogi Bear or Scooby-Doo or evening shows like The Simpsons or South Park. No scripted reality (which I’m avoiding to 99% anyway with the exception of Comic Book Men). In this list are only shows which I followed for more than a year unless the show itself didn’t last that long.

And the answer was: 244 246 247. Two hundred and fourty four six seven different shows I watched with active interest since I’ve started watching television. And the worst thing is: Of most of these shows I watched 90% or more episodes at least once.

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