Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 11/03/07 00:37

In article <472b9674$0$5007$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
"T.B." <partyslammer@socal.rr.com> wrote:

> "Geena Phillips" wrote:
>
> > Got mine.
>
> FWIW, Best Buy is selling the same player at the same price.
>
> I decided to take a drive to my local Best Buy which indeed had the same
> HD-DVD player for $99. However, they didn't have any in stock except a
> couple returns priced at $249(!) and the idiot BB guy couldn't work their
> inventory pc to figure out if they had any in stock there or at another
> local store. And of course, they won't do rain checks on such sale items.
>
> After looking over the (pretty thrashed) player they had on the shelf which
> was really a lot more bare-bones than I thought and looking over the
> available HD titles, I basically came to the conclusion even 99 bucks and
> any further hassle wasn't worth the purchase considering there was maybe
> half a dozen titles on that format I was seriously interested in buying and
> one, The Matrix box set is going to be released in the Spring on Blu-Ray.
>
> On the plus side, today really reinforced my overall hatred of "Big Box"
> stores like Walmart and Best Buy.
>
> T.B.

Let's see if I understand. You could buy a $99 HDDVD player that
upconverts SD DVDs better than most upconverting SD players, and it
plays real HiDef stuff too. And you get 5 free movies with it.

If you bought those 5 movies at the cheapest price new I've seen ($15),
then those are worth $75, so the player really is costing you $27. BUT,
some stores that were selling the $99 players, were also giving away two
free movies at time of purchase. If you bought there, then your player
actually paid you to buy it....

Of course, you could just spend $400 on a BD player...

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