[EcPercy]

Who took advantage of the HD DVD specials this weekend? I am curious if we could start a poll with this question.

I bought a Toshiba HD-A3 at best buy this weekend for $199. They had a deal where you got 10 movies free.

I got the following movies with the purchase:

300
The Bourne Identity
Casino
The Last Samurai
Shooter

I will get the following via mail:

Babel
Pitch Black
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Firewall
Troy

I saw that wal-mart had the older model HD-A2 for $98 and there were other insane deals at other retailers.

Please keep the comments civil. I know there are pro's and con's to BD and HD DVD, but this thread is about the HD DVD player sales from the past weekend.

[Da_Jewish_Fonzy]

HOLY CRAP! Thats an insane deal! Do you know if there is anything like that happening in Canada at the moment?...Jesus 10 movies and a deck for 2 bills? Smokin. Nice buy.

[thunderclap]

I'm still holding off because I think Blu-Ray will come out the winner. I may be wrong but with my luck if I bought either it would end up losing the HD war and I'd be screwed.

[EcPercy]

Originally Posted by thunderclap

I'm still holding off because I think Blu-Ray will come out the winner. I may be wrong but with my luck if I bought either it would end up losing the HD war and I'd be screwed.

From all of the reviews I have seen on High Def Digest. Pretty much every movie looks exactly the same when compared between Blu-Ray and HD DVD. I guess you just have to decide if you want to pay more or less money. HD DVD for $199 or the cheapest Blu-Ray at $399. If you compare the walmart deal HD DVD at $98 and the cheapest Blu-Ray at $399.

The price is one of the main things that made me decide to go with HD DVD. There are some other factors too. One being that the HD DVD format is already finalized and all of their hardware offers the same features.

The hardware is a huge turn off when it comes to Blu-Ray. With profile 1.1 players and discs coming and the fact that the newer profile actually adds hardware that the older players don't have makes me think that Sony's business model involves having you buy 3-4 players. I have also read that with profile 1.1 the ethernet port is still not a requirement so you miss out again on interactive downloadable content. With profile 2.0 Blu-Ray will have the same features as HD DVD. Then there is the rumor of a profile 3.0 that I keep hearing about.

[Judas]

apparently not available in canada... from where i've looked around

[ChaosMinionX]

I didnt, I want to see HD DVD go under

[EcPercy]

Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

I didnt, I want to see HD DVD go under

I don't think we have to worry about that. Some sales numbers are coming in and right now it's looking like more than 90,000 HD DVD players were sold from Friday to Sunday. (This number is a lot higher than I expected)

HD DVD set-top player $99 sales moves units - 11/6/2007 - Video Business

[ChaosMinionX]

Originally Posted by EcPercy

I don't think we have to worry about that. Some sales numbers are coming in and right now it's looking like more than 90,000 HD DVD players were sold from Friday to Sunday. (This number is a lot higher than I expected)

HD DVD set-top player $99 sales moves units - 11/6/2007 - Video Business

Good sales on that, but I dont know if HD-DVD is going to be able to topple Blu-ray since PS3 is in the millions, and is a fully functional player of Blu-ray. Boys pushin for HD-DVD should have thrown some cash M$ way to coax them to make X360 natively play HD-DVD's without having to spend an extra $100 to buy the external player to play them.

I mean what really is there not to like about Blu-ray? It holds way more than an HD-DVD can, not to mention the only things HD-DVD has been boasting is some garbage special features.

[niceguyrichy]

that's some crazy prices.
why in the hell do we not get deals like that in the UK

[thunderclap]

Originally Posted by EcPercy

I guess you just have to decide if you want to pay more or less money. HD DVD for $199 or the cheapest Blu-Ray at $399. If you compare the walmart deal HD DVD at $98 and the cheapest Blu-Ray at $399.

If it's a choice between spending $399 for a Blu-Ray player or $98 for an HD-DVD player from WALMART, I'll spend the $399. I hate Walmart and their business practice and refuse to buy anything from them.

[EcPercy]

Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

Good sales on that, but I dont know if HD-DVD is going to be able to topple Blu-ray since PS3 is in the millions, and is a fully functional player of Blu-ray. Boys pushin for HD-DVD should have thrown some cash M$ way to coax them to make X360 natively play HD-DVD's without having to spend an extra $100 to buy the external player to play them.

I mean what really is there not to like about Blu-ray? It holds way more than an HD-DVD can, not to mention the only things HD-DVD has been boasting is some garbage special features.

Is that all. You do realize that there is now a 3 layer HD DVD that holds 51GB? Space is not what will win the format war. You failed to speak on how Sony is still working to finalize the disc format and hardware.

It doesn't matter. I don't think that either format will go anywhere, but I will continue to support HD DVD.

Originally Posted by thunderclap

If it's a choice between spending $399 for a Blu-Ray player or $98 for an HD-DVD player from WALMART, I'll spend the $399. I hate Walmart and their business practice and refuse to buy anything from them.

That's fine. I didn't buy mine at walmart either. In fact all the walmart sale did was make everyone around drop their prices so you had $99 players at: BestBuy, Target, Circuit City, and Amazon. (To name a few)

[Judas]

how bout i buy neither and actually purchase the LG DVD-DL-RW with BR/HD-DVD reading capabilities for $299 and then i can slap it in my computer and watch it in all it's glory

[Erroneus]

I hate you guys and your prices on hardware / games / tech and so on!

I would have gone for the A3 deal, thats for sure.