Pricing on Blu-Rays over in Ireland

The Denouncer

In HMV in Poole in England I saw Damages for the horrible price of £35 on Blu-Ray. In HMV Grafton St. Dublin Ireland the same Blu-Ray is .. €65!!!!!!!! Is this a joke or something? I have seen this type of thing many times but this is unreal!

Mossy Monk

It is a bit of a joke alright. However Damages region free and can be bought on Amazon.com for €36.68

http://www.amazon.com/Damages-Complete-First-Season-Blu-ray/dp/B000YW8RPO

The Denouncer

I think these stores and their high prices should be named and shamed, and also details like this above where to get them cheaper online such as Play etc.

scotsmarc

I never buy from the likes of HMV as they are rip off merchants. online all the way. I know you have to wait a few days but still worth it

Neo#

How much are blu rays in the states? And are they all definitely region free? I find that unusual if they are.

Jello

Neo# wrote: »

How much are blu rays in the states? And are they all definitely region free? I find that unusual if they are.

Not all, but quite a few are. From wiki:

Major studios have different region coding policies. Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios have released all of their titles region free. Sony Pictures and Warner Bros have released most of their titles region free, however the titles released by Warner which are region coded, come from their New Line sub-division. Lionsgate and Walt Disney Pictures have released a mix of titles that were region free and region coded. 20th Century Fox has released all but one of their titles region coded

So, best to check the studio before you buy a Blu-ray.

EDIT: Also, check the list here - http://bluray.liesinc.net/

Mossy Monk

Movietyme also have a good list of what is region free and what is not.

User45701

our retail sotres need to get there **** together thats all.

i actually bought 2 DVD movies

Stargate
Stargate continium priced @ 20.00 & 32.00 and to me thats fair enough.

Also i wanted them at 8pm on a friday so online wasent a choice.

if price bothers you that much wait till just before christmass toshiba are releasing XDE tech it will allow normel dvd's to be upscaled to full 1080p

The Denouncer

User45701 wrote: »

our retail sotres need to get there **** together thats all.

i actually bought 2 DVD movies

Stargate
Stargate continium priced @ 20.00 & 32.00 and to me thats fair enough.

Also i wanted them at 8pm on a friday so online wasent a choice.

if price bothers you that much wait till just before christmass toshiba are releasing XDE tech it will allow normel dvd's to be upscaled to full 1080p

Upscaling not an option for me as I'm using a 42" monitor with component inputs 1080i and a PS3. It just sickens me that HMV can charge €40 - €65 for Blu-Rays, and you know as well as I do someone will buy them instead of goign online and getting them at minimum half the price. Even GD has newish Blu-Rays for €19.99, the same ones (like MIB, Black Hawk Down etc.) are around the €40 mark in HMV. Makes no sense.

LeoGilly

Axel Music is where i get my Blu-Rays from.

Much cheaper than anywhere else.

They also do region free discs aswell.

hottstuff

I get my Blu Ray from movietyme for my Region A PS3.
No way would i pay HMV their mad prices.

Conor108

In Xtra-Vision, its the same price to rent Blu-rays as DVDs - €5.25
Pretty good:)

FionnMatthew

User45701 wrote: »

our retail sotres need to get there **** together thats all.

The problem, as far as I see it, is that the retail stores DO have their act together. They know how much they can get for their stuff, and they are getting that much.

The people who have to get their act together are the Irish buying public.

We really are very bad at exercising consumer power. Did I see an ad a couple of weeks back where Super Valu, or Spar were boasting, boasting, about how they have exactly the same prices as Dunnes, Tesco, Super Valu, Spar, Londis, etc. etc. etc. If that isn't a huge damn clue as to the fact that they've formed a giant supermarket syndicate so as to monopolize the everyday-amenity market, I don't know what is!

We've got exactly the same prices as everywhere else! Isn't that brilliant??? (You contemptible, gullible, clueless f*cking fools!!! Ha ha ha.) Come shop here! Or somewhere else! Everybody wins!!! (Except YOU, consumer filth. Bend over again, here it comes!!!!)

