Bloggin' On: My Blu-ray Collection By the Numbers

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A screenshot of my Blu-ray.com Collection page, as it appeared in December 2019

I've been collecting Blu-ray discs of movies and TV series I like since I purchased my first player and a high-definition TV in 2009. It's not a massive collection by any means; as of this writing, I have 276 feature film titles and 47 seasons' worth of television series in two Blu-ray formats (HD and 4K UHD). Considering that I have been purchasing Blu-rays for almost 11 years, I don't think that is an impressive haul, although it's not a pitifully small collection by any stretch of the imagination.

I am also not very good with numbers, but I am extremely fascinated by collectors' statistics. So when I learned that my Blu-ray.com account's Collection page has a statistics function, I immediately checked it out to see if I could get a by-the-numbers breakdown of my Blu-ray collection.

Happily, the answer was "Yes," and I discovered that Blu-ray.com can give you breakdowns based on the following criteria:


  • By studio
  • By genre
  • By production year
  • MPAA rating
So, as of March 12, 2020, this is what my Blu-ray collection looks like by the numbers. 

Total Collection (includes pre-orders due to arrive by 31 March): 276 Movies, 47 TV Seasons, 220 SKUs


By Studios:

20.5% Warner Bros.
16.8% Paramount Pictures
15.5% Disney/Buena Vista
12.7% 20th Century Fox
8.2% Universal Studios
6.8% Sony Pictures
5.9% Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
3.2% Lionsgate Films
2.7% PBS



By Genre:

15.4% Adventure
14.3% Action
10.4% Sci-Fi
8.5% Drama
7.0% Thriller
5.1% Fantasy
4.8% Epic
3.7% History
3.5% War
2.8% Crime
2.7% Comedy
2.5% Period
2.5% Romance
2.0% Mystery
2.0% Family
1.6% Animation
1.3% Melodrama
1.2% Horror
1.2% Comic book
1.1% Biography
1.0% Teen

Relative Genre Distribution

 Strongly overrepresented: Epic, History, Melodrama, War
Overrepresented: Adventure, Period, Sci-Fi, Western
Underrepresented: Comedy, Supernatural
Strongly underrepresented: Anime, Dark humor, Foreign, Horror, Martial arts, Music, Nature, Other, Psychological thriller, Short, Sport, Surreal



By Production Year:

22.2% 2010s
22.9% 2000s
15.6% 1990s
16.5% 1980s
11.7% 1970s
7.6% 1960s
1.0% 1950s
1.9% 1940s
0.6% 1930s



By MPAA Rating

27.9% PG
27.3 PG-13
19.7% R
10.8% Not rated
4.1% G
2.5% TV-PG
1.6% BBFC: 15
1.3% TV-14
1.3% TV-Y7-FV

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