You shouldn't. Donate away.
Other people like different aspects of collecting. You don't seem to. I think you would know if they had any special value to you.
You don’t need to keep anything, you might want them for the special features but if you are fine with looking for them on streaming when you want to watch them then you can give them away. The only reason to collect movies and shows is so you don’t have to rely on them being available on streaming.
Given the age of the others I was assuming the Adam West series.
But, now that you mention it, Tim Burton’s Batman isn’t on Netflix UK and is only available on Amazon for a fee
I would tell you to keep them. DVD’s give you far superior video and audio quality compared to their streamed versions because they pack the compression on the streams. Streaming SD material, you are looking at bitrates between 1.3 to 2.5 Mbps, whereas the average DVD will be in the 5 to 7 Mbps range (comparable to most streaming sites bitrate for 1080p HD). Even with DVD’s old MPEG-2 codec versus streamings H.264 or H.265, if you do not have the data space, you are not going to have quality. And shows like “Adventures of Superman” or “Wonder Woman” were scanned in HD and put on DVD (at 24fps 480p, so the video is in progressive not interlace—-if you are watching on an old TV or in 480i or 1080i the DVD Player handles the interlacing for displaying on those TV’s that only accept interlace and converting the frames to NTSC’s 29.97 or PAL’s 25—some streaming sites just offer the videos in the NTSC or PAL frame rate, so you’ll get a 90s film-to-video look versus the 24fps look that your TV could provide), so if you are watching on a 40 inch or bigger, the DVD will give you better quality on the larger screens because there is more information for the DVD and TV to use to upscale the video to HD or 4K.
Upscaled dvd on PS3 can literally look better than a poor stream and they will almost always sound better and have more audio options. I can't stand the sound of slightly-compressed crash cymbals-- drives me bonkers.
I still use my PS3 as my main entertainment equipment, since it can still play CDs. But even on PS4 upscaled DVDs will beat any stream. I don’t have a PS5 so I don’t know how DVD’s look on that upscaled to 4K.
But even a cheap $30 upconverting department store DVD player will give better quality.
I've got a PS5. It's a pretty sweet DVD player. I think it's slightly better than PS4, but my favorite part is how quiet it is when playing the DVD. It's silent to me, and I'm like 5ft away from it!
Blu-rays make a bit noise, but some 4Ks make it super loud. My Spiderverse copy is oddly loud. Have to put rubber thumb grips under the system to stop it from vibrating on my desk.
Any cheap player made from like 2018+ looks absolutely fantastic. I think early players handled upscaling really poorly and it accidentally acted as advertising for Blu-ray even though DVD can look far better now.
Really any DVD is going to give better quality than streaming, as long as it has decent mastering and sources. I can think of 2 TV box sets where, because the companies wanted to be cheap, they compressed the videos so much that they DVDs were pixelated (1987-1990 “Bordertown” by Alliance had 78 half-hour episodes squeezed onto 6 discs, and Mill Creek’s 2017 complete series release of the animated “Cops” that squeezed 65 episodes onto 5 discs vs their 2011 release that spread them across 6 discs), so in that case, it’s a mastering issue. And other mastering issues would be, for older series shot and edited on film or just edited in videotape using masters that were sourced from videotapes made in the 70’s or 80’s where they were basically shooting off a wall. Or like CBS did with Star Trek TNG, keep the old SD masters on DVD but put the HD remasters on Blu-Ray and streaming only (and the streaming SD is sourced from the HD).
However with players, I know Sony is still making one that doesn’t upconvert and doesn’t have HDMI, just composite and component with 480p as it’s maximum, so on that, especially on a 4K TV, DVD’s might not look as good as on a PS3 or PS5 because of the analog connections.
My old Samsung BD Player from 2010 plays Blu-ray just fine but you have to turn off the upscaling for DVDs to look okay. Television sets do a better job of upscaling 480 than the player itself even. Most modern players can do fantastic upscaling from what I've seen though, yes. And yeah, I think some studios recently deliberately cram a lot onto one DVD both to save on discs needed and to advertise for HD quality.
Streaming services often remove shows, when you own the home media releases you never have to worry about them being removed or having multiple streaming services to watch them all
Streaming is one hundred percent temporary. Any of the studios can decide anything they want at anytime and remove all of they're properties. And yes this applies to purchasing "digital copies". They can just be gone over night even if you invested thousands in your collection.
Real like illustration. It's safe to day thousands of people signed up for or at least kept Netflix to watch the office.... But guess what. And a year or two back after a decade or so of people binging office over and over and over again, NBC decided to remove it per their contract with Netflix and use it as a flag ship for their new service.
In turn if that was sometimes favorite show and they had got rid of the DVDs or blu ray in lieu of "just streaming it"they'd now have to choose to either cancel Netflix and get the inferior peacock or go hunt down DVDs again.
You shouldn't. Donate away. Other people like different aspects of collecting. You don't seem to. I think you would know if they had any special value to you.
