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Old 03-04-2007, 6:33 PM   #1
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Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

Any links to good service and cheap price shops?
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Old 03-04-2007, 6:37 PM   #2
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

movietyme.com

Cheap, good service - can't really fault them at all.

Ordered "A Scanner Darkly", "Corpse Bride" & "March of the Penguins" yesterday and they've already been dispatched to probably arrive by Friday. Looking forward to a great HD DVD weekend!
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Old 03-04-2007, 6:57 PM   #3
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

I alos use movietyme but mostly I use dvdpacific.com, join as a member (no charge) and get big discounts. Not the best website (far from it) but a reliable service and good prices.

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Old 03-04-2007, 7:00 PM   #4
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

Movietyme, DVD Pacific and Amazon.com are the favourites.
Read the AVF supplier's FAQ for further info:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=434277

EDIT: Oops. Forgot BD region coding. For region B BD discs Amazon UK, Play, sendit.com and choicesuk.com are probably your best bet.
Same sites, of course, for UK HD DVD releases like Harry Potter and The Pianist.

Last edited by AES256; 03-04-2007 at 7:10 PM.
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Old 03-04-2007, 8:30 PM   #5
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

i have been using axelmusic as i tried them all and they seem the best, had great service.
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Old 04-04-2007, 7:42 AM   #6
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

another mention for axelmusic , very happy with their prices and their service(just remember you have to include postage ) preordered the directors cut of payback hddvd , release date 10/04/2007 - shipped on the 02/04/2007 only recently discovered them after being an long time customer of mostly play and cdwow . really note happy with cdwow recently , feel that their once good service has declined very fast , a word of warning don't pre order from cdwow , they are terrible at getting them out on time
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Old 04-04-2007, 7:48 AM   #7
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

Amazon.com, Movietyme, axelmusic, dvdworldusa and dvd pacific. If you can't get what you are looking for from those then you will never find it
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

DVD planet and DVD pacific are both good sites and fairly cheap.
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Old 04-04-2007, 8:58 AM   #9
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DVD Pacific are great pricewise. Made my first order from them last night, Casino HD DVD for £12 inc p+p.
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

I've been using these.
http://www.playhd.co.uk/welcome.php?...a&submit=Enter
Great service and next day delivery.
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Old 04-04-2007, 9:46 AM   #11
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

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Movietyme, DVD Pacific and Amazon.com are the favourites.
Read the AVF supplier's FAQ for further info:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=434277

EDIT: Oops. Forgot BD region coding. For region B BD discs Amazon UK, Play, sendit.com and choicesuk.com are probably your best bet.
Same sites, of course, for UK HD DVD releases like Harry Potter and The Pianist.
I would add HMV.co.uk for blu ray releases. They are usually the same price and more likely to have them in stock. Play and amazon can be really slow in getting Blu rays for release date. HMV always has them early.
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Old 04-04-2007, 10:34 AM   #12
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

Amazon.com - they've been excellent, fast and reasonably priced shipping and good prices.
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Old 04-04-2007, 10:40 AM   #13
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

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Amazon.com - they've been excellent, fast and reasonably priced shipping and good prices.
Used amazon to order two BR disks and paid extra to have them sent separately,they were sent together and i ended up getting stung £9 customs charge.
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Old 04-04-2007, 10:44 AM   #14
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

I use a few Ebay stores. Most of the time they are cheaper than online retailers.
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Old 04-04-2007, 11:06 AM   #15
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

DVDWorldUSA for me. Shipping is always 3-4 working days, and discs always arrive before the US release date if pre-ordered.

I'm found them more consistent than MT. MT is great sometimes, but other times I have to wait 2 weeks for a back-order
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Old 04-04-2007, 12:55 PM   #16
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

my local virgin (Central London) is building up its library of both hidef formats

Has one full unit (with three making an isle) of hd discs - plus a unit on the ned nearest the till

Otherwise its online using mostly the sites above
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Old 04-04-2007, 1:48 PM   #17
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

Blockbusters had a fair few titles at £12 new for sale.
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Old 04-04-2007, 2:25 PM   #18
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

I mainly use Movietyme.
Excellent service with pre-orders coming to me pre-release
Have ditched amazon since they dont do this or cannot help with customs.

I use dvdplanet also , just for paypal.
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Old 04-04-2007, 3:15 PM   #19
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I mainly use Movietyme.
Excellent service with pre-orders coming to me pre-release
Have ditched amazon since they dont do this or cannot help with customs.

I use dvdplanet also , just for paypal.
Pity dvdplanet don't ship to the UK, they have that nice $10 Google checkout promotion too.
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Old 04-04-2007, 7:13 PM   #20
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

Still using PlayHD - 6 more turned up yesterday - ordered Sunday

Thats 10 films in 10 days - not bad service

Other than that the classifieds here have turned up a few good titles
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Old 12-04-2007, 4:31 PM   #21
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Another vote for AxelMusic. Most stuff takes about one week to get from them to me in London, but I can live with that. The support staff are great and are the same people who admin the site - they are also on MSN but I have not used that channel myself.
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Old 12-04-2007, 7:04 PM   #22
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

Another vote for MovieTyme. Good prices. No hidden charges or import duty. Speedy delivery. I think every pre-order I've made has arrived on my doorstep before the official US release date.

They also send out occasional vouchers to their regular customers which drops the prices even lower.
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Old 12-04-2007, 10:05 PM   #23
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

I use DVDPacific.
Discs usually arrive in 7-10 days and are cheap. (Having said that, there must be a blockage, as I have half a dozen that were sent 15-20 days ago and still havent arrived

DVDWorldUSA claim that VAT is paid, but I recently had to pay £30 tax on an order. They said they would credit my account, but after several weeks, they have failed to do so
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Old 12-04-2007, 11:02 PM   #24
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

Did they say they would credit your bank/credit card account or your DVD World account?
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Old 12-04-2007, 11:07 PM   #25
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Still using PlayHD - 6 more turned up yesterday - ordered Sunday

Thats 10 films in 10 days - not bad service

Other than that the classifieds here have turned up a few good titles
Did you get your 2 free HDDVD's?
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Old 12-04-2007, 11:28 PM   #26
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

another vote for playhd

orders arrive next day - top service

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Did they say they would credit your bank/credit card account or your DVD World account?
My DVD World account
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Old 13-04-2007, 8:28 AM   #28
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Movietyme on ebay last 2 discs came next day, great service!
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Old 13-04-2007, 4:57 PM   #29
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playhd (well i lurk and then pounce on their weekender deals )

and

dvdpacific best prices but very sllllooooooowwwwwww delivery
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Re: Where are you lot buying your Blu Ray and HD-DVD's from?

Those of you saying you use Amazon.com, how do you get the bargains? most of the stuff I've looked at has had astronomical delivery charges to add to it, which almost puts it up to the full UK RRp price.

Am I missing a trick?

For example, Children of Men is $28 + $7 shipping = $35 which, at a conservative tourist currency conversion of £1=$1.80 comes out at about £19.
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