My experience with DVD’s in Bali
DVD’s are all over the place in Bali, buy 1 for 10,000rp, buy 100 and get 50 for free. Whatever your budget, watching movies here is cheap.
Last night I went out and picked up the Bourne Supremacy, a movie starring Matt Damon. Back at the house the DVD would not play. This really annoys me, I set everything up, get comfortable, then have to get on my motorbike and go back. Anyway I went back to the shop on Jl. Dhyana Pura and was attacked going into the shop! A pair of arms grabbed me from behind and a voice rumbled something in my ear. It was Ray from Melbourne, who is back for a while with his wife, the lovely Wayan. “Answer your bloody sms’s.” he said.
The people in the shop changed the DVD no worries and I was on my way. The new version worked, although there was one section towards the end where the screen fast forwarded and stopped, the sound and captions kept rolling. I think there is a percentage of disks that just don’t work, and others that have some kind of corrupted data. The player you use also counts. Ika told me sometimes a DVD will work on a laptop, but not on a player, or vice versa.
DVD shops do have a player where you can check your disks. If you have time, skip forward to the second half of the movie, that’s where I find a lot of problems happening.
By the way, for all you who have seen the Bourne Supremacy. I wrote about ‘travelling in Bali as an American’ recently, and talked about attire. In this movie, Matt Damon is living in Goa, India supposedly hiding from people trying to kill him. But check out his attire, short college boy hair, day pack, watch, and the usual t-shirt / shorts combo you’ll see any American college student wearing in Europe. Add to that he’s running on the beach and drinking a bottle of water. I mean, why doesn’t he wave the Stars and Stripes if he’s going to all that trouble?
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Hi Nick,
It is fun to read your article about cheap DVD in Bali. I recommend you to go to DVD shop at Jl. Legian. The shop is close to the Indian Restaurant or “Diving Indonesia”. I think that’s the best one! he..he..good luck!
Was wondering if you could help me, a friend of mine has just come back from Bali with a case to hold DVD’S in. She had lost the business card from the store which sells them. I think they are a great idea and was wondering if you would have any idea of the name of the place as you apparantly get the cases sent over to Australia.
Thanks for your help,
Jodie
hey ali can you send or advertise this guys emaul please as im going there on the 2nd dec and is first time to bali so all help appreciated
hey Ali13t, I had helgi\’s email 2 years ago when I went to Bali but have since lost it. Any chance you still have it?
Helgi is still around but no longer has his shop behind Bubba Gumps. We buy from him and generally get good DVD’s, plus we print off his list before we go and family marks the ones they want brought back. He will collect and deliver. Order enough and they are put in folders as well. Just allow for the weight in your return luggage or your family and friends will eat into your luggage allowance coming back with all their requests! His email address is mcshop_bali#yahoo.com (Replace the # with a @- I just changed that so no program trawling for email addresses for spamming purposes will pick up his email addy here).
Hey Nick I know a guy (and no this is not an advert) that I have got dvds from twice since last year and sent some friends to him as well. He has a shop called MC shop (I think). It has moved to behind Bubba Gump Restaurant near Waterbom Park . Anyway u can email/sms him and he delivers to your hotel/home for free. About 99% of his dvds r perfect and he will tell u if copies are trash. His name is Helgie, I won’t give u his email incase u feelI am trying to sell him but check out his shop if u have a chance one day u may be impressed.
Good luck, always envious of the lifestyle u r leading right now, wish I could live there for a while too.
Have great Euro trip, c u in Bali nxt year
Ali