Questions about imports

[-spike-]

Hi, Im new here. I see some of these amazing prices for some of my favorute animes out there and am really looking forward to buying some (especially if it only costs this much).

I was just wondering if someone would explain to me about these import dvds. Do they have region encoding? Will I need to mod my dvd player in order to view them? (I have a region 1 player). Is it legal to get imports from hong kong, or is it all under the table? Are they the same quality as normal dvds?

Any other info I should know thats not on this list would be appreciated as well, thanks!

First, the dvds have region code 0 so they work on pretty much any dvd player. Second, they are not exactually legal and not exactually illegal. Others can explain it better than I can. Some are almost the same quality as R1's, while others are worse. Read the dvd reviews to find out.