Here's the thing man... coming from someone who's been collecting for nearly 25 years... these issues have always been around and they _will_ always be around. There's a constant juggle of double-dipping on formats and editions and versions etc. - but that's the nature of the beast. It's all commercial after all. No use getting worked up over it, just ride it out, and enjoy the ride while it's still here!
The most annoying issue for me is how many limited movies are out there and sell out immediately and then the absolute ridiculous prices people want for them on the secondary market when I just want it for my collection and not to re sell. Many times they jack the prices up 3 t0 5 times the original price. Often pre order dates are tricky as the companies play games on when to pre order it unless you are someone who has a phone in your hand all the time following the companies tweets and posts.
Yeah, I just had that happen to me with a special edition of Late Night With The Devil, and now if I want it, I'm gonna have to fork over 3 times what they paid for it.
When someone says to you Why buy when you can stream it? My reply is I own it and I don't have to pay a sub to watch it and I don't have to worry about the streamer removing it half way through a season
My biggest annoying thing is when I order discs online, they either come disc scratched by the manufacturer, steel book broken, slipcover damaged etc. I have to make extra trip down to make a return.
This is annoying to me anniversary edition I literally have like 10 different versions of back to the future. It's like release one 5,10 15 etc it gets so irritating
I've been collecting movies since beta and I have to say I wouldn't call this double dipping, I would personally call it upgrading. Because of release of films that have never been released on 4K I will upgrade my favorites from Dvd to Blu-ray to 4K and am o k with the extra expense
You could get a blu ray drive for a pc and rip the movies to a lossless format and play them on you blu ray player via a usb drive. It's cheaper but takes more time if you have many movies from a different region.
