12-15-2003, 06:10 AM
The main reason than HK rips are so good is because for the most part, they bought the R1's and just copied them- this is a no brainer. Its not hard to copy dvds ( maybe for you and me- to a certain extent) the equipment is relatively cheap compared to other industrial equipment, and the number of copies they run. would blow your socks off-they also make the boxes and labels for practically nothing ( very cheap labor in China ) from what Ive heard it costs in the US around 50 cents to manufacture a DVD, screen it, put in the label, seal it and shrink wrap it. I bet in Honk kong they can do this for about a third of what it costs over here. Im even starting to see on DVDs other countries names on the inner laser coding on many of my R1 DVD's.