4/19/2010

The bootleg channel

I was watching a movie on television in Phnom Penh. It finished and the end credits were rolling when it suddenly stopped. After a short commercial I was looking at the menu screen for a DVD movie. It took a second for it to register what I was looking at. It's a broadcast television channel showing DVD movies! Here's a crappy photo of my TV just before the new "Twilight" movie started. You can see the orange cursor on the "play movie" menu option.


Funnier still, they show illegal DVD movies. Some of the movies are bootlegs! One night I watched "Precious", which was still in theaters in the US at the time. Today "Avatar" was on.