Donating vs. Selling: What's the Best Option for Unwanted CDs and DVDs?

We don’t have DVDs any more but CDs to charity shop. Can also make garden large bird scarer ornament.

Whenever I'm having a clear out l put things in a large box with a sign saying 'Free, Help Yourself' outside my front door. Plates, cups cutlery, toys, books, ornaments, cushions even some small items of furniture go in hours. It pleases me knowing someone else has use for items l no longer want

We got rid of our dvds ages ago, they went to the tip, these that buy them online only offer pennies for them, not worth the hassle of sending them

jdible music Magpie buys dvds and cds. I'm not sure how much you will get for them a shop called cex buys dvds if you have one near you

We took our dvds/blu rays to CEX, they have an app that I use to to see the prices of get for them. Can change them for cash or store credit. If get nothing for them I donate to charity.

See if my friends want them if no I just take them to the charity shop

I know a lot of charity shops are refusing to take Dvds anymore. Such a shame. I have also noticed CEX has hundreds of them in their stores for £1 and they are not selling. Mine have gone in the loft until we move.

I don't have Netflix or Amazon Prime anymore but was given a second hand portable dvd player and some dvds. People in my local area occasionally leave them on a community bookshelf and If there's some there I don't take them all. I'll only take something I've watched before and enjoyed or take a dvd I haven't watched before to try it out. If I don't like the film I take it back to community bookshelf for someone else to enjoy

I must admit I don't need audio CDs anymore I listen to all my music as files pretty much or on youtube. However the issue with DVDs is many titles are not available on later blurays or streaming services. Some DVDs are seen as not politically correct and you will lose access to the content if you get rid of them. Newer AI upscaling means a DVD may be great quality and this software is likely to get much better as well.

If you have a DVD of a movie you like which has absolutely no resell value but to watch it on a streaming service is costing you £5.99 a month or more or one off fee of lets say £2.99 for one showing then why not just keep the DVD?

DVDs are getting harder to watch though because as hardware wears out you may not have a DVD player to watch the content. Desktop PCs and laptops don't come with DVD drives anymore and we don't have standalone dvd players and bluray players as much nowadays. Many people have lost the ability to play DVDs.

It does huge damage to our economy to keep paying for streaming services that are based in the US. That's a huge amount of money leaving the economy and adding to huge debts we have that is crippling public services as debt levels are becoming unmanageable. Maybe consider not exporting so much of your income so you don't end up having a botched operation in a NHS hospital or having a horrific retirement in some under-resourced retirement home?

I don't mind watching movies in 480p or 576p, I don't find resolution as important as the adverts claim it is. Yes 1080p or 4K is nice but its not a game changer to have a slightly higher resolution. Now that streaming services are pushing for more adverts despite charging a monthly fee I'd personally rather watch a DVD without adverts than a 4K movie with interruptions for banal adverts every 20 minutes. Also if you have a network drive you can get a lot more movies on it if you do DVD to file conversions. They often end up being only 700MB each using a high efficiency encoder and on a 3TB NAS drive that is like 4000 movies or more.

Convert the files to MP3 and save them somewhere where they still belong to you!

Have a load in the cupboard, that are just there, not sure what we will eventually do with them , probably end up in the rubbish or recycling but not sure if they take such things.

First I copy them to MP3/MP4 on my computer. Have used some as drinks coasters and have donated to a charity who sends them to Sierra Leone to be used in a library being built there

We have many many cd's which we load into our 'Brennan' and it plays them back. We have kept them in case it goes wrong and we have to get another machine which is quite likely as it is getting on a bit!

Dvd's? yes, loads of them too as we don't watch tv.

We really don't have them any more, all passed onto charity shops or freecycle.

I still have loads of them. I like CDs got a old cd player that I play them on. Much better than downloading to your phone then you lose the songs when your phone stops working. Still have videos. I like old things better I'm really old fashioned. But if you don't want them then as people have said charity shop, or leave outside saying there free or maybe take to a local community center.