Do you regret hoarding old dvds/cds/games?

[Oyeve]

Looking at my 200 DVD's - yes.

Amateur. I have 200 still shrink wrapped. I used to go to best buy every tuesday and buy movies. Stopped around 5 years ago. I need to unload all this crap.

 

[Muse]

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.

I have maybe 400 music CD's. Bought many of those (have hundreds of LPs) I've gotten the majority of CDs by copying those at the college radio station I DJ at. I have a 300 disk player that's now full.

I have bought over 200 movies (maybe 300) mostly on DVD, some on Blu-ray. They fill my DIY shelves. I even have a bunch I've never watched. I've mostly stopped buying them because of all the space they take up, instead I check out DVD's from the library (they still don't buy BD's). I copy them sometimes instead of bothering to put a hold on them in the future if I think I'll want to re-watch. Not legal, but it puts less pressure on my library system, so I figure it's not a terrible thing to do. I have a database keeping track of that stuff and I'm in the process of adding to that info about the disks I've bought so that I can look up something easily and see where it is. That info also contains stuff like when I've watched it, how many times, what I thought of it, others' reviews, etc.

I don't stream. I had free trial to Amazon Prime a couple of months ago but let it expire. I saw one good movie (it did look and sound good), couldn't find some others I was interested in. It's not worth $100/year to me (Amazon bumped the price recently, feh!).

Do I regret it? Not a ton. I have other stuff around that's more of a problem for me. I don't consider myself a collector (music and movies, yes, however, to a point). Most of my music collection is in the form of MP3 recordings I've made of my radio shows made from music pulled from the station's 100k+ piece collection! A 3 hour show takes up ~170MB, it's piddling. I do have too much junk around, stuff I might need, but probably won't. That can become a problem. Not much of that is CDs and movies.

 

[alzan]

I don't regret buying any of my CD's/DVD's/games; I still watch some of my favourite DVD's, just got done putting my music CD's to hard drive for creating variety CD's/DVD's and I still play older games on my PC. I even play some old C64 games through an emulater; I'm glad I kept some of the original C64 versions for all the printed maps and instructions.

 

[Insomniator]

Its all garbage.

Any games before PS3 of mine are in my attic (and PS3 could go up there too), as are boxes and boxes of my dad's books. It is all the same regardless of the time period, garbage after you use it. I'm not one to ever watch movies more than once, certainly not enough to have a collection of them. I never understood people with movie collections... whoa you have Old School on DVD?! What are we waiting for?!

Steam, Netflix, Amazon, Pandora... all the media I need.

 

[Ichinisan]

Its all garbage.

Any games before PS3 of mine are in my attic (and PS3 could go up there too), as are boxes and boxes of my dad's books. It is all the same regardless of the time period, garbage after you use it. I'm not one to ever watch movies more than once, certainly not enough to have a collection of them. I never understood people with movie collections... whoa you have Old School on DVD?! What are we waiting for?!

Steam, Netflix, Amazon, Pandora... all the media I need.

More like: "Whoa! You haven't seen [some movie I love]? Let's watch it right now! On Netflix? Nope. Amazon? Nope. Don't worry. I buy the movies I really love, so I own the actual disc."

You have no idea how often that happens.

Rip. Copy to USB / SD. Share over the home network. Stream to Apple TV. Copy to smartphone / tablet... Owning the actual disc gives you a lot more freedom than a digital copy or limited streaming service library.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I have maybe 800 or so CDs, and maybe 1000 or so dvds/bluray, I do not know how many it requires to be "hoarding", but I have listened to most of the cds many times, I have loaned many cds and dvds to many friends and have borrowed from their libraries as well. I find it is nice/convenient to have a big home library, because I dream of being a hermit and never leaving the house.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Steam, Netflix, Amazon, Pandora... all the media I need.

Yeah but what happens when your internet goes out? You are stuck reading a book then.

 

[JimKiler]

I fully regret wasting too much money for LaserDiscs but it did 2 things better than BD & DVD, 1. they went right into the movie and did not force me to watch anything and i did not have to press play in a menu. BD should have an autoplay movie and retain the menu which can be accessed at any time. 2. Laserdisc had extras that were worthy of being included. Today every movie has extras for the marketing, whether it is worth watching or not.

I do not regret buying DVD's, BD's since i usually pay $10 or less and i can rewatch it even if I do not. I used to go to movies every friday night and that is expensive and i do not get to rewatch those but i was young and had money to waste.

I ripped the good songs from my CD's and got rid of the cases and booklets but i have the discs in case i need another song.

Games i used to buy used or cheap and play then resell on ebay. I am not sure you can even do that anymore with the online stuff. But i played games like Quake4, Fear 2, etc that way and usually paid $15 or less for games that retailed for $50 at launch.

I am much more frugal now only buy a couple discs a year and it has to be cheap, i bought Edge of Tomorrow for $6 last black friday. My collection is small but enough demo material and stuff i want to rewatch if i ever have the free time. I also want the UV discs now even though i have yet to watch a UV version of my movies yet.

 

[shortylickens]

Movies, yes. Now that I have Netflix I look at my collection and think theres only a handful of stuff I really needed to own.