I just received Jekyll in my latest .uk order.

It's an amazingly good show. Recommend blind buy.

It was great, but that ending. . .I don't know.

Just ordered the other night:

"Laurel & Hardy - The Collection (21-disc Box Set) [DVD] [1918]"
Stan Laurel; DVD; £30.42

"The Quatermass Collection - The Quatermass Experiment / Quatermass 2 / Quatermass And The Pit [DVD]"
Reginald Tate; DVD; £9.63

Prices are without the VAT. Anybody here used the Amazon Currency Converter? I've not seen that offered before.

Could someone tell me what this "PQ" mentioned on the last page is?

I think they were referring to the picture quality of the particular dvd.

Fantastic price for an excellent set!

For Claude Chabrol fans, the 8 disc collection (first set) is currently on for £17.98 (£15.63 after VAT removal): http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000EMTJQA

I tried it. My bank posted the exact amount Amazon charged in US dollars thus avoiding any foreign transaction fees. However, the exchange rate was higher than the XE converter. Next order, I let my bank do the math and came out a couple bucks better than the amount Amazon would have charged, even with the 1% bank fee. I guess any advantage depends on what sort of fees your bank charges and what the exchange rate is doing. Amazon locks it in at the moment of purchase and I suppose that is reassuring to some.

I did the same as you but my bank charges %2 percent so then the difference becomes less significant, I think I'm going to let amazon charge un US$ that way I don't have 2 transactions show up on my account. one for the order and one for the 2%

Do all banks charge a currency charge? I use a Greendot Mastercard that I transfer paypal money into, and I haven't seen any seperate charges. Would the fee always be a seperate charge or could it be included in the total it shows to Amazon?

Regarding Smiley's People and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: picture quality is very good on the R2 versions considering the 16mm source. I certainly didn't see blockiness when I saw them. The latter has rather short episodes, some of them lasting less than 40 minutes each, so "cramming" under three hours onto one disc doesn't look all that bad ;-)

Sorry Easy, but it wasn't obvious to me, as I do not subscribe to Netflix.
Fwiw, I did find the thread on HTF that goes into all this (see especially post #56).

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...spy-dvd-2.html

I tried it and saw that it was a few buck over XE and went with it anyway. It's probably a wash for me. I think my card is 2 or 3% in exchanges. I miss the old days when there was no charge.

Well... that poster describes the R2 as "marginally superior" which in my view would still be pretty bad. They don't tempt me at all but if you are interested the good news is they are cheap. Personally, I'll hold out for a nice restoration and English subtitles.

The R2 versions are cleaned up and have English subtitles...

almost every bank and credit card in the US is charging it now. mine varies from 1% to 2% depending what card I use. and for all my cards and bank they show up as 2 transactions. besides it doesn't mean that the banks or credit card companies don't have their own exchange rate that they use so it might not match xe. that's the other reason I went with it.

I'm waiting for blu... I understand the restoration of Pride and Prejudice from 16mm is beautiful. That I will order today. Nice to know the R2 has subs... so many R2 sets don't.

Check around, because the R1 Blu-Ray is out now. Prices may be lower here.

So is this 15% off anything on their site? Even the marketplace?

What 15% off are you referring to?

This VAT that everyone is talking about.

Oh okay. I didn't know it was 15%. It's taken off everything sold by Amazon.co.uk. If sold by anyone else the price stays the same.

No problems here. Not had to wait more than 3 days. Dont know why things would be slow at the moment. Christmas is over and the recession is biting hard. You would think that they have got less work to do now so shipping should be quicker.

Just came across the Russ Meyer set for £39.47. 18 movies on 12 discs that's 61% off from the normal price. I've been watching the price on this on for a while, so yay for me!

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/internation...amazon-uk.html

I just ordered and with the VAT taken off, the price for the Meyer set was £34.32 or $50 USD. Great deal!

I recommend the Quatermass Trilogy box set for about 9 pounds, it's two full series and the surviving episodes of the first series, it's about 13 hours of episodes, plus a great documentary on Nigel Neil that runs about an hour.