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Price drops are expected and they happen, this is not a new strategy and has been done for years.

By your logic, it is safe to say that Sony is desperately trying to scramble out of a hole by selling a 40GB PS3 when they denied its existence.

Oh wait, hold the presses. I'm sorry. Seven, not five, movies. How could I be so naive?

Please explain to me how this is any different than the five Blu-Ray movies that were being given away when one purchased a Blu-Ray player? If I'm not mistaken, this was done first with Blu-Ray movies.

Blu players haven't dropped almost 300% in price in the last month..

Also, the units are not in store, at least local to me. You can order them via website then have them shipped local. However, it won't matter as they aren't in stock online either.

100% speculation. No doubt. I'm just thinking out loud. But it seems like a logical thing that might've happened.

Take a look at this article from April and tell me that the deal wasn't made in advance..

http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1683

This is about Walmart and the $99 HD-DVD player. What you are selling us is that Warner is going exclusive to HD-DVD. It's not the case right now, Warner did not say anything about this.

The way I see this, it's a special only good for the A-2 that is being sold-out since the A-3 is here. Their is only Sears with the black friday sale that is selling the A-3 for a nice (but higher) price. When the A-2 is gone, all price will go back to normal. Nothing new, it's a fire sale of something old to make space for something new.

And again, all those hot sale are only good for the US. This kind of deal is not worldwide. It's nice, but it's not THAT NICE to go on and say that HD-DVD is winning the war.

Boz, i'm all for HD-DVD, but you are over the top bias and overly excited.

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Ordered one of the ones from BestBuy yesterday and got 300 and The Departed for free. The truth of the matter is if Blu-Ray doesnt have a $100 player soon, it won't win. $100 for a player is unreal, and I wouldn't have gotten one for even $200. $100 with 7 free movies is worth the risk for me

Ordered one of the ones from BestBuy yesterday and got 300 and The Departed for free. The truth of the matter is if Blu-Ray doesnt have a $100 player soon, it won't win. $100 for a player is unreal, and I wouldn't have gotten one for even $200. $100 with 7 free movies is worth the risk for me

Exactly. I was going to wait until we had a clear outcome, but at $100 there's extremely little risk if you ask me, even on my working college student budget. I picked mine up at Wal-mart this morning.

More deals.. phew can't keep up..

OKAY!

- BEST BUY now offers $199 HD-A3 player + 3 in store movies + 2 movies included with the player + 5 mail in movies

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?sk...d=1186003898783

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- BEST BUY WEEKLY AD also has that whoever is in to buy an HD TV can get awesome deal on A3. For any Toshiba 42" HDTV + HD-A3 HD DVD player you will get instant price cut of $200 at checkout + 10 free movies. So you end up paying $99 for HD-A3.. WOWZA!!!!!

http://bestbuy.shoplocal.com/bestbuy/defau...rvid%3d110407BA

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