This post is totally off-topic now, but still:
I would have said the same thing, only where you said 'good' I'd have said 'expensive'.
If you must buy R1 discs in this day and age, you're typically better off ordering direct from the US or Canada, particularly where you're looking at a merchant who doesn't keep much in stock in the first place. Go to somewhere like
DVD Pacific and you'll typically see a 30% or so reduction from the prices at places like otaku.co.uk. There's a bit more hassle, 'cause you have to wait a little longer to get your DVD and if you order something too expensive you'll have to pay import duty, but it's rare to see a case where the import duty eliminates the saving.
If you want to buy from a UK supplier, I'd usually check
United Publications first. They've had a long-standing 30%-off-list-price thanks to the less-than-stellar value of the US dollar, which helps cut their prices below most UK retailers. They're probably smuggling the discs into the country inside huge cartoon foxes, but hey.
Alternately, if you're looking for the disc as cheap as you can legally get it, then Australia is often a surprisingly good option.
EzyDVD, once described to me as 'The Amazon of Australia', is at least worth checking out. They don't tend to do so well for larger stuff (like the collectors' boxes with the case and so on) 'cause of the shipping costs, but for single DVDs they're usually very competetive. And Australia typically gets anime before the UK as well, because they actually tried showing it on TV once down there.
Still, UK-based retailers are getting better.
Blue123 wrote:BTW, what's the difference bewteen their US and UK anime DVDs? Is it to do with the region and whatnot?
From a technical point of view, generally speaking yes - it's just the region. DVDs are encoded to only play on a DVD player from the same region as the disc. To my eye, DVD regioning is 99% a price-fixing money-grab by corporate bodies who want all the benefits of globalisation and none of the drawbacks, so personally I have absolutely no problem with downloading DVD drive hacks, DVD-player unlock codes and/or software like
VLC which will De-CSS the disc as you play it and allow you to watch DVDs from any region. But some jurisdictions consider it illegal to De-CSS a DVD you legally bought even if you're only doing it in order to play it, and some people might not want the extra effort - so be aware, at least, that while it's far from hard, playing DVDs out-of-region (UK is R2) isn't as straightforward as playing DVDs which are in-region.
However, my thoughts on the moral standing of Universal and co. bear little relation to the anime licensing business, and there are arguably some very good reasons to buy UK versions of anime DVDs.
While
Hollywood Explosionfest XII will be distributed by the same studio in the US as in the UK, Japan, Australia and pretty much any other territory, anime is quite often distributed by a company who deals with only one territory. For example, Geneon Entertainment publishes a lot of very good anime, but they simply don't operate in the UK - they pulled out of the UK media market in 2000 or so back when they were called Pioneer Entertainment. Instead, Geneon titles are licensed by
some other company - often
MVM Entertainment - who distribute Geneon titles solely to the UK. Why does this matter to you? Well, because if everyone in the UK buys R1 DVDs their money is going to Geneon, not MVM. Thus, the sales are counted as US sales, not UK sales (regardless of where you bought it); this validates Geneon's decision to not sell to the UK, and it means MVM find it harder to survive because people are buying US discs instead of the ones they've worked hard to bring to the UK. And it's not just MVM - ADV UK is a separate business unit to ADV US, Manga Entertainment UK is a separate unit to Manga US, and so on. The UK often gets releases later than the US does, sometimes doesn't get titles at all which are published in the US, and part of this is that these UK-specific companies have their sales cannibalised by people importing US discs.
(This, incidentally, is exactly the excuse that the media companies came up with for implementing the regioning system in the first place, and about the only place I can think of where it's justified. MVM paid good hard money for the
exclusive rights to sell particular anime to the UK audience, it's unfair on them to buy from somewhere else.)
So, seriously, I would counsel buying the R2 releases when you can. There's usually not much difference in the content, if any, but you'll be supporting the drive to bring anime to the UK rather than forcing everyone to get their stuff from the US, and help keep UK anime companies from going bust, which is far more likely than you might think. You may have to wait a little longer for the release, but the more people buy stuff in the UK and the less that wait will be.
The other thing to bear in mind is that because the UK is a different market, we actually sometimes get better deals on things than our American cousins, making it worth the wait. For example, I can buy the entire second series of
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig from Amazon for £25 ($50) - if I bought
from Amazon.com, it costs $65.
For a year or so I didn't really find anything to play until I bumped into 
I THINK the game was Dragon Power but don't remember 
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