Canadian Blu-Ray Collector Community

[Animatic33]

I think a number of us Canadians are always on the lookout for other Canadians for our questions on how to procure certain films. I think we can all agree that we're an severely under-represented part of this forum and every time we bring up cost being a barrier, our American neighbours raise their eyebrows in disbelief. The deals sub-forum is no longer the place to discuss these matters as no one wants discourse there about Canadian retail, they just want deals posted.

For context, there's a lot that goes into Canadian blu-ray importing, including the extravagant cost calculation involved in import fees, shipping costs and what other Canadians have experienced with other companies. Also, a number of studios have started to pull out of selling physical films in Canada, in addition to those few distributors having trouble procuring Canadian rights to sell their products here.

So, in addition to using blu-ray.com, we've created another community solely dedicated to Canadian collectors to discuss these things and more. We're planning on holding a few more events in the future hope to create a warm and welcoming Canadian-centric blu-ray community. If you're interested in joining, please send me a PM and I'll send you an invite. This isn't an exclusive thing, we share many of the same links and information found here and elsewhere on the internet. It's just great to get a collective going so we can all be in this ship (floating or sinking) together

[Deadend45]

Like I have been saying for a long time. Its cheaper to buy from the UK and the pq is often better then usa releases.
Labels like Indicator / Powerhouse has a lot Region Free BDs often with better pQ then the usa releases and packed with supplements.

Even with the tracked shipping cost the '5 for £40' is a good deal and you can order more then 5 and still get the discount:
https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/5-for-40

[orangerunner]

Originally Posted by Deadend45

Like I have been saying for a long time. Its cheaper to buy from the UK and the pq is often better then usa releases.
Labels like Indicator / Powerhouse has a lot Region Free BDs often with better pQ then the usa releases and packed with supplements.

Just a word of caution when ordering Blu-rays from abroad. Maybe this was common knowledge to many but it was news to me.

I bought an Australian version of "The Piano" (Region A+B+C) from a thrift store and realized it wouldn't play on my PS3 or SONY brand Blu-ray players.
I have bought several other UK and overseas A+B+C versions of other titles that played just fine.

I learned through this forum that this copy of "The Piano" was an older 1080i encode that was 50Hz. SONY Blu-ray players do not recognize discs encoded in 50Hz, only 60Hz.

I did have an older Samsung player that played 50Hz and solved the problem.

"Region A+B+C" still does not guarantee it will play on every North American player.

[Deadend45]

Like one out of a thousand BDs are 1080i. lol

[orangerunner]

Originally Posted by Deadend45

Like one out of a thousand BDs are 1080i. lol

Fair enough, it probably only affects titles from 15 years ago. In my collection it happens to be one out of seven of my overseas BDs.

[Deadend45]

I was not encouraging buying BDs sight unseen. Far from it, thats why I wrote 'the pq is often better then usa releases.'