Hi Bill - I brought about 50 DVD's back from China last year without any problem so your brother should be fine. One thing to keep in mind is that regardless of what the packaging on the DVD says you may or may not get the same thing inside! e.g. one of the movies (Chicago, I believe) was dubbed with a different movies sound track, another (Jackie Chan's medallion) was in still in Chinese with English sub-titles but the sub-titles were not from the movie we were trying to watch (It looked like the sub-titles belonged to Pirates of the Caribbean quite funny overall although a tad annoying - then again what do you expect for a buck a piece! :-)