Do you regret hoarding old dvds/cds/games?

[Ichinisan]

Alright.

Let's get rid of personal libraries of any kind, while we're at it.

Who needs any books in their house? It's not like you ever read a book twice, eh? You can get them from public libraries if you need them. And if public libraries don't have the title you're looking for, you probably don't really need that title anyway. You got a Kindle and Amazon.com, that's all you'll ever need.

Same goes with music and films. We'll always have the internet available to us, as well as services like Netflix, right? So why bother with discs? Who the hell watches "Casablanca" four times, anyway? And who cares about some "making of" documentary or a director's commentary accompanying the film? Only pretentious bastards, that's who!

As for music, who needs to have a collection when YouTube parties are all the rage nowadays?

The internet is here to stay, electricity is a given, and anyone who says otherwise is a luddite.








... And then you wonder why "Idiocracy" is no longer a satire, but a self-fulfilling prophecy...

This x1,000

 

[cyclistca]

Like my CD's a DVD's. Still watch and listen to them.

Old games yes I wish I had gotten rid of them years ago. Now I don't know what to do with them.

Now lets talk about my VHS tapes. Have the original Star Wars movies. Will keep them for sentimental reasons even though I don't have a functional VCR. Can't decide what to do with all my recorded content.

 

[jlee]

Regret? Nah. Will I get rid of them? Probably, at least DVDs. I have a soft spot for music so I'll likely keep my original CDs even though I have FLAC archived.

 

[rh71]

I only have like 6 DVDs. And I only watch like 2 or 3 of them.

 

[lxskllr]

I wish digital music was available when I started collecting cds. Back then, the dream system I envisioned was a board you could plug chips of purchased music into. By a new album, plug the chip in, then access it by remote. Not a bad idea I don't think, but not nearly as good as what we have now. I don't regret my cds, but it could have been better

For games and video, I only saved my favorites. It's not a very big collection.

 

[Sulaco]

No.

I'm not that hard up for money or space that the pittance I'd get for selling them off (and it would be a pittance), or the few square feet of space they occupy on a shelf are worth it to me.

I wouldn't call myself a collector, but the games I do/did enjoy I keep and keep in perfect condition, and am glad to have.

 

[repoman0]

I still buy real books and CDs, at least a few of each per month. For books, I have no idea why I like to buy them rather than go to a library except that I like them on my shelf and seeing what I've read lying around makes me remember it .. and I just like having them. In almost no situation will I reread a book rather than spend that time reading something new.

I like having CDs because the act of putting on music is so much nicer and more of an experience than clicking away at something in foobar2000 or Spotify (which I also subscribe to anyway for easily listening to new music and for using at work). Plus my cheap $100 Onkyo CD player DAC sounds a surprising amount better than the onboard audio on my computer, and has no fan noise taking away from the music, and no temptation to dick around on the internet rather than actually listen.

I also keep a PS2 and a bunch of PS1 / PS2 games that I rarely play but like having. Every time I've sold most of my game collection I've regretted it and re-bought in large part so I just keep it all even if I'm tempted to sell.

 

[ultimatebob]

I kept my PC video game collection from the 90's. They're probably worth $2 each now if that.

 

[motsm]

I kept my PC video game collection from the 90's. They're probably worth $2 each now if that.

If you kept the boxes, some may be worth launch price, rarely more than that though.

 

[Cerb]

I only have like 6 DVDs. And I only watch like 2 or 3 of them.

I don't think I even have a single loose stack of only 6, and probably sold 25-50x as many to MovieStop just to make some room in my storage drawers, shelves, and boxes, for those movies that were meh or worse (except for Santa Clause Conquers the Martians, of course). I don't even want to count them, for fear I might approximate how much I've spent on movies over the years!

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

When younger, it wasn't a waste. Comedies usually are rewatched (Dumb and Dumber, The Holy Grail). Good sci-fi (The Matrix)or uniquely told stories (Pulp Fiction) are worth while.

Not worth while are dramas and any movie with plot twists. 6th Sense good once or twice. But more than that, it is boring.

But at 39, I am done with buying movies. Just rent from Netflix once in a while.

 

[Imp]

The CDs, not so much, because I actually listen to them a lot even if I rip them to my hard drive very soon after buying them. Their packaging is cool too?

The DVDs and Blu-rays, yep. I have maybe two or three dozen movies. I watched them a few times and never touched them again. Some, I never even watched.

 

[yllus]

I donated every single DVD I owned when I moved a month ago, and gave all of my Xbox 360 games to a friend. Physical media is for suckers!

On the other hand we have a solid library of books and I get four paper magazines in the mail each month. Life is a contradiction.

 

[madoka]

I'll admit I'm an OCD collector of things.

So, I own approximately:

- 3,000 CDs
- 7,000 DVDs
- 1,000 Blu Ray
- a few hundred video games

While my house is cluttered with them, I do feel comforted knowing that I can enjoy any of those things when I want. When it went obsolete, I even bought three spare HD DVD players to support the couple of hundred discs that I owned in that format.

Lately, I've been spending more and more on iTunes though. It has greatly reduced the clutter.

 

[sdifox]

1200 dvds...

