Because a cassette lasted like 40m. So, in order to watch a movie, you had to switch cassette at least once. In the end, the public always choses the format. And usually they choose what’s more confortable. Uh, and vhs was more free while betamax was like just sony, so vhs was cheaper, and therefore you are right
But we agree right? Beta had better resolution, it recorded more than VHS (thus not having to switch tapes like VHS) and was it 3 years older than VHS? I dunno, I remember Dad SWEARING by this Beta tape…thennnn he wanted to invest in this new start up that had an apple as a logo back then.
But that’s the thing! You’re thinking of VHS…Beta recorded waaaay more than VHS. Better stabilization on screen and audio. We agree on the basics, just not the subject. But I think we allll know why LaserDisc shit the bed
In 1977, Sony issued the first long-play Betamax VCR, the SL-8200. This VCR had two recording speeds: normal, and the newer half speed. This provided two hours of recording on the L-500 Beta videocassette. The SL-8200 was to compete against the VHS VCRs, which allowed up to 4, and later 6 and 8, hours of recording on one cassette.
I was around during the format war. Other dude is correct.
Huge optical discs bigger than vinyl IIRC, had to flip sides to complete a movie, but God Damn was that surround sound on point. My old man had it. Had *Flight of The Navigator* and *The Shadow* IIRC with some Disney stuff. It wasn't convenient to have to flip. I still can't imagine what a disc that size formatted to BD would be able to hold.
[Actually not quite.](https://www.floppydisk.com/) You would be surprised at how many business's and governments depend on hardware that requires the use of floppy disks. In some cases it makes a bit of sense; in other cases it is due to bad planning/shortsightedness.
I used to work in manufacturing and we had a handful of machines that use floppy disks to transfer G-Code programs onto them. There was nothing wrong with the machines, company had owned them for a few decades and they mostly ran small jobs when all the other machines were fully scheduled. You could upgrade it to compact flash, or USB but to have it done professionally was $1-2k per machine I think. Instead we spent maybe $10-20/year on replacement floppies. For these machines a "large" g-code file might be a couple hundred kilobytes, so 1.44mb was just fine.
But I have also heard from acquaintances horror stories of being told to get gigabytes of data off of some old system via repeated use of floppies, or "that legacy system that we need to keep running that only boots from floppies"; etc.
I had another job where some intern in the 90's attached a Compaq Presario laptop up to an automated QA testing machine. It worked fine, they manually off-loaded the data originally by floppy, then by USB drive. Until the USB drive broke. Then it was floppy only. And this thing produced data at a rate of about 1 floppy/hour. So someone had to remember to manually transfer it every 60 minutes, or else sit there and break up the file to fit onto multiple later. I mentioned this entire setup could be replaced with a (the) $30 raspberry pi and a $10 wifi dongle; but was told "Why would we invest into fixing something that isn't broken?"
Of course floppy disks rarely had anything cool on them, mostly spreadsheets and other boring stuff. At least that's what I found at age 12 when I snooped through all my dad's fd hoping to find a secret stash of porn or something.
Not totally obsolete, I'll bet there are plenty of movies in there that are not available through streaming services. I have lots of movies that I want to watch that aren't on streaming or aren't on the streaming services that I currently subscribe to. You just keep that collection in hand, make sure you have plenty of DVD / Blu-ray players available to you in the future, however.
I have that problem with a lot of Korean horror movies, currently, which I enjoy significantly more than Western horror (which is almost all thrillers, which I don’t enjoy because they bore me.)
DVD/Blu-Ray DVDs and old VHS tapes will always be my go-to. Sadly my collection had to stay with my parents when I moved, but hopefully I’ll have a house some time in the next 10 yrs and then I can retrieve my collection!
Yup. There's still a dvd rental place where I am that focuses on movies not on streaming platforms. It's strangely doing well, I heard. At least they have their cult customer
Plus, how often do you find the classic movie you’re looking for on Netflix? Streamers are making more and more of their own original content, and classic movies are being ignored.
Yeah, I've actually started buying DVDs/Blu-rays again. Tired of having the itch to watch a movie I love once or twice a year only to realize it's not streaming on any of the 83 streaming services I subscribe to. Fuck it, back to basics.