The very fact that the prices in HMV are such as they are is a sign that there are many many willing dipsh*ts who will mindlessly pay those prices. (It might also have to do with government duty).

The moment Irish consumers, collectively, realize that a new Blu-Ray film is actually not worth 60 euro is the moment the prices come down. No sooner. As far as I'm aware, that's how it works.

I saw a House box set in January for 30, that had been 90 three days earlier, and I couldn't help thinking that I'd feel like shooting a HMV employee in the face if I'd been shafted that much for the three days that were in it. But then, I wouldn't be in that position, because I'd never be such an idiot as to pay 90 euro for a single season of a TV show. 90 euro is Complete Box Set territory, or no deal.

But then, most of the time I feel like going postal in HMV, because besides the awful prices and proliferate amount of garbage, the ambient noise in there is normally well above advisory limits, and I wouldn't mind that, but it's normally the worst possible manufactured teen guitar bands that makes up the ambient noise, such that I can't hear the music in my own (soundproofed) headphones, which I wouldn't wear but for the fact that I want to shut out their noise. So I don't tend to go in there much!

EDIT: I should mention, of course, that I'm being tongue in cheek about the Falling Down scenario! Perhaps that's in bad taste, though...

Snake Plisken

keep away from bricks and morter stores here in the republic, as Fionn has stated as long as people are willing to pay silly prices then the stores will charge that. I have seen the odd decent price, Vantage Point for €25 in Xtravision is a fair enough price. But for real savings import from Amazon or Tower.com, or to a lesser extent Movietyme or Axel.

FruitLover

Extra! Extra!

This just in - Dublin high-street stores in more-expensive-than-other-stores shocker!!

(Hi, OP, welcome to ten years ago. Everyone else in the country has known this for quite a while now, so here's what else you've missed: Britney is out, Take That are back in, and houses are twice the price you're used to)

FionnMatthew

It's not Dublin high street stores though, right?

HMV are committed to having the same prices in all their outlets.

And the OP specifically said (s)he's seen this before, etc...

The point was that this wasn't just "more expensive." This is almost a third more expensive. Shockingly so. High street robbery more expensive.

I've noticed it too.

Has anyone noticed that TV box sets are getting split into halves now?

"Buy the first 11 episodes for 49.99, and the last 9 for the fair and even handed price of 49.99! It may have been that you used to pay that price for a whole season. But think about it! This way, you'll value every season more, because you'll be paying half of what you would have payed if you had bought four times as much produce under the old pricing scheme! Don't think. Just buy."

Evil bastards.

Full_Circle

I have noticed that HMV (compared to other stores, XtraVision for example) seem to be pricing their Blu Rays far and above whats considered decent. The only thing they seem to have going for them is they would appear to have the largest selection of Blu Ray titles (where physical, as opposed to online stores are concerned). But I think what really kills me is the thought of having to buy all my favourite movies again on Blu Ray, surely a wallet-destroying exercise!

Necronomicon

FionnMatthew wrote: »

Has anyone noticed that TV box sets are getting split into halves now?

"Buy the first 11 episodes for 49.99, and the last 9 for the fair and even handed price of 49.99! It may have been that you used to pay that price for a whole season. But think about it! This way, you'll value every season more, because you'll be paying half of what you would have payed if you had bought four times as much produce under the old pricing scheme! Don't think. Just buy."

Evil bastards.

Yep, tv box sets are daylight robbery and I haven't bought one here since they started that nonsense.

As for Blu Ray, I haven't found it to be too bad. I just got a PS3 so I went looking for some on Saturday. Picked up Hellboy for €20 in HMV. The Orphanage was €24. There was a '3 for 2' as well that had some older but pretty decent titles. Seemed alright to me.

rednik

Since I started collecting blu-ray I have only bought on the internet. Highstreet prices are still crazy. Recently I bought The Departed for 14.49euro delivered from sendit. Compare this price anywhere here. I buy all new releases for at least 20euro cheaper than any shop in Dublin.

Snake Plisken

u get some good deals in Zavvi as well they had a 2 for 40 deal on their recently