Whether it is a Video Game, a Movie, a Program, Music/Show, empty spare DVD cases with blank DVDs, or something else hidden inside like an SD card, documents, or books..... decided to build a furniture/case/shelves/thing able to hold upright 1000 DVD cases.

You might want to ask how big would that be? and why would I need ten hundred of it.
Well, the 10 boxes take ~180mm up x ~150mm side, then the whole shelf of 100boxes takes 180mm up x ~ 1.5m, then ten shelves like this take 1.8m boxes + 11*20mm shelves = 2.02m high furniture or 6ft 7.5276in and
1.5m + 2*20mm = 1.54m wide or 5ft 0.62992in
That is nothing you and I couldn't fit in our homes as this size can be modified to ~1m x 3m or ~0.5 x 6m or a single shelf of 0.2m x 15m(around the living room, but it will take cat's walkway and train model railway to another room until you want to build at three levels. So a bookcase or a long shelf.

At this moment, after two months of DVDs searching in several places, I got about 100 boxes with various wanted content.
These are the mentioned games, videos, and programs. And within a year or two, I will end up my mission with ~1000 DVD boxes for sure, including GOG's Community DVD covers, but it's on the floor now, and as a Chippy, I will fish for nice wooden furniture.

Please write anything you like within this thread.... about the DVD and everything around it.

I don't know when this project will be finished but it will be this year. Photos will come along with photos of the DVD's collection. This is a happy project. I'd better start looking for materials...

So far found this website with inspirational examples https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/bookcase-round-up/

Fear the day when you acquire the 1001st DVD/case and don't know where to put it. :-P

Cheers to starting your project! Just a heads-up: make sure to keep an eye on the temperature, humidity, and sunlight. You definitely want to avoid nasty surprises down the line. Also, what's your plan for redundancy? Are you thinking about disk images? Or you're considering DVD duplication but this time stored in DVD binders to save space?

Thank you! I will try; After 5 visits to 10 different charity shops/game exchange shops/and an internet search, we both know 1000 isn't enough; there are always n+1& more pictures. Maybe 2222 is the right amount ^ After all, we are living in the golden era of used DVDs; most of it was recorded between 2005 and 2015, and if BBC is suggesting an expiry date after 36 years, the best time to have it for 20 years is now. I'm not building a tomb to take it after, but I want more fun in life; DVDs are fun. I am not entirely digital; I like boxes and printouts and forbidden shapes, and a real installer on DVD is a must to classify a box as real. Thank you! With this humidity, you are hitting the spot. I'm using antibacterial, scented wipes to treat the boxes and points of touch when bringing them home. After treatment, few stuck together, luckily with lids foils only. I carefully dried them with cloth and air, and it was all good again. Some DVDs are within cartoon extra covers; should those stick together, it would destroy the printout. I will keep it in the living room next to the G90 retro machine with an external DVD recorder. Not in the attic or something, but there is a risk of placing it too close to the radiator, or animals, or worse (it looks like a brew waffle). So I will take your advice to keep it safe and dry and at the right temperature. Dang, I feel like the museum already.

Regular old Ivar shelves do the trick quite nicely.

Two 50x226 cm side units, eight 83x50 cm shelves and you're good to go for 880 amaray boxes (440 of which will be on display, the other 440 will be hidden in the back row). You should be able to fit a ninth 83x50 cm shef on top, which would cover the remaining 110 boxes.

If you want to display all your stuff, go for the 30x226 and 83x30 variants instead.

Well, good luck! I have trouble stuffing 600+, let alone 1001. :-) Show us the photos when you achieve your goal.

Thank you! Inspiring shelves first time see. Great when it comes to material savings, sizes, and the smell of pine. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/planners/ivar-planner/ is a bit pricey, tho. Yet looks good and 50 years is a lot of time to truly test it. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ivar-shelving-unit-pine-s39407070/ Cost is £86 for 50cm depth or £133 for 30cm depth to fit all stuff. The back row can be elevated by a building steps from the cartoon. I saw it in a shop, and some were like ||| and some ☰, but maybe it was just a client's activity. Should I have a spare hundred, I will go for this unit, but I found fresh pine in the most hidden place in the world, inside the divan bed. At the photo is half of the unit I peeled a fabric off and will build a unit or extra shelves out of it. Recycling wood, got tools and screws and paint. In case I am not able to collect enough wood, I will buy a ready unit, this unit I guess, or maybe in the very same shop with DVDs, occasionally there are used bookcases.... three ways to go so far, new, used or build one(or multiple structures). I will use whatever fate throws at me to accomplish the project.^ Thank you! You are a Collector too! Pleased to meet you better. And your site with all Community work, including yours, is spectacular:http://rebrand.ly/GOGDVDCovers (*password is your nickname : ). If you don't mind will you share a photo of your unit? I wonder what 600+ looks like, and here are my first hundred.

