How much do you pay for your DVDs?

[Prizm]

I'm interested in what people in different countries pay for their
DVDs. I used to think the US had cheap goods, now I think they're
a rip-off for certain things. Can people give the price of the average DVD in their country? (in US dollars, if possible, so it's
easier to compare)

Here in Australia we pay:

Average DVD: $17.48 US ($34.95 AUS)
Average VHS: $11.93 US ($23.85 AUS)

Prizm

[UHT]

uk
vhs £9-12
dvd £14-20

[Mikele]

Argentina:
Zone 4 DVD: USD 35.
Zone 1 DVD: USD 45-50. Some cheap Zone 1 DVDs are USD 30.
Average VHS: USD 20.

Yes, it's sad but true :(

[Kedirekin]

Probably doesn't need to be said, but...

USA
Average DVD (mode, rather than mean): $24
Average VHS : varies wildly from incedibly cheap to more expensive than the DVD

[buba king]

the price here in norway averanges around 50USD pr dvd. and that is crazy if you ask me.

[magnus73]

$50 per copy is TOTALLY f:ed up. i was just in sweden and it's about $20-30. kinda like here in the us.

i'm so happy i left scandinavia. salaries SUCK and what little you have left they take away in taxes. and then, when you're laying there in the gutter, with your nose smashed and your kidney ruptured they F$*& you in the a$$ with a $50 dvd. it's amazing... :angry: :devil: :angry:

/mag

PS. sorry. i had to vent. at least i don't live there anymore. :)

[Prizm]

Wow, that is off-the-wall - $50 US for a DVD. We pay that much
here for the latest CD-ROM games.

All the more reason to "Rent 'n DivX", I say.

Looks like Australia is winning the price war, though..

Prizm

[rmatei]

Not like I've done any statistic, but in the US, online the price for a good, recent DVD seems to be around 20$ going up to 25$ for really special editions (list price 25-30$). Then older, more obscure movies with bare-bone DVDs are 10-15$. And I used to think that was expensive. But man, 50$ :eek:! I can understand why they put in region codes.

Is it true rumors that I've heard that in India, for example, DVDs would be around 5$? Wouldn't surprise me since manufacturing a DVD is dirt cheap.

[Fantasma]

Hello People

This is just a comment, but, a member of another board
informed me that he personally purchased
100 DVDs in china for just one Dollar each.

[ppera2]

Here, in Mid-East Europe DVD's cost 20-40 $. Some older you can buy for 15...

Chinese DVD's are mostly pirate editions, quality is often miserable etc...

[ZenithalRavage]

the cheap chinese dvd's are pirates indeed, out of 20 cheap chinese dvd's I have, 5 didn't work, 2 cases had the wrong movie (surprise! :o ), and 3 were screencam movies (u know where they film the movie in the theatre). But that leaves a package of 12 dvd's of which 2 are a surprise for only 20$, not bad ey? heh lol :rolleyes:

[tenebrenz]

In my experience I have always found the Australian sites like ezydvd.com.au and dvdcrave to be the cheapest, though they don't have the same range that america has. (essential if you like horror films)
The only other really cheap place I have seen (apart from the pirate sites) is the danish site dvdoo.dk, I wonder why Norway should be so expensive as the disk are no doubt a the same Scandinavian release.

[soujir0u]

Hehe, yea pirated DVDs can be very cheap and yet bad quality. DVDs cost about USD3 in Malaysia...the quality is actually quite good, almost as good as the original DVD except that sometimes they are missing the 5.1 channel sounds (only have 2 channel) and sometimes the subtitles are in bad English...

But now I live in Sydney, Australia. DVDs cost AUD25 to 40 here... I usually just rent.

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Canada:

New release: $23.99 to 34.99 (US$14 - $22)
Sales/Specials of older dvds: $14.99 to 19.99 (US$9 - 13)
Used (rental/pre-owned) DVDs: $10 to $15 (US$6 - 10)


(BTW: I was in the U.K. this holiday season and I found the prices for DVDs there were completely ridiculous... I could buy 2 DVD's in Canada for the price of one there. That's taking into account all the Christmas/Boxing Day blow-out sales and whatnot)

[Ceronian]

We have a very wide range of prices, starts with 13 USD (lots of Warner Bros. titles) up to 30 USD and more (eg Gladiator).
Its hard to build an average price, but i would say it's something like 22-25 USD.

