I'm so glad I got my copy of this @ £19.99 = $40 on HD DVD.
It's a fantastic transfer and the audio is 2nd to none (I'd bet the house that it's the same transfer).
I really don't get why some of the Blu-ray 'support' say they can't see this.
By all means go dual if you have to but what sort of nutter is it that claims to be into high def & passes up and slams a media disc type with a catalogue of approx 450 high def English language movies with current prices starting @ around £2.99/$6 (including free P&P), eh!?
It's better to pay $130? How?
If you are so in love with Blu-ray then get yourself an HD DVD drive of some sort (the XBox 360 HD DVD add-on is perfect) and rip the movies to your PC & write them to a BD -R or -RE disc (if your Blu-ray stand alone will let you easily play blank BD media). The blank discs will cost several times the price of the HD DVDs.
Sometimes a 'dead' disc format is just what the consumer benefits most from.....but it's only the type of disc that is 'dead', the movie format itself is very much alive and can be transferred to other media very simply.
I now have almost 150 high def (mostly) classics (to go with my 600+ SD movies) and I'm buying a few more foreign unusual ones, but that'll do me for now. Overall it's cost me pennies compared to any possible Blu-ray alternative.
Same... I got this for 39.99 at the clearance box at future shop a while back... Same goes for most hd-dvds. I got all the harry potters for 9.99 each and blade runner collectors set for 11.99!! Its a shame that hd-dvd had to fade out.
To all those wondering why i'm buying dirt cheap hd-dvds? Its because they are dirt cheap and usually have everything the same, some hd-dvds also have a dolby truehd track vs, just 5.1 on the blu-ray version, I have an HD-A3, an hd-dvd drive laptop, and my recently purchased LG bh200 for 329.99... Thats 3 players I can use hd-dvd's on. I have my collection right in front of my living room tv right next to blu-rays although its like 85 hd-dvds to like 11 blu-rays. I cant justify paying 20-30 for some blu-ray discs, when i can buy the hd-dvd versions for half the price...
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Truth Teller @ Jul 24th 2008 8:27PM
This is why HD DVD has been so great for so many.
I'm so glad I got my copy of this @ £19.99 = $40 on HD DVD.
It's a fantastic transfer and the audio is 2nd to none
(I'd bet the house that it's the same transfer).
I really don't get why some of the Blu-ray 'support' say they can't see this.
By all means go dual if you have to but what sort of nutter is it that claims to be into high def & passes up and slams a media disc type with a catalogue of approx 450 high def English language movies with current prices starting @ around £2.99/$6 (including free P&P), eh!?
It's better to pay $130? How?
If you are so in love with Blu-ray then get yourself an HD DVD drive of some sort (the XBox 360 HD DVD add-on is perfect) and rip the movies to your PC & write them to a BD -R or -RE disc
(if your Blu-ray stand alone will let you easily play blank BD media).
The blank discs will cost several times the price of the HD DVDs.
Sometimes a 'dead' disc format is just what the consumer benefits most from.....but it's only the type of disc that is 'dead', the movie format itself is very much alive and can be transferred to other media very simply.
I now have almost 150 high def (mostly) classics (to go with my 600+ SD movies) and I'm buying a few more foreign unusual ones, but that'll do me for now.
Overall it's cost me pennies compared to any possible Blu-ray alternative.
JimC @ Jul 24th 2008 9:05PM
Behold, the greatness of HDDVD....
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html
THizzle7XU @ Jul 24th 2008 9:28PM
By the way, the original MSRP of the HD-DVD version was $120. WOW! Huge savings!
Mikey @ Jul 24th 2008 10:18PM
Funny... Amazon.com lists the HD DVD for this set at $119.99 (http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Matrix-Collection-HD-DVD/dp/B000OONTFU/ref=pd_bbs_6?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1216952068&sr=8-6). That and you only get 5 discs.
The Blu-ray Disc is $10 more with two extra discs. And more than likely they are all BD 50 discs, meaning more content and better value.
I love being a smart consumer! BD for teh wins!!1
Harmin C. @ Jul 25th 2008 4:37AM
Same... I got this for 39.99 at the clearance box at future shop a while back... Same goes for most hd-dvds. I got all the harry potters for 9.99 each and blade runner collectors set for 11.99!! Its a shame that hd-dvd had to fade out.
To all those wondering why i'm buying dirt cheap hd-dvds? Its because they are dirt cheap and usually have everything the same, some hd-dvds also have a dolby truehd track vs, just 5.1 on the blu-ray version, I have an HD-A3, an hd-dvd drive laptop, and my recently purchased LG bh200 for 329.99... Thats 3 players I can use hd-dvd's on. I have my collection right in front of my living room tv right next to blu-rays although its like 85 hd-dvds to like 11 blu-rays. I cant justify paying 20-30 for some blu-ray discs, when i can buy the hd-dvd versions for half the price...