HD -DVD Player price drop (and free HD DVD's) (Updated)

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SW — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

No wonder the movies are free.

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LoboTheSequel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

wow what a great deal, shame us Brits get shafted again. Thanks Microsoft!

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eazyeph — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:03:02 GMT

damnn, i was thinkin about buyin this. i just got my hdtv like a week ago. im definitly getting this now

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sm1983 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:01:54 GMT

This is getting beyond a joke. Why discriminate against loyal 360 fans in something like 30 other countries all over the world? A silly business move if nothing else. I am finding it more difficult to tell my friends to get a 360 instead of a ps3. Disgusted.

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LeftOutAgain — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:36:04 GMT

so this isnt like the other toshiba offer? meaning from march to whatever? If so Im alright, i bought my player march 22nd.

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HDFanatic — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:18:12 GMT

All Blu-ray dvd movies released prior to late 2006 were single layer disks(25gb). And so far this year only 58% of Blu-ray dvd movies were released on dual layer dvd disks(50gb). Sam Adam's movie "The Click" was the first Blu-ray dvd to be released on a dual layer disk(50gb). On the other hand nearly all HD DVD movies released to date have been dual layer dvd disks(30gb). Therefore the majority of HD DVD's that are in stores today are at higher capacity than Blu-ray. If Blu-ray wants to win the format war it needs to start shelling out more dual layer dvd disk and it need to lower it's manufautring cost. But I don't see this happening any time soon due to the fact that Blu-ray disks are more complicated to produce because of it's multiple copyright encryptions and surface protective coating. Blu-ray has an additial encryptioning to protect copyrighted material which also adds unnessary complexity to the disk. On top of that Blu-ray also under goes a protective coatings process to physically protect the information stored on the disk. Unlike HD dvd's the information on Blu-ray disks are store on top layers of the disk and is easily damaged. With out this protective coating (and yes some Blu-ray disk don't have this coating) a small scratch will render you disk useless. At this point HD DVD is the under dog but not for long. If Blu-ray does not get it's cost down and start producing more 50gd disk instead of the 25gb disk it will loss this war.

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avengefuldragon — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:16:26 GMT

This sucks, I just bought a new 360 HD Dvd player a week ago and now they changed the price and are giving away 5 hd dvd players. Man I missed out.

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HDFanatic — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:41:50 GMT

I hear a lot about this "ring of death" on the XBox 360. I've had my XBox 360 since it's release date and also recently upgraded to the elite and I've never experience the "ring of death". However I do experience system freezes when playing my favorite game, Oblivion on XBox 360. Has anyone else experienced this same phenomenon?

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ShaggyB — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:28:55 GMT

ok ill throw out my two cents:

Hd-Dvd has the most dedicated players sold. Period, thats the way it is. Now the number that Blu-ray report includes PS3 sales. Which does make it higher. Now if you look at sales, Blu-ray is on top. Why is that??? Im glad you asked, its very simple. Playing motorstorm and ninja gaiden sigma gets old. Lets face it Ps3 has nothing else you cant find on 360. My ps3 is a blu-ray player. it plays motorstorm demo and NGsigma from time to time.

When i bought my ps3 i picked up bond and pirates 1 and 2. NO GAMES. I later got ninja gaiden, but only after playing the demo.

I got my Hd-dvd drive december 15th 2006. I got King Kong (with it), Batman Begins and Superman Returns. I have sence added Mission Impossible movie pack (1,2 & 3), The Ultimate Matrix Trilogy, Bourne Supremicy and Bourne Identity. I intended to get 300 on HD tomorrow.

On the Blue-ray side i picked up Ghost Rider (lol believe it or not my girlfriend loved that movie)

Quality is nearly the same, those who spout out video is better on hd is are just fooling themselves. its the same. Now sound..... HD is a bit better on that, but id also guess thats movie to movie (MI3 is my example). It really comes down to features. Hd has more than Blu-Ray.

Will it win or lose, well from the looks of it, Hd is going to fail at some point. MS should go get exclusive rights to Star Wars Hd and also get the Lord of the rings trilogy out on hd now. that could save it, but i dont see that all happening. I just hope Lord of the rings trilogy and Bourne Ultimatium get out on Hd-dvd before it dies,

Ps3 fanboys post here with the we win stuff because they have nothing better to do, the games just arent there. Got to show that something is better than 360 i suppose.

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King Drazhar — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:45:45 GMT

jj5206 you said you cant watch half the movies on the xbox hd-dvd drive?? has this been fixed yet?

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PH — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:49:30 GMT

You have a rogue aposthrohpe in your article heading. Also : euro price drop?

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JM — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:19:45 GMT

"What you think we LIKE playing with juvenile mouthy Americans ?? ... it seems like MOST are" For the record, I find the average American person a lot more fun to play online with than people from my country (UK). Sure, there's too many high pitched brats shouting abuse on Shadowrun etc, but there's just as many of those in the UK.

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AkiraX — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:37:29 GMT

1.5m blu-ray players??? there are over 11m HD-DVD ready units sold, it called an Xbox 360.

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Elven6 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:09:28 GMT

For Canadian users: Hey atleast we get King Kong here, so it ain't all bad. And Microsoft has to get the rights and stuff for most of the stuff complained about in this thread, its not has easy as it seems. And for those complaining since they already bought it: relax, things like this happen all the time. With the logic of a lot of people here that would be like saying so and so should give their millions of customers the diffrence everytime they drop the price on their products, thats the problem with early adoption.

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Mark — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:58:16 GMT

1.5 million blu ray units vs 300k HD units. Target and blockbuster exclusive to bluray. .... umm target isnt exclusive, anmd blockbuster either actually .... also what 1.5 million? you arent actually using the ps3 figures right? probably 1 out of every 1000 ps3 owners actually buy bluray discs for it.

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Chris — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:56:19 GMT

"From this point, it really does look like Blu Ray has the MAJOR uppper hand, especially in movie titles released and being released, and MS isn't dumb. " ....... you do realize that HDDVD is only short by 20 videos... its like 330 to 350 right now... and according to upcoming releases hddvd will surpass bluray very soon, and on top of that i've seen both side by side, and hddvd so far is vastly more impressive. The fact that from day 1, PiP commentary and other features, internet based stuff from the beginning and the fact that they USE VC-1 codecs which look fantastic, just make it definitly ahead of the game, i'll stand behind HDDVD FOR NOW. As for Bluray, it seems they're getting desperate leaking this target thing for instance, especially when you have MAJOR Bluray backers now prepping to release dual format players