Agreed. However, I’m in China having been here so far another three weeks. Some shops now have the blu-ray knock-offs, but I haven’t had chance to check quality. I didn’t check the prices of those blu-ray here yet. Still you can get those blu-ray from Netflix.
I just picked up another DVD player that is region-free on codes. However those DVD players here are rather expensive, about $60 for the cheapest. The region-free DVD models that have the 1080p HDMI outputs are as much as $130.
Prices of EVERYTHING (except DVD’s) in China that I typically buy have gone up far more than the exchange rate has moved over the last three years.
