99 Universal Studios Titles for $8.99
by Pravin on November 12th, 2008 in shopping.
UPDATE: The sale has been upgraded to $7.99!
Amazon snuck in a sale on 99 Universal Studios titles on us, just in time to order for the big Thanksgiving and Christmas family get-togethers coming up in the weeks ahead.
At $8.99 a piece, most of these HD DVD discs are cheaper than their DVD equivalents, and just a few bucks more than what they might sell for as used discs.
For all the talk about not buying any more discs for a deceased format, it’s really hard to pass up some of these deals. It’s all sweetened by the fact that Amazon typically charges no sales tax for most states, and how easy it is to get free shipping by ordering more than $25 of stuff.
Here are the 99 discs currently listed for $8.99:
- 99 Universal discs on sale at Amazon.com
November 13th, 2008 at 3:45 am
These 99 are $7.99 as of this moment… which of course means that a purchase of 3 discs is no longer just over the free shipping threshold, but under by $1.03… I guess I’ll have to buy 4!
November 14th, 2008 at 11:31 am
These sales are good. But as a buyer that is cheap I scour the internet and even compare prices and shipping cost of major websites before I finally purchase a dvd. I have been building up my HD-DVD collection. I used DeepDiscount.com alot for these particular purchases. That was until I found something better. I found that www.frys.com has had the best collection of movies and many that come in with a price of around 4.99 and many even lower. The average is about 6.99 and some above. But I got Transformers Movie 2 disk hd-dvd set for 11.99. I recommend looking at frys.
-outcastwzl
November 14th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Transformers at inetvideo.com was $1.99 on HD DVD this morning, along with anchorman on HD DVD!!!
November 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Good tips guys. DD Frys and iNet are all sites I frequent, and Ive taken advantage of more of their sales than I care to admit. Happy collecting!
November 17th, 2008 at 9:15 am
HD DVD add-on with King Kong for 30 bucks. Transformers for $1.99. eBay. Awesome.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:36 am
hey whats up….amazon has some hd dvds. but I for some reason am not a fan of blu ray, something about it makes me seasick to watch it. The dvd player i have happens to be an hd dvd player. but in the future, say in 2-3 years….will all the hd dvd’s disappear ? holla bitches fo that nine kwat aite
November 20th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
My gut tells me it will be a lot sooner than 2 -3 years. Some titles are already tough to find. I am sure there will always be some used titles floating around though. However, as far as I know, nobody is producing discs anymore. A few new titles may trickle through typical and atypical distribution channels, but my guess is that those discs were pressed somewhere around Toshibas February 08 annoucement. I love HD DVD, but I will definitley pickup a Blu-ray player when the time is right for me. Good luck with the seasickness; I haven’t heard that complaint before. I think depending on where you were watching the Blu-ray disc, the person or retailer displaying the technology may have had the 120Hz Motion Smoothing on the display device turned on. I highly recommend that you turn this feature off if you find the on-screen motion makes you uneasy. Good Luck!
November 21st, 2008 at 6:44 am
I built up my collection of HD DVD’s then i couldn’t find anymore that i wanted and the ones i wanted were all on Blu-ray. I thought about it for a bit and finally decided to take the plunge into Blu-ray and picked up the Samsung BDP1500 for $249 Canadian, not a bad price and it’s BD Live so it can be updated. At some point all the good HD DVD titles will fade and if you want to watch new movies in high def you will have to go Blu or maybe you can just stream them through the Xbox at 720P.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Well folks if any of you are considering going BLU this christmas stay away from the Samsung BD-P1500 at first this machine ran great but once i did the firmware update it stopped playing most of my Blu-ray movies. If you are going Blu buy a PS3 as it has no problems with any BR movies, i can’t believe HD DVD lost out to crap like this i never had any of these headaches with any of my HD DVD players they always performed flawlessly for every movie every time! Anyways just thought i would give a heads up just incase these are on sale on black Friday.
November 28th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Hey, if you are interested in Nature and Landscape-type HD DVDs to show off the stunning quality of High Def, HD Scape is having a clearance sale on their own titles. HD DVDs are $3.95 (plus $2.95 shipping for first item and $1 each additional). Here is their Web Site: http://www.hdscape.com/cat_hdscape.cfm
Take a look!