Dumping My DVD Collection on Ebay

Blue Ray and HD DVD are here, so I am making a move to dump my entire
DVD collection on Ebay. Few Observations:

Premier Sets like Band of Brothers still command good money. TV sets
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.

I have been buying and selling DVDs on Ebay for 5 years, I basically
use it as a rental service, buy new, watch once and sell right away.

5 years ago, I lost maybe a couple of bucks on a disc, now the DVD
market has tanked that I couldn't get half price from my disc.

Isn't it the true sign that people are avoiding buying DVDs in
anticipation of the arrival of HD DVDs?

I am kind of suprised that I coulnd't get $15 for a LOTR EE set. But
I guess that makes sense, premier movices like LOTR will benefit the
most from HD and thus people are avoiding buying them. Just a few
thoughts.

nospam@nospam.com

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:23:08 GMT, wrote:


>Isn't it the true sign that people are avoiding buying DVDs in
>anticipation of the arrival of HD DVDs?

No.

Do you honestly expect people to throw out all their DVDs and get a
new HD TV set + HD movies which offer marginal improvements over DVD ?

You're mad if you think that. Then again, if you have the $$$ and no
sense then anything's acceptable.

The fact is, DVD's have reach critical mass. Prices are of DVDs are
falling because people already have the DVD titles they want and
manufacturer's can't keep re-selling and double-dipping any longer.

billw@econ.net

I am avoiding buying them. I may avoid buying a non-1080p input tv
because of it.

jm

wrote:

> Blue Ray and HD DVD are here, so I am making a move to dump my entire
> DVD collection on Ebay.

....Oh. Okay. I've heard that we'll all have flying cars someday, so
I'm selling all my old tires.

Derek Janssen

Derek Janssen

wrote:

> Blue Ray and HD DVD are here, so I am making a move to dump my entire
> DVD collection on Ebay. Few Observations:

They are? I doubt if we will see any Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players before
the spring of 2006 and even that is uncertain. I hope your HD TV has a
DVI/HDCP or HDMI port because it is likely that the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD
players will only send the 1080i HD signal out the copy protected
digital port. The component will likely be good for 480i/480p only.

I don't understand why anyone would dump their DVD collection just
because of BR or HD-DVD on the horizon. It will be years before many of
the DVD titles will be available on BR/HD-DVD. And will the modest
improvement in picture quality for many older movies (those in poorer
condition) be worth buying it all over again?

I don't expect to buy either a BR or HD-DVD player for at least 1 or 2
years after they hit the market and possibly even longer, depending in
part on how draconian the copy protected requirements are.

Alan F

afiggatt

jm wrote:
> I am avoiding buying them. I may avoid buying a non-1080p input tv
> because of it.

i can understand your sentiment, but isn't that basically ALL tv sets?
I'm only aware of 2 HDTVs that take native 1080p in (HP DLP and there's
one LCD, iirc). Top of the line Sony SXRD ($10k) doesn't. And 1080p
is not even quite "complete" as a format, is it? IIRC, currently 1080p
exists only in 24,25,30 fps and not the usual 50 or 60.

Without going into yet another rant on AACS et al, I'll say that I'm
normally an early adopter and i have a 50" 720p DLP TV and I EAGERLY
anticipate a hi-res DVD-type format b/c there current DVDs do not (to
me) look that good and the flaw are extremely noticeable on a 50"
screen. Now, whether h.264 is the solution or whether mpeg-2 at 480p
with higher bitrate could eliminate the artifacts that bother me is
something i donut no (or if there's another solution).

btw, has anyone watched any HD WMVs? output to a big tv? if so, how
do they look?

-goro-

Goro

You mean the flying cars are in Japan too???

needin4mation@gmail.com

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.

needin4mation@gmail.com

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> 5 years ago, I lost maybe a couple of bucks on a disc, now the DVD
> market has tanked that I couldn't get half price from my disc.
>
> Isn't it the true sign that people are avoiding buying DVDs in
> anticipation of the arrival of HD DVDs?

No, it's the true sign that you can get new DVDs for great prices from
places that you are certain will deliver.

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Jeff Rife

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> 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.
>

I really see no reason to "dump" dvd's because an HD version may be coming.
You have no garuntee if this or that title you really like is ever gonna be
rereleased in HD-DVD or BlueRay so you could sell something you cant get
again. I'd also imagine most if not all of those new HD players coming out
NEXT YEAR will have some sort of decent upscale. At least wait till several
players and at least some supply of HD-DVD's are physically avail at local
stores before you dump everything. Heck I seem to recall how Superbit was
gonna make ppl replace all their movies, back when 1st introduced, because
it was so much better. That didnt turn out to be true, as far as I can tell
anyway, with only a Handfull of titles in SuperBit it sure didnt render
regular DVD's obsolete and I kind of doubt HD-DVD will either. Course I have
different ideas for HD DVD. I'm looking forward to being able to buy entire
Seasons on a single disk instead of 6 disc's to shuffle everything is right
there. Wi

Bratboy