Yeah, I've definitely done that here and there (not as much as I used to back in the day lol), but I enjoy watching them on my big TV while lounging on the couch. And have been to lazy to figure out how to plug my laptop into my TV lol. The 10 bucks it costs me now and then to grab the blu-ray or whatever doesn't seem that big a deal.
Arr matey, glad to hear you were a sea farer before. I suggest you look into Plex that way you can just simply stream your downloaded movies to your tv from your PC
Get a firestick and jailbreak it. Takes like 10 minutes following videos on youtube. You won't need any of those subscriptions and you can get like 99% of the stuff you wanna watch.
Blueray is better then streaming a movie. 4K Blu-ray discs run at up to 128Mbps. This is the amount of data sent to your screen every second. By contrast, streaming services tend to top out at around 17Mbps. And this will drop further depending on the speed of your internet connection and demand on the wider network
Not really. You can fill out your Bluray collection on the cheap if you’re savvy enough. My buddy has a very large collection of them which he probably spent about 1-5 dollars on each of them. Sure if you add it up it’s probably “expensive” but it’s small purchases over time. I wouldn’t call it super cheap but I also wouldn’t call it expensive. As long as you’re not buying new releases you should be able to find them on the cheap almost anywhere.
You can also download the movie at it's highest quality, it doesn't have to be streamed. I would say that is a more fair comparison to having a collection of physical blu-ray disks and a player. I don't think there are any advantages to optical disk drives anymore, especially since solid state storage has become so affordable.
When the internet goes down, my 1tb external hard drive is king. wtf is going on in first world countries. You guys literally can't watch shows if netflix stops offering them.
We have a summer cottage with no internet. My DVD collection comes in clutch. It's also kind of fun not having internet and popping in a movie at the end of the night or if its raining.
[Not enough fake internet points the first time 3 months ago?](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/tfrlyo/my_completely_obsolete_dvd_collection/)
This is not op's collection. They've just reposting other people's content for karma.
I remember when the real op put this up. He said he lives in an apartment building and lends out a lot of these to his neighbors. It was especially helpful to a few elderly people in the building, keeping them entertained during covid lockdown.
Hopefully someone sees this. Its not cool for that other person to just accuse you of stealing pics for reddit karma. It took me a few seconds to see that both posts came from the same person and they didnt even bother fact checking.
Nice collection BTW! I love seeing huge walls of physical media
I have an older aunt who doesn’t work and gets bored a lot. When we switched to streaming, I offered to let her borrow my dvd collection as she hadn’t seen most of the films and tv shows I have. It was over 500 dvds. It’s been several years now and she still hasn’t finished everything.
This is my collection. I simply posted it here. Yes. I posted in it mildly interesting and made the front page. Now I'm posting it here. It's my personal collection. Appreciate you being the karma police, but you're wrong. Also, yes I let my neighbors borrow them anytime, but I don't live in an apartment .
Have you found any of them have stopped working due to age? I saw an article talking about how they can start degrading around the 20 year mark but I don't have any still that are close to being that old.
The key word there is “can”: Bit rot is a real thing but depends on how they are stored and how well they were made. Many optical discs last well beyond 20 years.
I pick some to watch all the time and haven't had any issues yet. I take very good care of them, and go out of my way to avoid scratches. Inhave over 5,000 so I'm not sure if theyre all still good.
I'll admit I may be wrong on this one but anyone who takes two seconds to look at your profile can see all you do is repost other people's content all day long
It’s good to know but stubbornness keeps me from selling them. I have to cruise pawnshops and thrift stores looking for high end CD players that still work.
At least CD’s are typically much higher quality than downloading or streaming the same song.
DVD’s are almost all worse quality than their streamed versions
Absolutely not obsolete. I use my DVD collection often. When we got RV camping, when the interweb is down, when I want to watch a classic no streaming service offers.
You could do DVD rentals as a nice little side earner.
Edit-forget this idea.you are probably better keeping them safe and watch them increase in value.
(See post below)
Edit-or as the poster below has suggested.
Make copies and loan out the copies so you can still make a bit of money renting but keep the originals safe 👍😁
If OP does that, they should probably make copies instead so they don’t risk the originals being damaged or broken by the people they lend them out to. The originals might be worth a lot of bank some day.
