Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: laffa on August 17, 2007, 22:12:30 PM
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:)Do you buy DVD's when on holiday, we bought loads in June and some worked, some stopped near the end, and some just never worked,even when we got home some never worked. can it be 3 dvd players that are faulty or the dvd,s themselves.We ended up going to Fethiye and buying them there for 4lira, and all of them were ok.![^]
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We always buy from Hassan Maureen and they're usually good copies.
We've had the odd one the doesn't work but he exchanges them for you
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if thats the same guy we buy from in the bars, we havent had a bad one yet, or cd's.
Tink
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yes that's him Tinx, drives around on his moped most evenings
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This year I vowed not to buy any as they were so hit and miss but i couldn't resiste Harry Potter but it has stopped half way through!
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why buy on holiday when you can get them for the same price here in the UK
Ron
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Have you tried them on a PC, pc dvd software is better than DVD players. I can burn a dvd and it not work on anything but my PC.
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I always fall asleep half way through a film anyway so it sorta doesnt matter with me he he :)
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We bought a fair few this holiday and all of them play. The only problem with a few of them is that you can't turn the turkish subtitles off which you can with most of the others.
But they're fine for 2YTL!
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Originally posted by legless
why buy on holiday when you can get them for the same price here in the UK
Ron
You can buy the latest DVD's in the UK for less than 2 quid :o?
Always buy ours from the guy who comes around the Cafe Pazzar Sunday afternoon, one or two have died on us but he's always happy to exchange if there is a problem.
The quality of the DVD's do tend to vary though. The newer titles are either knock offs of preview DVD's so the quality is excelent, but you get the message "preview copy not for public viewing blah, blah" coming up, or are the "filmed by a man in the local cinema on his digicam" sort. The quality and sound on these being generaly poor and is also the reason they have Turkish subtitles that you can't turn off mentioned above:D.
Most of the "older" ie over a year old, DVD's in my experience have always been copies of original disks so always excelent.
That said, video piracy is a crime and you should not support it! :) :)
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you tried copying from a pc there are plenty of sites for dvds.
Ron
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I think you will find that the copies that Hassan sells are on DVD,discs,whereas the others are copied onto CD's, which compresses the copied info.Technical eh?
Gordy.
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:o Me download, only just discovered where the hole is, never mind what to do with it, ;)
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LOL Laffa are you on topic or off? (http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/travesmilies/smilie_peinlich.gif)
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Aahh Gorgeous, just realised what I said, I meant the slot on the box part, oh s--t, I am digging myself a bigger hole here, See, done it again.
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Only bought 'pirate' CDs and DVDs once in Calis, from a man in Joseph's Bar. Possibly Hassan, he arrived on a motor scooter with a catalogue of titles, took orders then rode off returning later with the orders. To me he resembled the actor who played the Russian factory ship Captain in the film Local Hero. If this is Hassan then I would not use him again unless I could check the goods before returning home. On that occasion I paid for blank CDs, CDs of very poor quality and missing tracks, DVDs that were absolute rubbish, pastel colours, blurred images, and on some unintelligible soundtrack, on others background noise that blanked out the soundtrack and in a few cases the outline of people rising and leaving their seats in the cinema where the copy had been made. Really not worth the bother when new films, a few weeks after issue are available to buy,rent or hire in the UK at reasonable cost.
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[^] John we had all of the same problems with the ones we bought, thats why I asked if it could be the dvd player itself.but they were the same when we got home on 3 different machines. ;)
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I also bought some DVD's from a person in Joseph's bar,a few years ago.This person fits the one John H described.When my wife and I returned to the UK,we played the DVD's and found them to be unwatchable because of the poor picture quality and sound interference.I will stick to buying DVD's in the UK in future.
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You get what you pay for kids.
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I can't believe you're all happily discussing what essentially amounts to theft!
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I dont support Piracy of movies but I dont agree with the absurd prices of the cinemas. I only download DVD Screens and then buy the real DVD when it comes out. The only problem is, sometimes I watch foreign films from Japan which are hard to get hold of in the UK.
Movie piracy is very easy to do which means more people do it, but you should always buy the real DVD!
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8) Think most of us have tried the dvd's especially when you want a night in, I will be taking some over with me next time,there cheap enough here now, Mr Laffa bought some in the pub last night, and one of them was an Everton one, called pre season 2007 or something daft, it probably lasts all of 2 minutes,:P
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Is it the same guy who has a shop a few doors away from Josephs ? We bought 20 DVD's off him as we wanted to use up the last of our Lira and every single one was very good. They all played fine when we got home.
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I have never bought a pirate DVD or CD.
Crabbit
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The DVD's you buy in Calis can be hot or miss, theyre either very good, or complete rubish.