Friday, March 21, 2008
Member since:
June 2006
June 2006
Posted Mar 20th 2008 2:19PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, HD DVD, Players, Samsung from Engadget HD
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/20/amazon-offers-two-free-hd-dvds-when-you-buy-a-bd-up5000/
Make no mistake, we're huge fans of sales. But Amazon's latest "deal" has us scratching our noggins and laughing heartily all at the same time. Touted as a "limited-time offer," the e-tailer is giving away two HD DVDs (read: free, gratis, on the house, etc.) -- all you have to do is buy two Blu-ray titles... and a $450 Samsung BD-UP5000 combo player. Truthfully, we can't figure out what Amazon's trying to pull here, or why it chose to market this special in this manner. Sure, we can see sparking up a sale in order to clear out HD DVD inventory, and we can even understand hacking the price of the soon-to-be-discontinued UP5000, but this? Check out the read link and have a chuckle, won't you?
[Thanks, John]
Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, HD DVD, Players, Samsung from Engadget HD
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/20/amazon-offers-two-free-hd-dvds-when-you-buy-a-bd-up5000/
Make no mistake, we're huge fans of sales. But Amazon's latest "deal" has us scratching our noggins and laughing heartily all at the same time. Touted as a "limited-time offer," the e-tailer is giving away two HD DVDs (read: free, gratis, on the house, etc.) -- all you have to do is buy two Blu-ray titles... and a $450 Samsung BD-UP5000 combo player. Truthfully, we can't figure out what Amazon's trying to pull here, or why it chose to market this special in this manner. Sure, we can see sparking up a sale in order to clear out HD DVD inventory, and we can even understand hacking the price of the soon-to-be-discontinued UP5000, but this? Check out the read link and have a chuckle, won't you?
[Thanks, John]
Friday, March 21, 2008
Member since:
January 2008
January 2008
Two words: Tax Write-offs (or is that 3? 
). By giving them away Amazon can claim the movies as "business expense" or something like that.
). By giving them away Amazon can claim the movies as "business expense" or something like that.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Member since:
October 2007
October 2007
It IS a dual player...so, what's the big deal? They need the tax write off, yeah...
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Member since:
October 2007
October 2007
Is'nt this like the 8 Track Players of HD DVD/Blu Ray dual players???
