As you may have known, I’m an avid movie-watcher, be it on any medium. From watching it in the VHS, cinema, Laser Discs (yes, I had the privilege before…), VCD, DVD, HDTV (720p), DivX, to all sorts of format. The bar is raised year by year, according to which media serves the best quality with the most reasonable price.
These days, I resort to buying DVDs (both Original and not), and going to the cinemas. While cinema offers better visual (larger screen) and better audio (THX and Dolby Surround), the ambiance usually throw me off. Not to mention the limited screening time, limited choices of movies (only the new ones) and not to mention high costs (Had to pay RM11 to yell at some obnoxious teenage girls and got an applaud).
Recently, I realized that Speedy‘s selling original DVDs cheap. Although the titles are the old ones, or those that’s not flying off the shelves, It’s quite a way to encourage buying the original.
For instance, I had just bought Feast (a brilliant gore-fest movie) and Fragile (yet to watch it) for only RM12.90 each. There’s better choices if I were to choose the RM29.90 range of titles.
The thing is, it’s only a DVD5 version of it (the ones with only the movie, several subtitle/audio choices, and a trailer). At least, the RM12.90 range is. My RM26.90 Blade DVD’s also a DVD5, but I bought it a couple of years ago, so now it may be DVD9s for the RM29.90 range. Still, it’s better than spending USD20 for a DVD9 version, unless if you really dig the extras (like deleted scenes, additional info, and even short movies) and the fancy boxes.
For a price like RM 15 a piece for an original, one could now ponder the thought of buying a pirated DVD and getting a low quality ones, or worse, showing it half way. But then again, a person with an internet access and a credit card could always buy it off Amazon for half that price (shipping and handling not included).