Comments on: January Amazon Sale Featuring 84 HD DVDs at 44%-57% Off

By: Cliff H

Cliff H — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:04:33 +0000

My Sony DVD player was acting up in the last couple of weeks and I was thinking of getting one of the up-convert DVD players until the format war was over. However with these new prices from Toshiba I ordered the A30 and received it in two days from Bestbuy along with two disk in the box and the gift of five more disk by mail. What a deal, $200.00 for the player and seven movie titles we watched 300 last night in HD and it was awesome. I’m going to check out the sales at Tower an Deep Discount now, thanks for all the info at this site.

By: Mark Goyette

Mark Goyette — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:43:17 +0000

Toshiba has reduced the price of their current HD DVD player, the A3 series across the board, at this time these are the new prices, and are not temporary. I have a sneaking suspition they were planning on it before Warner made their anouncement but didn’t state it to anybody because they didn’t want a dip in player sales, hopefully this is followed by a disc SRP reduction soon also.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:10:49 +0000

It’s definitely going to be interesting if a lot of players get sold at these lower prices.

I think we’re all very eager to find out exactly what the official plans and strategy are going forward.

By: charles

charles — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:51:38 +0000

What HD-DVD (TOSHIBA) needs to do is cut the price of all HD-DVD players for like at least a month. There will be heavy losses for the company. But, if you flood the market with your product and people start to buy movies for that HD-DVD player a lot of movie studios are going to feel stupid. And possibly migrate back over… depending on sales maybe exclusively.

Think what they did for Wal-Mart when they cut the price to 99 for a weekend. Do that for 4 or 5 weekends and that will really for Sony’s hand to catch up.

By: john

john — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:08:55 +0000

Toshiba A3 is at costco for $129.00

By: Pravin

Pravin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:51:13 +0000

For people like me who already have players and discs, it’s easy for us to continue enjoying those players and pick up more discs or rent them. I can understand the quandary for someone who doesn’t have a player at all.

Something can be obsolete in the marketplace, but that doesn’t mean it’s obsolete in your household. If you’re a disc collector by nature, then all the titles you acquire are still playable for a long time. Also consider this: many of the better HD DVD-like features aren’t going to be available on Blu-ray players for many months, and it’ll still take many more months after that for lots of titles to get released or re-released with those features.

When these interactivity features did not exist on Blu-ray players, many Blu fans would say those were unimportant. Considering that this was a large part of the CES booth presentation, I’d say that the Team Blu decision makers disagree, or else they wouldn’t be working on Profile 2.0 players to release later in the year.

If you are not in any big hurry to get a high-def player, then you have all the time in the world to wait. You have to factor in whether the lost opportunity of watching movies now is worth holding out.

Also, you don’t have to repurchase all of your movies — that’s a misconception. You’re most likely going to make new purchases based on whether the movie is available for a certain system, and which version is better.

For example, I never bought the Nintendo, Xbox and PS2 versions of a game, but only the version I needed to. On format-exclusive games, the choice was already made for me.

By: Vektar

Vektar — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:31:39 +0000

Ive been putting off getting a HD-dvd player because I had a feeling Hd-dvd wouldnâ€™t be able to pull through in the end. Thereâ€™s so many good universal movies I really want to see in HD too. With this sale going on its almost a to good to pass up deal. Get a player for under $200 and a few movies is great but then it might all become obsolete in a few months to a year. So Iâ€™m really confused on weather to buy now or wait to see if these well be on blu ray in the future.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:28:57 +0000

There’s a lot to be upset about in the world, and it would be great if consumer interests had a greater say in the matter than business dealings.

You buy one MP3 player instead of another and inherit all the results of the business dealings that the manufacturer might be part of. Want to automate your home? Will you choose ZWave or Zigbee? It never ends.

By: Jonsson

Jonsson — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:19:26 +0000

Pravin, first of all, I do not whish to express hatred in any form. I do think the HD-DVD camp have been stretching the truth but it’s perhaps no point getting into a debate over that at this point. I do respect the work you do with this site (ehe site as such is actually better than the Blu-ray one) and I very very much respect you for actually publishing my comment despite the fact that it was perhaps written a wee bit in anger.

However, I wish the format war to end, period. Until it does, I’m sticking to standard DVD’s.

I do not think any format has a distict advantage over the other. I do think Blu-ray is slighly better than HD-DVD (emphasis on slightly). As things stand now, I think it’s time to stop this war. Everyone is loosing out as it is now. If Warner would have gone HD-DVD I would have said the same thing to the Blu-ray camp.

I want to by my HD equipment and start to watch HD material and that is not going to happen as long as there is a war going on.

Anyway, best regards Pravin.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:07:28 +0000

I don’t operate this site for Blu-ray users, it’s here for people on the HD DVD side. That alone should explain a large part of why I might approve certain comments. If someone needs to express their hatred, then they have their own venues to do that.

The HD DVD camp has been very cautious with their words recently, Jonsson, and there’s been no stretching of the truth from them. There has been lots of retelling of stuff in support of Blu-ray, however. It’s completely normal for a person who supports one side to view the words and actions of the opposing side in an unfavorable light, and you’ve fallen right into that pattern.