Complusive Buying Issue: Can't handle DVD, Upgrade 2 Blu just to watch

[THS]

I have noticed lately that when I'm in the mood to watch a film that I have on DVD, but not on Blu, I'll go out of my way to upgrade that title just to watch it in HD. I will wait as long as it takes for a good price, just to upgrade it so I can watch it. I'll stick it out and watch one of my DVDs if it's not on Blu-ray yet, but I was wondering if anyone else has this compulsive issue?

[AKORIS]

Uhhhhhh no. what are you talking about?

[THS]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

Uhhhhhh no. what are you talking about?

I usually plan and budget my movie buying at the beginning of the month, but sometimes I'm in the mood for one particular movie I have the DVD of, and mess my monthly plans up just to upgrade it and watch it. Then I'm out a movie I planned to buy unless more money pops up or a price lowers.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Doesn't sound like a problem to me. At least you are being smart and using upgrade programs to save some money in getting the better quality version instead of just buying a Blu-ray of a film you have on DVD and getting stuck with both at retail cost.

Or... maybe I misread your post???

[Ronin48]

Originally Posted by THS

I will wait as long as it takes for a good price, just to upgrade it so I can watch it. I'll stick it out and watch one of my DVDs if it's not on Blu-ray yet, but I was wondering if anyone else has this compulsive issue?

This is me exactly, but like the rest have said, what's the problem? I've gotten many of my blus for less then I paid for the DVD. And even my worst blu rays are better than the DVD, so why wouldn't you want the best PQ? Compulsive?...... nope, smart buyer and a lover of cinema...

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by THS

I have noticed lately that when I'm in the mood to watch a film that I have on DVD, but not on Blu, I'll go out of my way to upgrade that title just to watch it in HD. I will wait as long as it takes for a good price, just to upgrade it so I can watch it. I'll stick it out and watch one of my DVDs if it's not on Blu-ray yet, but I was wondering if anyone else has this compulsive issue?

Oh yeah I had this compulsion in 2007-2008. I spent about a year replacing all of my DVDs that had been released on BD.

[bboisvert]

I pretty much replace everything if it's improved.

Meh, it's not *that* expensive of a hobby... there are worse things I could spend on.



That being said, I don't have this aversion to watching a DVD that some folks here seem to have. I have hundreds of things that aren't ever going to be issued in HD. I understand the desire to watch things you love in the best quality possible, but I've never understood avoiding things you enjoy because they aren't available in a blue case in 1080p. Never understood it, never will.

[Brad1963]

And this is an issue because....?

[bigshot]

I've got a whole life in front of me. No need to withhold fun. DVDs are fine for now if the price of the blu is too much.

[bttfiii]

I stopped watching DVD since I bought my first Blu Ray

Blus are cheap unless you are one of those obsessed with 'special editions'

[BillieCassin]

I do it all the time. Every few months I hoe out my DVD collection, ripping out titles I have replaced and then gift friends with bags of DVDs that delight them and their SD-loving families, LOL.

It was unthinkable for me in the past to get rid of movies, but unless there is a reason to keep it (a few DVDs hold sentimental value for me - heck, I've had some for 15 years now, or really important special features) I pass it on to someone else. I'm pretty liberal these days. Heck, I give away 90% of the DVD copies that come with Blu's, and for someone who is near-OCD like I am about my collection, that's quite a feat.

[DominicDeCocco4]

I do the exact same thing. Even if I feel like watching a movie I have on dvd, I go online or run to the store and buy it on Blu-ray. My friends think I'm crazy, but I see no problem in it. Can't stand dvd quality.

[Jim Purcell]

I can't watch DVD any more myself. And actively will not watch DVD versions of films that have Blu-ray editions available. So I completely understand.

Sometimes you do have to watch the DVD though. Even if all you can see are compression artifacts.

[The Great Owl]

I had about 600 DVDs in late 2012, but I had been wanting to streamline my collection for a while by selling off the ones that I did not revisit.

When I bought my first Blu-ray player, and realized how much I enjoyed watching movies in the Blu-ray format, I sold off almost every DVD in my collection that had a corresponding Blu-ray edition. I figured that I may as well get money for my DVDs while it is still possible to get decent money for them. I also traded in a lot of DVDs for the first Best Buy Upgrade & Save deal earlier this year.

I used the money that I got from selling my DVDs to upgrade my favorites to Blu-ray, and, for the most part, my favorites have all been upgraded. I figure that, if I never get around to upgrading a particular movie to Blu-ray, then I just did not want that movie in my collection badly enough to bother.

That said, I have no problem watching DVDs on my Blu-ray player, and I still own a lot of DVDs with which I do not want to part, mostly because these are films that have not yet been released on Blu-ray.