With the price of HD-DVD approaching $100.00 with all these promotions, how soon before we see free HD-DVD with a contract to buy 10 HD-DVDs in 12 months. Early cancellation will cost you $200.00

What about buy 10 HD-DVDs get an HD-DVD player for free.

With the price of HD-DVD approaching $100.00 with all these promotions, how soon before we see free HD-DVD with a contract to buy 10 HD-DVDs in 12 months. Early cancellation will cost you $200.00

What about buy 10 HD-DVDs get an HD-DVD player for free.

Wish they had done this to start with..I would be up to about 18 players already :)

With the price of HD-DVD approaching $100.00 with all these promotions, how soon before we see free HD-DVD with a contract to buy 10 HD-DVDs in 12 months. Early cancellation will cost you $200.00

What about buy 10 HD-DVDs get an HD-DVD player for free.

Arent they already doing this?

Last week I bought
Heroes HD-DVD, with KONG and 5 free movies(MIR) for $180, The total MSRP of those discs are $225.

Not only that, I got two free Box Sets... valued up to $200. Thats $425 worth of movies and $180 HDDVD add on($600 total value), all for $180.

Arent they already doing this?

Last week I bought
Heroes HD-DVD, with KONG and 5 free movies(MIR) for $180, The total MSRP of those discs are $225.

Not only that, I got two free Box Sets... valued up to $200. Thats $425 worth of movies and $180 HDDVD add on($600 total value), all for $180.
But you have to buy an xbox 360 to utilize the player, and it is arguably the lowest quality HD DVD player, and you will likely be with out the player for several weeks every time you get the Red Ring of Death.

I guess you get what you pay for.

At least the movie part was a good deal.

Yes - the current deals pretty much give you a free player for the price of 7 movies.

This is TRULY the right time to buy!!

With the price of HD-DVD approaching $100.00 with all these promotions

With the price of a PS3 blu-ray player at $399 how much do you caculate that gamers are paying for just the blu-ray player?

If you value the PS3 itself as a game player and multi-media machine at just $299 then can you argue that Sony is selling gamers and other would be PS3 consumers the blu-ray player for < $100?

If the PS3 as a just a gaming/multi-media machine is compared in price/value to a similar 360 such as the elite (more hdd, no wireless) you could say that Sony is coming closer to giving away blu-ray players than Toshiba is yet to giving away hd dvd players.

The big difference with the Toshiba is that they don't have it packaged with a Trojan horse which is both a weakness in not being able to 'sneak' players into homes and strength in being able to separate the cost of the player for a lower overall price.

But you have to buy an xbox 360 to utilize the player, and it is arguably the lowest quality HD DVD player, and you will likely be with out the player for several weeks every time you get the Red Ring of Death.

I guess you get what you pay for.

At least the movie part was a good deal.

Glad you said 'arguably'.

Not for everyone. 3 360's and now 2 hd dvd drives (thanks BB for the boxsets) no RRD yet in going on 2 years.

I intend to get a standalone hd dvd but as I see it it will have to be a very good one to make it worth the extra investment. A low end standalone offers only the losseless over max DTS or DD or WMA Pro or stereo PCM (assuming it's on an hdmi receiver that handles the 5.1 PCM). (I'd also want the option to get the lossless in bitstream and but then again I like hearing my button noises sometimes thank you :-) )

I do like a few conveniences of the addon vs. a standalone player,

-using one connection instead of two,
-smaller footprint than a full player,
-convenience of having other functions (streaming media, downloads, an already loaded game or dvd disk and games on hdd) at your fingertips on the same already-turned-on device,
0regular player updates to the complete base of 360 players
-and from what I have seen better handling of interactivity, loading and response times than some standalone players.

I'll add a standlone but even though I have PS3 and a Pio Elite with hdmi 1.3 I don't see it as a slam dunk right now for any standalone over the addon. MS/Toshiba need to get that price down to PS3 blu-ray player range though (< $100).

With the price of HD-DVD approaching $100.00 with all these promotions, how soon before we see free HD-DVD with a contract to buy 10 HD-DVDs in 12 months. Early cancellation will cost you $200.00

What about buy 10 HD-DVDs get an HD-DVD player for free.

I'd say, about 8-10 years.

But you have to buy an xbox 360 to utilize the player, and it is arguably the lowest quality HD DVD player, and you will likely be with out the player for several weeks every time you get the Red Ring of Death.

I guess you get what you pay for.

At least the movie part was a good deal.

Yeah, no 360 for me. But the drive actually has generated a lot of interest on craigslist. Hopefully, I can get someone to commit to buy it. People have been making offers. When I take it... no response back? weird.

Yes - the current deals pretty much give you a free player for the price of 7 movies.

This is TRULY the right time to buy!!

True. To me any BD exlucise movie lover would be a fool for not going dual format. I would say the same about any HD DVD exlcusive if BD players were $169.

True. To me any BD exlucise movie lover would be a fool for not going dual format. I would say the same about any HD DVD exlcusive if BD players were $169.

If there was a BD player that was fully compliant priced at $169 . . I would be the first one in line to buy one. Guaranteed.

Lawrence of Arabia
The Professionals
The Man With No Name Trilogy
The Guns Of Navarrone
West Side Story

Just to name a few of the movies I love.

Theres never going to be a contract. That is a terrible idea. More likely is prices will continue to get better (ie. cheaper) and more movies / rebates will be bundled. Win for consumers, uncomplicated, and already established.

True. To me any BD exlucise movie lover would be a fool for not going dual format. I would say the same about any HD DVD exlcusive if BD players were $169.
Simply being cheap isn't an absolute incentive to adopt a format. Its still $169, no matter how many free movies come with it.

So for BD owners only . . skip the purchase of your next 6 movies and get one of these. If you are already a Netflix or BBI customer - you can rent movies until you can refill the coffers that the $169 sets you back. My monthly CBL/IP bill is $130.00!

With the price of HD-DVD approaching $100.00 with all these promotions, how soon before we see free HD-DVD with a contract to buy 10 HD-DVDs in 12 months. Early cancellation will cost you $200.00



I wouldn't like it. It sounds a bit like blackmail/extortion/or whatever the word is. "We'll give you this player but you MUST buy 10 HD-DVDs within 12 months or else you'll have to give us $200".

Besides, I already have a HD-DVD player, but I'd feel the same about another (eg. better) HD-DVD player or dual format or Blu-ray.

I'd much rather have a reasonably priced player that was mine to own that I could buy discs for as and when I wanted to, without being forced to buy them because if I didn't I'd have to pay someone hundreds of dollars.


What about buy 10 HD-DVDs get an HD-DVD player for free.
I've already got a HD-DVD player so that wouldn't work for me (unless the player was a lot better). But I wouldn't mind something similar (eg. buy a player and get 5 discs free).

I wouldn't be surprised if someone came out with a Buy 5 movies get an A2 free + 5 free movies by mail + Heroes.