Came to Shanghai last night, and will have another flight to Haribin tomorrow morning at 0845. Sorry, no night life, no bar, no nothing. Just watched a DVD here.
It surprised me that I can but the DVD for "Danny the Dog" here, official version. It cost only RMB 9.5, and I get it in a big department store. I also get some Sarah Brightman; Norah Jones and some other Jazz CD, also official and quite cheap. Only RMB 29 for hot CDs like Sarah Brightman and Norah Jones, and cheaper (17-18 RMB) for not so hot jazz compliations.
Hong Kong record companies: why in the hell you think your identical HK version CD should cost 4 times more?
4 comments:
I have doubt that is it really originial, or a private one.
I have been longed for the Kitaro's very first theme music for the TV program, Silk Road, which was published 20 more years ago. It is quite difficult to find but the price is so high that I am reluctant to buy it.
But recently, I come across a up-stair Chinese bookstore where I could find the Silk Road 3-CDs set for just HK$39. The printing on the CD also mentioned it is for sale in China only. But I think that why foriegn music publisher so welcome the Chinese market that they willing to cut the price to 1/10 of the original. It is illogical.
A friend gave me some DSD remastered CDs from China of some legit western "Audiophile" class recordings. While a couple sounded marginal, the rest sounded total crap. The trouble is, the quality of the CDs and DVDs published here in HK, though better than those from China, they aren't any good either and they are no comparison to those published in Japan.
It's legit alright. I have got Inland versions of "No Theives" and "Ku Fu Hustle" on DVD for cheap. Only PTH sound tracks thou, which in the case of "Ku Fu Hustle", totally missed the point of Steven Chow.
The selling price of software has absolutely nothing to do with the actual cost of production. Sell 2 copies of your software at YMB150 in the whole of China, or tens of thousands of copies of the same software at YMB20 a pop, it's Economics 101.
Well if you are selling your software at a lower price, you want to diffentiate the cheap stuff with the stuff at regular price, therefore the slightly inferior quality.
OTOH I have been buying some great recordings from Rain Forest http://www.21hifi.com/rfs. Definitely getting there.
A few note after reading all comments:
- It is real official. One easy way to find out whether the shop is selling copy or not: if they issue invoice, it's official.
- The CD shops in Wanchai is selling pirate version. It may look like official, but look close and you will find there is a lot of mis-spelling. it doesn't happen in official version.
- I agree with kaleung's POV about the logic of such price cut. I don't understand as well.
- I don't have the hi-fi to access the 'audiophile' quality of the CD.
- Agree with tin's view.
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