Thanks for promoting the cover collection :-) I'm just starting to transfer games from hard drives to discs and from reels to discs, but so far it looks like the one in the attachment. By the holidays I should have everything from GOG on discs and most of them in covers.

I love it! And missing shelves : ) It's easier to build it since you care for your collection. Books, DVDs, things in the room! I started to think that an empty room was the future, but it's not. It must contain things of passion and the history of life. We are not digital-only at all; we have minds and souls and feelings, but we are living in the body, and despite all stories and games, we will stay in those bodies, God's will. And DVD is a perfect offline installer medium, as good as a flash disk or SD card.
No need for cloud uploading or keeping installers on an SSD/HDD. I will do the same thing: record all wanted installers on DVDs and keep it on display...... and in/on a few shelves in different places! It will be sorted by movies, games with progs, and anime/cartoons, and also one for empty and ready mediums, inlets, and recycled Amaray boxes. Hi again, your questions finally reached my brain. It's an exciting period.
Redundancy? Yes, otherwise I might flood myself with boxes. Not without a reason, I choose one thousand, it's a good big number I will keep maintained. Should I find the 1001st CD/DVD, it will take one from the collection to bring back to the charity shop. One thousand and steady. Disk images? Certainly for rare stuff, but for most movies and games, if cared, a DVD in the box is good enough. No duplication is needed if there are no scratches, but I believe that in time, it will take to exchange all discs for new ones within the same boxes. Thanks.

No worries! I enjoy hearing all about your project. You're on a solid journey!

TY! Have made shelves out of DVD boxes. One Amaray box with a disc and no books/leaflets weighs ~80g, while a double disc with a booklet weighs ~150g. One horizontal box takes 13 vertically placed, and that is already ~1-2kg or ~2.2-4.4lb, still within 13 different points of pressure. There are boxes with extra carton sleeves and thick booklets and those serve best as shelves. It's easier to see a picture than to describe it. Yet I believe that two levels are as much as the box can take before reshaping : )

I am in the process of making pine shelves within this place, exclusively for games DVDs, which would count ~200, and 800 DVDs that will go to the movie's bookcase, as this is a ratio I am finding wanted disks. One game and four movies for every five DVDs found. 200 reached ^°
....and I need to reserve a space for around 200 for GOG's display backup with printouts, just waiting for black ink.

Edit: I'm happy to answer any questions about any DVD in the collection here or PM.
Also, more photographed collections are welcome.

My today's loot : ) Focus on games now. Decreasing the number of movies to 600. Looking for 175 games on DVD/CD and will start printouts soon. Free boxes come from cheap broken movies, where the disc doesn't work, and/or are still available to buy if necessary. When it comes to video games, only buy when the disc is good, checking before checkout.

Also..... what was most surprising, I found the registration card filled by the Player, with full name, email, and dob addressed to Activision. The data belongs to a Girl born in 1990. Thank God she deleted that email before I bought it xD

You should check if the Toca 2 came with starforce, here had it. I used a program called a-ray scanner.

I see the HL2 box. You can burn a dvd with the game, ironically now is drm free.

I have about 275 physical non-GOG game boxes. Many of them are multiple games in one, so the number of games is much higher. That is also excluding all non-standard boxes, game magazine DVDs (often including several full games) or games to which I only have the disc (mostly older CDs, couple dozen if I had to guess). All are in shelves around my room and easily accessible.

A small chunk of them are bound to some online platform. Mostly on Steam, but some also on Battle.net etc. Did not differentiate, just counted the boxes.

Not really planning on making my GOG collection physical. I like a clear demarcation line in what I bought physically and what digitally.

Sold out Software is generally good and DRM-free. Have yet to encounter a box from them that had any sort of DRM. Not saying it doesn't exist though.

Hi! and thank you for your quest! Some 15 years ago, I bought a lifetime license for Alcohol120%, and it is still working, reporting that the disc is not secured or the lock is unknown. So I turned off all reading extras apart from sub-channel data and created a safe copy. Then I installed a game from the .mds image and it worked perfectly. I thought that was it and removed the image from the virtual drive, and started a game, but only network play was available. I made a full installation, but that is not enough. The game requires a CD or an Image within a drive to work, and only then Championship and more race types are available.
(now you know why I was gone for two hours)
I went upstairs to the G2 machine, and downloaded an A-ray scanner (thank you very much, smart bit it is) but it didn't start xD
no, wait, it was a no-drive thing, as when I plugged in the external multidrive, it started all right.
Ran all three options and it says both "no protection detected" and "SecuROM OLD signs found"
and a game works only with a disc/image in a drive.

For HL2(Securom7+ detected), I am making the image, too. So as for all discs, I will find they are not available here on GOG in digital versions. But will only record new DVDs once the old discs stop working. Current version.
This interesting line on the screen is just a damaged screen ^ van dae nu