According to a story at Engadget, lucky shoppers in Ireland can pick up Xbox 360 HD DVD players for the equivalent of just under $16 at stores like GameStop. Kotaku had reported earlier that the drives were going for twice that price in the US, but those were refurbished units.
Irish shoppers can also take advantage of the big sales at British DVD sites such as dvd.co.uk who are selling HD DVD titles, including American Gangster, for as little as £6.95, which is about USD $14 (shipping to the USA isn’t too expensive either). If you’ve been following this site recently, then you’ll know that prices from Australian stores have also been really great.
The format war may have ended, but these kinds of prices are compelling and an inexpensive way to get some good mileage from your HDTV and HD DVD. Blu-ray players start around $399 and since the movies aren’t on fire sales, the pricing on most of them ends up being a lot higher. It makes even more sense for existing HD DVD owners to get in on these sales than for someone new starting out with HD DVD. Regardless, these sales are appealing to people faced with tightening entertainment budgets in the months ahead.
- Engadget story
- dvd.co.uk sale (British site)
- EzDvd clearance sale on HD DVD (Australian site)
- Dvdcrave has lots of HD DVD titles under USD $9 (Australian site)
UPDATE: Roger mentioned in the comments that www.HMV.co.uk and zavvi.co.uk also have super deals like American Gangster for £4.99 (about US $10, but factor in shipping to the US to see if the deal is worth it).
May 6th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
AHHHH! My secret HD DVD source has now been ravaged!! I was saving for more, but sadly the good stuff is mostly gone. I have been purchasing at EzDVD for awhile. Then it went up here and the movies that I was waiting on are gone. LOL. Oh well that’s the way things go.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:03 am
The best deals in the uk are actually at HMV.co.uk, which have 70 odd HDs from £4.99 (including american gangster, the kingdom, elizabeth TGA etc). For the BBC HDs try zavvi.co.uk, which has planet earth HD for £20 and bleak house HD for £10. Also briefly amazon.de dropped the price of the xbox HD drive to 10 euros, not surprisingly it sold out pretty quickly!
May 14th, 2008 at 7:19 am
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5682643/Trail/searchtext%3EHD-DVD.htm
Only £35 at Argos now…there was a time about 4 weeks back when they were going for £15 with King Kong thrown in.
I got one for that price and since then I’ve brought almost 20 HD-DVD’s. Result!
A mate of mine brought Superman Returns on Blu-Ray for £27 on one day and the next day I got the same film for £5 (www.play.com) on HD-DVD.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
i live in dublin and i read this. so i started to ring aroud. i found out that xtra-vision are version of block buster was selling them for 10 euro each . after some more calls i found 1 in stock in a store about 20 minutes drive from my house . i now own a x-box 360 hd dvd player and it only cost me 10 euro . thanks hddvd.com
i already have a stand alone player but this is a great back up if it ever stops working for what ever reason .
May 19th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Now available in gamesatation for £20, or £25 with 2 films (choose any 2, mostly from universal range).
May 30th, 2008 at 1:00 am
hmv.co.uk have now added a lot of the warner catalogue to the £4.99 offer, now 132 titles from that price, including planet earther at £18.