Where to Buy?
We will help you find the best places to buy HDVD products that provide a 1080p picture with at least 5.0 high-fidelity sound. At the moment, it appears that only Blu-ray discs offer this level of quality. We hope to help you locate discs produced anywhere no matter where you live. We now know something about this of interest to folks in the U.S. and Europe. We have little insight as to the resources available to consumers in South America, the East, India, or in Africa. Please let us know if you have information to share about this.
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- In the U.S., cduniverse often posts a disc before Amazon gets around to it. So if you are in a hurry, try them.
- In Europe, a good resource is MDT Mail Order. MDT specializes in classical music. They recognize Blu-ray as an independent product category (see tab at the top of their website), which makes it easy to find what we are interested in. They seem to be agile and get titles up for sale or preorder fast. They have frequent special sale prices which can compete with or beat Amazon. Finally, they are set up, it appears, to deliver all over the world. Another excellent vendor in England is Presto Classical. They have a beautiful website with special links for the Blu-ray titles.
- Opus Arte, harmonia mundi, and other publishers in Europe have their titles for sale on their own websites (usually priced at full retail).
- A few Blu-ray titles of western classical music have been published in Japan for that market. Buying from Japan is quite an adventure for us in the U.S. And when you buy any of these discs you get a concrete example of why the Japanese are concerned about the "strong yen." A resource for this is cdjapan. The best thing about cdjapan is that they have set up their database to be convenient for us. Enter "classical blu-ray" in the search box to see what they have. This list in the past has contained all the fine-art HDVD titles on the market in Japan. Lately we have had good luck with Amazon in Japan. If your Japanese is not so great, look for the "In English" language link - usually this allows us to find what we want. As in other markets, Amazon is competitive. Our purchases from them were shipped fast and securely via FedEx.