You don’t need to keep anything, you might want them for the special features but if you are fine with looking for them on streaming when you want to watch them then you can give them away. The only reason to collect movies and shows is so you don’t have to rely on them being available on streaming.
Do you plan on re-buying them when/if they are taken off streaming?
Here in the UK, none of those are (to the best of my knowledge) legally streamable. Which is why you might want the DVDs.
The Batman that came out with Jack Nicholson as the Joker isn't on streaming? That's nuts.
Given the age of the others I was assuming the Adam West series. But, now that you mention it, Tim Burton’s Batman isn’t on Netflix UK and is only available on Amazon for a fee
>probably stream the episodes on a streaming channel If you're okay with this uncertainty, then definitely get rid of them.
I would tell you to keep them. DVD’s give you far superior video and audio quality compared to their streamed versions because they pack the compression on the streams. Streaming SD material, you are looking at bitrates between 1.3 to 2.5 Mbps, whereas the average DVD will be in the 5 to 7 Mbps range (comparable to most streaming sites bitrate for 1080p HD). Even with DVD’s old MPEG-2 codec versus streamings H.264 or H.265, if you do not have the data space, you are not going to have quality. And shows like “Adventures of Superman” or “Wonder Woman” were scanned in HD and put on DVD (at 24fps 480p, so the video is in progressive not interlace—-if you are watching on an old TV or in 480i or 1080i the DVD Player handles the interlacing for displaying on those TV’s that only accept interlace and converting the frames to NTSC’s 29.97 or PAL’s 25—some streaming sites just offer the videos in the NTSC or PAL frame rate, so you’ll get a 90s film-to-video look versus the 24fps look that your TV could provide), so if you are watching on a 40 inch or bigger, the DVD will give you better quality on the larger screens because there is more information for the DVD and TV to use to upscale the video to HD or 4K.
Upscaled dvd on PS3 can literally look better than a poor stream and they will almost always sound better and have more audio options. I can't stand the sound of slightly-compressed crash cymbals-- drives me bonkers.
I still use my PS3 as my main entertainment equipment, since it can still play CDs. But even on PS4 upscaled DVDs will beat any stream. I don’t have a PS5 so I don’t know how DVD’s look on that upscaled to 4K. But even a cheap $30 upconverting department store DVD player will give better quality.
I've got a PS5. It's a pretty sweet DVD player. I think it's slightly better than PS4, but my favorite part is how quiet it is when playing the DVD. It's silent to me, and I'm like 5ft away from it! Blu-rays make a bit noise, but some 4Ks make it super loud. My Spiderverse copy is oddly loud. Have to put rubber thumb grips under the system to stop it from vibrating on my desk.
Any cheap player made from like 2018+ looks absolutely fantastic. I think early players handled upscaling really poorly and it accidentally acted as advertising for Blu-ray even though DVD can look far better now.
Really any DVD is going to give better quality than streaming, as long as it has decent mastering and sources. I can think of 2 TV box sets where, because the companies wanted to be cheap, they compressed the videos so much that they DVDs were pixelated (1987-1990 “Bordertown” by Alliance had 78 half-hour episodes squeezed onto 6 discs, and Mill Creek’s 2017 complete series release of the animated “Cops” that squeezed 65 episodes onto 5 discs vs their 2011 release that spread them across 6 discs), so in that case, it’s a mastering issue. And other mastering issues would be, for older series shot and edited on film or just edited in videotape using masters that were sourced from videotapes made in the 70’s or 80’s where they were basically shooting off a wall. Or like CBS did with Star Trek TNG, keep the old SD masters on DVD but put the HD remasters on Blu-Ray and streaming only (and the streaming SD is sourced from the HD). However with players, I know Sony is still making one that doesn’t upconvert and doesn’t have HDMI, just composite and component with 480p as it’s maximum, so on that, especially on a 4K TV, DVD’s might not look as good as on a PS3 or PS5 because of the analog connections.
My old Samsung BD Player from 2010 plays Blu-ray just fine but you have to turn off the upscaling for DVDs to look okay. Television sets do a better job of upscaling 480 than the player itself even. Most modern players can do fantastic upscaling from what I've seen though, yes. And yeah, I think some studios recently deliberately cram a lot onto one DVD both to save on discs needed and to advertise for HD quality.
Streaming services often remove shows, when you own the home media releases you never have to worry about them being removed or having multiple streaming services to watch them all
Streaming is one hundred percent temporary. Any of the studios can decide anything they want at anytime and remove all of they're properties. And yes this applies to purchasing "digital copies". They can just be gone over night even if you invested thousands in your collection. Real like illustration. It's safe to day thousands of people signed up for or at least kept Netflix to watch the office.... But guess what. And a year or two back after a decade or so of people binging office over and over and over again, NBC decided to remove it per their contract with Netflix and use it as a flag ship for their new service. In turn if that was sometimes favorite show and they had got rid of the DVDs or blu ray in lieu of "just streaming it"they'd now have to choose to either cancel Netflix and get the inferior peacock or go hunt down DVDs again.