Saturday, February 26, 2005

DVD - real or fake Warner Home Video will start selling original DVDs in China for 22 yuan (about 2 EUR). Currently fake DVDs cost about 8 yuan in DVD shops in China. It will be interesting to see if this will work: if it does it shows that Chinese are willing to pay more for better quality. I personally doubt it, the market is not mature enough yet. Beijing has a few good DVD shops, where all DVDs are sold in boxes and where they are ordered alphabticall. You can preview the quality of the movie and bring them back if there is something wrong. You even get a (fake) receipt. But DVDs cost 10 yuan here (instead of 8). I love this kind of stores, because they have a huge stock and you don[base ']t have to go through boxes of DVD[base ']s to find the right ones. But what kind of people come here? Mainly foreigners. Chinese are not yet willing to pay a little extra. I actually expect that pirates will copy the Warner DVD boxes and start selling fake DVDs in them. 12:24:39 PM    comment []