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roookie2224
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414 Posts
9/06
Posted - Sep 20 2023 : 8:26PM
I've amass over thousands of DVDs (several boxes fulls) but I'm at a point where I'm contemplating to just selling them or keep them.
As we get older, it's not like a baseball cards collection where it can be past on to the next generation.
And no matter how well kept, information on the DVD will deteriorate.

But just like baseball cards, we have our favorite stars (or pornstars) or genre.

I can't picture telling family members at my deathbed that there's a storage room full of DVD porn that needs to be dealt with.
Just looking to see if anyone's at that old of moving on (or away) from holding on DVDs.
Maybe there could be a DVD comeback in the future, just like there's a comeback for toys from the 80's for toy adult collector (even though a small niche).

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Golden Age Classic

11019 Posts
5/01
Posted - Sep 20 2023 : 10:57PM
I've thinned my collection heavily over the years. I hold onto the ones I know I'll rewatch, mostly all features.
ORS Ian
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180 Posts
2/22
Posted - Sep 21 2023 : 3:30AM
I am also from the DVD generation. but my porn "collection" is only about a dozen porn DVDs. However I have probably 200 regular DVDs, regular movies and TV shows that I like.

There's no point trying to sell them. Nobody is buying them. Even if you find a second hand store that will take adult DVDs, they will probably give you only $50 for your entire collection. I mean a few cents per title. Do you really have thousands of porn DVDs?

Unfortunately, there is simply no market for DVDs anymore. They are an obsolete format, or will be soon. Like Laser Disc, VHS, audio cassettes, mini-Discs, 8-track tapes (remember them?) Just more relics

The reason to keep them is that if you have a favorite, physical media ensures you can watch them when you want. There is no guarantee that content will continue to be available online. especially when it comes to porn. So much porn is being made constantly, porn from the past is just not profitable. Your DVD may be the only way you can rewatch a certain scene.

If you are embarrassed about telling family members about it... just don't tell them. What's the point. You would hope to have more important things to think about and say on your deathbed or whatever.

I still have my DVDs and my player. I will probably never upgrade to Blu Rays. just keep using this old tech until it doesn't work anymore. I guess that is me getting older and caring less about such things.


ORS Ian
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180 Posts
2/22
Posted - Sep 21 2023 : 3:37AM
As for DVDs making a comeback... Nah, never going to happen. That is like imagining a comeback for Betamax tapes (remember them?). nobody wants to go backward in video quality, sound quality, and convenience.

There is no nostalgia for 480p. That is the maximum resolution in DVD format, without an upscaler in your player.

Viewers these days are accustomed to high definition on their damn phones. 1080p or higher, no going back. Nothing charming about pixelation.

By the way, DVDs look HORRIBLE on modern 4K TVs.

And why wouldn't they? DVDs were designed for use with CRT TVs. More technology that is only in museums now, haha

ORS Ian
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180 Posts
2/22
Posted - Sep 21 2023 : 3:41AM
OP, this is probably your best option. only keep the DVDs you would want to rewatch.

It kind of perplexes me that you have thousands of DVDs. Surely you haven't watched them all. why buy something you don't watch.

 
Bella
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384 Posts
3/23
Posted - Sep 21 2023 : 3:46AM
I too have struggled with what to do in case I die for example, no one in my immediate family knows the extent of my porn collection, which includes magazines as well as DVD's, (and VHS!) I worry this may shock my next of kin while rummaging through my estate after an untimely demise!

There are ways of rapidly departing a large collection by contacting a porn wholesaler who would be glad to come to your home and remove the items, also considered giving it to someone who will treasure it as much as I do after I'm gone, something to ponder as we get older.

roookie2224
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414 Posts
9/06
Posted - Sep 21 2023 : 11:12AM
It's over a 15 years time period of buying DVDs.
You get fresh faces every year.



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