Best Places for Buying 4K Discs?

AngusD on 25/03/2025 - 11:40

Given the number of movies on physical 4K disc that either get released in Australia very late or at very high prices or not at all, it seems online is the best way to go about ordering them these days. What sites do people recommend for buying these in terms of price, range, shipping times/costs, etc?

Amazon is a bit hit an miss… a lot of the time the 4K discs sold by Amazon themselves won't ship to Australia. They'll either direct you to the Australian site to order it (often at double the price) or, if it's not available in Australia, they just won't sell it to you at all. 3rd party sellers on Amazon sometimes will, but again often at exorbitant prices and often shipping is not included in the free shipping you get with Prime when you buy from Amazon, so you're paying shipping costs, too.

So my question for 4K disc buyers / collectors is: where do you recommend purchasing from? Also, I believe 4K discs are region free - are there any exceptions to this? Or can I be pretty confident that anything I order from overseas will work here?

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Comments

  • BGK on 25/03/2025 - 11:57
    +1

    Recommend waiting a couple years.
    Then they will be priced at 50 cents each at op shops, like DVDs and blurays currently are.

    • AngusD on 25/03/2025 - 12:24
      +3

      Well no, they won't. Because a lot of them aren't being sold here at all, so there will be no 2nd hand ones to end up in op shops.

      • BGK on 25/03/2025 - 12:39

        Not all DVD's or blurays got an Australian release either. 4K discs are already at op shops, just don't see them as much as they are a newer medium.

        Wait a few years and people will donate them just like they have done with all old formats of media when a newer, better format releases.

        • AngusD on 25/03/2025 - 13:18

          Yeah but a lot more got released here than we're seeing with 4K, especially now that Disney (incl Fox) seems to have pulled the plug. The discs getting donated at op shops are mostly ones bought here. And ultimately you're limiting your selection to whatever people have got rid of at whatever time they decide to get rid of it. The whole point of this is to be able to get hold of the movies I want, not just the ones other people don't want anymore.

          It's unlikely there will be a "better" physical format any time soon, if ever. So people are unlikely to be offloading their 4K discs at op shops. The best you can hope for are the stolen ones that meth heads offload at Cash Converters.

  • jv on 25/03/2025 - 11:58

    What sites do people recommend for buying these

    Facebook Marketplace.

  • 7ekn00 on 25/03/2025 - 12:08
    +3

    In Australia I use ezydvd.com.au, JB HiFi and umbrella (https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/)

    Haven't really ventured outside those!

  • Duckie2hh on 25/03/2025 - 12:10

    Salvos

  • pegaxs on 25/03/2025 - 12:22
    +2

    I'm hodling mine in the hope that DVD and Blu-ray will take off like vinyl records have…

    • freefall101 on 25/03/2025 - 15:52

      If it's anything like my collection of CDs, good luck with that. I tried selling my collection from a teenager, I sold two CDs and couldn't even give away the rest of them, took 2 op shops before I found one that would take them.

      The real problem is vinyl enthusiasts stick to their warm tones and analogue playback and whatever else they've convinced themselves of. With optical media data is data. Unless your disk has bitrot (I've had a couple of blurays that have gone that way), there's nothing different about it.

      • pegaxs on 25/03/2025 - 16:28

        Yeah, I had about 150+ DVD movies I put up on a few markets (Fartbook/Scumtree/etc) and only wanted $50 for the lot, and literally couldnt give them away. I went to donate them to the local op shop, and even they didnt want them because they had almost 1,000 of them that they couldnt move. Local library didnt want them or already had a lot of the ones I had.

        I am still convinced that vinyl records are a ponzi scheme though. While, yeah, I like playing records, I certainly wouldnt pay a $50+ premium over a CD just for some random crackles and pops that I could probably remix a mp3 file to replicate.

  • spackbace on 25/03/2025 - 12:29

    NAS + Remux… 😉

    • BGK on 25/03/2025 - 12:45
      -1

      It's amusing seeing people pay for things that are available for free, on a bargain site.

  • ode1online on 25/03/2025 - 12:34
    +5

    collecting 4k is getting more expensive, our weak dollar doesn't help especially if importing.
    A lot of releases eventually come out to Australia,, but can take months to be announced after UK and US releases

    https://www.zavvi.com.au/
    https://outrundvd.com.au/
    https://www.ebay.com.au/str/importcdsau15?_trksid=p4429486.m… (has good bundle pricing sometimes)
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/257542460210886 (good for jbhifi upcoming releases information)

  • Fiximol on 25/03/2025 - 18:12
    +1

    I still just buy from JB or Amazon mostly. I occasionally will look at the Zavvi UK site (but they aren't as good value as they used to be).

    I am now staying away from market place/private sellers for 'new' discs whenever possible. Speaking to the JB staff (who was very apologetic) telling me that they couldn't fulfil my online order because steelbook 4k discs and high value box sets are often stolen made me suspicious of 'new' discs being sold privately. Seems to be a similar situation with buying some lego from marketplaces from sellers who aren't also running store fronts (online or otherwise).

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