# DVDs dead media? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953 "2017-01-12T12:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/21 "2017-01-12T17:00:58Z")
Right, except these are not bootlegs. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/22 "2017-01-12T17:03:35Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > Right, except these are not bootlegs. I’m just saying, stacked in spindles, they might as well be. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/23 "2017-01-12T17:06:19Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’m just saying, stacked in spindles, they might as well be. I agree. It’s like any type of collectible, without the packaging the value goes down drastically. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/24 "2017-01-12T18:03:14Z")
[Relevant Research.](https://imgur.com/4pHJYnE) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/25 "2017-01-12T19:33:01Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > By the way, they’re on spindles no cases so that’s probably why they won’t sell. Well geeze. You should have said that up front. You’d have to pay me to cart them away. Without cases how you supposed to store them? How do you keep them from scratching? How can you find the one you want in any reasonable time frame? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/26 "2017-01-12T19:43:57Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > You’d have to pay me to cart them away. I gotta say, if I saw someone on Craig’s List trying to sell a large number of mainstream DVDs without cases and for a low price, I’d wonder if they would toss in the crowbar used to pry open the Redbox. (Not accusing the OP of that.) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/27 "2017-01-12T20:02:35Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Never underestimate the laziness of the American consumer. > > With a DVD you have to _get up_ out of chair, _walk_ over to the entertainment center, _find_ the DVD, _put_ in the player, _walk_ back to your chair and _sit down_. That is just too much effort… Laziness has nothing to do with it. It the cost. I might watch the occasional movie twice but for the most part, I watch everything once. Why pay for a DVD or Blu-Ray when I can for the price of one or two of those things have one month of access to all of Netflix screening and two discs at a time. Huge DVD collections are an absurd waste of money for most user cases? The biggest exception is probably little kids who love to watch the same thing over and over. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/28 "2017-01-12T20:03:59Z")
I’ll give you a dollar for Platoon. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/29 "2017-01-12T20:14:07Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > I’ll give you a dollar for Platoon. If he gave me ten dollars, I’d take _Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever_ off his hands. I’d be wearing oven mitts and using tongs, of course, to minimize the amount of time it’s on MY hands. ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/30 "2017-01-12T20:14:56Z")
So I broke in the Red Box? nice. :rolleyes: None of my DVDs are stolen. That are from years of accumulations. Some I bought new online, some from Walmart and some from the pawn shops. That’s ok, I’ll keep 'em. There may be a chance I don’t have net/Netflix anymore and I have two players (one is a recorder) to play 'em. I hate TV because of the ads. These are the collections and I’ve sold 100s of them in the past. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/31 "2017-01-12T20:16:32Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Laziness has nothing to do with it. It the cost. I might watch the occasional movie twice but for the most part, I watch everything once. Why pay for a DVD or Blu-Ray when I can for the price of one or two of those things have one month of access to all of Netflix screening and two discs at a time. Huge DVD collections are an absurd waste of money for most user cases? The biggest exception is probably little kids who love to watch the same thing over and over. This is my take, too. Once my son outgrew the multiple viewing stage of little kid-dom, I had no need to own any media. I can’t fathom having hundreds of DVDs cluttering up my place. And incidentally, my mom works at an indoor flea market kind of place, and they can’t _give_ DVDs and CDs away. ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/32 "2017-01-12T20:20:01Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > If he gave me ten dollars, I’d take _Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever_ off his hands. > > I’d be wearing oven mitts and using tongs, of course, to minimize the amount of time it’s on MY hands. Really? I like the movie so I’ll keep it instead. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/33 "2017-01-12T20:27:22Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > That’s ok, I’ll keep 'em. But… but… your _growth!_ ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/34 "2017-01-12T20:28:15Z")
Eh, the only reason I buy physical media anymore is if it’s both something I really like and it has enough special features to justify the price. Otherwise it’s a streaming service or Netflix disc rental. I do buy the Game of Thrones Blu-rays. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/35 "2017-01-12T20:29:32Z")
Near me there are 3-4 used media places that pay cash or store credit for used books, CDs , DVDs, video games. That is where I would take such a collection. That being said, I have also seen them reject a lot of DVDs because they simply have too many copies of popular movies in stock. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/36 "2017-01-12T20:39:21Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Never underestimate the laziness of the American consumer. > > With a DVD you have to _get up_ out of chair, _walk_ over to the entertainment center, _find_ the DVD, _put_ in the player, _walk_ back to your chair and _sit down_. That is just too much effort… . . . I enjoy not having to find a place for the DVD player. We’re also down a game system or two and the front room is less cluttered. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/37 "2017-01-12T20:40:30Z")
I did a similar bulk-buy in the past. We loaded up the boxes in the car, took a few moments to pull out the 20 or so we wanted to keep, then dropped the rest at Goodwill on the way home. The OP has ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ on the list, so I immediately trust him as a reputable seller with impeccable integrity. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/38 "2017-01-12T20:54:30Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Near me there are 3-4 used media places that pay cash or store credit for used books, CDs , DVDs, video games. That is where I would take such a collection. > That being said, I have also seen them reject a lot of DVDs because they simply have too many copies of popular movies in stock. Would they take them if they weren’t in the original boxes and were on a big spindle? ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/39 "2017-01-12T21:07:23Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Would they take them if they weren’t in the original boxes and were on a big spindle? A public library or senior center might, if they host a weekly “movie night.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953/40 "2017-01-12T22:44:20Z")
Well, a group planning a mass DVD burning as a demonstration of rejection of American culture might appreciate it as well. What’s the Iranian equivalent of Craigslist? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dvds-dead-media/776953.md?page=3)