What do you do with your discs?

I’m going through and cataloging all my discs, mostly 4K UHD BD discs and some HD BD discs. I’m buying and downloading my core set of 150 movies, and just cataloging the rest. This is churning out giant table covering stacks of discs. I’m trying to decide what to do with them. When I moved to 4K discs the first time, I purged all the HD discs in large lots on eBay, keeping only core titles and 3D titles. Now that a large part of my collection is steelbooks, I’m thinking they’re worth a lot more than the last time I was at this crossroads. I am thinking I have some options here:

1. Keep only boutique and outlier 4K and HD discs that aren’t on Kaleidescape plus some decorative box sets (Skywalker Saga, Columbia Classics, etc.)
2. Do the above but also keep my core movies in 4K in storage as a sort of backup to the Kaleidescape versions
3. Put it all back in storage because eBay is time consuming

If I were to eBay some volume of this collection, I’m also trying to decide whether to:

1. Bundle all of them into one giant lot
2. Bundle all the steelbooks in one giant lot
3. Bundle the steelbook collections into lots (MCU movies, DC movies, etc.)
4. Sell them all individually

I would likely list them as auctions as compared to buy-it-now, so that I’m done with it faster. Of course that’s a choice, so if anyone recommends buy-it-now pricing, I’d be interested in your thinking.

Okay, back to making dinner.

They are sitting in a closet boxed up. Who knows? Mebbe they'll be worth something in years to come?

Well some are boxed up, some are now stacked up on my arcade table. I’m honestly attracted to the box them all up option, Raiders style.

When I ditched my discs I posted them in lots of 25 or 50 on AVS (or maybe it was Emotiva Lounge?). Lots of guys filling their servers there were interested. There was a guy on AVS the other day looking for 'where can I find a huge collection of blurays?".

I have never been attached to movie discs the way I'm attracted to vinyl. It could be due to my habit of watching assorted scenes and clips after I watch a full movie. Which is the opposite of the reason I listen to music on vinyl - it makes me more likely to listen to a complete album, and not skip from track to track like I do with my Apple Music.

Yes, I remember seeing that post on AVS.

I'm somewhat attached to my core movies, but also enjoy rearranging things. I'm leaning toward roughly matching my core movies on K with what I physically display in the built-in on the wall. And put the rest in crates in the storage area on the same level as the theater. Some percentage may get sold off that are duplicates or low priority.

While the intent is move discs in one direction, from display to storage to discard, two have actually moved upstream from storage back to display! Story of my life.

I keep discs in binders for easy access, and store the packaging in these:

Even with a large K library, I find discs are needed if you're aiming for the highest quality presentation of all of your favorite films. Boutique labels, 3D Blu-rays, Foreign 4K releases, or just weird Kaleidescape decisions all contribute to the limitation, and K could never overcome all of them (they could spend a little time on that last one though).

I personally favor keeping discs around, especially if the movie is a favorite. You never know what the future may hold, for K or the industry.

I'm fairly ruthless. Unless the packaging is interesting or compact, it goes in the bin. The disc(s) goes in a slim-line CD case and the sleeve goes in a an alphabetic file. Naturally the disc is ripped. See below (hopefully), it helps if you don't try it in one go. I will never get rid of my discs, though I note a few have become unreadable. I recently had a purge of all 4x3 and 480P DVDs, bumping them to Blu-Ray or 4K and a general re-rip to get everything in .mkv.
As for indexing I would recommend My Movies, which has a database you can get lost in for hours. You have to give it the disc but it quite quickly asks you if you want add it to the database. Sadly with the demise of Microsoft Media Center there is no longer a Play button, which sort of drove me to K. I expect I'll keep buying discs and indexing them. I love titivating the database.

I still keep all of my discs. I love special features and tons of titles on K are missing them.

Sadly, I gave up on discs a couple years back and sold what I could and recycled the rest. I still have a few special box sets, but only a handful. It has actually been liberating to reduce all the media clutter, but I do get why others aren't like me and still want something physical and tangible.

Andy