dvd quality is also fairly bad compared to modern formats, and the quality will only get worse when you rip them off the physical discs. flash drives are fragile, and not a very good long-term storage solution for this reason. That being said, i think it might be a better play to try to convince your husband of how bad of an idea this actually is. you could also get those super super thin foam cd covers to protect them in there, if you wanted. Time is money.ĭepending on how old they are some of them might already be gonezo, disc rot is definitely a thing. If you are skilled in any work which pays really well, you are wasting your time doing a low paying work, which anyway could have been done by someone else. You'll be wasting a lot of your valuable time. In any case, I don't think converting huge dvd collection all by yourself is a good idea. You may even think of paying some high schooler or young college kid to do the conversion work - which may work cheaper. There are professionals who may be ready to do it for a reasonable price, high quality and in less time and in a more systematic way. That way, you won't regret paying for conversion. It totally makes sense to use that precious time to do some job or work that can earn you 2-4 times the money which you spend on conversion. Moreover I wouldn't be able to do the conversation at the quality they did. I'm sure I would have taken 6 months of full-time dedication into this work. I recently gave all my home photos and old cassettes for conversion. Wanting to convert them all the way by yourself may be a huge burden. Yet another way to eliminate is by checking if the same movies are available on the streaming services that you have subscribed. One more way to eliminate it is by recalling if he would ever play those DVDs again at all.

If not, then eliminate it by either thrashing it or donating to some library or selling it. Hence her one book is titled 'Sparking joy'. She says, hold the thing in your hand and if it sparks joy in your heart, retain it. This may reduce the DVDs to anywhere between 10% and 50%. Regardless, I am constantly selling off stuff I grow uninterested in as the months go by.Īs the first step, try eliminating some of them which he doesn't want to retain. You’ll love all the space acquired.ĭon’t get me wrong I still have a bunch of media, but instead of buying 15-25 titles during the holiday sale period, I intend to limit myself to 1-3 max for the entire year. I wound up ripping about 45 discs out of the 300+ I sold.

If it’s a rare series or movie, rip the disc with MakeMKV and compress with Handbrake. Odds are you are bound to find decent digital copies like on streaming services or even for free on YouTube. There is probably only a handful of titles you actually will want to watch again. Don’t bother ripping just sell or get rid of them. I suggest going through your collection and first picking out what will never be watched. I went through this just a few months ago after finding out the hard way that DVDs suck in terms of longevity due to them being prone to disc rot and oxidation damage.

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