Waah!! You must be filthy rich to own over 500 "VCRs"!!!?! hahaha.... bro, i know what u meant... "VHS" aka video tapes; just joking again...

Well, I started collecting movies on VHS but almost all were Jack Sparrows! They were so chunky and get degraded after a few playbacks - no complaints though knowing the price I paid for these types of quality at Petaling St.! But when I read about DVD format going to be introduced in the market & being the more superior in AV than VHS & VCD, I quickly jumped into the bandwagon. My first DVD player bought was a Panasonic back in 1998 for RM1,950!!?! And the poison soon crept into me where I bought 1 DVD title per day the first week I owned the player!

At that time R1 discs cost around RM105 - RM130 (depending title/studio) bought at retailers in Sg Wang Plaza.... & R3 discs for RM89 - 99 (fixed price from Speedy's MovieMagic). These are some of the collection still lying around in boxes collecting dusts, fungus maybe....


I started collecting Blu-ray when the hi-def format war ended early 2008... my first 2 titles being The Rock & Hellboy bought @ Amazon.com and my first BD player was a PS3 40Gb; the rest are history...

This post has been edited by fadthil: Apr 20 2011, 11:07 AM

Anyone read or heard any news that Scream, Scream 2 & Scream 3 will be released as a trilogy or in a boxset.... or will they initiate that by the time Scream 4 hits out on BD later this year?

oops, i mean region A... sorry to mention i never fond of UK's nippled-bds & its thick casing, let alone region-locked hassle...

This post has been edited by fadthil: Apr 20 2011, 02:45 PM

urmm... this one released by Alliance; not by the official studio.... still prefer original studio (Miramax / Dimension Films) to buy from irregardless of price factor. Heard it is also bare-bones BD25 with 1080i video

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Added on April 20, 2011, 3:09 pm
Oh yes, Tower! haha.... managed to buy only 1 title from there (Dark City) before they stop sending to M'sia...

This post has been edited by fadthil: Apr 20 2011, 03:09 PM

True... but i'd rather be pissed-off to under-par release by big studios (if there's any...) and willing to wait for it to be remastered or improved rather than buying cheap from an unknown studio releasing half-baked 'on-behalf' of big studio release; knowing it can't improve itself because they didn't own it in the first place.... hehe...

This is a similar case where: Will you buy Speedy or Berjaya HVN blu-ray version just for the cheaper price? To each their own... (that is; if their price is cheaper then haha )

This post has been edited by fadthil: Apr 20 2011, 03:59 PM

I, Robot should be one of 'the' video reference material for all 'film-based' feature film converted to hi-def format aka blu-ray... using an emulsion-based material shouldn't be an excuse for a bad presentation of a certain 'effect' on a hi-def format transfer especially on some older titles...

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Added on April 22, 2011, 11:43 pm
For me, it doesn't have any use eventhough I do owned a few 'types' of Apple products. Out of 20 digital copies, maybe I've only transferred no more that 1 digital copy movie to my iPhone... and that's only because to test it out the first time. I think a blu-ray / dvd combo makes more sense to me if only they don't hike up the price so much compared to a non-combo set! For the legal part, I'll let others to comment...

This post has been edited by fadthil: Apr 22 2011, 11:43 PM

Assassins & The Specialist for me... Demo Man only if it's cheap enuff. Cobra.. i dont fancy dis Sly's flick. How about Judge Dredd & Daylight; i dont mind those haha...

Prevent theft or to prevent 'goods' being confiscated by authorities during raid....

Watched Scre4m yesterday... luv the flick, characters old & new, and the dark humor; reminds me of the 1st instalment 15 years ago... wow! though storyline & scare are quite cliché. cant wait for it 2 hit bd via a quadrilogy boxset...

pay more u get nipple... pay less get bra??

vah-vah, u guys so active this couple of months... boxsetlah, steelbook-lah, criterionlah... very well-off. me no buy for months oso eat maggi and/or grass...

my problem is... i bought like so many especially during last year's big haul black friday but none of which are opened yet! i even hv 4 titles unopened since 2009 black friday!

well there r some truth in dat and some r not... most of the titles bought r favourite of mine but buying first when price was dirt cheap and only watch when i hv proper gears to really enjoy hi-def all out! i hv friends who bought cheap reg.1 dvds years ago and only bought a dvd player few years back... dats worst!

CWF Blu-ray huh... haha, just saw dat link.. funny how i knew the proprietor!! for those who do not know or heard of him; he's been in the business a long time since early 2000 but then was selling e-hem dvds at sg wang plaza & later low yat plaza (dat sounds familiar... ).

I havent seen him for years but later he opened a shop at cineleisure (now known as e@curve) selling ori-imported hd-dvds & bds when the hi-def war was at the beginning stage. but i do agree he sold those at ridiculous prices... but he would hv all the up-to-the week brand new releases! he stopped selling hd-dvd when the war was over but he closed shop at cineleisure 2 years ago & opened somewhere in kota d'sara... im not sure. never heard of since... and now this! just to share...

nice & friendly chap by the way...

This post has been edited by fadthil: Apr 30 2011, 02:48 AM

yup... his shop also sells pioneer players & some audio-pro speakers then. whenever i dropped by at his cineleisure outlet i always saw some elderly taukeh or some rich datoks buying like 5-10 bds or hd-dvds at one go... so dat explains the prices where he does hv his own type of regular 'well-off' customers...

iParcel is the 1st useless product/service provider bearing the "i" after iMac, iPod, iPhone & iPad...

are you being racist...

for a moment i thought u were cursing...

well, who does... especially when it's long weekend, right...

Wow... Scream, Scream 2 & Scream 3 all go for USD9.49 each!! if only all of 'em are in a boxset, can save on per item cost...