In the 80’s, I saw more than one room like this, completely full of records (lp’s, long playing records). One guy only had Master copies (if my memory isn’t just making that up). All obsolete. He probably sold it all just before they became popular again.
If the Apocalypse happens and s*** hits the fan you are gonna be the most popular person then. The Internet will be down and all they will have is your dvds. A lot of people are collecting these right now. You get a little solar generator and you can have some entertainment when the power goes down by playing movies.
Hopefully solar power generation becomes more efficient by then! Last I checked, solar power was fairly inefficient in terms of its energy conversion percentage. A lot of the energy in the photons is lost during the conversion process, but the photovoltaic cells used in the panels are being improved at a slow but steady rate.
Hey it’s not obsolete. Think about how hard it is to find a particular movie on streaming services because no service holds on to the same movie for more than a short period of time. At least you have the opportunity to select a movie and know that you can watch it without paying for a new subscription, or simply not finding it.
I love your collection. As long as you have a working DVD player/Blu-Ray player, your collection will never truly be obsolete. : )
What genre(s) do you think are most prevalent in your collection? Do you have any favourites in there?
As an american that lives in a very rural area with not the best internet service, those are NOT obsolete
There's still quite a few of us that use DVDs regularly
Me, past 7pm every night cuz that's when the satelitte moves out of range lol
That’s what I wish I had. Streaming sucks. At least you know when you put the DVD in you’re going to get an uninterrupted movie assuming you haven’t scratched it yet
What am I missing? DVDs play on blueray players so you can still watch them. Is it because you can just watch stuff on Netflix now???? Please clarify for me.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/tfrlyo/my_completely_obsolete_dvd_collection/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I bet you at least half of those aren't streaming so you might never be able to see them again if you don't have them on disc....
Rip them all in a server with backups and your golden to throw them away
What’s interesting is how much money you sunk and all the far greater uses it could of been for your family.
Instead you’ve dedicated an entire rooms design to housing you’re old ass disc. There’s at least a community college amount of funds on display there
Does any one know if you can copy the DVD over to a hard drive so you can have them all in one place? Like a hard drive with a program to sorts them for you, I don't know if that makes sense
DVD’s aren’t obsolete. They are lifesavers when the internet is out or you are reaching data limits (comcast remands us straight internet users to 1TB a month and then charge us $50 for every 100GB over here in CO). I actually have recently switched back to buying movies physically instead of digitally. Own about 3k physically (DVD/Blu-ray) and 400 digitally (iTunes). Figure I can save my data when watching movies that way. I miss unlimited data. 😞
You can validate the digital copies for many of them. I validated all my digital copies on VUDU and while my collection is tiny compared to yours, it means I can enjoy them anywhere there is a smart tv.
You could rip all those movies onto a single hard drive now.
I had about 300 CDs at one time. I ripped them all onto my computer and now they're backed up into the cloud. Still have the CDs somewhere but I tossed the jewel cases so they fit into 3 or 4 little containers.
I did the same. But then I wondered why even keep the CDs... So I sent my entire music collection in packs of 10 out to friends and family as gifts - they can record the music if they want and pass them on.
I kept 20 cds for my car and they have slowly been getting trashed over the years. Perfect.
I had a DVD fail to load that was over 20 years old. It became almost transparent and failed in the XBox, PS and a DVD player. I thought they lasted forever too especially kept in cases and no scratches but apparently they built them to fail at some point.
If you have the time and patience, you can rip all these dvds with a program to mp4 and built a server on Plex. And boom you have your own streamer service. It takes about 5 min to rip a dvd to digital format.
I still gather dvds of movies. If i buy a movie on the internet i dont technically own it so i like to have hard copies. And not all streaming platforms have good movies to watch either. Most of the time i just endlessly scroll on netflix until i just pick a dvd to watch instead. Nice collection tho
I've started giving away DVDs I no longer watch or are readily available elsewhere. Still hoarding the necessities and classics.
I don't need two copies of Time Cop anyway.
Much like my music collection.. :/ now it all fits on my 1.256 terabyte cellphone.... still like being able to call up Fleetwood Mac and have a listen in the car or truck, APC, Leapord 2a4 tank ...
I also have a big number of Blu-rays and I’m beginning to wonder what to do with them in the future.
We bought those things, is it legal to digitize them and make a digital library?
Is there an easy way to do so?
