Where to Buy HDVDs?

We will help you find the best places on the Internet to buy HDVD products that provide a 1080p picture with at least 5.0 high-fidelity sound. At the moment, it appears that only 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.

  • We are partners with Amazon in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. If you benefit from this site and you plan to buy something through the Internet, please order with the links we provide. We will earn a commission (usually about 5%). For pictures of all the HDVDs, try our HDVD Arts Amazon Stores, which have links for every fine-art HDVD disc available---just click on one of the following: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, or France. When you are using our alphabetical list, we give you convenient links to buy the title you want. Finally, when you are reading the factual information and thumbnail reviews, we also give you links for buying.
  • In the U.S., cduniverse at www.cduniverse.com often posts a disc before Amazon gets around to it. So if you are in a hurry, try them. You may want to order from MDT in England (see below) if you are in a hurry or they have a special going.
  • In Europe, a good resource is MTD Mail Order at www.mdt.co.uk. 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. Finally, they are set up, it appears, to deliver all over the world. Another excellent vendor in England is Presto Classical at www.prestoclassical.co.uk. They have a beautiful website with special links for the Blu-ray titles.
  • Opus Arte at www.opusarte.com, harmonia mundi at www.harmoniamundi.com, 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. A resource for this is cdjapan at www.cdjapan.co.jp. Enter "classical blu-ray" in the search box to see what they have. When you buy one of these discs you get a concrete example of why the Japanese are concerned about the "strong yen."