Amazon doubles minimum spend for free delivery - now £20

I'm more amazed its taken them this long to do something like this. its crazy what they do if you think about it. also, surely its going to save people buying very small amounts instead of being lazy and going to get it on foot. must save quite a bit of packaging and all the carbon footprint etc
 
snowdog said:
That depends on the compression, you can easily get 1:1 copies of bluray online. It's not very popular though as most people will not see the difference in quality, for me persoanlly 720p is good enough ( though I can see the difference with 1080p slightly), and I don't care about DTS-HD or Dolby-HD, the neighbours complain if I turn my receivers volume up to the levels where the quality would be noticeable and I'm watching on an old-ish 32'' TV.

I can't personally see any difference between MPEG-4 AVC @ 40+ gb per film and and a 20gb or even just 10gb x264 compressed film.
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And then there's others that care about the quality of the video and audio. Shocking I know. :rolleyes:

HMV could be onto a winner here if they can make their prices to be slightly under Amazon's (+ delivery) for a single bluray.
 
Nismo said:
Prime is a bargain for me considering I get it at student prices due to having an academic email. It's worth it just for the Sunday delivery option, let alone standard next day and video streaming.
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yeah...Because god knows, the students are the one that have it rough in this country, right?
 
Oh well that's most of the stuff I usually buy from Amazon getting sourced from elsewhere. Prime is ok if you shop with them a lot but it just didn't work for me. I ordered several items, all in stock, fulfilled by Amazon and eligible for quick delivery and most took 3 days to get to me and a couple took over a week. Why would I pay for a crap service like that.

As for blu-rays, I want the quality you get from a disk which is the same reason why I still buy cd's. A 10GB download here would take several hours anyway.
 
Part of using amazon for me is the convenience and tbh I will probably end up going else where. I recently bought some goretex spray for £8. Under the minimum spend but they wanted £6 for delivery so i bought some pens to take it over £10.

If free delivery was £20 I would have gone elsewhere.
 
bliss said:
And then there's others that care about the quality of the video and audio. Shocking I know. :rolleyes:

HMV could be onto a winner here if they can make their prices to be slightly under Amazon's (+ delivery) for a single bluray.
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So use the bluray-full (REMUX) in the original AVC and DTS-HD codecs instead of the BDrip, just like I said in my last post ? Which is exactly the same quality, it's 1:1 copy of bluray, just put into a different container and stripped of the nonsense ( menu, piracy warning, etc) ? The quality of a download is identical to the optical if you want it to be. Without the hassle of waiting, physical media, etc...

The only disadvantages are potentially if you have rubbish internet, and the stance/policy of publishers/the industry, who are stuck 2 decades back in time. There is no need for physical media these days, or at least not optical media.
 
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I don't see the problem really, I tend to group up purchases so usually over £20 an order anyway. To be honest I think we had it too good for so long with the free delivery until quite recently anyway.

Only thing that impacts me I suppose is I do occasionally buy CDs for under £20 and I quite like Amazon due to Autorip. Still not enough to warrant the cost of Amazon Student though, although being able to watch Bosch has almost swayed me as I am a big fan of the books.
 
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snowdog said:
So use the bluray-full (REMUX) in the original AVC and DTS-HD codecs instead of the BDrip, just like I said in my last post ? Which is exactly the same quality, it's 1:1 copy of bluray, just put into a different container and stripped of the nonsense ( menu, piracy warning, etc) ? The quality of a download is identical to the optical if you want it to be. Without the hassle of waiting, physical media, etc...

The only disadvantages are potentially if you have rubbish internet, and the stance/policy of publishers/the industry, who are stuck 2 decades back in time. There is no need for physical media these days, or at least not optical media.
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There's technically no need for physical media but still.. Where can I get these? No where without buying the blu ray.

I wish you could just buy the download and store it. But you can't. At least not that I'm aware of. Not without compromise on multiple aspects of quality
 
al4x said:
There's technically no need for physical media but still.. Where can I get these? No where without buying the blu ray.

I wish you could just buy the download and store it. But you can't. At least not that I'm aware of. Not without compromise on multiple aspects of quality
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In places I can't fully name on OcUK, on Spotnet (filter by release group/spotter), on various communities like TL or PP (can't name em, against OcUK's rules :()... But basically any decent private torrent or private usenet community has media in various formats, any popular film that is out on BR is available as a remux too.

Fair enough they are illegal in the UK, they are illegal now in the NL too ( only recently, in january 2014 those meddling imbeciles from the EU forced us to forbid downloading) , but it's being ignored/not enforced on consumers by the govt.

Personally I think the EU can stick their laws up their *** and do whatever I want anyhow, I refuse to conform to idiot politicians, who are sponsored/bribed by the narrow minded entertainment industry stuck in the past. Imho ofc :o:cool:.
 
snowdog said:
So use the bluray-full (REMUX) in the original AVC and DTS-HD codecs instead of the BDrip, just like I said in my last post ? Which is exactly the same quality, it's 1:1 copy of bluray, just put into a different container and stripped of the nonsense ( menu, piracy warning, etc) ? The quality of a download is identical to the optical if you want it to be. Without the hassle of waiting, physical media, etc...

The only disadvantages are potentially if you have rubbish internet, and the stance/policy of publishers/the industry, who are stuck 2 decades back in time. There is no need for physical media these days, or at least not optical media.
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Gonna need some serious storage for all them 1:1 copies. :eek:

I don't collect movies like I did with DVD as I tend to rent most via Amazon's Lovefilm by post, but I still have around 80-90 bluray's (counting TV shows as 1 for simplicity). Even just that amount, if they're all full BD50, is gonna be 4tb+.

I still like physical media. Collect a bit on vinyl too. :)
 
I've found myself using Amazon less since my Prime membership ended. I didn't renew as I wasn't happy with the price rise. I suspect this new rise will mean I''m even less inclined to buy cheap things on impulse.
 
I honestly used Amazon for a lot of the smaller stuff like cable ties and tidys...practical stuff. Looks like I'll be shifting that over to ebay too.
 
There loss (yeh, I know they won't be bothered), my gain. Just this minute ordered something which I normally would have bought from them, looked elsewhere and got the item cheaper and with free postage.
 
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