Dumping My DVD Collection on Ebay

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
In article ,
Allan [email protected] .org wrote:

are selling better than movies. Interest on movies seems to have
waded a bit, I coulnd't get $4.99 for A movies like Red Dragon.

That's because you can get it at Walmart for $4.99, and by the time you add
shipping to yours, it's a ripoff.

Well Amazon has it new for $10.99... never been to Wallmart but I
doubt your claim of $4.99... so I call your bull****.

no, it's true. Sure, you have to hunt through that big bin of DVDs they
stick in the aisle, but there you have it.

Wal-Mart's listed price for Red Dragon is $10.87
There are a lot of titles available for $9.98 at my local Wal-Mart.

Most of these will rarely sell for more than $5.00 used on eBay.
$5.00 might be a little high considering that you have to pay atleast
$2.00 postage
if not more.
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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:44:04 -0500, "Elmo P. Shagnasty"
wrote:

In article ,
Allan [email protected] .org wrote:

are selling better than movies. Interest on movies seems to have
waded a bit, I coulnd't get $4.99 for A movies like Red Dragon.

That's because you can get it at Walmart for $4.99, and by the time you add
shipping to yours, it's a ripoff.

Well Amazon has it new for $10.99... never been to Wallmart but I
doubt your claim of $4.99... so I call your bull****.

no, it's true. Sure, you have to hunt through that big bin of DVDs they
stick in the aisle, but there you have it.

Amazon on-line is $10.99... Wal-mart on-line is close to that.
Cheapest price at DVD price search... $9.19. It's Bull****.






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On 8 Dec 2005 07:02:30 -0800, "Goro" Gave us:

current DVDs do not (to
me) look that good and the flaw are extremely noticeable on a 50"
screen.

You probably have you brightness up too high.

That posterization of dark areas will carry though to the new format
likely as well.

On 8 Dec 2005 07:07:11 -0800, Gave us:

Well, if he dumped them now, he might get more money out of them. He
won't get near as much in two years when everything HD DVD BR is sorted
out. Of course, if it is more than two years, then well, I guess he
won't have a lot to watch for a while.

If the current resolution of DVDs and *that* library of transfers
took as many years as it did, how long do you think that
re-transferring that same library to a new, higher res, longer capture
time per frame masters will take? There were long lines at the
companies which performed the original DVD library of transfers.

You pretty much screw yourself pitching away titles that you don't
have any clue as to when they will be appearing in the new format.

Several years, it will take. Many titles will not even get a new
transfer treatment as well. There will simply be a BR or whatever
release of the same source media at no improvement in resolution.
Count on it.

You are screwing yourself to dump a collection of discs because
something new will be coming out. Especially when you don't even know
the time line for it.

DVDs are going to be around for quite a while, and they are quite
high enough in resolution for nearly all applications.

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:33:24 -0600, Black Locust
Gave us:

I built a DVD collection to have my favorite movies and TV series
available to me for many years to come on a small compact disc that
never wears out or deteriorates and provides good video/audio quality.

Exactly.

On 8 Dec 2005 15:54:33 -0800, Gave us:

Its not like the move from Laser Discs to DVDs. I sold off my LDs when
they
were still selling used for $15 to $25. Over the years I replaced most
of those
LD titles with the same DVD titles for the same price or less.

Why sell off your DVDs at $5 each. The prices have pretty much bottomed
out.


I have LD titles that you cannot find... anywhere.

They still hold their original value... if not more.

NunYa Bidness wrote:
On 8 Dec 2005 07:02:30 -0800, "Goro" Gave us:

current DVDs do not (to
me) look that good and the flaw are extremely noticeable on a 50"
screen.

You probably have you brightness up too high.

Calibrated using Avia. of course, the whites saturate a bit quickly on
the DLP, so i had to manually correct this down a bit. Regardless,
DVDs look very good and light years ahead of any previous format, but
still show their limitations and on bigger screens, they show up more
visisbly.

OTA HDTV already shows a potential noticeable (to me) increase in
picture quality. HDTV right now suffers from motion artifacting, but i
assume this is from bitrate issue.

-goro-

That posterization of dark areas will carry though to the new format
likely as well.

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:26:30 -0500, "SBFan2000"
Gave us:

I think you'll find most of them are trolls
looking for a fight.

And you are a top posting idiot looking to instigate one.

NunYa Bidness wrote:
On 8 Dec 2005 07:07:11 -0800, Gave us:

Well, if he dumped them now, he might get more money out of them. He
won't get near as much in two years when everything HD DVD BR is sorted
out. Of course, if it is more than two years, then well, I guess he
won't have a lot to watch for a while.

If the current resolution of DVDs and *that* library of transfers
took as many years as it did, how long do you think that
re-transferring that same library to a new, higher res, longer capture
time per frame masters will take? There were long lines at the
companies which performed the original DVD library of transfers.

You pretty much screw yourself pitching away titles that you don't
have any clue as to when they will be appearing in the new format.

Several years, it will take. Many titles will not even get a new
transfer treatment as well. There will simply be a BR or whatever
release of the same source media at no improvement in resolution.
Count on it.

This is too true. The first SEVERAL YEARS of BR, you will have to be
extremely careful when replacing a DVD with a BRDisc. Likely, you'll
have to check to see if it's from a HDMaster or whether it's from the
previous master. In the latter case, it's likely to look the same as
(or very close to) an upsampled 480p SD DVD (sans macroblocking,
htouhg, right?) Still, for newer movies and latter day movies (some
DVDs tout "From an HD master") it might be worth it. MIGHT.

And then there's the diminsihing returns for (say) CASABLANCA and that
huge catalog of classic movies that i love. Unlikely that (a) they'll
get to it anytime soon and (b) that it will look any better. But with
a higher bit rate and not macroblocking, maybe it would look better?

You are screwing yourself to dump a collection of discs because
something new will be coming out. Especially when you don't even know
the time line for it.

DVDs are going to be around for quite a while, and they are quite
high enough in resolution for nearly all applications.

I agree with this sentiment.

-goro-

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:49:41 -0500, Allan
[email protected] .org Gave us:


Never been in a "Wal-Mart" ... and I no longer buy DVD's... so....

Ever been over a 40 IQ?