you have nothing to show for it if you invest in dvds either. in fact you have even less. do you have to have a copy of a book to have kept the memory of enjoyment of reading it.. no, you read/watched something already its already something you've experienced. its done, its in your brain.
I still have the memories, and I also now have the actual physical DVD, which not only can be watched any time I choose for the next fifty+ years, but I can also sell said personal property for nearly as much as I paid for it. It is a real, tangible asset.
for 10-14~bucks a month you can rent several films from netflix, depending on your return rate. whereas with that much you might be able to buy one new film.
As I, and numerous other people, have pointed out, it's VERY easy to pay $5 or less per movie. In fact a few friends and I just picked up a 25 pack for $25, dropping cost to $1 per movie. We can actually sell the individual movies for more than we paid for them.
if that. get it through your head, buying dvds is NOT an investment. in fact it is worse than depreciating, it becomes obsolete. i'd rather rent a new bluray version of a film that rewatch some old lousy dvd version released years ago.
Bluray is ass. It's ONLY useful if you have the players, which are ungodly expensive still. You need a new tv, which are expensive. The discs themselves are BRUTALLY expensive. They give hardly ANY measurable improvement to 99% of films out there. In fact, all the DRM and online bonus feature issues surrounding bluray make them pretty much worse than DVD in every category. Out of all my hundreds of friends and acquaintances I know exactly one who owns a bluray player or disc.
try selling some of your old dvds, you'll find most of them aren't worth shipping. theres simply no way to come up with a reasonable calculation that shows you save money by buying dvds.
As already stated, you almost always make nearly as much on resale as you spent, provided you cap your purchase price initially. You are flat out ignorant, and wrong.
even if theres an out of print dvd or film... if you rent the vast majority of your films, and have to find an out of print film on ebay at a higher price, you'll still come out far ahead. there is no point hoarding on the oft chance of something going out of print. anyways with future streaming/digital downloads the available library is really only going to grow. eventually there will be no such thing as something that is out of print once everything is digital.
So basically you're utterly and totally wrong on every single point you make. Thanks for playing though.