Thinking of selling off some of my DVD collection...

Zubeneschamali

FamousSeamus wrote: »

I agree with you on this, my last computer just stopped working one day (it just gave up on life:D) and I lost so many music and movie files!!

Probably not: last time a PC died on me, I was able to yank the hard disk and rescue all the files. The time before, I was able to just slot the hard drive into the new machine.

And , of course, you should be backing up that hard drive. A wallet drive is cheap these days.

Makaveli

They do take up a lot of space but meh, knowing I can watch Point Break or Big Trouble in Little China on a whim is why I'd never bother getting rid of them.

Tipsy McSwagger

Makaveli wrote: »

They do take up a lot of space but meh, knowing I can watch Point Break or Big Trouble in Little China on a whim is why I'd never bother getting rid of them.

Both of those excellent movies can be downloaded in HD and put on a USB stick or external HD. Just keep the USB/HD connected to you're tv or PS3 (or anything with a USB slot) and watch them anytime you want without having to change DVDs and saving space.

p to the e

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Both of those excellent movies can be downloaded in HD and put on a USB stick or external HD. Just keep the USB/HD connected to you're tv or PS3 (or anything with a USB slot) and watch them anytime you want without having to change DVDs and saving space.

Witchcraft!

vidor

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No offense but you must have very limited taste or not look very far for films. America easily produces 20 good to excellent films a year, as do most countries with a thriving film industry.

Perfectly happy with my taste in movies. I watch 300+ a year of new/old releases so I know what I like. I'm just looking at this from a rewatch point of view, which is my criteria for having it on my shelf.

djkeogh

sorry to resurrect this post somewhat but looking for some opinions.

I was browsing Amazon and Ebay recently and saw some outrageous prices for some Criterion DVD's that are out of print that I have in my collection. Strongly considering selling them off now as they're collecting dust and could net a decent few quid. Would the consensus be that these will continue to accrue in value or will they plateau or decline with the downturn of DVD's popularity.

If I was to sell would Ebay be the best place or is there a specialist place that would be better suited?

Ageyev

Some Criterion Laserdiscs still command a respectable price but this stuff does reach a peak. It depends what the DVD is and whether it has been or is planned to be re-released with the extras etc.

Faith+1

djkeogh wrote: »

sorry to resurrect this post somewhat but looking for some opinions.

I was browsing Amazon and Ebay recently and saw some outrageous prices for some Criterion DVD's that are out of print that I have in my collection. Strongly considering selling them off now as they're collecting dust and could net a decent few quid. Would the consensus be that these will continue to accrue in value or will they plateau or decline with the downturn of DVD's popularity.

If I was to sell would Ebay be the best place or is there a specialist place that would be better suited?

What ones have you got?

djkeogh

Two I've seen go for good money were Blood For Dracula and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Have others like Robocop, Silence of the lambs etc which are also OOP but don't seem to be in such demand.

happysunnydays

You've missed the boat for selling dvds. Best to hold on to them now, enjoy them for what they are. Decades from now you can amaze the kids by telling them these shiny disks once held films. When they ask how to get the film off the disk.... you can explain about the obsolete dvd player and how its not possible to buy these anymore so the film stays on the disk forever and ever.

IvaBigWun

The "put favourites into a DVD wallet and give the rest to a good charity" was the one I went with in the end.

I ended up retaining 80% of them with only the really bad films I bought in moments of madness given away.

happysunnydays

IvaBigWun wrote: »

The "put favourites into a DVD wallet and give the rest to a good charity" was the one I went with in the end.

I ended up retaining 80% of them with only the really bad films I bought in moments of madness given away.

I hope you kept the packaging, in any form of future collectors market it is the packaging and accompanying artwork that creates the value.

djkeogh

Blood for Dracula and The Man Who Fell to Earth sold recently on E-bay for £50+. Just wondering if E-bay is indeed the best place to try and sell these. Would be nice to pick up a few hundred from a couple of DVD's. Likely these two are worth more than the other 300 I have.

Technocentral

djkeogh wrote: »

Blood for Dracula and The Man Who Fell to Earth sold recently on E-bay for £50+. Just wondering if E-bay is indeed the best place to try and sell these. Would be nice to pick up a few hundred from a couple of DVD's. Likely these two are worth more than the other 300 I have.

"Man Who ......" 9 quid on bluray, why would someone spend 50?

Sad Professor

Technocentral wrote: »

"Man Who ......" 9 quid on bluray, why would someone spend 50?

