Cheap Import DVDs

Alpha Trion · Post by **Alpha Trion** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:49 am

At discountanimedvd.com they have many import dvds at dirt cheap prices. They're all region-free, and have english and chinese subtitles. Why are these so cheap? Is the picture quality bad? Is the translation weak? Basically what I want to know is, should I bother buying them or pay twice as much for discs put out by American companies?

Silly Cow · Post by **Silly Cow** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 5:55 am

I've read somewhere that all the sites that have anime suspiciously cheap carry bootleg versions. So if you want to reward the makers for doing fine anime, don't buy there. Bit if that doesn't trouble you the least, go ahead.

Alpha Trion · Post by **Alpha Trion** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 6:05 am

Well I'm either going to download anime and burn it, or buy insanely cheap DVDs, so at least this way somebody gets my money. I can't afford to pay the $30 per disc most American companies want.

Ingraman · Post by **Ingraman** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 7:37 pm

Region free usually means HK bootleg. Most of the time, these "bootlegs" are professionally packaged and copied. But they're bootlegs nonetheless. Usually, if they sell a whole 30+ episode anime series compressed onto 4 discs, it's usually bootleg.

Silly Cow · Post by **Silly Cow** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:13 pm

Originally posted by Alpha Trion
so at least this way somebody gets my money.

Yeah, the thieves.

But as I said, it's not my problem. Follow your financial situation.