Evokazz
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Hiya guys..need some advice lol, I own around 1200 DVD's..
I have a whole bunch of Blu Rays which as everyone knows, are tons better. Recently, I sat down to watch The Crow, on DVD, and noticed it had huge black bars either side, after some research into aspect ratio's, I learned it was a 4:3 transfer, I cannot watch the movie like this, so I sold it, and bought the Blu Ray, perfect......well kinda...my brain started wandering...what other movies in my collection are 4:3, so I sat down over the past 3 days, and marked all the ratios down from the back cases. My friend told me 16x9 and Anamorphic are best for full screen image on a WS TV. Luckily about 80% of my collection are Anamorphic, while some are other ratios but still display full screen, yay, some with black bars may have sneaked their way back in, but I've sold about 40 movies that had horrid black bars either side, or all around the image, and decided to replace them with BR's where possible. I would say my collection is now black bar friendly, for the most part anyways.
Now, my dilemma, my OCD has been in overdrive, and on this little journey I thought for a second, why not sell all these and start over on Blu Rays...with the DVD sale, I wouldnt be able to afford to replace everything...nowhere near, but it would sure as hell start me off well, plus I own a fair few already. As times passed on this is niggling me more, is it worth selling up a 1200 strong DVD collection to start again on Blu Ray? opinions?
My main question is this, where would one sell a 1200 collection for a good price, where do I begin putting a price on it? Retail my collection is worth thousands, but pre owned, nothing close, how do you calculate the worth to sell on (eBay, Gumtree etc)? Whats a fair price? Split into categories? All 1200 in one sale? Helpppp
I have a whole bunch of Blu Rays which as everyone knows, are tons better. Recently, I sat down to watch The Crow, on DVD, and noticed it had huge black bars either side, after some research into aspect ratio's, I learned it was a 4:3 transfer, I cannot watch the movie like this, so I sold it, and bought the Blu Ray, perfect......well kinda...my brain started wandering...what other movies in my collection are 4:3, so I sat down over the past 3 days, and marked all the ratios down from the back cases. My friend told me 16x9 and Anamorphic are best for full screen image on a WS TV. Luckily about 80% of my collection are Anamorphic, while some are other ratios but still display full screen, yay, some with black bars may have sneaked their way back in, but I've sold about 40 movies that had horrid black bars either side, or all around the image, and decided to replace them with BR's where possible. I would say my collection is now black bar friendly, for the most part anyways.
Now, my dilemma, my OCD has been in overdrive, and on this little journey I thought for a second, why not sell all these and start over on Blu Rays...with the DVD sale, I wouldnt be able to afford to replace everything...nowhere near, but it would sure as hell start me off well, plus I own a fair few already. As times passed on this is niggling me more, is it worth selling up a 1200 strong DVD collection to start again on Blu Ray? opinions?
My main question is this, where would one sell a 1200 collection for a good price, where do I begin putting a price on it? Retail my collection is worth thousands, but pre owned, nothing close, how do you calculate the worth to sell on (eBay, Gumtree etc)? Whats a fair price? Split into categories? All 1200 in one sale? Helpppp