Of the 2082 DVDs (not Blu-rays) I have, I'm going to get rid of probably 3/4 of them. I'm not going to trade or sell individually because I don't want to be trying to get money and then shipping them all over the place. I'm going to take them to MovieStop and get what I can in store credits. Unless someone wanted to buy all of them at once.

I will be replacing them with Blu-rays as funds permit. Why you ask? With all the 1080p movie channels including onDemand and Netflix a lot of these movies are already available in HD. I will be keeping selected movies, which are not available on Blu-ray yet and all of my TV series.

I'm with Karsten on this one.

It's your life, your money, and your choice, but as I see it, if you are willing to get rid of 1,500 DVDs only to SLOWLY rebuild the collection into Blu-ray then they are not nearly important enough to be replaced with Blu-ray. Let's say you sell 1,500 and with what you make from them are able to buy 300 Blu-rays, that means you still have 1,200 Blu-rays to buy (which may take several years to do so) before even getting to where you originally were, not to mention other movies that you will want to buy that you never owned before while rebuilding your old collection.

If you only want to see a shelf full of lovely Blu-ray cases, go buy a bunch of blu-ray cases and but the DVDs in them.


That's just how I see it, though.

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Of the 2082 DVDs (not Blu-rays) I have, I'm going to get rid of probably 3/4 of them. I'm not going to trade or sell individually because I don't want to be trying to get money and then shipping them all over the place. I'm going to take them to MovieStop and get what I can in store credits. Unless someone wanted to buy all of them at once.

I will be replacing them with Blu-rays as funds permit. Why you ask? With all the 1080p movie channels including onDemand and Netflix a lot of these movies are already available in HD. I will be keeping selected movies, which are not available on Blu-ray yet and all of my TV series.

Go for it!

I love having a large collection.  Why?  Because I can watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it.  I don't have to worry about it expiring on Netflix or some other service. 

I still buy some DVDs if they are cheap enough, and aren't available on blu-ray.  I can see the logic in the other responses, but in the end you should do what you want to do.

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Of the 2082 DVDs (not Blu-rays) I have, I'm going to get rid of probably 3/4 of them. I'm not going to trade or sell individually because I don't want to be trying to get money and then shipping them all over the place. I'm going to take them to MovieStop and get what I can in store credits. Unless someone wanted to buy all of them at once.

I will be replacing them with Blu-rays as funds permit. Why you ask? With all the 1080p movie channels including onDemand and Netflix a lot of these movies are already available in HD. I will be keeping selected movies, which are not available on Blu-ray yet and all of my TV series.

I can actually understand this.  I went through a spell, where I bought alot of DVD's of thing I might be interested in.  I did end up watching them, but I would bet you there are 200 to 300 DVD's that I have no desire ever to watch again.

I have been replacing a number of DVD's with BD, only because I came in high def a little on the late side.  I am only replacing the ones I want.

I will probably go through my collection this summer, and thin it down some what.

Charlie

I am also running out of space and doing more ripping these days.

- Ripping is not necessarily compression. An ISO file merely transfers the digital contents of a DVD/BD ROM to a container on another medium. It is "lossless." You can even put multiple DVD ISOs on a BD data disc.
- There are software and hardware players that will render the ISO in full glory, at least with the quality of most home hardware DVD players. I can't say about the high stuff, like Oppo - maybe there is an advantage to using hardware. I am very happy with PowerDVD on the PC, and the amazing KDLinks media player. I do admit, that even the old CX995V Sony changers offers stunning video and audio. I doubt that the typical PC can duplicate that functionality, but I think the gap is closing with the new HDMI and optical audio links.
- As far as onsite/offsite backup, I just use the DVDs themselves. Since you can't sell the DVDs after ripping (or shouldn't), the physical media itself serves as my backup. The main purpose of multiple hard drive copies is just to avoid the time inconvenience of re-ripping in case of a hard drive failure.

I have 6 Sony changers of various types. Eventually, I want to get down to one of each, mostly so I have a device to test LoadDVD with, but I will replace the others with NAS copies of ripped media, and let the media serve as backup, maybe stored in some kind of moisture protected boxes in the basement.

I have never seen the point of clogging up space on HDD for DVDs of which I have the hard copies. How many times in a year am I going to watch the same movie? Once? Twice? If so, is it really a great hardship to go into the library and pull the hard disc off the shelf?

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AFAIK blu-ray players are no longer allowed to support ISO playback. Media players, however, are a different story.

I'm not aware that they ever did.

My Oppo definitely did, until they had to remove that feature through new firmware.

Using the old firmware the player wouldn't play some newer blu-ray releases, so I had to update.

But rest assured, I still have an older player which still plays ISO files.