Since the pandemic I’ve been collecting DVDs and Blu-rays, because I started getting into filmmaking and valued the importance of physical media. One of my reasons was the horror stories I’ve read about licenses on DRM-protected purchases being revoked.

After we moved to a much smaller house, my Billy bookshelf containing around 200+ titles has been taking a huge amount of space. And the cases just sit there looking pretty. We never use the discs. There’s no Blu-ray player in our house. We all watch digital content on portable devices. I’ve filled up several hard drives with so many obscure, international films that will never get distribution here. And so, I’ve stopped buying discs. It’s also much more convenient to be able to play MKVs on every device in my house.

I was one of those people who constantly purchased discs to remux and encode them myself for use on a future server, but that’s a waste of time, energy and money as there are dozens of release groups who’ve done the work already for me.

It doesn’t make sense to keep all the clutter around. I also have 500+ DVDs in a binder with the cover art stored in folders, but it seems like a gigantic waste of money to buy a storage system for outdated standard definition media, when most studios have remastered editions readily available.

I’m thinking of selling the Blu-rays that aren’t rare to buy a cheapo Optiplex. The discs are already pretty worthless. I’m just scared that I might regret this decision.

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  • SpinAWebofSound@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I backed all mine up and sold it. I can’t justify dedicating a whole room in my house to media when I can fit it all on a few hard drives.

  • McGoodotnet@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If they have cases I pay .50 on blu ray and .15 on dvd. The binder discs are pretty much garbage but .05 a piece seems reasonable. Prices are in CAD. No one has room for clutter it seems. Good thing I have a warehouse.

  • Mountainking7@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m in the process of throwing everything away. I have got a digital copy(s) of all my content and even remasters of DVD media. I don’t even have a DVD player.

    I tried selling it on market place and it’s not getting any offers. Time for the bin.

  • bobj33@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I kept all my CD’s from the 90’s that have sentimental value because those are my high school and college years. I used to look at the band photos and lyrics in the liner notes all the time

    Since 2000 I’ve been ripping CDs the moment I buy them and look the liner notes once and then it goes in the closet. I sold or donated almost all of those unless it was from a band I liked from the 90’s or some kind of collector’s edition

    Same for DVDs. I ripped them all and kept about 10%

    Same for my National Geographic magazines. I kept about 10 and I have the entire collection on my computer back to 1888

  • Boogertwilliams@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I did throw out boxes and put them all in a folder. Saved tons of space. Simply could not keep them all like they were

  • michrech@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I didn’t ‘throw out’ my DVD collection, but I did get rid of over 90% of it. Back when Hastings was still in business, I took all of it to them for a ‘buy back’ (knowing I’d only get pennies on my dollar). I only kept the physical media of things I re-watch often (and have re-watched since I got rid of the rest of the titles).

    I went from two cheap multi-shelf Walmart DVD shelves down to a single shelf. Everything else is stored on my Plex server (which is also my NAS), which itself is just a PC with a built in 8-bay 3.5" hotswap cage. :)

  • lkeels@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Yep, tossed hundreds of discs. Most of them were “backups” of Netflix discs, but they are long gone.

  • jakuri69@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    My shelves are full of anime figurines. I don’t have space to store DVDs.

  • RamblingThomas@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’ve started throwing out DVD cases, but keeping the disks in a DVD binder like you. Still keeping the Blu-ray cases on the shelves for now.

  • Celcius_87@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’ve been getting rid of my physical media too. I still have my UHD movies but I don’t even watch them…

  • _King_pin_@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I moved back in April to a much smaller place. I am having a hard time parting with over 2500 Blurays and 4k’s. On top of that thousands more of “collector” Steelbooks and custom sets from places like Nova, FilmArena, HDZeta, Manta Lab etc.

    I used to have a spare bedroom dedicated to movie stuff with all my media on Billy Bookshelves and special editions and movie parapharnelia shelved and on display. Now it’s all in boxes.
    I have it all ripped 1:1 on my Media server plus backups but can’t get myself to rid of the physical media.