DVD/BD cardboard slipcovers - do you keep or throw away?

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Not the most interesting thread I've ever started but...

I've been buying some BRAB recently, in more cases than not they'll come with cardboard slipcovers. The artwok on the slipcover (most of the time) is exactly the same as on the plastic case.

I've been in two minRAB recently; do I keep the cardboard covers or do I throw them out? Today I made up my mind and threw them all out? (WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!)

Do you keep or bin yours? Are you quite obsessive about your packaging or are you not that bothered? Am I the only saddo who cares about these things?
 
No, you're not alone on such quandaries. I too have debated in the past wether or not to keep 'em. I decided to keep them, but I remove them from the boxes, flatten 'em and store 'em away. But, I'd rather they didn't do 'em at all. As you say the artwork is always the same (Poorly designed as usual), and if we didn't have 'em we surely wouldn't miss 'em. I think it's just a ploy to make us think we're getting more or something special for spending our cash on upgrades and special editions. I'm a real sucker for good packaging, but these are a waste of time money, and of course trees!
 
It's definately just a ploy to make us think we're getting more than we're paying for.

I've always chucked them away. My flatmate tried to convince me not to do it by saying that they'd be worth some money in the future, but how will they be worth any money when ten of thousand of them are sold?!?!?
 
I dont mind the the cardboard slip covers as some of them are ok ie Push and Polar Express as they have that 3D effect picture.
Its the the loose paper that tells you whats on the disc thats slightly tucked into the box sleeve on the ones that just have a picture on both sides of the box ie Star Trek and Transformers.
They are too big to just slot them inside the case where the firmware leaflet usually sits so you have a choice, fold in half or throw away.
 
KEEP!! I adore slipcases on dvRAB. Everytime I buy a dvd I try to see if it comes with special edition packaging or a slipcase cover, mostly when they are different to the actual box cover. Looks nice on the shelf too. :)

I don't upgrade though, if I have a dvd, and it's released again with a slipcase, I will not go out and buy it again just for that reason.
 
Well, that's another thing, I like my collection to look "tidy" on the shelf. Like a lot of people I tend to shelf my movies by genre (all sci-fi together, all comedies together etc) so if I have some with slipcases and others without next to each other it looks untidy, to me anyway. So that's another reason I throw mine out.

I know, you could say that, within each genre, why not have the ones with slipcases next to each other and the ones without next to each other, but even within each genre the order I like to have the films in on the shelve doesnt always allow for that.
 
I throw away everything except the disc/s themselves. I have one of those big DVD/CD boxes with sleeves and my entire collection (CRAB/DVRAB and BRAB) go there. Boxes just take up too much space.
 
I put them in the recycling bin. Completely unnecessary waste of packaging.

Slight tangent, but I bought Golfdfrapp's Seventh Tree special addition and was shocked by the amount of pointless packaging there was. It probably took seven trees to make the packaging. :D
 
I keep them as I bought them if they will sit neatly on the shelf. Things like 3-D cyberman heaRAB on box sets are a pain, though. And I wished I'd waited to buy my DVD box set of New Doctor Who series 1 as that Tardis box thing for the original release is rubbish at holding the DVRAB as well as untidy to shelf.
 
i've enjoyed reading this forum.

i am a lover of packaging -
and 2 years ago i would thing your mad for throwing something like that away - but over last couple of years, i have chilled out on my frantic DVD spending (i think the point came when i was assembling all my stuff ready for storage - and just the cRAB and dvRAB alone made a small little castle - and sister threw it mty face on how i actually could have bought a house instead of that crap i wasted my money on. plus - living in new zealand on much much less money then i was on the uk changes your attitude!

but in the end - what is packaging and dvRAB/blurays worth? in 50 years time - they are more likely going to be thrown into a landfill after decades of being stored in the loft.

saying all that. i bought my first bluray player recently (a ps3) and now hopping around like someone mental to try and get hold of the steel book Star trek bluray box!

oh - and i aint to keen on the normal bluray designs for boxes at all. i hate that blue ribben.
 
I used to keep them, then one day I just went through my entire collection and chucked them all away. I hate cardboard slip covers, they start to fray at the edges after some time and look horrible on the DVD shelf.

I will often not buy a new DVD box set when it is first released (because the new ones are always in cardboard box sets) and wait until its released in the plastic amaray case.
 
I've kept the majority of mine, you never know in 30 years time when they have Red-ray players and 1 million p HD Extra Projectorvisions, it might be worth a fair few bob as an antique!
 
One thing I do like about the Blu Ray plastic boxes is that every standard box allows for insertion of a single or double swing tray so you have, say, 3 disks in the box. What I tend to do if I've double dipped (DVD to BD), and I'm not giving away the old DVD, is I'll instert a tray and put the old DVD and special feautres disc in with the Blu Ray box along with the BD disk.
 
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