Best DVD price comparison site?

[SimonN]

Any suggestions as to the best price comparison site for DVDs and blu-rays at the moment?

[geared]

Amazon or ebay I guess.

Google shopping search thing might do it as well???

[Berberis]

Simon,

 

I wouldn't bother. The physical market is dying. You need to go digital now. Buy an Apple TV and either rent of buy from there.

[SimonN]

Thanks for the advice, but I already have an Apple TV (have had for years) and I already rent films from Blinkbox, iTunes, etc.

 

The physical market's not dying - just shrinking. Streamed films aren't as good quality as a DVD, let alone a blu-ray, as they get compressed more. You can't wrap a streamed film for your niece's birthday present, or lend it to a friend, either! Plus you get lots of extras with a physical copy that you don't with a streamed version.

 

Streaming's got its place and I regularly stream films where I want to just watch it and forget it, but for any good ones I want a physical copy. It only takes minutes to rip it to my PC (legally!) so I have a digital copy too that I can watch wherever.

 

Anyway - I just wondered what price comparison site people were using, as with Amazon upping their minimum spend for free postage it makes other places more worthwhile. Though even aside from that it can make a difference, e.g. the boxset of Game Of Thrones 1-4 is £50 on Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DY64CM4) but I found it for £30 on eBay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171830765437).

 

Anyone?

[xdbx]

Downloads are pretty rubbish for quality especially HD and generally no full HD audio.

I understand what your saying about having a physical item however, lending is against the T&C of purchase and your contract with the movie studio.

Its not legal to rip a disc with any DRM used but most Blu-Rays have a digital copy to avoid this.

 

As for prices theres these:

http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/

http://www.bluraycollections.co.uk/

[Berberis]

Thanks for the advice, but I already have an Apple TV (have had for years) and I already rent films from Blinkbox, iTunes, etc.

 

The physical market's not dying - just shrinking. Streamed films aren't as good quality as a DVD, let alone a blu-ray, as they get compressed more. You can't wrap a streamed film for your niece's birthday present, or lend it to a friend, either! Plus you get lots of extras with a physical copy that you don't with a streamed version.

 

Streaming's got its place and I regularly stream films where I want to just watch it and forget it, but for any good ones I want a physical copy. It only takes minutes to rip it to my PC (legally!) so I have a digital copy too that I can watch wherever.

 

Anyway - I just wondered what price comparison site people were using, as with Amazon upping their minimum spend for free postage it makes other places more worthwhile. Though even aside from that it can make a difference, e.g. the boxset of Game Of Thrones 1-4 is £50 on Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00DY64CM4) but I found it for £30 on eBay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171830765437).

 

Anyone?

 

To be fair, you are correct, if it was 2010, but streamed video from iTunes is now full HD. The picture is not compressed but audio is, however you and I, on a standard TV are never going to tell. You need to be very picky to hear it.

 

Also, iTunes now offer films with the extras like DVD's and Blu rays.

 

Believe me, I used to buy DVD's and Blurays, but now I just buy or rent on iTunes. Still if you want to give something you can wrap, just go to your local Tescos. DVD's and Blue rays are pretty cheap there.

 

I remember my first Bluray cost me £39.99!

[PeteMorris]

Usually the latest releases are pretty much universally on offer, at Tesco's Morrisons and Asda, for a tenner (not bluerays)....Which is pretty good. They tend to go up in price when they're a few months old, and then down again after 6-12 months or so.

[muzzle]

http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/

[SimonN]

Thanks everyone!

 

A site like Find-DVD is the kind of thing I was thinking of. They don't return too many prices, though, so I've done what I probably should've done in the first place and asked Google: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dvd+price+comparison!

 

Searching for 'dvd price comparison' it returns a few decent sites on the first page, the best of which are: Find-DVD.co.uk, best-dvd-price.co.uk, 123PriceCheck.com, DVDCollections.co.uk, dvd.me.uk and DVDCost.co.uk. It also returns a couple of others that aren't quite what I'm thinking of as they're not specific enough, e.g. PriceRunner.

 

Anyway - if I quickly check them all for Game Of Thrones 1-4 we get the following:

 

123PriceCheck.com - Best price £29.99, returns 19 results

Best-DVD-Price.co.uk - Best price £29.99, returns 19 results

Find-DVD.co.uk - Best price £32.89, returns 9 results

DVDCost.co.uk - Best price £49.99, returns 12 results

DVDCollections.co.uk - Best price £49.99, returns 8 results

DVD.me.uk - Best price £49.99, returns 7 results

 

I doubt many people would buy their DVDs from Blackwell, but it'd cost over £80 there!

 

---------- Post added 30-06-2015 at 09:55 ----------

 

One other site worth mentioning to use with the above sites is http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com - if you don't know it, it lets you put in an Amazon URL and will show you how the price (on Amazon) has varied over time. So you can see if you may get it at a better price if you wait a bit for the price to come back down.