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I bought 007!

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:55 pm
by Kennyshin
Not James Bond but just the DVD. :D

For 1280x960 images (I hope it's also fast for you), click here, and for those with relatively broad bandwidth and a lot of patience, click here.

I paid a little about US$130 from a web-based DVD retailer in Seoul, tax and shipping cost included. This is the largest amount of money I ever spent on buying DVD titles.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:59 pm
by F1Pilot
Sweet purchase, Kennyshin!

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:00 pm
by Kennyshin
Two of my friends at SI also bought 007 collection from the same store on the same day for the same price. My wife is happily enjoying the collection.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:16 pm
by Ian
Pretty impressive. How much did that set you back?

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:22 pm
by Kennyshin
Ian wrote:Pretty impressive. How much did that set you back?


The purchase? How could it set me back?

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:24 pm
by aviationwiz
Ian means how much you spent on it.

Ian,

Read more carefully, as Kennyshin noted, he paid about 130 USD for it.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:27 pm
by Kennyshin
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I watched Die Another Day maybe three times, all on PC.

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20 titles, 21 discs. Only DAD has two discs.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:30 pm
by Kennyshin
aviationwiz wrote:Ian means how much you spent on it.

Ian,

Read more carefully, as Kennyshin noted, he paid about 130 USD for it.


Uh... that's right, about 130 USD, or about a little over 150,000 Korean Won. I can't remember the exact number. Average South Korean household in Seoul earns about 2000 USD a month. Excluding VAT and shipping fee, I paid a little under 120 USD.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:33 pm
by Kennyshin
I resized the files to 1280x960 pixels but they still look large. My LCD monitors support no more than 1280x1024 resolution.

The server uses 100Mbps bandwidth, hardly used at all. Much cheaper than the 2Mbps IDC dedicated line in Seoul. Downloading 42,854,083 bytes at once doesn't take long.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:35 pm
by eliminator
good deal, like $6.50 a pop :wink:

PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:00 am
by hoxlund
haha i paid about $22.05 for my james bond collection

$1.05 per dvd-r x 21 discs = $22.05

PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:01 am
by integspec
Wow Kennyshin, it's a great collection. Good for you!

Btw, who is the best/favourite Bond for you guys? For me it's Sean Connery. Also Roger Moore isn't bad but least is Pierce Brosnan. I like Pierce Brosnan as an actor but not as a JB.

Cheers.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:04 am
by eliminator
there's only one 4 me so far... 8) Sean Connery

PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:52 am
by Ian
aviationwiz wrote:Read more carefully, as Kennyshin noted, he paid about 130 USD for it.


:oops:

I was in too much of a rush to check out the pictures.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:54 pm
by F1Pilot
hoxlund wrote:haha i paid about $22.05 for my james bond collection

$1.05 per dvd-r x 21 discs = $22.05
LOL! Whelp, that reaffirms why hoxlund teaches The Recording Underground! :D

PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:18 am
by integspec
hoxlund wrote:haha i paid about $22.05 for my james bond collection
$1.05 per dvd-r x 21 discs = $22.05
:) :) :)

I saw this collection in the mall and it looks pretty neat. If you are a JB Fan, it's really a satisfying investment.

(Edit = Typo)

PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:52 pm
by Kennyshin
hoxlund wrote:haha i paid about $22.05 for my james bond collection

$1.05 per dvd-r x 21 discs = $22.05


I know many friends who have DivX-ed version of 007 collection, complete 21 discs. Also easy for me to have all the DVD titles in ISO files or just the extracted files. It will require just a 200GB HDD to store all the contents from the 21 dual-layer DVD discs without any removal of audio or video. It takes just a few days for a friend who has VDSL and the DVD titles to upload to me. It takes less than 10 hours for a friend who uses the same line as mine to do so.

So the cost is nearly zero. I mean it's pointless here to discuss the cost of piracy. :D

PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:56 pm
by hoxlund
or just $22 for dvd-rs

PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:58 pm
by Kennyshin
integspec wrote:Wow Kennyshin, it's a great collection. Good for you!

Btw, who is the best/favourite Bond for you guys? For me it's Sean Connery. Also Roger Moore isn't bad but least is Pierce Brosnan. I like Pierce Brosnan as an actor but not as a JB.

Cheers.


There was once the same question at CDFreaks Living Room forum. I didn't vote then. Now, I am for Sean Connery. I am not sure who my wife thinks best or likes most but I am sure she will just say it's me. We two watched the 20 titles together using my NEC notebook connected to a 19-inch external LCD monitor. :D

For those who don't know about my wife, she can't walk due to the cerebral palsy she had had since 1974. I'm as much her nurse as I'm her lover.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:10 pm
by dodecahedron
Connery for me too.
Brosnan isn't bad either.

sorry to hear about your wife, Kenny.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:27 pm
by F1Pilot
Sean Connery is my vote. Timothy Dalton was a big joke. He sucked. I'm impressed with Pierce Brosnan.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:56 pm
by Kennyshin
dodecahedron wrote:Connery for me too.
Brosnan isn't bad either.

sorry to hear about your wife, Kenny.


It can't be something for you to be sorry. She has already lived 30 years like this.

What I am sorry is that I have done nearly zero to reform the society that alienated people like her.

Women with cerebral palsy become easy targets of rape and sexual harassment. It seems literally every male in some villages in South Korea rape such women regularly and the police never caught anyone. In a dog-eating-dog world (or human-eating-human), none of this sounds so unreal.

She is intelligent enough to read to Prey (M. Crichton) and Contact (C. Sagan) though she never entered college because it had been hard enough for her to go through the humiliation and discrimination during the 12 years of school days. Her father is a retired professor in engineering who has six degrees (the sixth was in French langauge.) So she had lived more safely than other girls in similar health conditions. Very many parents let their sons and daughters live on their own if they are mal-formed or have some disabilities. This is a country where human rights don't exist much but parent rights exist too much to the degree it happens often for parents to kill their children and not to be punished for the act properly because Confucianism is always above the law.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 1:55 am
by hoxlund
thank god i was born in this country