st11x Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 G'day, I posted the same in the Chiang Mai forum, I hope it's not a double post as I would also be interested to know if I can find any in the country. At Carrefour the other day, I saw them selling a LG Blu-Ray player for about 17K. It was a bit of a surprise as I never did find any place selling the Blu-ray discs (the real stuff, not the "real copies"). Where can one find such discs? Are they only on sale in BKK? Are they obscenely expensively still? Wonder if we can order from Amazon otherwise. Speaking of HD contents, I was at UBC the other day and I said I wanted to cancel my subscription only after a month. They asked me why so soon, I said there's no HD nor anything in 16x9. The lady asked me what HD was! How interesting. thanks Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somchai69 Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I saw Blu-Ray disks in the street market in Penang, back in August. All pirated. I am not surprised that UBC does not understand HD. Even there normal signal is barely broadcast level for 625 line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surface Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I've seen original BD for sale at a movie shop on the main floor of Fortune. 1,000+ per movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballbreaker Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I've seen a shop in Siri Center in Bangkok that sells Blu-Ray disc and it just happens to be named Blu-Ray. If memory serves me correct its located in the general area opposite Swensen's Ice Cream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniffdog Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Boomerang in Central World (formerly World Trade Center) has a fairly large collection. Prices start at THB 969.... http://www.boomerang.co.th They have order by post service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinLOS Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I saw Blu-Ray disks in the street market in Penang, back in August. All pirated. You sure ?? I follow the copy hidef scene quite a bit and have not yet seen Blu Ray copies out there in the market.. Of course theres some rip off merchants pushing HD-DVD and BluRay discs but those are just dual layer DVD9s. Would like to know more if you know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surface Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 (edited) The discs are way too expensive to pirate at the moment. It's all downsampled stuff on DVD. Edited December 22, 2008 by surface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinLOS Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Exactly my point.. As yet everyone who has claimed otherwise has basically been full of shit. I have been told theres a shop selling x264 movied encoded on dual layer DVD9s tho. Bit technical for most consumers but good for PC based playback people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerbeer Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Exactly my point.. As yet everyone who has claimed otherwise has basically been full of shit. I have been told theres a shop selling x264 movied encoded on dual layer DVD9s tho. Bit technical for most consumers but good for PC based playback people. exactly how much specs would a media computer need to play x264 Blue Ray rips? are there VGA cards out there that can output HDMI straight to a LCD TV? Can a CPU box be made sub 10k? I would not mind forking out that much for a media PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsomby Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 The discs are way too expensive to pirate at the moment. It's all downsampled stuff on DVD. Yes, but the pirate copies appears to be genuine Bluray, complete with the right packaging, logos, etc. And inside is a downsampled DVD disc. Most players will just play it as a DVD, so people don't realize they have bought a fake Bluray disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ungcas Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 The discs are way too expensive to pirate at the moment. It's all downsampled stuff on DVD. Yes, but the pirate copies appears to be genuine Bluray, complete with the right packaging, logos, etc. And inside is a downsampled DVD disc. Most players will just play it as a DVD, so people don't realize they have bought a fake Bluray disc. My gf bought some from China. The packaging was superb(rivals some retail packingin), but inside was crappy downsampled dvd-5 movies. Don't waste your money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man River Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Boomerang in Central World (formerly World Trade Center) has a fairly large collection. Prices start at THB 969....http://www.boomerang.co.th They have order by post service. Boomerang is the best I know for legitimate blu ray as well. Prices are, as you say, expensive but if you want the real thing than Boomerang is the place to go. They have multiple locations, including one just across from Homeworks (Central Dept. Store) in Central Bangna. The problem even in the US is while machine prices are coming down, the prices for the discs are yet unchanged (still high). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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