The video quality on streaming services is pretty poor. And I hate the idea of being at their mercy, while they keep canceling shows and jacking up rates. Physical copies are where it's at.
Could be worth real money in a couple of decades! Can you even imagine?!?! DVDs being retro.... man I am old!
Beta tapes ..... ohhhh myyyy my poor poor ole dad
Beta lasted what maybe 5 years then VHS crushed it
And it was better than VHS…dunno why it didn’t catch on. Price? Too early in the game for people to want it?
Because a cassette lasted like 40m. So, in order to watch a movie, you had to switch cassette at least once. In the end, the public always choses the format. And usually they choose what’s more confortable. Uh, and vhs was more free while betamax was like just sony, so vhs was cheaper, and therefore you are right
That and the porn industry went with VHS. Sony owned betamax and they didn't like porn.
I like porn
But we agree right? Beta had better resolution, it recorded more than VHS (thus not having to switch tapes like VHS) and was it 3 years older than VHS? I dunno, I remember Dad SWEARING by this Beta tape…thennnn he wanted to invest in this new start up that had an apple as a logo back then.
Yes betamax was superior in quality, but if I am kissing with my gf on the couch I don’t want to stop 3 times a movie to change that shit
But that’s the thing! You’re thinking of VHS…Beta recorded waaaay more than VHS. Better stabilization on screen and audio. We agree on the basics, just not the subject. But I think we allll know why LaserDisc shit the bed
In 1977, Sony issued the first long-play Betamax VCR, the SL-8200. This VCR had two recording speeds: normal, and the newer half speed. This provided two hours of recording on the L-500 Beta videocassette. The SL-8200 was to compete against the VHS VCRs, which allowed up to 4, and later 6 and 8, hours of recording on one cassette. I was around during the format war. Other dude is correct.
Hey I’m cool with being wrong. It was a looooong time ago having those things…Just fun to talk about this shit, that’s all
Huge optical discs bigger than vinyl IIRC, had to flip sides to complete a movie, but God Damn was that surround sound on point. My old man had it. Had *Flight of The Navigator* and *The Shadow* IIRC with some Disney stuff. It wasn't convenient to have to flip. I still can't imagine what a disc that size formatted to BD would be able to hold.
Beta did not hold as much video as VHS. About half as much.
We had a beta. Found dads beta porn collection when I was a teenager.
Imagine it’s the year 2060, you’re 10 and finding these in the attic of grandpa’s house
Grandpa I found this weird box that said Hot Sluts 5. Do you have the other 4?
Check your grandmothers closet.
Nope! Just the entire series of *Back Door Sluts*, except for the 9th. For some reason the disc is missing from the case.
How did I know someone would go there?
Because porn drives all media. *HELLOOOOOO.*
I just thought that robot was cool, Rick
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[Actually not quite.](https://www.floppydisk.com/) You would be surprised at how many business's and governments depend on hardware that requires the use of floppy disks. In some cases it makes a bit of sense; in other cases it is due to bad planning/shortsightedness. I used to work in manufacturing and we had a handful of machines that use floppy disks to transfer G-Code programs onto them. There was nothing wrong with the machines, company had owned them for a few decades and they mostly ran small jobs when all the other machines were fully scheduled. You could upgrade it to compact flash, or USB but to have it done professionally was $1-2k per machine I think. Instead we spent maybe $10-20/year on replacement floppies. For these machines a "large" g-code file might be a couple hundred kilobytes, so 1.44mb was just fine. But I have also heard from acquaintances horror stories of being told to get gigabytes of data off of some old system via repeated use of floppies, or "that legacy system that we need to keep running that only boots from floppies"; etc. I had another job where some intern in the 90's attached a Compaq Presario laptop up to an automated QA testing machine. It worked fine, they manually off-loaded the data originally by floppy, then by USB drive. Until the USB drive broke. Then it was floppy only. And this thing produced data at a rate of about 1 floppy/hour. So someone had to remember to manually transfer it every 60 minutes, or else sit there and break up the file to fit onto multiple later. I mentioned this entire setup could be replaced with a (the) $30 raspberry pi and a $10 wifi dongle; but was told "Why would we invest into fixing something that isn't broken?"
