The General DVD/HD Disc Bargains Thread!

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 27 Sep 2007, 21:51

lol after saying the Smokin' Aces combo was a bargain my dad has just dropped it off to me,the local market has about 20 new & sealed copies for a crisp tenner

cheapest i've paid for a combo

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 Sep 2007, 23:52

I didn't know the UK version was a Combo. It must be one of only a handful UK Combos.

i did email them and explained but never got a response.

As it happens I e-mailed them asking to reset my Bradavon account (it wasn't accepting my password yet I knew what it was) but never got a reply. I was forced to register using Bradavon78.

For all I know they're probably deleted the old account now. I never ended up using it. I had to the exact same thing for the same reason at DVD Swaps.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 28 Sep 2007, 13:43

Ahhh Local Markets

gotta love em. Hope you get your £10 worth out of the film.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Sep 2007, 11:32

The Mummy Legends 5 disc set (The Mummy/Mummy Returns and Scorpion King) - for about £10 here:

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/639074/M ... oduct.html

Look at the Playtrade listings

I havent seen Scorpion King, the 1st two are fun, cheesy movies though

Not sure if Mummy has DTS

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 29 Sep 2007, 14:31

Scorpion King is daft but enjoyable fun but it's been cut in the uk.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 29 Sep 2007, 15:57

You should be able to pick up the Mummy films for what? £2 maybe a little more, same goes for Scorpion King, so that set aint worth it to me

Forum prices people give them 3 films away practically, as everyone has them and many people do not want them anymore.

I like all 3 films for what they are dumb assed fun.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 29 Sep 2007, 16:10

Mummy 1 is a decent dumb action adventure film, but I found Returns to be beyond dreadful. It's all over the place and the CGI is so bad that it looks like a PS2 game (Eg that god awful sequence with those dart shooting pigme zombies; and when we meet the scorpion king at the end.).

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Sep 2007, 16:25

saltysam wrote:Scorpion King is daft but enjoyable fun but it's been cut in the uk.

What's cut?
Agree Mummy 1 was a fun action adventure, but the CGI in Returns was shite. The Scorpion King CGI (in Returns) looked half finished.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 29 Sep 2007, 16:47

grim_tales wrote:
saltysam wrote:Scorpion King is daft but enjoyable fun but it's been cut in the uk.
The Scorpion King CGI (in Returns) looked half finished.

It is, they ran out of time doing the effects becuase some twonk set the release date in stone and would not move it once they found out the effects would not be finished on time, so they released it half finished anyway

tossers. They should have went back and finished them all for the dvd if they had brains.

They cut one headbutt from The Scorpion King by the way, not much, but cut still.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 02 Oct 2007, 18:05

Amazon Marketplace guy selling Dreamgirls hd-dvd for £9.95 & postage.seems very cheap for a recent release.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listin ... 517&sr=1-4

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Oct 2007, 18:41

Dreamgirls is also a 2 Disc HD-DVD too! I prefer the USA cover but not enough this time to mind owning the UK version.

£11.19 is a very good price including delivery. The cheapest I can find it elsewhere is £16. If I could play HD-DVD I'd definitely order it but as I cannot I'm restricting myself to titles for £10 or order (except bargaintastic box sets obviously).

FYI you want the HD-DVD over BD as reports say the HD-DVD is full-rate DD Plus (so 1.5Mbps) but the BD is only half-rate (so 640Kbps). I don't know why they did this. The HD-DVD is MPEG4 (I forget which) and BD MPEG2, but reviews say both have awesome PQ so don't let the MPEG2 put you off.

I've only seen Mummy Returns which was awful. The Mummy doesn't look much better. I saw bit of Scorpion King, it looked awful.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Oct 2007, 16:21

Would this be a decent Terminator disc to buy to go with my R1 (I'll use this one instead).
It's the Thai disc.

http://www.thaicdexpress.com/artist.asp?cdid=DVH0001133

dvdvision · Post by **dvdvision** » 05 Oct 2007, 16:48

This looks like a T3 cover, absolutely not the movie

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 05 Oct 2007, 16:57

Grim, those specs sound identical to those of my HK 2-discer with the English mono, buy away.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Oct 2007, 16:58

Oops.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 05 Oct 2007, 17:42

We've already had this discussion??? It's the Fox R3 which is the same as the Fox R1/UK R2 which is based on the Sony UE but it looks to have lost DTS in place of Mono.

If you have the R1 why would you want the R3?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Oct 2007, 17:48

Because the R1 (which is double sided) is hard to use.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 05 Oct 2007, 18:09

Hard to use? How often do you put it into your DVD Player? Is it really that much of a problem to buy it again.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 05 Oct 2007, 18:35

Hard to use?! haha place dvd in slot, press play, far to hard to use.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 05 Oct 2007, 19:11

grim_tales wrote:Because the R1 (which is double sided) is hard to use.

stay away from a lot of universal region 1 releases then Grim

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 05 Oct 2007, 19:24

Black Hawk Down blu-ray £9.99

http://www.movietyme.com/catalog/produc ... s_id=34156

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 05 Oct 2007, 19:24

Sorry, but how are double-sided DVDs 'hard to use'?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Oct 2007, 19:42

Brad, no it isnt much of a problem to buy it again, as for being hard to use you have to be careful with those, not touch the surface (I ruined two copies that way).

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 05 Oct 2007, 22:39

grim_tales wrote:as for being hard to use you have to be careful with those, not touch the surface (I ruined two copies that way).

Sorry, but...

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 05 Oct 2007, 23:45

Fair enough. I know what you mean but if you hold it by the sides it's no big deal, many HD-DVDs are exactly the same. How often do you watch Terminator? Surely it would only be out of the case half a dozen times or so?s

saltysam wrote:Black Hawk Down blu-ray £9.99

http://www.movietyme.com/catalog/produc ... s_id=34156

Oh man I'm so tempted to buy this but I mustn't.