I think it is because they're don't want people to hoard.

Just make a second purchase later. make no difference if you're using Vpost, rite?

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Nov 19 2008, 07:14 AM

Ok.. sure.

As a waiter, one month wage in Australia, one can afford to buy 10 BDs,
but as waiter in Malaysia, one month wage can afford to buy only 1 BD.

That's how bad Malaysia income level is.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Dec 2 2008, 01:06 PM

alexwlh,

Can you put that on your PC DVD drive and see if you can read or not?

If you can read its folder and directory, that means it is just a DVD not really BD.
They use different encoding scheme so that only BD player can play off this disc.

I am not sure if there is true BD clone yet because it is still pretty expensive to buy BD-Recordable media
even buying at large volume.

Ori BD prices aren't bad.. new releases coming down after a few weeks and I expect they will be the same
price as ori DVD this time next year.. and could be about RM35 each only.

Yeah.. it is very strange that they have put more supplements on The Thing HD-DVD format than the Blu Ray format and
the HD-DVD format is dead and it is even smaller in size. I would recommend others to skip this version of BluRay until they re-master with a better version. Just like The 5th Element, which they came out with a later version that has better audio.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Dec 4 2008, 08:19 AM

Waahh.. if they are selling at RM85, you're right, might as well buy from Amazon.
Who is so damn stupid to pay RM85 for fakes?

I bought Transformer BD last week during the Black Friday event only for US$10 (RM36.5), and shipping via
vpost with other bundles worked out approx. RM12.5 for that title. Total is around RM50 for an original 2 discs Transformer.

Damn jack sparrow in Malaysia wanted to charge by number of discs too.

Yes... that's right. I wish I could put more but afraid of custom.

Amazon sometimes have very good deals on ori BDs and esp. around the holidays.
Also, I can buy from other web sites too like Deep Discounts... sweet..
they had 30% off last week.. I got Wall-E 3-discs and HellBoy 2 for $15 each.

Again.. no need to pay Jack Sparrows for shitty worthless high price fakes.

I think you hit it on the nail there. I think those movies avid fans do need to be educated that
those so called hi-def fakes are really nothing more than regular DVDs with fake BD case. Why pay more for it?

If they wanted pay more for better quality fakes to view on their new (& original) BD player..
they might as well get the original BD at the same price.

Shessh..RM85.. for a fake Blu. This is crazy!
The buyers must be stupid. The Jack Sparrows must be having hellavua day ripping them off.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Dec 4 2008, 11:07 AM

Same goes for The Journey to The Center of the Earth. It has four 3D red/blue glasses.

He probably kick himself later he tries to show off his big screen TV and found out later than the movie wasn't in 1080p, and the best native mode is just unconverted from 480p (or hi def lite) from a DVD media.

Wow! That is cheap!

See..Even the fake BD price can't match the price like this even after Ringgit-to-USD conversion.

Wahh. who bought WANTED LE must be big fan of Angelina Jolie!

No, I don't think DVD will be tossed up like VCD but VCD definitely will be tossed up like VHS tapes.

A good BD player can upscale a good original DVD to near HiDef quality but definitely doesn't work well
for fakes or pirated D9 craps.

For VCDs, this should never have taken off in Asia but some poor folks in Malaysia are conned
into this format, are stupid enough to buy VCD only players as even as late as last year.
Shops like Speedy and HVN should stop selling VCDs immediately. It doesn't make economic sense to
continue to remaster and downgrade movies to VCDs format.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Dec 7 2008, 04:36 AM

Yeah.. very envy of those all those people in US and Canada can buy cheap DVDs and Blurays!
We poor Malaysians not only have to pay 20%~30% more than what they're paying for importing and worst thing about this is our currency purchasing power is so damn low.

For vpost, best deal is to order per bulk is 10-15 titles per shipment but
as long you can get good deal and not the exceed the RM500 limit otherwise
there is a risk in getting taxed by customs.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Dec 12 2008, 10:58 PM

TDK is worthy to buy, definitely recommended for this year as one of the top ten BD.
TDK is the best action comic book adaption for this year, story is much better than Iron Man
but in terms of extra materials, I like Iron Man BD better..

Since you mentioned Astro.. <sigh>... I've dumped my Astro sub months ago.
Astro picture quality sucks big time on my LCD. Last check, even their latest digital
box with PVR doesn't have hdmi or digital audio output...

I'll come back when they get off their lazy ass and start giving us high def.

Anyone here still have Astro?






This post has been edited by danmooncake: Dec 13 2008, 07:57 AM

Hey Ninja,

I saw that wireless keypad pic that you got there.

How does that work? Is it better to get this as oppose to a standard wireless keyboard for the PS3?

Just received my Dark Knight.




This post has been edited by danmooncake: Dec 15 2008, 12:29 PM

Sure.. but have to wait till get home..

Yeah. but those are not available to us.. only folks in US/Canada.. unless you can buy thru vpost or thru a friend.

IMO, for this year animation, I think Wall-E AQ/PQ BD is slightly better than KungFu Panda.
but, I do like KungFu Panda story better - damn funny.

This post has been edited by danmooncake: Dec 15 2008, 01:04 PM