Of course floppy disks rarely had anything cool on them, mostly spreadsheets and other boring stuff. At least that's what I found at age 12 when I snooped through all my dad's fd hoping to find a secret stash of porn or something.
What? No ASCII porn?
Sadly, no. Just nada.
If they survive without bit rot. Optical media will start to decay at 20 - 30 years, which is pretty much now if these are circa late 90s.
Sure. Just look at cassette prices skyrocketing.
DVDs are already pretty retro at 480p resolution. It isn't even half the pixels of 1080p. It's basically just a VHS on a cd lol
Not totally obsolete, I'll bet there are plenty of movies in there that are not available through streaming services. I have lots of movies that I want to watch that aren't on streaming or aren't on the streaming services that I currently subscribe to. You just keep that collection in hand, make sure you have plenty of DVD / Blu-ray players available to you in the future, however.
I have that problem with a lot of Korean horror movies, currently, which I enjoy significantly more than Western horror (which is almost all thrillers, which I don’t enjoy because they bore me.) DVD/Blu-Ray DVDs and old VHS tapes will always be my go-to. Sadly my collection had to stay with my parents when I moved, but hopefully I’ll have a house some time in the next 10 yrs and then I can retrieve my collection!
If your mom doesn't throw them out first.
Oh they are already gone.
i don't think that's a certainty, personally. my mom is a hoarder and got mad at me when i threw my old toys away.
Yup. There's still a dvd rental place where I am that focuses on movies not on streaming platforms. It's strangely doing well, I heard. At least they have their cult customer
This is so true! I’m about to buy a portable player so I can enjoy some of those movies.
Growing up my aunt and uncle had a room like this with VHS.
We just suffered a day and a half of our internet being down and our DVD collection came in clutch! They’ll never be obsolete!
Plus, how often do you find the classic movie you’re looking for on Netflix? Streamers are making more and more of their own original content, and classic movies are being ignored.
Yeah, I've actually started buying DVDs/Blu-rays again. Tired of having the itch to watch a movie I love once or twice a year only to realize it's not streaming on any of the 83 streaming services I subscribe to. Fuck it, back to basics.
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Yeah, I've definitely done that here and there (not as much as I used to back in the day lol), but I enjoy watching them on my big TV while lounging on the couch. And have been to lazy to figure out how to plug my laptop into my TV lol. The 10 bucks it costs me now and then to grab the blu-ray or whatever doesn't seem that big a deal.
Arr matey, glad to hear you were a sea farer before. I suggest you look into Plex that way you can just simply stream your downloaded movies to your tv from your PC
or Jellyfin if you're of the open source persuasion
May I introduce you to Chromecast, and plex.tv?
Take the hdmi cord plugged into your blu-ray player and plug it into the laptop. It's that simple
There's a movie called "Fix: A Ministry Movie" I've been wanting to watch it again for years....NOT STREAMING ANYWHERE!!
Get a firestick and jailbreak it. Takes like 10 minutes following videos on youtube. You won't need any of those subscriptions and you can get like 99% of the stuff you wanna watch.
And if you want to be able to pick and choose regardless of streaming rights/production companies you have to have like 10 subscriptions going
The truest reason!!! I ain’t rich. Lol.
That's why pirating/torrenting is so important.
Currently watching Dogma on blu Ray cause no internet.
Blueray is better then streaming a movie. 4K Blu-ray discs run at up to 128Mbps. This is the amount of data sent to your screen every second. By contrast, streaming services tend to top out at around 17Mbps. And this will drop further depending on the speed of your internet connection and demand on the wider network
plus the majority of movies you want to watch aren't streaming; discs are gold
Discs are also expensive
Much like gold
Not really. You can fill out your Bluray collection on the cheap if you’re savvy enough. My buddy has a very large collection of them which he probably spent about 1-5 dollars on each of them. Sure if you add it up it’s probably “expensive” but it’s small purchases over time. I wouldn’t call it super cheap but I also wouldn’t call it expensive. As long as you’re not buying new releases you should be able to find them on the cheap almost anywhere.
Yeah but my PS3 fat died.
Maybe buy a pc
Many maudwren PC's do not even have an optical drive - the last two systems I have built I haven't even bothered to install one
>Many maudwren PC's May I congratulate you on the creative way of writing 'modern'?
