Where do you get your dramas?

85% of my dramas are bought from the net...
15% are watched on tele...

My VCD collection currently stands at about 25 dramas... :sweat:

Newer dramas....grab from my aunt's shop.
Older dramas....buy OR rent.

it used to be snail mail trades, but more recently thru BT, altho i hardly ever d/l anymore.

Still trading for mine by mail - nearing 50 dramas but replacing bad discs from BT is a hassle. :shakehead:

Buy from da net...but I think it is more fun to hunting Jseries in store u don't know n when u got something special...Feel good ne :mrgreen:

-buy it from shops when they do release some of the latest drama. hoping the negotiations will come through for shops to sell Japanee dramas.

-watch it from Television

-rewatch the old Japanese dramas that I hae bought previously. Recently, I have stock take on the dramas that I have and I found that I bought more than 50 of Japanese dramas that is taking up a lot of space in my room. Thinking to sell them away. Just do not have the time to load them up on the net.

trading - 70%
store - 25%
net - 5%

Normally I buy from stores.....since I like to collect them and have a tendency to re-watch my faves from time to time. Now that Singapore don't really sell j-dramas anymore, I go KL and buy..
Or I just watch on tv.....but I don't download..cos my computer is slow :shakehead:

downloaded from the edonkey network
used to buy from singapore, but now there are only bringing a few dramas.

overnet and us.yesasia.com

atheon wrote:Newer dramas....grab from my aunt's shop.

wow that's soooooooooo cool!.. ur SO lucky! i wish my aunt had a drama shop! that would be awesome!

atheon wrote:Newer dramas....grab from my aunt's shop.
Older dramas....buy OR rent.

hey atheon, you're not related to jdorama member enau, are you? She is from Malaysia (i'm pretty sure) and she has a vid shop as well.

niko2x wrote:hey atheon, you're not related to jdorama member enau, are you? She is from Malaysia (i'm pretty sure) and she has a vid shop as well.

my aunt doesn't use computers.....
and her shop sells lotz of thing, from cd to anime, prepaid card, those figure ( like korn....), lord of the rings necklace ( what? )......, she will sell anything that makes profit..... :sweat: not those "normal" cd shop.....heard that she had a great reputation around her area.....but her shop is smaller than my bedroom....u can see stacks of cds everywhere....

Enna wrote:
Thank you for that info dochira. You and bmwracer are always so helpful to me. As you can see I am not always on top of things on this board. So thank you very much! I don't get any channels here that show these "trendy' dramas. Are you renting the trendy dramas in Japanese with NO English subtitles?

I am going to revive this thread to continue this discussion.

I used to rent the videos from the Japanese rental store. But not so much nowadays. I mainly obtain my dramas via Bittorrent, also with the trades here and there.

dochira wrote:

I am going to revive this thread to continue this discussion.

I used to rent the videos from the Japanese rental store. But not so much nowadays. I mainly obtain my dramas via Bittorrent, also with the trades here and there.

So the question still is....Do these dramas that you are getting from Bittorrent or through trades, come with English subtitles or not?

Enna wrote:

So the question still is....Do these dramas that you are getting from Bittorrent or through trades, come with English subtitles or not?

A little of both. On Bittorrent, dramas are sometimes posted within hours of its original broadcast, therefore RAW, or unsubbed. Occasionally people will translate the episodes and provide subtitles. The ones via trades are usually English subbed, unless someone really wants to have a drama because of a particular actor/actress. Although you will find subbed dramas on Bittorrent.

dochira wrote:
A little of both. On Bittorrent, dramas are sometimes posted within hours of its original broadcast, therefore RAW, or unsubbed. Occasionally people will translate the episodes and provide subtitles. The ones via trades are usually English subbed, unless someone really wants to have a drama because of a particular actor/actress. Although you will find subbed dramas on Bittorrent.

Thank you dochira. You are always so informative and helpful. :applaud:

Till now has been BURUBURU ... and very little trade ...

eltinator, bmwracer and dochira have been all so kind to hook me up with a lot of great stuff!

Thanks guys! :D

I used to get most of my dramas on ebay or traded for them. Now I mostly just trade. And then of course when I need a new fancy boxset there is always YesAsia on ebay. The prices are better. :woot:

There isnt an Asian TV station where I live :shamefulcry: