From Where Do You Buy Your Blu-rays?

[WolfmanOz]

I'm curious

I have over 150 odd titles now (and growing) and the vast majority I source from Amazon - either UK (mostly) or the USA.

I always check the region coding for any disc I wish to source from the USA via the following website:

http://bluray.liesinc.net/index.php?region=a

The reasons are two-fold:

1) Cost - simply much cheaper than from anywhere in Australia (including the postage). It helps also to bulk-buy.

2) Availability of titles - so many of the movies that I'm interested in are simply not available in Australia.

What do others do?

[Pink Bits]

I generally buy them from JB Hi-Fi, but I never pay full price. I wait until they either come down in price or there is some sort of sale.

I've bought a few off ebay too.

[LordCrumb]

The Warehouse - Generally the cheapest place in New Zealand for Blu-Rays, doesn't get 'exclusive' titles that JB Hi Fi do though.
Whitcoulls - Very rarely will I buy from here, maybe once a year. Price is usually $nz10+ more than 'The Warehouse' (hense why I call it "the ten dollar more store"), sometimes they have specials that make them about $5 cheaper than The Warehouse).
Trademe.co.nz - Occasionally get a bargain on second-hand titles (such as Sarah Connor Season 1 for $20).
Amazon UK & US - If I really want to save money and just wait.

[Rusty100]

Usually just JB.

[stevo4264]

Yeah I agree about prices, I but mainly from amazon.uk
My local big w store for popular new releases when,
usually for the first week prices are low.
and Amazon.com for a few titles

I don't bother with K'mart or the local Sanity store, both charge full RRP.

[drbikeshorts]

Yeah, I've been a big fan of both Amazon US & UK for Blu-rays, because the savings are quite substantial - on an order of 5+ films, I can average $15 - $20.
I'm also a big fan of the thinner cases from the US
I'm also strongly considering getting my player chipped, because the list of Criterions on my wishlist just keeps growing
Recently, I have bought from JB HIFI, because they've had a number of films $20 or less.

[blu-bren]

department stores like Kmart, Target, Myer and also places like jbhifi
and also online at dvdownunder and

burn direct
and ebay sellers(for imported ones).

Burn direct sell overseas DVDs and blurays.

i try to buy as many usa ones that i can, i prefer them but get local ones on sale spef under 20 bucks

[The Doogster]

Originally Posted by drbikeshorts

I'm also strongly considering getting my player chipped, because the list of Criterions on my wishlist just keeps growing.

Hi

I chipped my player recently because I am a Criterion addict too (Barnes and Noble just had a 50% off Criterion sale, and I filled plenty of gaps in my collection). I used the Gatti-web kit from Melbourne. It works fine and was easy to install (I have a Panny, but apparently other brands are more difficult).

The price was a tad steep ($150) - for that amount you could probably buy a new player set up just for region A.

Cheers

The Doogster

[Harry88]

I buy my new releases from either jb or big w. I will also pick them up from Video ezy if I can't be bothered driving 40 mins to save $5. Recently I have bought from ezydvd when they have a good sale on.

[razor81]

I buy from JBHiFi in store. Online stores = EZYDVD, HMV.co.uk, cdwow.com.au, amazon (USA, UK, GR, FR, Canada, and Japan) sometimes ebay (Australia, USA, UK, and German)

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by The Doogster

I used the Gatti-web kit from Melbourne. It works fine and was easy to install (I have a Panny, but apparently other brands are more difficult).

The price was a tad steep ($150) - for that amount you could probably buy a new player set up just for region A.

Yeah, I have a Panasonic also, but I was quoted $190 from Gatti-web a couple of months ago. A little voice in my head said, "So, you're going spend a lot of money chipping the player just so you can spend even more money on blu-rays?"
I still think I'll do it though

but I'm not paying $30, maybe $40, for Blu-Rays that can be had for less than half the price online.

Some of the prices and limited discs are ridiculous here, even when discounted: instead of buying the bare-bones Casino Royale for $23 at JB, I got the Deluxe Edition from the UK for £10. Why pay $50 for the Red Cliff double? I paid only £10 or £11 instead. That was a blind-buy as well

Friends at work were also throwing films into my orders, so we could reduce the postage even more

[Ventura]

Originally Posted by drbikeshorts

Some of the prices and limited discs are ridiculous here, even when discounted: instead of buying the bare-bones Casino Royale for $23 at JB, I got the Deluxe Edition from the UK for £10. Why pay $50 for the Red Cliff double? I paid only £10 or £11 instead. That was a blind-buy as well

Yeah it's crazy, no doubt a few of us have similar stories. I'd held off on buying Surrogates recently, hoping the local price at JB would come down. But it didn't, it sat there at $40 for weeks. Eventually I included it in an Amazon order for like 8 pounds or something.

More recently, someone at work recommended I watch the Butterfly Effect, saying she saw the first movie and it was good, but didn't know about the others. I went in to JB, and they pretty much had all three of them at $30 a piece. On Amazon I picked up the trilogy set for like 13 pounds.

It scares you when you think about how much money you could've saved, not to mention how much quicker you can have some titles. I don't mind it when we get new releases later the same week or the following week, but stuff like War of the Worlds came out here like two and a half months after it's US/UK release. Sometimes it's like they want us to buy from overseas.

[The Doogster]

Hi dudes

If you want really cheap region B BRDs then check out the following website in the UK:

dvd.co.uk

The British Pound is being openly sold in joke shops. The current rate is about 0.57 GBP to the Oz Dollar, which is about half its value of a few years ago.

I've bought about 100 BRDs from these guys. Their prices start from about 6 GBP, which is about 10 AUD. Their postage rates are good too - usually 1.29 GBP per single disc, and this includes a sturdy cardboard package. They've always arrived in about a week. I've never had one arrive damaged.

I've also bought quite a few from JB Hi-Fi. BTW, they've currently got a sale on with several titles for $13 (or 2 for $20), plus many titles at $16 (including Children of Men). The $13 titles are pretty crappy, but I did pick up a few decent ones.

Cheers

The Doogster