http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/ Engadget HD Comments for http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 25th 2008 11:30AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 25th 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 25th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.restockit.com/Big-Foot-Doorstop--(MST00941)---ON-SALE-TODAY!.html?source=froogle]]>May 25th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/
Dead format, sure, but for $20, it's a no-brainer.]]>May 25th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 25th 2008 11:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 26th 2008 2:06AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 25th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 25th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/
So much for all those attempts at putting people off with scary tales of 'what happens to your HD DVD collection if you HD DVD player breaks down or is damaged'?

(like as if that was ever really likely to happen anyways.......I can honestly say I've never replaced a DVD player for any other reason other than upgrading)

Anyhoo, I had one of these units & sold it (before the plug was pulled & it made for a very inexpensive purchase 1st time around).
Knowing the blue/violet laser has a finite lifespan (how happy will all those PS3 owners be using it all up with both games & movies?) I have just bought another unit to put away.

It cost me (along with an HD DVD movie I was after = total cut the postage price) £20/$40 from Amazon Germany delivered.

There's 450 English/western world HD DVDs out there.
I'm filling my boots, now up to 60 movies+.

No need to rush into Blu-ray, certainly not at the prices they expect right now.

I just paid £15/$30 for the Matrix trilogy set, same cost for the Battlestar Galactica set too.
£4.50/$9 for 'Shaun of the Dead', 'Born of the 4th of July' & 'The Departed' although Pan's Labrinyth cost me a whole £8/$16 - including delivery.
I couldn't even get the DVDs for that.

I'm laughing, enjoying my high def & saving a packet with HD DVD.

There's no way any credible & comparable Blu-ray option would give me so much for so little.

The XBox 360 HD DVD add-on (which I will use as a PC ROM drive, as before) just ensures for peanuts that I will never have to worry about breakdowns or accidents leaving me stranded with discs I would otherwise not be able to play (although several of mine are combo imported discs).
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*pats Truth Teller on the head*

*Goes and watches a Bluray*
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You had to come in & make your lame & ridiculous little dig (cos you've b*gger-all to say about the facts here).

Awwww, good for you!

*pats Jnas on the head & laughs my proverbial off

psst........go on, admit it......you have just the 1 Blu-ray movie, it came 'free' with your PS3 & you're now sick to death of it.]]>May 25th 2008 2:33PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/
No, because Blu Ray is a living format and HD DVD isn't.]]>May 25th 2008 2:55PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/Jun 7th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/
Wanna HD-DVD to make the booboo go away?

*Gives Teller a copy of Bee movie*

Look bees! Pretty bees! Yaaay!]]>May 25th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/
Predictable.

Cue the sadly & all too usual over-inflated ego rating his/her impact way beyond anything sane.

You are kind of funny tho.

@ Mark

No Mark, the real issue is why not?

There's an excellent and large catalogue (450+) of classic movies to be had for buttons and the hardware to play it on is peanuts too.

Why the hell would anyone take a chance & pay the exorbitant prices the Blu-ray crowd want?

Particularly considering that Blu-ray is by no means assured of being anything but an equally dead format going nowhere but just taking longer to realise & fall over?]]>May 25th 2008 7:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 25th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 25th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/
Some folks have chosen to deal with the death of their format with denial and an irrational hate towards blu-ray. There is nothing wrong with picking up a few firesale bargains, but pretending HD DVD has a future is pathetic.]]>May 26th 2008 4:27AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/
There's an excellent and large catalogue (450+) of largely classic movies to be had for buttons and the hardware to play it on is peanuts too.

Why the hell would anyone take a chance & pay the exorbitant prices the Blu-ray crowd want?

Particularly considering that Blu-ray is by no means assured of being anything but an equally dead format going nowhere but just taking longer to realise & fall over?]]>May 26th 2008 12:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/
"Predictable.

Cue the sadly & all too usual over-inflated ego rating his/her impact way beyond anything sane"

LOL @ irony.]]>May 26th 2008 4:28AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/
Unlike too many posters here I do not in fact see myself as doing anything but expressing my views or opinions or sharing info as I know it.

You won't find me (again unlike others here) talking in such risible & self-absorbed terms of 'influencing people' or 'attempting to (as one poster put it a while back) to delay the format adoption rate'.

Fail.]]>May 26th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/25/xbox-360-hd-dvd-drive-hits-19-99-in-canada/May 26th 2008 8:14AM