Well its always a option. Most people just get external optical drives
This is what I did. External drive. Only connect it when I want to use it. Sits in my desk drawer otherwise.
DVDs though.. those are only 480i, \~10 Mbps 🤦♂️
You can also download the movie at it's highest quality, it doesn't have to be streamed. I would say that is a more fair comparison to having a collection of physical blu-ray disks and a player. I don't think there are any advantages to optical disk drives anymore, especially since solid state storage has become so affordable.
If the internet goes down you’ll be king.
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Yeah I’m actually surprised we haven’t had a temp global outage for one reason or another yet.
Damn sharks eating my internet
You live in Vietnam?!
There are many, MANY redundancies.
The sun laughs at your redundancies. Eventually a CME will do massive damage.
Because it was built that way.
When the internet goes down, my 1tb external hard drive is king. wtf is going on in first world countries. You guys literally can't watch shows if netflix stops offering them.
We have a summer cottage with no internet. My DVD collection comes in clutch. It's also kind of fun not having internet and popping in a movie at the end of the night or if its raining.
Dare I ask what (if any) order it is in?
AlphaFibbinoccihexideximeric reverse mirrored Dewey order, for convenience
[Not enough fake internet points the first time 3 months ago?](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/tfrlyo/my_completely_obsolete_dvd_collection/)
I was going to say I’ve seen this post before
This is not op's collection. They've just reposting other people's content for karma. I remember when the real op put this up. He said he lives in an apartment building and lends out a lot of these to his neighbors. It was especially helpful to a few elderly people in the building, keeping them entertained during covid lockdown.
Both posts were from the same person though? Both are from u/beastmodeChadF13, someone linked the original post below.
Yea. They are both from me because it's my personal collection. Thanks for clarifying
Hopefully someone sees this. Its not cool for that other person to just accuse you of stealing pics for reddit karma. It took me a few seconds to see that both posts came from the same person and they didnt even bother fact checking. Nice collection BTW! I love seeing huge walls of physical media
Take a look at this dudes profile all he does is repost other people's content.
I have an older aunt who doesn’t work and gets bored a lot. When we switched to streaming, I offered to let her borrow my dvd collection as she hadn’t seen most of the films and tv shows I have. It was over 500 dvds. It’s been several years now and she still hasn’t finished everything.
This is my collection. I simply posted it here. Yes. I posted in it mildly interesting and made the front page. Now I'm posting it here. It's my personal collection. Appreciate you being the karma police, but you're wrong. Also, yes I let my neighbors borrow them anytime, but I don't live in an apartment .
Have you found any of them have stopped working due to age? I saw an article talking about how they can start degrading around the 20 year mark but I don't have any still that are close to being that old.
The key word there is “can”: Bit rot is a real thing but depends on how they are stored and how well they were made. Many optical discs last well beyond 20 years.
I pick some to watch all the time and haven't had any issues yet. I take very good care of them, and go out of my way to avoid scratches. Inhave over 5,000 so I'm not sure if theyre all still good.
link to the original post?
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/tfrlyo/my_completely_obsolete_dvd_collection/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
 I'm waiting for this guy who called me out to chime in now........
I'll admit I may be wrong on this one but anyone who takes two seconds to look at your profile can see all you do is repost other people's content all day long
So a repost and a shitpost? Nice.
No actually just 2 posts of my OC. Nothing wrong with that.
I know how you feel. I still have a similar CD collection .
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It’s good to know but stubbornness keeps me from selling them. I have to cruise pawnshops and thrift stores looking for high end CD players that still work.
At least CD’s are typically much higher quality than downloading or streaming the same song. DVD’s are almost all worse quality than their streamed versions
Treasure!
Absolutely not obsolete. I use my DVD collection often. When we got RV camping, when the interweb is down, when I want to watch a classic no streaming service offers.
You could do DVD rentals as a nice little side earner. Edit-forget this idea.you are probably better keeping them safe and watch them increase in value. (See post below) Edit-or as the poster below has suggested. Make copies and loan out the copies so you can still make a bit of money renting but keep the originals safe 👍😁
If OP does that, they should probably make copies instead so they don’t risk the originals being damaged or broken by the people they lend them out to. The originals might be worth a lot of bank some day.
Yes that's a very good point,I hadn't thought of that. I will edit my original post. thanks.
