[TV] What shall I do with my DVD’s?

[Easy 10]

Disgusted that so many comments are "bin them". Charity shops do take them so anyone saying they don't is frankly wrong (and an idiot imo). There may be some that don't take them but this isn't the majority. Just make a f***ing effort! Lazy barstewards. I'm glad (for the planet) we're moving away from physical copies but there is plenty of opportunity still for someone to reuse and enjoy them.

Idiot here, reporting for duty.
I tried 3 charity shops in Southwick a few years ago with a boxful of old DVDs. None of them would take them. So frankly, I'm not "wrong".

I'm not advocating binning them though. Maybe wind it in a bit eh.

 

[keaton]

This is the sort of crux of it. Do people actually still buy them?

I buy lots of dvds. Mainly from charity shops or WOB. The problem with the streaming is they change what they have,you have to keep paying, and the selection is pretty poor. If you want to watch a specific ( and arty, foreign etc) film you need dvds. If you want to watch a crap version of that film starring a less good actor you've got streaming

 

[The Clamp]

I still watch DVDs sometimes and have a player plugged in . Sometimes I fancy a film I haven’t seen for ages. Streaming is ok for when it works for you but I refuse to pay again for a film once I have subscribed… so why are the ones that I want usually available to rent extra ?
The wife has loads she no longer wants and we have realised that there is no market to sell them . The care home idea sounds good. If I end up in one I have there are some decent ones there.
Someone said they’d want their laptop in a home…. the question is, will you still have the brains to work it?.?

Amazon Prime is such a rip off now. All the decent stuff costs extra on top of subscription.

 

[The Clamp]

Disgusted that so many comments are "bin them". Charity shops do take them so anyone saying they don't is frankly wrong (and an idiot imo). There may be some that don't take them but this isn't the majority. Just make a f***ing effort! Lazy barstewards. I'm glad (for the planet) we're moving away from physical copies but there is plenty of opportunity still for someone to reuse and enjoy them.

Get a life.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Got any vinyl? Cassettes?

Me too

Yes.

Often, we glance at the tv schedules and find there's nothing we want to watch so watch a dvd instead.

 

[herecomesaregular]

Idiot here, reporting for duty.
I tried 3 charity shops in Southwick a few years ago with a boxful of old DVDs. None of them would take them. So frankly, I'm not "wrong".

I'm not advocating binning them though. Maybe wind it in a bit eh.

Apparently the edge of the world drops off sharply outside of Southwick, be careful now.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I threw out loads of crap dvd's and books during covid as I was never going to watch or read them. It was very therapeutic.

I need to get round to some of the awful cd's soon.

Most people have too much stuff for no good reason, that clutters up their lives

 

[Questions]

They don’t even scare the birds off your allotments either. I tried it with my Sopranos discs but they loved the series.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

They don’t even scare the birds off your allotments either. I tried it with my Sopranos discs but they loved the series.

Tried that as well. A miserable failure. The sparrows just laughed at me, and the pigeons coo'd all over them

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Clearing out a spare room, literally boxes of DVD’s. World Cinema, 70s Comedy. Auf Pet, Breaking Bad, Di Nero movies, Fawlty Towers. Survivors, Prospects, Blackstuff, Simpsons, you name it.

I want to keep them but why?

I’ve got nothing to play them on. I’ll probably never watch them again.

They just take up loads of space and I don’t think even charity shops take them.

Inspire me NSC, give me the courage to take them to the tip.

Give me back the Mike Leigh 'Grown Ups' dvd I lent you 20 years ago

 

[1066familyman]

Most laptops and computers no longer have the drives installed in them to play DVD’s/CDs.

Keeping them with nothing to play them on is pointless. If any of them have films you really wanted to keep, you could look for companies that specialise in transferring CD/DVD content to digital. If you aren’t bothered about the films, then I would just either try to sell them on a site like Music Magpie or chuck them away.

You can buy external optical drives that plug into any computer/laptop via USB. They're very cheap to buy too, as in less than £20 cheap.
Then there's loads of free software where you can then burn your discs to your harddrive. No need to pay specialist companies to do it.

 

[Wardy's twin]

An interesting question from @Peacehaven Wild Kids. At my time of life I know I will never watch all my DVDs again. And as for my CDs.....I have over 20,000 items (some being 2 h Paul Van Dyke, Misery Hour and John Peel programmes) on iPod on shuffle, but I have another 500 Cds worth of new stuff (trance, witch house, trap, mostly) not on iTunes. Mrs T is getting fed up with the CD mountain. We hear talk of 'legacy' Brighton supporters, of which I am one. But I'm beginning to feel like a legacy human being.

And let's not get started on books

convert them to mpeg or whatever the format is today and and put a hard drive.....

 

[1066familyman]

convert them to mpeg or whatever the format is today and and put a hard drive.....

On the music front, this is what got me into DAP's and headphones.
I've burnt all my CD's as FLAC files and have them saved on two old laptops and a could of external hard drives so that they're well backed up. 512gb micro SD cards are cheap enough nowadays to put into a DAP, so currently running at about 360gb is pretty good for now. Haven't got around to burning the vinyl yet though

 

[Nibbler]

Two weeks ago I took about 200 DVDs to the Hove tip where I expected to deposit them in a charity bin (I was sure I had seen one there before). I asked where to put them and was instructed to throw them all into the general waste. It felt wrong but in they went.

I guess they are not burned because of released toxins but go into landfill? Imagine the billions of CDs and DVDs that get buried every year. Surely someone can come up with a way to recycle them?

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Give me back the Mike Leigh 'Grown Ups' dvd I lent you 20 years ago

If you lent me something you’d be troubling me for it within the hour, let alone 20 years!

Anyway if I can’t find it you can have Meantime in exchange.

 

[Rogero]

Charity

 

[herecomesaregular]

Two weeks ago I took about 200 DVDs to the Hove tip where I expected to deposit them in a charity bin (I was sure I had seen one there before). I asked where to put them and was instructed to throw them all into the general waste. It felt wrong but in they went.

I guess they are not burned because of released toxins but go into landfill? Imagine the billions of CDs and DVDs that get buried every year. Surely someone can come up with a way to recycle them?

And just a bit further along the same road is a massive charity depot with easy parking .... It "felt wrong" but really you couldn't be arsed and just did the easiest thing, out of sight out of mind.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I'm having a pint with my mate who manages the Oxfam bookshop in Hove and another mate who until recently worked for a company that deals with unwanted charity shop donations so I should be able to come back with some definitive guidance on this matter.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Well. Lots of charity shops sell DVD's.

It stands to reason they must take them

Go to one which sells them and give them away

 

[Mustafa II]

Vinyl made a come back, cassette tapes also. You could be throwing thousands of potential £ away.

No chance.

People are happy to go back to vinyl quality audio - but they won't be happy to go back to DVD quality video.