Chinese DVD

Ok, we have bought our fair share of DVDs over here. There are stores selling your standard legal copies, or so we presume, for what equates to around 6-8 USD, and then there are the hidden stores where we are certain that they are copies. These knock-off copies sell for around 1-2 USD.

In our time here we have also bought one or two of these cheap copies. When we do, we always ask at the store "好 / 不好" which translates to "Good / No good" This works well, and they will take movies from you telling you that they are no good. Why they stock movies they don't sell is beyond us, maybe to make us feel better when they sell us the good movies.

Last night we watched a bad copy. We had a copy of Jarhead, but when we put it in the only thing that opened was a screen showing chapters, just like opening your computer directory. Ok, we figured that out, but thought the movie it would stop for a second then play on. Three times it hiccuped and returned to the menu screen....

But we got through it, and tomorrow the plan is to take it back to the store, hand it to them and simply state "不好"