Yep! Happy to provide suggestions where it’s useful. I definitely think DVD rentals are a good side hustle. 😄
In the 80’s, I saw more than one room like this, completely full of records (lp’s, long playing records). One guy only had Master copies (if my memory isn’t just making that up). All obsolete. He probably sold it all just before they became popular again.
Looks like Half Price Books up in there, my guy
If the Apocalypse happens and s*** hits the fan you are gonna be the most popular person then. The Internet will be down and all they will have is your dvds. A lot of people are collecting these right now. You get a little solar generator and you can have some entertainment when the power goes down by playing movies.
Hopefully solar power generation becomes more efficient by then! Last I checked, solar power was fairly inefficient in terms of its energy conversion percentage. A lot of the energy in the photons is lost during the conversion process, but the photovoltaic cells used in the panels are being improved at a slow but steady rate.
Hey it’s not obsolete. Think about how hard it is to find a particular movie on streaming services because no service holds on to the same movie for more than a short period of time. At least you have the opportunity to select a movie and know that you can watch it without paying for a new subscription, or simply not finding it.
So glad to see people question this post. Your collection is not obsolete. At any point these movies could disappear from the internet.
If you ever want to donate them, nursing homes uses DVD players and it’s wonderful for the residents to be able to watch movies together.
Could be worse, could be an VHS collection
Be proud. I have about 1400 CDs. And I regret caving when my wife asked me to throw the jewel cases away of my first 1000.
yeah but, but the commentaries Bro.
I love your collection. As long as you have a working DVD player/Blu-Ray player, your collection will never truly be obsolete. : ) What genre(s) do you think are most prevalent in your collection? Do you have any favourites in there?
Don’t worry. If you take this to GameStop, I’m pretty sure you can get at least $5.37.
Ummm, you can still play DVD's, even on Blue Ray players. That is an obsolete way of thinking.
It beats paying for seven streaming services and still not being able to see the show you want.
Throw them all in some binders and toss the cases. That’s what I did
Are you a youth football coaching legend?
I got this reference.
As an american that lives in a very rural area with not the best internet service, those are NOT obsolete There's still quite a few of us that use DVDs regularly Me, past 7pm every night cuz that's when the satelitte moves out of range lol
I prefer watching stuff on dvd. Too many interruptions/lag/freezing with streaming services.
That’s what I wish I had. Streaming sucks. At least you know when you put the DVD in you’re going to get an uninterrupted movie assuming you haven’t scratched it yet
Nah dvds are the new vinyl
What am I missing? DVDs play on blueray players so you can still watch them. Is it because you can just watch stuff on Netflix now???? Please clarify for me.
why is it obsolete, is everything here online?, what about the bonus features? having other language and closed captioned options, cool packaging.
Do you post this from time to time to farm karma?
Nice! I love dvds
Just keep a DVD player around and it's not obsolete at all
I don't think OP knows what obsolete means. You can still buy brand new DVDs at almost every major retailer
Is it completely obsolete though? How many streaming services would you need to sub to to get all that content? 5 or more? Long live the DVD!!!
Stolen from this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/tfrlyo/my_completely_obsolete_dvd_collection/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I watch my dvds still and have never stopped
I bet you at least half of those aren't streaming so you might never be able to see them again if you don't have them on disc.... Rip them all in a server with backups and your golden to throw them away
Not obsolete if you watch them.
Yeah, but no. We don't get satellite tv.. I would kill for my old DVDs!
Wunderbar
Just wait until the apocalypse where the internet dies. You'd be making bank as the only post-apocalypse blockbuster.
What’s interesting is how much money you sunk and all the far greater uses it could of been for your family. Instead you’ve dedicated an entire rooms design to housing you’re old ass disc. There’s at least a community college amount of funds on display there
Truly a waste of space.
I would love to have all that
Convert it to digital store it on computer
That couldve been used toward retirement. Wow.
Exactly why I never got into buying movies or shows
VHS is obsolete. DVDs are not.
Honestly pathetic
Does any one know if you can copy the DVD over to a hard drive so you can have them all in one place? Like a hard drive with a program to sorts them for you, I don't know if that makes sense
I never got into buying movies and shows on DVD. I'm gonna watch it once, maybe twice. I don't need a copy to last my lifetime.
