Re: Toshiba A3 HD DVD player with 7 movies: $169.99

Bottom line, would you back Multi Billionare Bill Gates, who pretty much moves and shakes the technology world. Look he is kicking the dog skat out of PS3 or will you go with OVERATED SONY? You be the judge.

hoodaguy...I read your comment, and it doesn't make a lot of sense.. HD DVD came out first, and Sony came out with Blu-Ray second, and they are wrong to do that? Is that what your really saying? Thats like saying, anytime a company comes out with a product, it is the best product, and everyone else should just accept it. Maybe Sony came out with Blu-Ray because they thought it was better. What is wrong with them doing that? They are in business to make money. Are there cell phone "wars" because they are all different? What about MP3 players? Or cars? Should they just be all the same? If people don't like something, they probably won't buy it, but blu-ray seems to be doing pretty well. The main reason I prefer blu-ray, is just for the fact that I can use my ps3 to watch them, and regular dvd's and play ps3 games. I like HD-DVD also, I have no problem with them, I have a Toshiba 1080p HD-DVD player, and I like it just fine, I just happen to prefer Blu-ray.

Must be another coincidence that a brand-new member (November 2007) comes out in favor in Blu-ray just at the end of the Blu-ray Expo and the beginning of the big HD DVD holiday season push.

Don't ya just love this war?

John

The timing of my comment has nothing to do with any expo (?) I only just made a comment now, but I have had a PS3 since the first week they came out. I bought the PS3 mainly for the games, but ended up using it more as a Blu-Ray player. I have 600 dvd titles, and I have about 50-60 blu-ray titles. I just bought an HD-DVD player about 6 weeks ago. I wanted the Matrix and a couple other movies, that only came on HD. The players were in a better price range than before, thats why I decided to buy one. I didn't mind spending $500 on the PS3 (games, movies, etc), but I couldn't see spending that on just a HD dvd player. When the Toshiba 1080p player hit $299, that was a good price, and well worth it. Now I have about 20 HD-DVD movies. If the PS3 played HD instead of Blu, I guess I would prefer HD.
I guess I really don't care which camp wins, if any, as long as I can get the movies I want to see in Hi Def.

I wish we had some deals in Canada Bestbuy Canada thinks $299 HD DVD is a deal.

Has anyone verified that Sears will be selling an A3 at this price and not an A2 like everyone else is in this price range and now even a bit lower. Could be the Sears ad being refered to has a miss print, then again maybe not.

It is A3 model at Sears on Black Friday. A3 model is selling for $199 at BB, CC. I think you can see better price than $169 for A3 model on Black Friday.

six7777, you just answered your own question. If Sony would have just went with HD from the start (rather than coming up with the scheme to make up their own high-definition format) then you would have saved some money.

Instead of having to buy your standalone HD player for HD movies, the PlayStation could just have easily had the HD in it right from the get go.

People are arguing this way and that way which format is "better", but the reality is they are about the same. So if they are pretty much the same, why do we need to have a second format forced upon us by some money grubbing company?

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Must be another coincidence that a brand-new member (November 2007) comes out in favor in Blu-ray just at the end of the Blu-ray Expo and the beginning of the big HD DVD holiday season push.

Ah, yes indeed...

Just a few random thoughts: I'm sure that the supply of the discontinued A2 will reach its end very quickly. And most likely Amazon will soon lower the price on their remaining units to clear their stock.

That leaves the A3 as the entry level model. It would be a major boon to the format if they were to universally lower that price to around $100 starting on Black Friday, even if they have to take a loss on them. Remember that the major objective of this campaign is to get as many units out there as possible. In this case, the end would justify the means. And IF the ever elusive low priced Chinese models were to arrive at the same time, sales of the format would indeed spike off the chart. I think in the coming weeks, the BD camp will ratchet up their propaganda campaign characterizing HD DVD as "inferior, " "DVD on steriods," to further confuse the public.

Edit: Oh yeah, add "sign of desperation," "last gasp" and "impulse buying" to the above! I just saw them on another forum.

One last thing: I would like to see a REAL sale on HD DVD software before Christmas. I went to three WAL*MARTs yesterday (and believe me, that was an ordeal for me) and all I could find was a handfull of old titles for $14.99. I was very disappointed. I was ready to pick up 6 or 8 titles. HD DVD needs to close the price gap between hd and sd to generate volume sales.

[Post edited by StevePro on Nov 3, 2007]

ArmyPunk has a point. If he doesn't find even a single movie worth watching out of the 350+ HD DVD releases, but magically only likes the Blu-ray exclusive titles like Spiderman 3, then obviously buying a Blu-ray player makes sense.

However ArmyPunk fails to envision that other consumers may actually like one or more titles released or soon to be released on HD DVD. Everyone has different tastes in movies, and if he likes Spidy-3 and hates movies like the "Bourne trilogy" or "the Thing", then all the power to him.

My taste in movies is even weirder. I'm looking forward to the following HD DVD movies over the next few weeks:

Pride & Prejudice
Shrek the Third (for our kids - NOT ME!)
Tremors
Blade Runner
Stardust