Call me a late starter. I've just got into The Sopranos, and have almost finished watching Season 1 on DVD. This is an expensive habit. Rentals offer just two episodes per disc (rented individually) and a collected season costs $NZ99 retail. Ignoring some extremely cheap "Chinese new" Sopranos discs on TradeMe (what's that about?), I headed for Amazon.com where Season 2 was selling for $US49. With the Kiwi cresting over 80 cents to the greenback and shipping cheap (I bought a couple of books while I was at it), it was a no-brainer to ignore Whitcoulls in favour of Amazon.

Now I'm in a sweat because although I have a multi-zone DVD player, Amazon.com threw up a warning saying my just-purchased discs have "enhanced Region coding and may not play in mulit-region players". Stay tuned to see how that one goes.

In October PC World we're going to be looking at the prices of hardware and software here and overseas, and check out if savings from the high dollar are being passed on. If there are any examples praying on your mind, leave a comment below.