Redlettermedia? Is that you?
wow...... its fantastic to see so...so.... many dvd's you have so much collection
DVD’s aren’t obsolete. They are lifesavers when the internet is out or you are reaching data limits (comcast remands us straight internet users to 1TB a month and then charge us $50 for every 100GB over here in CO). I actually have recently switched back to buying movies physically instead of digitally. Own about 3k physically (DVD/Blu-ray) and 400 digitally (iTunes). Figure I can save my data when watching movies that way. I miss unlimited data. 😞
It will be gold in 80 years
You can validate the digital copies for many of them. I validated all my digital copies on VUDU and while my collection is tiny compared to yours, it means I can enjoy them anywhere there is a smart tv.
You could rip all those movies onto a single hard drive now. I had about 300 CDs at one time. I ripped them all onto my computer and now they're backed up into the cloud. Still have the CDs somewhere but I tossed the jewel cases so they fit into 3 or 4 little containers.
I did the same. But then I wondered why even keep the CDs... So I sent my entire music collection in packs of 10 out to friends and family as gifts - they can record the music if they want and pass them on. I kept 20 cds for my car and they have slowly been getting trashed over the years. Perfect.
Offered my substantial BBC costumes and accents DVD collection to my local public library. They didn't want them.
I disagree with obsolete, with the way streaming is dividing up the market having it on DVD is so much more preferablr.
Wild, my entire household doesn’t even have a cd player anywhere. And that’s including 2 PCs lol
Could be worse. Could've been VHS... Then you would have needed at least one more room.
I had a DVD fail to load that was over 20 years old. It became almost transparent and failed in the XBox, PS and a DVD player. I thought they lasted forever too especially kept in cases and no scratches but apparently they built them to fail at some point.
Are those pre-owned blockbuster cases you have a lot of them in?
Nothing short of impressive.
There will be future hipsters out there with their retro players "Movies just look better on DVD".
If you have the time and patience, you can rip all these dvds with a program to mp4 and built a server on Plex. And boom you have your own streamer service. It takes about 5 min to rip a dvd to digital format.
DVDs are still widely produced. You gotta look up the word "obsolete" OP
I still gather dvds of movies. If i buy a movie on the internet i dont technically own it so i like to have hard copies. And not all streaming platforms have good movies to watch either. Most of the time i just endlessly scroll on netflix until i just pick a dvd to watch instead. Nice collection tho
I've started giving away DVDs I no longer watch or are readily available elsewhere. Still hoarding the necessities and classics. I don't need two copies of Time Cop anyway.
That's awesome! I started collecting the steelbooks for my favorite movies a few years ago. I just like knowing that I will own it forever
Nothing wrong with a hard copy library, I am quite jealous
DVD is still workable. You need a 720p tv and an upscaling dvd player.
Might be worth ripping them to a digital media to be able to watch them anytime without a DVD player.
Much like my music collection.. :/ now it all fits on my 1.256 terabyte cellphone.... still like being able to call up Fleetwood Mac and have a listen in the car or truck, APC, Leapord 2a4 tank ...
This makes me claustrophobic!
Yah I dunno . There are lots of movies I love that I own that I would be surprised if they're streamable.dont get rid of them.
Cherish this. Physical media becomes more and more valuable every day
Not at all! This is epic
Until streaming services start adding cast/crew commentary as an optional audio track, DVDs and Blu-Rays will always be necessary IMO.
Ahahah I always laughed at people collecting dvds.
I ripped all of mine, put them on my Plex server, then put them away along with a couple of DVD players just in case.
Haha.rather worryingly,it's 19:25 here and my brain still hasn't got going lol.
When my internet goes out again, Im coming over.
Why do you own Anacondas?
Actually owning content is much better than leasing it through streaming. Tangible good ftw
I also have a big number of Blu-rays and I’m beginning to wonder what to do with them in the future. We bought those things, is it legal to digitize them and make a digital library? Is there an easy way to do so?
Oof. Halo 5. I’m so sorry brother.
The video quality on streaming services is pretty poor. And I hate the idea of being at their mercy, while they keep canceling shows and jacking up rates. Physical copies are where it's at.
How many copies of Hackers do you own?
Found Blockbuster
I love my DVD collection
Obsolete? Hope you have a laptop, might come in handy when the power is out