Hi there, I'm going to emigrate to Canada next year. While it is enough of a challenge to ship my massive hardware and software game collection as well as many kilos of magazines and books, I am also wondering if it actually makes sense to export my movie collection. Asian import DVDs are out of question as they will be just as valuable/compatible in Canada as they are here, but I wonder if German DVDs of rather common movies will be next to worthless on the Canadian/US market (ebay, forums). I already decided to sell DVDs of for instance Japanese movies that offer only German audio or Japanese audio + German subtitles. It wouldn't make sense to bring those with me to sell them there. But I also have many German DVD's that include full English audio and English/French subtitles. These are mostly identical with the American release despite the region coding and the additional German audio/subs. Do you think I should get rid off those as well or are there enough people who won't care about region lock? And of course I'm aware that DVD's generally tend to become worthless anyway. That's why I didn't collect any in the past 2 years >_< There are about 70 DVDs that would be affected by this, probably about 100 at all that I have to sell now. Another 100+ are imports that I take with me. Should have collected more Criterions, eh. hehe!
Canadians won't have any interest in R2 DVD's, sell them while you can. Personally I wouldn't even bother taking them with me, if you can't live without the movies get some quality rips on a HDD, save yourself the effort and money to drag all of it with you just to have it in your closet for that potential one time that you're gonna watch them again..
I would backup all of your movies onto a hdd as an iso, and get rid of them while there is some value left... << German Movies arent worth much here, other than they wont work on region 1 dvd players...
Not sure how much your Asian Import DVD's will be worth, at least in Canada when you factor in shipping. Because of the strong Chinese population in places like Toronto and Vancouver, it's pretty trivial to pick these up in any Chinese shopping centre. It's even considerably cheaper if you get silvers over originals. But that's just my humble opinion.
I got some HK boxsets, but none of it is extremely expensive. I guess I'll do as you suggested and rip those that I have to sell. I will have to buy an extra HDD for that purpose though, if 1 rip is ~4,5gb... mmh
So you are going to the Uni at Canada after all? Are you taking your whole collection with you? That will certainly be a challenge! Just wondering, dunno how Canada's customs work, will it be very expensive to import everything? (Aside from the shipping and handling costs, I'm refering to taxes, etc.)
ave: why not just buy a region free DVD player in Canada and then take your big DVD collection with you, it would be stupid in my mind to not get them with you. After all you could send them to where you are in Germany to the place in Canada you are going to. Also there are quite a few cheap (good) region free DVD players in Canada.
@Tchoin Yes, it all turned out good afterall. I got accepted and will start my studies in september 2011, the move will hopefully be over in the beginning of July. And of course I am taking my entire collection with me It will be a big challenge, that's for sure. But I'm also going to sell a lot before I go (PC, TV, sound system). I don't think the customs will evaluate the value of my collection and charge me! That would be a straight rip-off, how many thousands of dollars is someone supposed to pay who immigrates with a huge antique watch collection or something? As far as we know we have to declare all the boxes to the customs in general terms (i.e. "CDs" or "Books"). My collection will go as "old electronics" and "CDs" @WDK I will buy a region-free DVD player nevertheless, but the thing is that most generic German DVD releases aren't worth much if they're sold domestically, so I wonder if anyone would even consider taking them even if they'd get them for free minus the shipping costs. Maybe I could still get some bucks for them, otherwise it would be a total loss. Nice editions or stuff that wasn't released that way in the US will stay, of course.
