Does anyone leave their Blu-rays SEALED?

[TylerDurden]

I have Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory Digibook sealed. Not sure if I should open it now as its OOP.

[kryptonite1970]

i have a lot of sealed BDs, some I have seen in it's DVD format and some I plan to watch in the future. I keep some of my steelbooks sealed as I also have the standard editions. To each his own. No need to criticize someone's method of collection. If you like to open them right away then good for you but for some who doesn't open them then that's their problem.

[happydood]

I re-wrap all mine with pages from original copies of X-men #94.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by kryptonite1970

i have a lot of sealed BDs, some I have seen in it's DVD format and some I plan to watch in the future. I keep some of my steelbooks sealed as I also have the standard editions. To each his own. No need to criticize someone's method of collection. If you like to open them right away then good for you but for some who doesn't open them then that's their problem.

What's the point of owning 2 copies of the exact same movie in different packaging?

[mrr1]

I buy movies to watch them.

Thus, I need to unwrap them to do it.

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

What's the point of owning 2 copies of the exact same movie in different packaging?

That's a good question! I would like to know the answer myself.

[AutomaticDriver]

I have 2 sealed. I bought them and put them on my shelf. Normally I always opened them asap. But in these two cases, I put them aside to open later. But I completely forgot about them for 3+ months. Now, I will just want to open them when I am ready to watch it.

BTW: slimdude, I sent you a PM yesterday. I am waiting for your reply. Thank you.

[LMN8R]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

What's the point of owning 2 copies of the exact same movie in different packaging?

Or owning a movie you don't watch and you have to open it to do that.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by LMN8R

Or owning a movie you don't watch and you have to open it to do that.

I'll never understand. You look at the top 50 collections on this website and you'll several members who have hundreds of titles still in the original shrink-wrap. To make it even more mind boggling they have duplicates of many BDs.

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

What's the point of owning 2 copies of the exact same movie in different packaging?

I'd be lying if I said that I've never bought a movie twice due to packaging. But for me, it is a rare exception, and typically reserved for movies that I am a huge fan of.

For example, the Back to the Future Trilogy. These are pretty much my all time favorite movies. Before they even came out on Blu-Ray, after I already owned the original DVD Trilogy box set, I ended up rebuying all of the movies when they were released individually in 2009. Granted, I would have rebought Part 1 no matter what since the individual release came with a new additional bonus disc, but Part II and III were identical in terms of on-disc content. However, I always wanted the movies to be in individual DVD cases with the original poster art being the basis for the covers, so I bought all of them individually. Plus then I bought an additional copy of Part 1 that I had signed by Christopher Lloyd when I had the chance to meet him at a special BTTF screening.

For the Blu-Ray release, I actually bought both the US and UK sets of BTTF. This was less-so for packaging, though. I got the US set mainly because I was able to have it immediately on the release date. And I got the limited UK tin set for all of the extra stuff included in it. And this just resulted in me having back up copies of my favorite movies on BD. I ended up going with custom packaging anyway as I really wasn't thrilled with the actual packaging of either set.


But, the point is that it is my fandom of the movies that drove this. I can get particular about packaging sometimes... going out of my way to get a particular versions, customizing it when "need" be. I also do usually like to get most movies with slipcovers if they come with one, and I'll try to keep the slip in good condition if possible. But rarely do I buy multiple copies of the same thing for it.

Now, to each their own. Those who collect for packaging, hey, that's their perogative. But some people go a bit overboard with it IMO. With all due respect to them (because I have nothing against them personally), I can't really understand the mentality of people in the slipcover thread sometimes. I mean, some of them will buy many, many copies of the same movie to get several different covers. In some cases, the cover really isn't even different... the only difference is that one retailer may have some kind of exclusive bonus packed in with the movie, and as a result it has a different, additional sticker on the front of the package (apparently keeping all of the stickers on the front of the slipcover is important to some people ), so that they to get each and every exclusive version plus a standard version if possible, and then if there are different covers or different versions (i.e different combo packs, a 3D version, etc), get those as well along with any variants of those versions. I've seen people with 5+ copies of the same movie for things like this.

