Should I sell my DVD collection?

[Woundup]

Looking for opinions from everyone here. I have a pretty large collection of DVD movies that I am thinking of selling off. With new technology starting to pick up in the HD area and I myself having a Bluray player, I thought now may be the time to start over and get rid of my DVD's while they still have some value. Please tell me your thoughts on this and what would you do.

Plus, with it being so close to our wedding I could use the extra cash, but this will not be a deciding factor because it would only be a convenience not a necessity.

[BrewCityUpstart]

I know that there are charity drives for the troops that want you to give them your DVDs. thats what I'm going to do with my 100+ movies.

[AlphaQ GehaD]

I voted YES, now whenever you feel like it, Post your list of movies so we could start picking.

[Quo]

Nice idea, Brew!

If you don't go that route, Woundup, you're right-- better now than never. If you're planning on going Blue-Ray with your collection, I'd sell off the stuff you have now before it's totally worthless. I was just telling Peench the same thing about his BeeGee's 8-tracks...

[dmiller68]

I have sold ruffly 50% of my DVD's so far about 350. I have another 20-30 that I tried selling. I'm thinking about selling the other 300 or so but some I'm not sure well be coming to a HD format soon. So I'm not sure I want to sell all of them yet.

[Woundup]

Originally Posted by Quo

Nice idea, Brew!

If you don't go that route, Woundup, you're right-- better now than never. If you're planning on going Blue-Ray with your collection, I'd sell off the stuff you have now before it's totally worthless. I was just telling Peench the same thing about his BeeGee's 8-tracks...

That's funny we were playing Marvel last night and Peench mentioned how hard it was going to be for him to give up his Wham collection also.

[Peench]

I just upgraded the 8-track player in my ride. I can now see song titles scrolling across the display in the dash. AWESOMENESS!!

I voted yes. I have sold off a handfull of my DVD's and should sell the rest as well. I know there's a website called spinrecords or something like that who will buy them from you, you just ship them to em. I sold mine in bulk, which seemed to net about $2-3 per title. Not a bad deal and better than most trade in places.

I like the troop donation Brew. Do you have contact information for that?

[BrewCityUpstart]

I've heard advertisements on the radio, but you can easily contact a USO organization, the American Legion, or a VFW. I'm sure anyone can find one nearby with the internets.

It would be a nice thing to do for those of you that never served. At least you can take pride in knowing that you helped some sailor or soldier not think about dying or war for an hour and a half.

[namehater]

i probably wont ever pick my collection apart, even when i do finally take the plunge into HD content, whichever route i may take, im sure that i wont put it in every room of my house, however i do have a dvd player in every room, so i think my 150+ collection will be going nowhere, probably indefinitely

[Jon Liu]

I'm considering the same thing, too, woundup. I voted yes. Honestly, hardly any of them I want to watch now, some of them it's simply because they're not that great, but partially because of the new formats also.

[Woundup]

They are the same 2 reasons I am mainly considering this. Most of the movies I don't want to watch anymore and the ones I do want to watch I would rather look at the in HD now.

[lovekeiiy]

you call sell everything but the porn. You can sell that later. For whatever reason (pervs), porn seems to keep some value even when its on an outdated medium.

If you thinking you're going to convert your movies to HD, then it's probably a good idea to sell the collection. You may just want to hold on the movies you like that won't be going HD right away. I don't think people are going to be going HD players that quickly anyway. When you see the average player hitting that $300/$200 mark, then those DVDs values will bottom out. Look how long it took for DVDs to really beat out VHS tapes. Plus there is the whole having a HDTV set as well.