HD DVD Players and Discs at Firesale Prices
Who knows what will happen in the long run with HD DVD, but if you are the of the gambling type, you can really clean up with a purchase of an HD DVD player or more HD DVD discs.
remember this…lots of these were sold at near cost before Christmas!
The loss of each studio, as they have come, one by one, has made the outlook look more and more bleak for the HD DVD crowd. It is especially bad since many of the people who bought or received HD DVD players at Christmas are still awaiting their promised promotional discs.
remember, there are combo players being sold – the best of both worlds!
The HD DVD booth in Las Vegas, at the Consumer Electronics Show was pretty grim, but adopters of the format must remember the Yogi Berra quote, as all is not over just yet.
The current pricing is pretty attractive on both players and discs, and if you are a ‘glass half full’ person, you can envision the huge numbers of machines sold in the last two months of 2007 as a wedge, that will not allow HD DVD to completely go away. I do think that this is more than a VHS-Beta debate at this point, because as I have said before, HD DVD will surely survive as a storage medium. The question is, ‘Will it receive support by enough studios?’
No on can answer that right now. No one.
I will venture to say that enough players were sold to keep HD DVD players going – so if yours dies, you’ll still be able to get another for quite some time. Or perhaps you’ll be able to buy another new one.
From the sales I have seen in this area (Southern California), it is really tempting to keep buying discs if you have a player. Some of the HD DVDs are showing up at the same price as regular DVDs.
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2 Comments
Pravin
January 23rd, 2008
at 5:47am
Where have you been seeing the big sales on HD DVD discs in Southern California?
Right now, Circuit City and Best Buy have promotions for Blu-ray movies as usually do, with Best Buy soon to offer a two-for-one deal on a few HD DVD titles next week.
I hope that CC and BB will come through with more of those sales for HD DVD movies for the sake of all the people that those stores bought into the format over the last couple of months.
the oracle
January 23rd, 2008
at 1:26pm
At Walmart there are HD DVDs in the $5 bin from time to time. My son and his friends keep talking about it, as no Blu-ray discs have shown up – they see it as discrimination.