Yes, DVDs are easy to replace.

huh? wtf? what he said had NOTHING to do with relationships or choosing anything. he loaned out a dvd...it came back scratched...and he's o.k. with it. good for him...but I think he's cracked.

as far as for the question above.......pretty funny stuff. hell, I can pick up a wife anywhere, dvds go oop.

so are wives....anyway!!


I am not a snob HOWEVER...as Rich (the British Pal) mentioned there are some issues here.

My collection is about 80% European discs quite a few of them OOP, hard to locate, pricey....you name it. Many of the older Italian discs that I have are nowhere to be found nowadays. So this is an issue for me...I am in R1 land but R2 takes a larger portion of my collection. Besides....the French/Italian/Spanish or whatever else European films are not everyone's cup of tea (because....DRUMROLL...you have to "read" the films ) so I am off the hook rather easily. People are shocked that I have all these "art...foreign" films...and as soon as they look around and cant see anything they know...then....game over .

With R1 discs.....they are more than welcome to visit me and have a nice show for free (and so are YOU)!!!

Cheers,
Pro-B

really

Pro-B

You're either being dense or difficult--I think it's the latter, because you seem like a smart guy. He said that his DVDs are sometimes returned scratched, but he chooses to continue lending them out, presumably (and he didn't state this explicitly, but that's what common sense is for) because he values his continued relationships with people.

You make good money, so it seems a bit miserly to me that you wouldn't loan out your DVDs if the enjoyment it brought to your friends or relatives exceeded the negligible financial strain to you from the occasional damaged disc (OOP discs excluded).

I don't think that being a collector precludes sharing your collection--in fact, it's a physical extension of coming onto this forum and giving or receiving film recommendations. I like loaning out my DVDs to my friends and girlfriend so they can discover the films that are important to me. Filmmakers make films to reach an audience. I think collecting DVDs and not sharing them runs directly counter to the purpose of filmmaking.

i loaned out like 2 in my life...Phone Booth to an ex-friend thus never saw it again and Hannibal..and 5 years later this past weekend he was giving it back to me before our best friend's wedding..it was completly beaten up..i said heyou can keep it i already bought it again. thus i will not do it again..i care too much about them now and have since took collecting seriously.

Yes, and gladly.

At any one time I have about 20-30 dvds (out of my 600, or so, dvds) loaned out.

The only anal thing I do is put the dvd I'm loaning in a blank jewel-case and turn it's empty dvd-case on it's side, so I know what's lent out - and so the case won't get damaged - people tend to treat the discs pretty well, but they couldn't care less what happens to the package.

I loan to some family and a few friends. I use rental software and actually rent them the movies (at $0) so that I can keep track of who has what.. I got tired of forgetting who has what movie and "losing" movies from that.. My only gripe so far has been to the family/friends with kids.. when i loan them out i reafirm DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS TOUCH MY DVD... that doesn't always help.. getting a dvd back all little kid finger printed just makes me mad and oh wait whats that? a damn booger!!?? ugh.. I had to have a chat with my sister about that one lol.

I didn't say they come back beat up. I said "if." I was showing that there is little risk involved in my opinion.

yeah...difficult...sorry. when you threw in "wife"...that got me going. to me, a wife and a buddy are two different things.

I agree, but except for my wife and my kids, who live elsewhere, everybody else in my family is dead. the few film buddies I have...think the same way I do. they want collections preserved....not damaged. nobody has ever asked to borrow one. I hold "marathons" often and invite people over to watch. so I share everything just fine.

I guess we value things differently. I will even loan out my car or SUV to certain individuals because they(the vehicles) like DVDs are easy to replace.

NO

actually I dont think that you and I are different, HOWEVER....

you do have all these things that you could afford to give away...I dont!! If I had a car and an SUV and a large dvd collection, and a nice house (as I assume that since you live in Hawaii your house is times better than my one bedroom college size apartament)....then you could afford to replace some of your material things.

I dont have your freedom (financial) and doubt it I ever will. With this said I have given plenty of my criterions away to close friends....I just dont do it on a regular basis. I respect personal property (because I grew up not having anything) but more often than not I can not affor to replace something I've had for a long time.

Hope this makes sense....

Cheers,
Pro-B

I don't mind lending out my DVD's as I enjoy introducing people to interesting films. Most of my collection is not mainstream so if I can turn a new person on to some part of world cinema or some strange horror title, then it's worthwile. If I lose a disc it's okay, hopefully I will be able to have some wonderful conversations about the films. My sister just walked off with 15 titles tonight, she started with 5 and I kept adding to her stack.

I recently lent out a few to a woman my mom works with, she's wonderful and has hit a rough patch and needed some good movies so I thought nothing of it. A few weeks later I got them back unwatched, she just didn't have the time to watch them.

My boyfriend gets to borrow any DVD of mine he wants, and I trust him with my life so I certainly do with my movies (especially since he has a nice collection himself) I don't have a problems unless the person is new to me or unsavory is some way.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/vze26q...ckbustered.htm

This says it all ! Use to loan them all the time but they kept getting messed up.

I only loan out to friends I see all the time. If not, it's me who has to go begging for it back after a month. No thanks.

Must have a lot of friends....

Whats the big deal? I can understand if you have an OOP or hard to replace DVD. But most of my dvds I could replace for between $10-20. There is a slight risk my DVD might come back damaged after I loan it out. For me, the $10-20 risk is worth it to make my friends and family happy.

Some I don't lend out. Others I don't mind so much. If it is a movie I have seen recently and then I buy the DVD I'll loan it to a co-worker to watch. Then I ask him "Did the disc give you any problems?" That way I can know if there are glitches without having to watch the movie over again so soon.

Ah, yes, the monthly repetitive question, "Do you lend out DVDs." How about no way in hell, not even over my dead body? Want to see a movie, go sign-up w/ netflix and quit humping my leg you damn hobo.

LOL, nice, real nice. Although the bit about hitting them w/ a brick is too soft for me. I will them in the knee caps and chop off one of their hand before they leave my house w/ a movie.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...highlight=loan

Amazingly noone really asks....most of my friends have their own libraries and we have similar tastes in movies. I have lent them to my parents.........but not my wife's......

I don't mind lending out, but I do dislike people who keep the discs for extremely long periods of time. I own the discs because I watch them. Someone else having it means I can't watch it.

Plus, I think it's disrespectful for people to take several weeks (or months) to return things they've borrowed. If you borrow something in February, for example, I shouldn't still be waiting in late April to get the discs back.

With most of the people I know, I'm sure they would replace any disc that got messed up in their possession. Nothing like that has happened yet.

walk-in library of Dvd's of course

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