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 turn into broadly prevalent till the early 2000s. So the DVD medium has barely existed for 1 / 4 century. Many individuals nonetheless use their DVD gamers. Even although the format has lengthy since been eclipsed by Blu-ray and streaming, you possibly can nonetheless purchase new films on DVD. (Want a DVD of The Flash or The Super Mario Bros. Movie? No drawback.)

In different phrases, DVD isn’t “dead” in the identical sense that VHS is — which suggests there isn’t actually the identical sense of nostalgia for DVD the best way 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 kind of hoarding and gathering tradition hasn’t fairly taken off on this planet of DVD but. Given the best way 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 checklist of 25 films and TV reveals beneath are all DVDs (I attempted my greatest to not embrace Blu-rays or units that included each codecs; that’s a topic for an additional checklist) which have bought for top costs on eBay in the previous couple of months. (The figures for the very best presents on some of the objects come from the web site 130point.com.) In basic, the costs are usually not fairly as excessive as those for high-end VHS tapes; individuals nonetheless are likely to fetishize analog over digital. But, bear in mind, DVDs are nonetheless in use. In a couple of extra years, as streaming turns into much more prevalent and bodily media turns into even much less prevalent, who is aware of how precious some of these discs may get?

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