Criterion collectors. Though even for non-collectors they are often worth it just for the transfers. I paid a fair bit for the OOP Criterion Blu-rays of Chungking Express and The Third Man.

Technocentral

Sad Professor wrote: »

Criterion collectors. Though even for non-collectors they are often worth it just for the transfers. I paid a fair bit for the OOP Criterion Blu-rays of Chungking Express and The Third Man.

Yeah but is the Criterion ones transfer much better than Otimums one for nine bills? Seems unlikely.

Sad Professor

Technocentral wrote: »

Yeah but is the Criterion ones transfer much better than Otimums one for nine bills? Seems unlikely.

I don’t know about The Man Who Fell to Earth, but in some cases the difference can be quite drastic. Most studios take little if any care with Blu-ray masters of older titles (or newer ones for that matter). This is particularly true of the OOP Criterions re-released by Studio Canal.

TheDoc

Not sure what my collection stands at since I don't count them, but my physical purchases have plummeted in the last 5-6 years.

I'd regularly go into HMV on a whim and come out with a film or two. I never went in and didn't come out with a film in a bag. That has kinda gone since the local HMV shut down, as did XtraVision which was another source where I'd buy.

I make no excuses or hide the fact that I download illegally, and it's definitely where the majority of my movies are going, into the NAS I have in the house. Considering the internet I have, I'm never really a few minutes away from a film either.ntil its shipped so you can cancel anytime. Normally the film I see in the cinema and really like

But I think there is something nostalgic about having a movie collection. I have a massive cabinet upstairs that has all my games and old PC games(when they came in massive boxes) and the likes. And as Darko mentioned, I'd quicker throw them into the bin then even walk into a gamestop and ask " how much".

While my DVD collection isn't getting any bigger, it's pretty big as is, and I think it's just cool to have.

IvaBigWun

happysunnydays wrote: »

I hope you kept the packaging, in any form of future collectors market it is the packaging and accompanying artwork that creates the value.

I did for the boxsets. I didnt for the single ones.

Reason being, the vast majority of my collection were mainstream films that sold millions of copies. There is no scenario where they'd be selling for thousands of even hundreds of euros ten years from now.

Selling a film for 50 euros on Ebay is not the kind of money that excites me. Id rather just keep the film.

dutopia

I totally get what you're thinking here and I'm in the same boat.

In my opinion, I'd hang on to them if you have the space and somewhere to display them. That's all my DVDs are really there for these days - display. There's still something nice about having them out so when friends/visitors come over they can browse through them and it can kick off conversations and you can throw an old movie into the player that everyone has forgotten about. It's a similar thing with physical books for me, I love ebooks and it's so handy having a Kindle but there's something to be said for pulling a book off a shelf and browsing through it - especially graphic novels/coffee table books.

Frank O. Pinion

dutopia wrote: »

I totally get what you're thinking here and I'm in the same boat.

In my opinion, I'd hang on to them if you have the space and somewhere to display them. That's all my DVDs are really there for these days - display. There's still something nice about having them out so when friends/visitors come over they can browse through them and it can kick off conversations and you can throw an old movie into the player that everyone has forgotten about. It's a similar thing with physical books for me, I love ebooks and it's so handy having a Kindle but there's something to be said for pulling a book off a shelf and browsing through it - especially graphic novels/coffee table books.

This is how I display my collection.

"Hey Frank O. Pinion, what's that black box connected to your TV?"
"It's a harddrive with 500 or so films on it. You can turn on the WDTV box and go through it if you want. They're separated into folders by genre."
"And this other box?"
"TV series."

TheDoc

Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

This is how I display my collection.

"Hey Frank O. Pinion, what's that black box connected to your TV?"
"It's a harddrive with 500 or so films on it. You can turn on the WDTV box and go through it if you want. They're separated into folders by genre."
"And this other box?"
"TV series."

In some ways my XBMC interface is my new DVD library, and it looks purrrtttyyyy

Technocentral

Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

This is how I display my collection.

"Hey Frank O. Pinion, what's that black box connected to your TV?"
"It's a harddrive with 500 or so films on it. You can turn on the WDTV box and go through it if you want. They're separated into folders by genre."
"And this other box?"
"TV series."

Your friends must be very formal, why don't they just call you Frank?

Frank O. Pinion

Technocentral wrote: »

Your friends must be very formal, why don't they just call you Frank?

In my abode, I'll be addressed by my full title, and guests shall have the decency to respect that.