 

[sdifox]

I donated every single DVD I owned when I moved a month ago, and gave all of my Xbox 360 games to a friend. Physical media is for suckers!

On the other hand we have a solid library of books and I get four paper magazines in the mail each month. Life is a contradiction.

should have donated to me

 

[JackBurton]

I'll admit I'm an OCD collector of things.

So, I own approximately:

- 3,000 CDs
- 7,000 DVDs
- 1,000 Blu Ray
- a few hundred video games

While my house is cluttered with them, I do feel comforted knowing that I can enjoy any of those things when I want. When it went obsolete, I even bought three spare HD DVD players to support the couple of hundred discs that I owned in that format.

Lately, I've been spending more and more on iTunes though. It has greatly reduced the clutter.

Madoka, you should spring for a Kaleidescape system. You think iTunes is convenient, you should try a K system. All the convenience and more of iTunes, with all the BD quality.

 

[dr150]

I'll admit I'm an OCD collector of things.

So, I own approximately:

- 3,000 CDs
- 7,000 DVDs
- 1,000 Blu Ray
- a few hundred video games

While my house is cluttered with them, I do feel comforted knowing that I can enjoy any of those things when I want. When it went obsolete, I even bought three spare HD DVD players to support the couple of hundred discs that I owned in that format.

Lately, I've been spending more and more on iTunes though. It has greatly reduced the clutter.

Webster Dictionary Definition:
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Save a room.....encode your shit to a server.

 

[kranky]

Thread reminded me of a convo I had with a neighbor recently. He was telling me how he quit buying DVDs a couple years ago when he signed up for FIOS and now just buys movies through FIOS and doesn't have to deal with the clutter of disks.

I asked if buying movies through FIOS was cheaper than buying the physical DVD since you lose all of it if you drop FIOS. Long pause. He didn't know that. Now he's trying to figure out how to capture the ones he's bought just in case.

 

[pmv]

I kept so many around my house. I thought I'll watch these again or play this game again sometime. This has only happened 1/100 times. I just sold a giant box of 18 items to decluttr and I'm only getting like $15 for it. Am I wrong in thinking I should have resold the games and dvds when they were newer to recoup like 70% of the price? Thoughts?

Definitely - but then I knew at the time the rational thing to do was to sell stuff as soon as I finished with it, but just couldn't make myself do it. (Only with CDs and computer games, could never be bothered owning DVDs.) On the plus side, most of it was second-hand or on sale in the first place. I figure there are those who buy stuff new at full (insanely inflated) price as soon as it comes out, then resell it after using it, and those who buy the stuff cheap when its second-hand or just on sale, then horde it while it loses all value. I suppose the ruthlessly rational ones do both and buy second-hand or after the new-release price has gone down, use it, then sell it for almost as much as they paid for it.

 

[pmv]

I'll admit I'm an OCD collector of things.

So, I own approximately:

- 3,000 CDs
- 7,000 DVDs
- 1,000 Blu Ray
- a few hundred video games

While my house is cluttered with them, I do feel comforted knowing that I can enjoy any of those things when I want. When it went obsolete, I even bought three spare HD DVD players to support the couple of hundred discs that I owned in that format.

Lately, I've been spending more and more on iTunes though. It has greatly reduced the clutter.

I'd still rather buy the CD and rip it myself than pay for digital files. Especially as physical media have collapsed in price as everyone else buys mp3s instead! You could even throw away the CD and it still would be no more expensive than buying an mp3. Paying for digital files just feels wrong somehow, dammit.

 

[zinfamous]

How about piles of VHS tapes. We don't even have a VHS player. Saved all the Disney movies for grandchildren.

How are your grandchildren supposed to play those tapes?

..or is that your point?

 

[Cerb]

I'd still rather buy the CD and rip it myself than pay for digital files. Especially as physical media have collapsed in price as everyone else buys mp3s instead! You could even throw away the CD and it still would be no more expensive than buying an mp3. Paying for digital files just feels wrong somehow, dammit.

Plus, there's good stuff you can't get that way. Want a really groovy sounding Dire Straits album? You won't buy it new. Want a good sounding Ozzy album, pre-Ozzmosis? You won't buy that new, either (worse, you're stuck with shitty mixes, not merely normal bad remastering issues). How about some Rush you don't have to turn the treble down to listen to? With DD, you're generally stuck with the latest, whatever it is, and it's usually not done by Steve Wilson or Alan Parsons .

 

[Muse]

I saw that pattern 10 years ago. People always seem to think a new DVD or CD is a good Christmas/Birthday gift when in fact you just watch/listen to is once and then it sits on a self for the rest of its life.

I have bought a few games, just a handful. I will only buy a DVD movie if I think there's a really good chance it's worth re-watching.

 

[JulesMaximus]

CDs? No way. CDs today sound like shit so I'm glad I have as many of those as I do.

DVDs? Yeah, completely worthless to collect those.

Some old games are worth revisiting from time to time but some of them are bin worthy.

If I come across a VHS tape I just throw it away. I haven't had a VCR in 20 years so no reason to hang onto that crap anymore.

BTW-I also have a small collection of records (vinyl-a few hundred albums) that I'm definitely not throwing away.