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Attack of the $1 DVDs

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-the-face! dept.

fm6 writes "The NY Times has an interesting piece on DVDs that sell for one or two bucks. Not all of them are crap -- apparently a lot of good movies never got copyrighted properly. But there's no silent movies ('not mass market'), or movies that aren't 'family friendly.' Here's what I find really interesting: none of the DVD companies mentioned in the article sell online -- it's all through discount bins in supermarkets and drug stores."

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  1. $1 for a DVD by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yet, I believe you'd find half of Slashdot gripe, and ask for the bittorent...

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    1. Re:$1 for a DVD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Great way to rebut somebody's argument... resort to insults instead of addressing the point. What, are you ten years old or something?

  2. Kun Fu Fighting! by Malicious · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's so True! Bruce Li could kick some serious ass! And Bruce J Lee? He was a MACHINE. Then there's Bruce Lei, that guy knew his way around a pair of nunchucks I tell you.

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  3. Re:They're public domain by nkh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Public domain? Not really, most $1 DVDs I've seen are very-very-cheap horror movies or action movies with "fake" movie stars (for example some guy who looks like Stallone even if you know he's not the real one). Most of these movies have just failed to be shown in the theaters due to a story 10 times more boring than the usual "Arnold".

    The funny thing is that today, in those discount bins, I've found the movie 1984! I was looking forward to seeing if the adaptation from the book was good :)

  4. Re:Knockoff/Ripoff by schon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have watched "Young Van Helsing" which had nothing but a title including Van Helsing going for it. The plot was weak, the dialogue was weak, and the acting was... (take a wild guess)

    And this differed from the Hugh Jackman movie how? :o)

  5. Re:All soundtracks are copyrighted by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 2, Funny

    > It's trivial to make an uncopyrighted silent soundtrack for a DVD.

    You try telling the John Cage estate that...

  6. Re:They're public domain by rjrjr · · Score: 3, Funny

    How was the quality of the 1984 DVD?

  7. Re:Feist v. Rural by trentblase · · Score: 2, Funny
    implies unfamiliarity with copyright statutes and case law

    Not even. It implies that the person didn't know how to spell "copyright" in the first place. "Copywritten" would be a derivative of "copywrite", which is just stupid.

  8. Robocop catch phrase Soooo appropriate by Danathar · · Score: 3, Funny

    As soon as I saw the headline for the article...the FIRST thing that popped into my mind was that stupid phrase from the First Robocop movie that I could'nt get out of my head....

    Damn IT slashdot!

    "I'll buy THAT for a dollar!"