Here’s a question for the Blu-ray collectors out there: If you upgrade a movie to Blu-ray that you previously owned on DVD, what do you do with the DVD? Do you keep it? Do you sell it? Do you make an art project out of it? Tell us in today’s poll.
The resale value of most DVDs is pretty low these days. A lot of times, it hardly seems worth the effort to sell them on eBay and deal with the hassle of shipping and fees. I used to trade in my DVDs for credit towards Blu-rays at a MovieStop store in my town. I’d usually get pennies to the dollar for them, but it was a very convenient way to clear out old discs that I have no use for anymore. Unfortunately, that shop closed last year. Lately, I’ve just been tossing my unwanted discs into a pile in my basement until I figure out what to do with them.
Of course, if a DVD has exclusive content that can’t be gotten on Blu-ray (an alternate cut of the film, specific bonus features, etc.), I’ll probably keep it. Now that I have kids, an argument can be made that DVDs may come in handy to keep them occupied (because kids rarely care about things like video quality) or for travel, but they still feel like needless clutter to me (the discs, not the kids… yet).
If you sell or trade-in your discs, what have you found to be the best method for that?
What about Blu-rays that come bundled with DVD copies? My OCD compels me to keep those in the case, but I honestly couldn’t tell you which of my Blu-rays have DVDs if I needed to look for one. Do you split those packages apart?
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Raj Sidhu
I’m currently in the process of selling some of my dvds but only if the blu-ray version is a steelbook or digibook for example.
As I’ve been a collector of Dvds most of mine are in special packaging so I’ll be holding onto those as I find some of the dvds packaging has been damn awesome compared to the blu-ray ones.
Alot of my fav movies are yet to release onto blu-ray for example ‘My Sassy Girl'(director’s cut) ‘The Classic’ (Korean), ‘Murder My Death’, Alias t.v series.
Also I’m very selective in my buying choices usually buying only those movies that I can watch more than 5 times.
William Henley
I chose Other because there wasn’t an All Of The Above option. It depends on the movie. If it can still fetch a good price, I may sell it off on Amazon (usually Disney movies – especially 2D Blu-Rays if they release a 3D version of the movie). Some I give away to friends and family. Some I haven’t botehred rebuying (I may just pay the $5 for the HDX upgrade on Vudu’s disc-to-digital program). Some were tossed in a box. Many I used a couple of years ago on Warner’s DVD to Blu program.