But after we got this fuckin* Euro, the prices are rising and there is no end :(

[BITS]

you can join dvd club's and so forth that are available in the MASS quantities on the net. my mother always borrows a few dvd's off a coworker who is in one of these dvd club's...he has alittle over 3,000 used dvd's and just bought his first one 2 years ago...so go figure he isnt paying full price. i will get the url again (you probably already have it though). as far as as my mother has mentioned all the dvd's he has are bought open packaged but the real thing and scratch free...but always at 30% or more off...so its good. as far as me i buy them at kmart for reason's i cant disclose but i get a really good deal...kmart has low price's as it is though. best buy has some good deals (kmart is cheaper though) and so does meijer. you can make friends with people at movie stores and get good deals there or just borrow unreleased dvd's and release them on the net. i stick with blockbuster and kmart though. kmart also has a good return policy just incase you fuc something up and forgot to do something...they also have good box sets. kmarts prices on new box sets is still the lowest i have seen yet. like right now im ripping the imax space collection that is 5 dvd's...if you would buy it on the net it would cost atleast 55 dollars BEFORE the shipping...at kmart you can get it for 45 bucks flat. NOTE: kmart filed chapter 11 so if you are a risky person you could buy mass stuff from there on payments and might wind up not having to paying much at all if though go bankrupt...but its a risk. i know as far as myself i would trade dvd's with people if they wanted. i like dvd's but the only one's i keep are the childrens'...any others i never keep. wind up trading with friends locally.

i like dvd's because of the quality...but as far as collecting them i dont feel that dvd's are that 'high tech' if you will. i think soon something else is going to replace them. i just want the movie myself..and if i want the extra features...well...i just keep them too ;-P.

if any of you ever want to swap dvd's i would do so...right now i only have fight club, the abyss special edition and girls gone wild...but i would trade them by mail if someone wanted to trade for one or all....i love all three of them but would trade anytime for just about any other dvd. i will wind up trading them in the end so why not do it now. some people are compulsive though...the i gotta have it, i dont want it i just need it attitude turns people into beast's ;--) like the guy my mother works with...could you imagine having over 3,000 dvd's...you'll never watch them all 3 times so why have them...although if you had 3,000 dvds you could easily trade for any dvd i would imagine.

p.s. anybody got beauty and the best on dvd??? i will trade any of the 2 dvd's i metioned for just that 1.

ttfn ;-P

[Kedirekin]

Kind-of off topic, but I often toy with the idea of a virtual DVD co-op. Just a few hundred friends that agree to put three or four DVDs each into a virtual hopper, with nary an expectation of ever getting them back.

Then everyone just starts mailing DVDs around - when you're done watching a DVD, you find the next person on the list who wants to see it and mail it to them.

Should be an easy thing to manage using the web. The only thing I've never been able to figure out is how you'd handle dead-beats - people who'd get DVDs but never mail them on. You'd probably have to manage it so that a person doesn't get a DVD mailed *to* them till someone confirms that they received a DVD *from* them.

Anyway, a co-op would be especially beneficial to anime fans like me. Anime is so hard to come by short of purchasing it, and there really is a lot of bad anime; I don't want to buy a lot of crap, yet I don't want to miss out on anything good.

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PS. has anyone seen Niea Under 7? It's from the same studio that made serial experiments lain, but I hear it is completely different. And it looks pretty expensive (only 13 episodes, but they're going to release it on 5 DVDs instead of the typical 4). It looks kinda fun, but I can't tell if it's really any good.

[texaco1]

As I live in Melbourne Australia, I find the price is mid A$30.00 mark. The price is falling down gradually. I look for second hand dvd at 20.00. Overall I think they are all still too expensive considering how many times are you going to watch the movie. Do you really need all the extras, behind the scenes which they seem to love to do here in Australia.

Ian Mitchell

[Slogra]

€15 - €30

Most shops in holland are really expensive (most DVDs around the €30). Very few are really cheap €13-€18 for the newest, so i usually shop there.