After adopting Blu, are you replacing your whole DVD library?

It's going to be a tall order for me, but maybe not as difficult as some other collectors as I was rather picky with the DVDs I bought, so most of the titles in my collection are ones that I would appreciate having on Blu-ray once they come out. I'd imagine the situation is different for those people who blind-buy or scoop up practically every DVD release they find.

But I'm in no major hurry--a great deal of them aren't out on Blu-ray yet (the majority of them are foreign films), and with some titles I can wait until they get down to bargain prices. So there's no real plan or major concerted effort to unload the DVDs and buy Blu-rays. If there's something that catches my eye, and if there's money to throw around (granted, a situation that isn't as frequent nowadays), *maybe* I'll upgrade that particular title.

Well, I have about 4650 DVD's, so I won't be replacing all of them. But I will double dipp my all time favorite movies or movies I can watch mutiple times in a row. I started buying Blu-rays like 8 months ago and I now own 152 of them.

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore.

As an aside, I trust you got the Battle Royale Blu-ray from Arrow Films UK? Or are you waiting for Anchor Bay's US release? :)

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That's a good set of rules that you follow. I have the same thing in my mind. However, there are some first generation DVD releases from like 1997/8 that still look amazing. My DVD of "As Good As It Gets" looks freaking amazing. Better than most new films LOL. And the release is like 13 years old.

"It looks a bit sweaty in there so you may need to apply baby powder" Zapp Brannigan

To MikeJonas: I didn't even know Battle royale was out on Blu-ray? But I will just wait for it to find his way into our shops since I don't live in the UK or the US, but in Belgium. But I guess I will be waiting for a long time then. But maybe there's a chance since the DVD version sells pretty good over here. But then again, I had to buy the Director's cut from Ebay as well.

EDIT: I did buy the UK release once I found it was a three disc limited edition !

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore.

I'm replacing the real gems and my all time favorites. The other stuff I could care less about will do just fine on DVD.

In my case, the upgrade is already done. All of my absolute favorites have been upgraded. Almost, anyway. One remains. Now if there only was a R2/region free BD of "The Running Man" available...

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Just to represent another circumstance, I have very few DVDs, and have no plans to replace my "collection" en masse whenever a new format comes out. Most of the movies that I deem worthy of keeping somewhat permanently were recorded off-the-air from sources like TCM. Over the years I've replaced SD versions with HD versions of the same film. I rarely watch any of them, and wouldn't dream of spending a substantial amount of money to build up a substantial personal collection when there are only so many hours in a day, and when I can easily rent, borrow, or as a last resort buy a newer version if I really have some compelling reason to do so. Most of the time I don't.

Personally I get no thrill from possessing (and having to find a place to keep) piles and piles of optical discs and assorted paraphernalia, so the idea of buying yet another disc (and player) format when I can let Amazon's Elastic Cloud 2 do most of the care and storage for me is somewhat less attractive in this century. I'll be happy to see the end of mechanical storage, and until then I'd rather keep a couple RU of NAS than a couple of closets full of fiddly plastic discs.

After going through dozens of various storage systems for audio and video, I'm all about consolidating into a common medium (the network), and reducing my "collection" of obsolete, or soon to be obsolete physical storage apparatus. I'm also moving away from file cabinets full of papers for record-keeping...