[gentlebob]

I am researching the possibility of starting an online movie rental service in Hong Kong. I don't know if movieflys.com stopped, and if so, was it because HK couldn't support such a service?

I am wondering if:
-DVD's are so cheap to buy here that nobody rents anyway.
-would expats support a service like this?

thanks.

[hullexile]

It would all depend on price and service so hard to say

[Boris]

It would have tO complete with the bootleg market which is probably why the major movie rental companies are not in every estate. You can get the latest releases from a suitcase near you !

[Sleuth]

Movieflys died and hasn't come back. They were supposed to come back in June, but didn't.
You can buy movies for 7 or 8 HKD across the border; hard to compete with that. But the selection across the border isn't great. The newest movies are questionable in quality (of course, you won't be able to offer those at all) and they do not have older movies. I don't really know where the line is drawn in terms of age and availability. But there might be a niche for you there. And not everyone will cross the border for a DVD. There are some video rental places in HK, so there must be a market.

[erictby]

Find one from magazine.

www.o8Media.com

Don't know their quality.

I always get old movie across the border while I am there for others reason, not purposely go there for DVD. I will bring back 300-500 hours movie or chinese drama, it will spent very very long time to finish it.

New movie always not good quality. Old movie was very cheap. I found one type high compression DVD, in one DVD have 6-20 hours movie. It cost RMB6 per disc. Quality wise, "ok" only, not really DVD9 quality, but I think it was worthy because we only pay less than HKD2 for one movie, what we can expect? I am not looking for collection, just watch for once or twice, then throw away.