Question for people with huge DVD collections

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
While they certainly aren't going to have the detail of HD-DVD or Blu-Ray SD DVD's still look fine. If you're seeing excessive pixelation & blurriness you need to use a better player or calibrate your TV better.

Yes, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray look better. But DVD's can look better today than they ever have thanks to modern upscalers & displays.

That said I quit buying movies a long time ago. I've long since realized that it's ridiculous to have money tied up in discs that I so rarely watch.

Viper GTS

i agree. ive got few dvds because i only buy something i love and would care to watch more than once or twice a year.

netflix ftw people 🙂

 

[j00fek]

i dont think my money is wasted, itll take yrs for HD to populate

 

[Brainonska511]

I don't regret buying my DVDs, whether it be movies or tv shows. I have maybe 20 movies at the moment, plus Babylon 5 (seasons 1-5) and 2 seasons of Futurama on DVD. I don't have an HDDVD or BR player and I watch most movies on my laptop. At home, there is no HDTV, so it would again be a waste to upgrade the DVDs I have. Finally, upscaled DVDs look good enough for me, so I wouldn't bother wasting more money just to get a little more visual effect.

 

[Svnla]

How many is huge? 100...500...1K...5K??

I think I have around a few hundreds DVD. I bought most of them new on sale (especially $5 or less at CC lately). Most of them are $10 or less a pop unless it is TV series.

Regret? Not at all.

I probably replace some with HD/Blueray/whatevernewformat ...someday... I think I may replace The Matrix, LOTR and some good movies when the new formats are cheap enough.

 

[UF Matt]

I own probably 300 DVDs. Been collecting since December 1999 and don't regret it at all. Even on my 47in HDTV progressive scanned DVDs look great. Whenever I end up getting an upconverting player w/HDMI it should look even better. HD DVDs are great, but not worth the price right now, nor is it worth replacing movies I own on DVD. The beauty of DVDs is in their CD-like convenience (i.e. chapters, ease of use on PC/TV, etc).

 

[Mrfrog840]

I held off specifically until HD DVD came around to start building my collection....

50+ titles in my collection. Even after selling 20 or so on the forums 😀

 

[AbAbber2k]

No regrets. My first DVD players was an Xbox, and by the time I got it they had been out at least 2 years I think. I'm not the kind of person that needs to jump on new tech "just because". If I was filthy rich, then I might, but I still wouldn't "regret" my aging collections.

And jpeyton is exactly right. :thumbsup:

 

[newmachineoverlord]

I only regret that I bought some of them new instead of used. DVD's can be found for as little as $3 each (most of mine came around that price point). Check your local pawn shops. Given the higher quality, I'd say high def would probably be worth 4 dollars per disk. It will probably be about 3-5 more years before hi definition movies are available at this price level, so until then I'm not wasting money buying an HDTV.(remember, manufacturing costs are less than $1.3/disk even for bluray, fifty cents/disk for dvd)


"HD DVD replication vs Blu-ray replication at Plant #1
My confidential industry source revealed that one large replication company is currently charging approximately $1.15 per single layer HD DVD (15GB) and $1.30 per single layer Blu-ray Disc (25GB), assuming a quantity of 25,000. For comparison purposes, a run of 25,000 Dual Layer DVD (DVD9) discs would cost about $0.50 per disc at this same facility. DL HD DVD (30GB) was right inline with SL Blu-ray (25GB) pricing, but an exact figure was not provided."

http://wesleytech.com/blu-ray-...on-costs-revealed/111/

 

[imported_Mike]

I have a DVD collection of about 500 DVDs. No regrets really at all except for the fact that I don't watch quite of few of those anymore. My DVDs look great on my HDTV. Would HD content look even better? You bet. I have yet to notice any pixelation or blurriness though.

I honestly don't see a point to renting 720 DVDs since they are so cheap used now. Rare to find a DVD for more then $4 or $5 that isn't some special edition or OOP. Renting HD content would be a good idea since the price point is so much higher and people seem to think one format will "win" this format war.

 

[imported_Imp]

As long as it's at least TV quality, I don't really care about the image quality. When I re-watch my DVD collection, it's usually to listen to the dialogue/music/sound effects; home's TVs are all mono, my system has the only HT setup. That and I usually surf and watch so I shrink the windows down to half a screen.

 

[Syrch]

Originally posted by: Rike
No, I don't regret it. They are what they are. And I can watch them when ever I feel like it.

IMHO, buyer's remorse is for people who like to torture themselves.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Which is why I value the experience of watching those movies but not the plastic disc. You can watch the content without buying the DVD, so I don't understand the obsession with owning a piece of plastic, and then saying that it's the content you care about when it's outdated by a much much better format.

The content matters. That's why I'll always rent!

Renting is great until the movie you love is no longer carried because you're the only one that loves that movie. If the only movies you like are whatever pop schlock Hollywood instructs you to watch, then you won't have a problem. Those will always have a million copies available. Personally, I like to make sure movies I enjoy will always be available to me.

That makes good sense. For that, I'd buy the movie no matter what format.

 

[StormRider]

I have about 500 DVDs now. I'm hoping these new up-converting DVD players are good enough so I won't regret buying all of them...

 

[TallBill]

I have about 150 DVD's, and almost exclusively use Netflix to rent now.

 

[schneiderguy]

Am I the only one who just watches movies once? I can't stand watching a movie I've already seen, so I just rent everything that I watch. I don't own a single dvd 😕

 

[pyonir]

I don't have an HD tv and can't afford one. So the used DVD's i buy now are worth it to me as i don't suspect i'll have anything HD for a long time to come.

 

[Muse]

The Blu Ray vs. HD DVD war is still raging and until the dust settles, I wouldn't consider buying a deck. Either one or the other will prevail or more likely there will be a plethora of decks available that will play both. I'll buy a deck when I know it will play what's coming down the pike and I like the deal and what I'm getting.

Meantime, I'm quite happy with my upconverting DVD deck as seen through my 720p projection system. It will probably be at least a couple of years before I upgrade, and of course what I get has to be backward compatible with my DVD's.

I have HDTV, and the picture is noticeably sharper than watching a DVD, but the improvement is nothing compared to that of DVD over VHS. I haven't watched the high def DVD formats but I don't imagine they are a quantum improvement over HDTV or DVD to the extent that I'd feel my DVD's are obsolete. Much is going to depend, too, on the quality of the home theater equipment to take full advantage of of what's available on the disks.

 

[Blayze]

I have a feeling the HD formats will remain a niche product for awhile.

Anyway I don't regret the money I have spent on my DVD collection. I can still use them with the HD players. Sure they want be HD resolution, but at least I can still view them. I haven't upgraded to one of the HD formats yet, but I have been thinking about it. I've held off buying a few titles that I know I would eventually get in HD.

A lot of this has to do with the transfers. A good DVD transfer can still look amazing on a HDTV.

 

[Quasmo]

Yea, I have to burn them all over again.

 

[0roo0roo]

i bought a decent number the first few years of dvd. then i stopped when i saw hdtv's getting cheaper. haven't bought dvds for years now..netflix all the way! dvd came in at the very end of a long long reign of sdtv. it was not something that was gonna last. i mean if you can get the film for under 5 bucks fine. but ultra special editions going for 20+ when its basically a format with one foot in the grave? no deal

 

[Fritzo]

HD and Blueray aren't catching on as fast as DVDs did. Plus...truthfully...I really think that DVD's are "good enough" resolution. Unless there's some live recorded footage, it's hard for me to tell the difference between a Blueray movie. I just don't think there was the jump in clairity in HD as there was from VHS to DVD.

HDTV on the otherhand rocks! I will watch ANYTHING in HD. I was watching some scrawny hom-a-sexule guy picking out furnature for a house he was staging on HGTV-HD the other night and enjoying it.