I'm selling the last of my DVD collection...

[Candlelight]

My interest in the show as a "fan" has dwindled over the years and as such have slowly been selling my entire Dr Who collection. All that remains are three DVDs (The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Tomb of the Cybermen and Lost in Time).

As of an hour ago, Lost in Time is gone, leaving just two.

It's sad, but I simply don't watch them anymore. I remember 5 years ago when I got Lost in Time I was so excited and watched all 3 discs through heaps of times. Nowadays I barely think about Who. I guess having a kid makes you lose time to watch... pretty much anything.

I never wanted a big collection, there was really only less than a dozen stories that I wanted on DVD, but looking back it would only be for the sake of COLLECTING them, not actually wanting to watch.

Ah well...

 

[OmahaStar]

That's too bad. I'd encourage you to at least keep Tomb of the Cybermen, rather than dumping the whole thing. That way if you change your mind later, you've got somewhere to start. And if you don't, you've got a great story to remember the past.

 

[Candlelight]

Dalek Invasion just went. I'm down to just Tomb.

Thing is The Warehouse has the R4 copies plus parallel-imported R2 copies, which are like NZ$10. So if I did want to get back into it, it won't be that expensive!

 

[Starkers]

See even if I got rid of most of my DVDs I'd be tempted to hang onto Who, if for no other reason than it doesn't take a lot of time to watch as you only have to find 25 (sometimes less if you ff the titles and last weeks cliffhanger) minutes to watch an episode and you can spread a story over multiple days.

 

[Winterwind]

I've got quite a few in my Doctor Who collection that I actually wish I hadn't bought, that are rather weak for one reason or another. But even if I were to get rid of those, there are certainly key stories, for each of the Doctors, that I would keep.

 

[WillsBabe]

At least you're selling your dvds, Candlelight. When I started to dispose of my Trek collection over Christmas and New Year, I just took everything down to the tip, couldn't be bothered to sell any of it.

 

[OmahaStar]

^ What does that mean, "the tip"?

 

[Worf2DS9]

^ Maybe he means he "binned" it? Tossed it in the garbage bin, perhaps?

 

[Rarewolf]

In the UK Tip is short for rubbish tip, yeah, where you take all the rubbish thats too big to sneak in the normal household collections. Some is sorted for recycling. Though I would have thought a charity shop would have welcomed anything official. Except videotapes.

 

[WillsBabe]

Though I would have thought a charity shop would have welcomed anything official. Except videotapes.

I took about 300 books to Bookcycle, so some stuff went to a good home.

^ Maybe he means he "binned" it? Tossed it in the garbage bin, perhaps?

I'm a girl.

 

[Candlelight]

Well, I'm still selling the DVDs, but lets just say there's a certain program that rhymes with Flac the Schmipper going on my Mac as we speak...

 

[23skidoo]

At least the OP has a reason for getting rid of them that doesn't involve dumping them in favor of new technology. I still remember when CDs came out going to garage sales (read: rummage sales or boot sales if you don't know the term) and seeing people selling their entire vinyl collections with the intent of using the money to buy the CD versions ... only to discover there WERE no CD versions.

I'm seeing something similar with the change to Blu-Ray. A lot of stuff will never be released to Blu-Ray (or at least not in the same form), yet people are dumping their DVDs assuming it will. I include classic DW in this. I would expect the early seasons of the revival series will go to Blu Ray, ditto Sarah Jane (Torchwood already is), but there's really no point in doing high-def versions of something like Tomb of the Cybermen.

I cringed when I read the guy above threw his Trek DVDs in the garbage. Both from a cultural and an environmental standpoint I found that horrific. Having said that, I recently took a bunch of DVDs I no longer wanted to my local DVD trade-in store, only to find that interest in buying old DVDs has dropped so much I'd be lucky to get $1 in trade for each one, including one I paid $50 for. I talked a bookstore into taking the Criterion Edition (the $50 DVD aforementioned) and gave the rest to my brother to pick and choose as he pleased.

Alex

 

[Candlelight]

And then there were none.

In 24 hours time, The Tomb of the Cybermen will be winging it's way to it's new owner, and for the first time in (probably) 25 years I won't be the proud owner of any Doctor Who merchandise.

Feels weird. Watch this space. I'll no doubt be on Amazon inside of a month!

 

[WillsBabe]

Feels weird. Watch this space. I'll no doubt be on Amazon inside of a month!

I know how you feel. After dumping so much of my Trek stuff, I think I was in a kind of shock the day after! Enjoy your Amazon browse.

 

[Starkers]

At least the OP has a reason for getting rid of them that doesn't involve dumping them in favor of new technology. I still remember when CDs came out going to garage sales (read: rummage sales or boot sales if you don't know the term) and seeing people selling their entire vinyl collections with the intent of using the money to buy the CD versions ... only to discover there WERE no CD versions.

I'm seeing something similar with the change to Blu-Ray. A lot of stuff will never be released to Blu-Ray (or at least not in the same form), yet people are dumping their DVDs assuming it will. I include classic DW in this. I would expect the early seasons of the revival series will go to Blu Ray, ditto Sarah Jane (Torchwood already is), but there's really no point in doing high-def versions of something like Tomb of the Cybermen.

I cringed when I read the guy above threw his Trek DVDs in the garbage. Both from a cultural and an environmental standpoint I found that horrific. Having said that, I recently took a bunch of DVDs I no longer wanted to my local DVD trade-in store, only to find that interest in buying old DVDs has dropped so much I'd be lucky to get $1 in trade for each one, including one I paid $50 for. I talked a bookstore into taking the Criterion Edition (the $50 DVD aforementioned) and gave the rest to my brother to pick and choose as he pleased.

Alex

Frankly I don't see much point in replacing my DVDs with BluRay given that the medium is backwards compatable and there's nothing inherantly wrong with DVD picture quality. Replacing VHS with DVD made sense because there really was a quantum leap in quality, but Bluray strikes me as another emporer's new clothes way for people to make more money, and having paid to replace VHS with DVD I'm not going to do the same again That doesn't mean I'll never buy Blu Ray but when I do it'll be new stock.

Getting rid of VHS tapes is next to impossible these days, although last time I tried a charity shop did take my last few Star Treks.

 

[Rarewolf]

I hate chucking anyyhing away, i'm bad for it. Even for money. Many of my Trek tapes were junked or taped over (incomplete sets) - in fact I still have some of the sleeves - but I still have all the final TOS VHS releases, and all my Dr Who Tapes.

 

[Candlelight]

My VHS tapes were sold about 6 years ago. Basically I bought up big when I was a big fan living at home but when I moved out they stayed behind at my parent's house. I went back home one Christmas and found them all, and realised they were just gathering dust.

I like to think of it as not getting rid of MY collection, but allowing SOMEONE ELSE'S to get bigger.

But seriously, in doing that was the beginning of the end for me being a 'collector'. I remember picking out Shada from the pile and remembering how I watched it only once, then put it back and never watched it again. Seems a shame - I should've rented it!