Sheppard Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Price drop of HD DVD players as well as 7 free movies at $20 a peice thats a lot of money lost just to try and get the upper hand? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588962434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathachew Veteran Posted November 1, 2007 Veteran Share Posted November 1, 2007 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? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588962438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kak Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588962620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruckWEB Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 (edited) 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. Edited November 1, 2007 by TruckWEB Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588962883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kak Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Wow, someone else noticed it too. I may be picking up an A2 just to have one if HD-DVD wins the format war. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588963470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJediMedia Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Not going to start another thread, but a TONS of HD DVD movies going to be just $15 too!!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588963533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 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 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588964355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razorwing Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I'm still going to wait.. you know just in case. But this battle is ending soon. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588964792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amr_01 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Neither Best Buy or Circuit City offer the Toshiba HD-A2 on their sites. Both now have the HD-A3 for $199 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588964871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapixels Veteran Posted November 2, 2007 Veteran Share Posted November 2, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588964875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kak Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Weird that you guys can't find them. My mom picked up three for gifts today. She got her last one at like 2pm. Needless to say, I'll have one sitting in my room soon enough. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588965249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFlow Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Wow very interesting! Thanks for this. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588965256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Couldn't sleep, so I'm watching 300 on my dad's 55" 1080i tv. Its friggin sweet! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588966674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boz Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 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 - 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 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/597793-best-hd-dvd-player-deals/page/3/#findComment-588973206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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