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02-10-2007, 8:58 AM
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With UK media tending in most cases to be more expensive than their American counterparts I wondered what percentage of people import their movies.
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02-10-2007, 9:09 AM
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About 75% of my films are imported. The few others I have are from ASDA/Game.
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02-10-2007, 9:10 AM
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Dual format-er here , and usually import all my titles.
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02-10-2007, 9:25 AM
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I have The Holiday, The Island and Harry Potter :GOF from the UK, the rest of my discs are imported from the US.
Not something that is likely to change untill the average high def title drops below £14 here.
Although if I buy a duel format player it would probably be a UK one (since my DVD's are region 2) so then I'd be buying any region encoded blu-rays from the UK.
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02-10-2007, 9:26 AM
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all my HD discs have been imported 
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02-10-2007, 10:08 AM
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I import the vast majority of my HD DVD discs but most of my Blu-ray discs were bought from this country due to region coding.
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02-10-2007, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Lion  all my HD discs have been imported | Same here mostly- but have some stuff UK like Brotherhood of the Wolf, which you cannot get in the US.
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02-10-2007, 10:17 AM
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Either Import or buy from these very forums.
Can't see that changing for the forseable future.
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02-10-2007, 10:17 AM
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blu-ray only here 
I import all mine as I only buy the region free ones listed on movietyme
Once the prices drop below £15 in the UK I will only import titles that I want ASAP that have only been released in the USA
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02-10-2007, 10:17 AM
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I Import most of mine too. I like the reaction of peoples faces when I invite them over to watch a movie that is still showing over here at the cinema.
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02-10-2007, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by BAN5HEE I Import most of mine too. I like the reaction of peoples faces when I invite them over to watch a movie that is still showing over here at the cinema. | Or not showing at all as was the case with 'Disturbia' which I received on US HD DVD in late July but wasn't released on cinema here until early September.
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02-10-2007, 10:43 AM
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Dual format owner over 100 of each! 95% have been bought from movietyme
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02-10-2007, 10:48 AM
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100% Blu-ray imports for me.  | |
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02-10-2007, 11:02 AM
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Dual format and import 80% of disks.
UK/European HD-DVD exclusives (HP:GoF, The Island, First Blood, Rambo, Total Recall) bought from game stores (after trading in old games to offset the ridiculous asking price).
GameStop in Stockport does have a good selection of region B BDs at good prices (Talledega Nights, Flatliners, Hostel, Open Season, Hellboy) so have picked some of these up there.
However, now that space is a premium in my home cinema, I tend to go for US disks for the reduced width of the case. Sad I know......
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02-10-2007, 11:25 AM
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Mine are all imports apart from a couple of films that havn't been available in the US and Serenity which had a better transfer on the UK version.
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