DVDs That Are Still Worth A Shocking Amount of Money

The DVD — quick for digital video disc — was solely dropped at market in 1996, and didn’t grow to be extensively prevalent till the early 2000s. So the DVD medium has barely existed for 1 / 4 century. Many individuals nonetheless use their DVD gamers. Though the format has lengthy since been eclipsed by Blu-ray and streaming, you’ll be able to nonetheless purchase new motion pictures on DVD. (Need a DVD of The Flash or The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film? No downside.)

In different phrases, DVD just isn’t “lifeless” in the identical sense that VHS is — which suggests there isn’t actually the identical sense of nostalgia for DVD the way in which there may be for VHS … but. So whereas VHS followers are snatching up unopened VHS tapes and getting them sealed in plastic and graded, that type of hoarding and gathering tradition hasn’t fairly taken off on this planet of DVD but. Given the way in which of the phrase, although, it’s most likely solely a matter of time — and in the meantime, there are some DVDs and field units which have already skyrocketed in worth.

The listing of 25 motion pictures and TV exhibits under are all DVDs (I attempted my finest to not embody Blu-rays or units that included each codecs; that’s a topic for one more listing) which have offered for prime costs on eBay in the previous couple of months. (The figures for the very best affords on a few of the objects come from the web site 130point.com.) On the whole, the costs usually are not fairly as excessive as those for high-end VHS tapes; folks nonetheless are likely to fetishize analog over digital. However, bear in mind, DVDs are nonetheless in use. In just a few extra years, as streaming turns into much more prevalent and bodily media turns into even much less prevalent, who is aware of how beneficial a few of these discs would possibly get?

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