Foreign-language DVDs?

Chuchote · 08-07-2016 10:48PM #1

Where's it possible to buy foreign-language DVDs at a decent price?

Amazon's no good because you have to buy £25 worth before you get free shipping. Play.com, now changed to rakuten.co.uk, is no good because they don't list whether the DVD is subtitled or not.

L1011 · 08-07-2016 11:10PM

You will have to pay for shipping from pretty much anywhere native as you will be considered an overseas market for any foreign language sites. Do you want them subbed or not? A lot of other countries sites would sell domestic market DVDs without subs available.

If you are looking for English-subbed world cinema, ebay or Amazon are your best bets. Just buy more at once.

Chuchote · 08-07-2016 11:15PM

Always subbed - then I can watch them with subs on, and afterwards with subs off to get the feel of the language.

If only Rakuten actually listed whether DVDs were subbed - they ship all DVDs for free!

L1011 · 08-07-2016 11:22PM

Anywhere with "free shipping" is folding the costs in elsewhere - usually the product is sufficiently dearer to begin with; or you'll get whacked for customs if the order is large enough.

Once upon a time £25 would buy you just one "imported" DVD on Amazon though - I have a few German movies that never got translated. It would work out as quite a few now!

Chuchote · 08-07-2016 11:24PM

I think the folded-in costs come from the fact that I'd mostly be buying DVDs that are a few years old, and are probably surplus to requirement in most markets.

L1011 · 09-07-2016 01:55AM

Chuchote wrote: »

I think the folded-in costs come from the fact that I'd mostly be buying DVDs that are a few years old, and are probably surplus to requirement in most markets.

Those would be far, far harder to find stock anywhere. The places with them are going to be those that care less about accurate listings or less likely to offer free postage.

Chuchote · 09-07-2016 11:19AM

L1011 wrote: »

Those would be far, far harder to find stock anywhere. The places with them are going to be those that care less about accurate listings or less likely to offer free postage.

Yes, I'd mostly be buying from play.com, who do offer free postage, but, maddeningly, seldom say whether the DVDs are subtitled.

Chuchote · 09-07-2016 12:12PM

Alas — Play, now owned by Rakuten, is closing!

What about in Dublin, Galway, Cork, Belfast, etc — is there a motherlode of foreign-language DVDs anywhere? Where do most of the non-natives live, maybe the charity shops there would be a good source.

McLoughlin · 10-07-2016 01:52PM

Chuchote wrote: »

Alas — Play, now owned by Rakuten, is closing!

What about in Dublin, Galway, Cork, Belfast, etc — is there a motherlode of foreign-language DVDs anywhere? Where do most of the non-natives live, maybe the charity shops there would be a good source.

Tower Records in dublin has some films

ezra_pound · 10-07-2016 02:02PM

IFI has decent selection.

Chuchote · 10-07-2016 05:25PM

Thanks, was in the IFI yesterday and got one, but they're pricey enough. Got a couple more in some of the city's thrift shops. And got one on Amazon for a penny, plus a couple of quid postage. Still searching for the motherlode.

ezra_pound · 10-07-2016 07:49PM

Worth noting that if you watch film on xbmc you can access online subtitles from various subtitles repositories so you don't need them yourself on the digital file or DVD.

Edit:. I see xbmc is now called kodi.

Chuchote · 11-07-2016 08:26AM

Thanks, I haven't heard of xbmc or kodi but will seek them out.

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