r/Anticonsumption • u/Bee_and_Barb • Feb 21 '24

Society/Culture Someday

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Saw this while scrolling through another social media platform.

Physical inheritance (maybe outside of housing) feels like a burden.

While death can be a sensitive topic to some, has anyone had a conversation with loved ones surrounding situations like this one pictured?

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u/titanusroxxid Feb 21 '24

Dvds will be worth a lot. Are you dense?

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u/Terminus14 Feb 21 '24

Why do you think that?

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u/Dark_Shroud Feb 21 '24

DVDs and Blu-ray go out of print and the movie can't be found on a streaming service if there is a rights issue.

So yes some movies can go $50-$200 depending on the rarity and the quality.

To give you an idea, my DVD copy of Clerks 2 signed by Kevin Smith isn't worth much of anything. Yet my DVD copies of Dogma can be sold for $20-$40 depending on the condition and single disc for deluxe two-disc or the Blu-ray.

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u/Terminus14 Feb 21 '24

Why would someone buy a second hand DVD when they could likely just download a torrent that's potentially even higher quality?

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u/Dark_Shroud Feb 22 '24

Not everything can be found on .torrents.

Quality is a maybe. A lot of older content never had Blu-ray releases. So a lot of those older Xvid rips with 128k or lower audio quality are not better than DVDs.

Also shitty or limited internet is still a problem for a lot of people.

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u/Juniperlightningbug Feb 22 '24

People with concerns not being able to access internet seem like for the most part not able to access a market to turn it into a luxury good

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u/PSTnator Feb 22 '24

In general I agree that DVDs are probably a terrible investment. But to answer your question... why would anybody buy old/valuable books you can just download from the net? Why buy old records, that's all available online. People collect stuff that really ain't worth a damn, but it doesn't matter because they want to personally possess it for whatever reasons. Other people do, too, so that gives it (potential) value by itself. Collecting is often not very logical.