And it doesn't even seem like they descriminate based on movies that they are huge fans of or something. Some crappy straight to video Disney movie starring Ashely Tisdale could come out, and they will do this with something like that!

They are more obsessed with the fact that it's a Blu-Ray with a slipcover than they are over the movie, itself. They could completely hate the movie, and they'd still buy 12 versions of it if there were 12 different slipcovers, or 12 versions of the same slipcover with a different sticker on it.

It's their right to do so, but I really, REALLY don't get it. I'll admit that I can be particular about things and go to extreme lengths, and some family members and friends of mine already raise their eyebrows at me over that. But I'm not buying 12 copies of something that I have no interest in watching just because of the packaging.

[Kenny_Powers]

i keep my movies sealed till i watch them and im gonna watch them all eventually thats what i bought them for

[Eny-]

I used to own different editions of the same movie on DVD due to packaging and different extra contents but like Dynamo of Eternia said only of my favourite movies. I also respect people that have a different view from mine but in the end keeping them shrink-wrapped or owning duplicates just for a slipcover is a waste of money and I will never understand that. They will never enjoy the movies which for me, as cool as the packaging is, is the main thing and the reason we supposedly buy them!

I'm only a nut for Pink Floyd and I own, at least, some 5 or 6 different versions/editions of the every album. Is that a waste of money? YES, it is but I only do this with the Floyd. Oh... and none are shrink-wrapped, I listen and enjoy every single version. When I die I will not take them to the grave so no point in having them sealed.

In the end, each to their own. It's not my money.

[Kenny_Powers]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

What's the point of owning 2 copies of the exact same movie in different packaging?

There's only one movie so far that i had to get two copys that was reservoir dogs and i wanted the steelbook and its region b so i got a region a disk to put in there im gonna have to do this to grindhouse and jackie brown to when i get the steelbooks

[FlipperWasIrish]

no, otherwise I wouldn't buy it.

[Sky_Captain]

Hell, no.

[andyman1970]

I only leave them sealed untill I get ready to watch them. The only ones that will be more valuable later on and worth keeping sealed are limited editions and special packageing like Scarface and Citizen Kane.

[ry35an]

Originally Posted by hd goofnut

no. There's no point to leaving a bd sealed and then putting it on your shelf. If it's something i am going to buy i am usually going to watch it within a few months of purchase. That's been my argument with the guys here who have 2000 or 3000 bds and half of them are still in the original shrink-wrap. There's no way they are going to watch them all and they simply have an addiction that's no different than alcoholism or smoking.

+1!!

[Shallow_]

The only Blurays I keep sealed are the Steelbooks for my Batman and Sucker Punch displays, everything else is opened as they arrive.

Might also keep the individual Starwars releases sealed, depends how they are shrinkwrapped.

[chip75]

At the moment I would say more than half of my Blu-ray collection is still sealed. I used to open things as soon as I got home (or in the car journey home) now I wait until I watch them before opening, I'm slightly wary that some may have faults, missing or loose discs inside.

I'm opened my The Lord of the Rings EE boxset as soon as I got it home to check it was in one piece and to have a look at Fellowship.

I'm trying to watch things from my DVD/BD collection that I've opened but haven't watched. I think I have nearly 40 TV sets and nearly 120 DVD movies unopened.

I've been tempted in the past to re-buy things so I'll have a sealed one, I have the Blade Runner DVD tin as a spare, I was going to give it to my brother but he isn't interested.

You do see a few still sealed Blu's in peoples collections but a lot of them have protective covers or have had a flap cut out of the shrinkwrap to remove the contents. That's something I've started to do with boxsets if it's possible.

[hk3cx]

Originally Posted by nickmate

Bluray at the moment for consumer has a storage space of 128gb. Sony will be releasing a 500gb in 2012 so yes, bluray is here to stay for a while, it will just get bigger and bigger. And no, I don't say what about hologram disks, they rant for distribution media. Soon, films will be over the air and no longer be physical media.

i really cant see my favourite movies like texas chainsaw massacre and friday the the 13th looking any better from 4k