Replacing DVD's

[scott87]

Hi all, my name scott and im a newbie to this site, im a big blu-ray fan and im just starting up my collection.

My main question is now that blu-ray titles are coming out more frequently are you replacing your dvd's and if you are what are you doing with your dvd's? e.g. seliing them on or keeping them

[dgator783]

sold almost all of them....I want a full high def. collection, well as much as possible

[Ascended_Saiyan]

It seems I am rebuying titles on Bu-ray. But, I'm keeping my standard DVDs...for now. I'm a bit of a pack rat, though. Plus, you can't get much for selling DVDs in the US anyway.

[Blu_Ray_UK2007]

I've sold most of mine off in Job Lot's on ebay, I want to start fresh.. I have kept some Universal titles.. and other gem's that I dont think we will see in HD.

[GreenMotion]

I recently bought Total Recall on Blu-Ray and was not at all impressed with the quality. I am not sure if this is a correct statement, but I don't think you can get good HD quality out of source material not shot in HD and/or old source material. Sure they can upsample, but unless they do a major overhaul, quality will still be lacking.

So with that said, I am really not replacing any of my older DVDs. My Total Recall DVD looked almost as good on my upsampling DVD player than the blu-ray did.

I have however stopped buying DVDs. Everything I buy now, I buy on BD.

[Jim L]

Here's what I'm doing:

• Universal Titles: hold on to these until Universal goes blu
• New Titles: if it's one that I like, I buy it to support the format and build my library
• Existing Titles (in my DVD collection): IF it has a good transfer, and is rewatchable, and is reasonably priced I will buy it

After buying a replacement title (or one that I know will be replaced like Spiderman, etc) I've been listing these on eBay in lots of 10-15 titles. I've also sold some individually in yard sales.

My holdout collector items are titles that will take a long time to come the BD like the Star Wars trilogies, LOTR. One thing you will learn -- if you hold onto your DVDs too long, they will be worth less and less as time goes on.

I did this with my D-VHS/D-Theater collection right when they went out of print, but before Blu-ray came to market. This allowed me to recoup ALL of my investment in D-VHS.

On some titles I even made a handsome profit. For example, the ALIEN (DTS/Director's Cut) D-Theater version which I paid ~$25 for, I sold on eBay for ~$110.

[kknight]

I've sold most of my DVD collection, I'm buying Blu-ray only except for anime & foreign movies since it'll be some time before they come out on Blu-ray.

[miked924]

Only replacing movies I love...especially if it's an older disc that didn't get an anamorphic xfer