Comments on: Why You Shouldn’t Bring DVDs To Singapore

By: Johnson

Johnson — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:40:42 +0000

You can leave your sense of reason and logic when going into a chinese country. They go by rules, not reason – except for HK which was formerly a british colony. Singapore was once a multicultural country, and then, they censored all thought and difference. There’s more money to be made from rule-abiding chinese citizens than thinking ones.

By: brtw

brtw — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:47:05 +0000

I shipped my whole collection from the UK with no problems. About 50 box sets, and about 300 “backed up” copies. All labelled in the shipment DVD’s.

I guess I was lucky?

By: Cleggy

Cleggy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:04:21 +0000

Nino, believe me, I’m not taking some local’s job. I’m here, like many expats, because locals don’t have the skills to do my job. Oh, and before you blub, any major city in the world has expats of many nationalities doing jobs – it’s a by-product of a global economy and people who think otherwise need to grow up.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:15:59 +0000

Good topic to blog about. Why do people buy DVDs in first place when you can always rent what you want !!..

enjoy
Sandeep

By: Nino

Nino — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:19:09 +0000

I really wonder why you would want to bring so many DVD to a foreign country. Imagine a Singaporean bringing that many DVDs to Germany. Wouldn’t your customs think he wants to sell counterfiet DVDs later? Plus you need to do some research on where you go and what kind of society there is. Don’t expect that everywhere there’s an open society like in Europe. I stayed in Singapore, too and I think, while in Rome, do like Romans do. I just don’t get people who go to a forein country and later complain how the system works there. You’re making money, taking some local’s job, you should be happy about that.

By: kaike

kaike — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:56:14 +0000

I guess I really will just take about 100-200 DVDs with me… and most of them without the cases. About ripping the movies, I guess this would just take too much time, so I will see what I’m going to do. Or I’ll hide the “bad” movies in the cases of the “normal” ones ;-).

By: admin

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:21:29 +0000

Oh dear, criterions, 1000 DVDs, doesn’t sound too good :)
As you can see I had the same problem, try to break your collection down to maybe 100 favorites and then bring them over without the cases..or rip them on your PC harddrive

By: kaike

kaike — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:50:48 +0000

Oh boy… I ‘m going to move to singapore in may and was actually planning to bring at least some of my over 1000 DVDs with me… I guess I can forget that since I’m pretty sure a lot of them will be considered “bad” for me (I guess I have to leave most of my Anchor Bays, but maybe I can get my Criterions through customs…).

By: den

den — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:02:51 +0000

how about bringing some review materials(intended for exam) in e-book format,is this not allowed too?

By: tom

tom — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:00:39 +0000

rip them all into hard disk and convert to divx/avi if you want to save space then keep the dvds at home… and oh, encrypt the drive.