AlphaTwo00
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Binary Domain also dropped to $20 again, in store too.
The one that was sold out (and I didn't know) was Ridge Racer Unbounded was $40.
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Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread 2
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The one that was sold out (and I didn't know) was Ridge Racer Unbounded was $40.
Kabuki Waq
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Vita games need to go on sale already. fuck man lumines is still $40!
Shalashaska161
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There have been some decent deals but you sorta have to work for them. Like the trade 1 get one for Gravity Rush or MGS Vita was pretty good.
Still I'm jealous of $10 Mortal Kombat.
tonkatsu_ramen
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I bought lumines for 30 bucks at best buy last week. Its still at that price right now.
If you're looking for Lumines, why not just by it used for like $5?
Yep, it's new o_o (at least, it's being sold as such. Traded in sealed is possible.)
Jasper Avenue
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Resonance of Fate (PS3) is now one of the titles in the Walmart bargain bin for $19.83. Didn't check for the 360 version.
Kabuki Waq
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where?
Lone_Prodigy
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Even if you trade in Xenoblade sealed, 1) it shouldn't be in the database (so it won't have a TIV), and 2) I don't think it's legal to re-sell a traded game as new.
Google turns up nothing.
Google turns up nothing.
Blue Submarine No. 6
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Microplay on Bank St. in Ottawa has been receiving these from their distributer for sale since the day after it released... Doesn't seem very exclusive to me...
Also, Best Buy should be afraid of accepting sealed items after the iPad modelling clay incident.
People have been doing this shit for years though, taking rocks and putting them into boxes and then returning said boxes, etc.
Mikey Jr.
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I want to start watching Blu-rays. I have a 51" plasma with surround sound and perfect lighting and I am stuck watching crappy DVD's. My parents bought Planet Earth on dvd a few years ago, and I bought the blu-ray a year ago when it was like 50 bucks. I compared the two of them, and Jesus, I can't watch dvd's after blu-ray. I can't, I won't. I need the quality. Maybe it would be fine on a 30" tv, but not on this 51".
So, Canadians, specifically Ontario, where can I go to rent blu-ray's. I am assuming brick and mortar is out of the question? I refuse to buy blu-rays
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/prod...spx?path=644b2c836f65609cca01035f55fb7b97en02
for $40 fucking dollars for something I am only going to watch once.
tl;dr Anyone know of a website that rents out blu-rays?
edit: I know of some, just wondering if anyone here is using one.
So, Canadians, specifically Ontario, where can I go to rent blu-ray's. I am assuming brick and mortar is out of the question? I refuse to buy blu-rays
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/prod...spx?path=644b2c836f65609cca01035f55fb7b97en02
for $40 fucking dollars for something I am only going to watch once.
tl;dr Anyone know of a website that rents out blu-rays?
edit: I know of some, just wondering if anyone here is using one.
Well, this may not do you much good, but I frequently borrow blu-rays from the public library. Does yours carry them?
My Markham Public Library has close to 300 assorted movies on blu-ray in the catalogue and they usually add a few every couple of weeks. Of course there's usually a lengthy wait time for new releases, so your mileage may vary with this kind of thing I suppose, especially in this age of instant gratification via Netflix.
I'm just the right kind of cheapskate to take advantage of such a free service.
Incidentally: http://markham.bibliocommons.com/item/show/321040034_up
I was with zip till I got fed up with things getting delayed or broken in the mail and then they raised their prices. They also have kiosks in Ontario and NS now. I haven't gone yet to see how dismal the selection is, but I think they said it was $2 for an overnight blu-ray rental.
Edit: Wow, wish my library had blu-rays, because I do love borrowing the DVDs for free. The sad thing is they sometimes have DVDs in the blu-ray+DVD packaging with a note that the blu-ray is unavailable. I wonder what they're doing with all those blu-ray discs they're evidently buying but not lending to people.
Edit: Wow, wish my library had blu-rays, because I do love borrowing the DVDs for free. The sad thing is they sometimes have DVDs in the blu-ray+DVD packaging with a note that the blu-ray is unavailable. I wonder what they're doing with all those blu-ray discs they're evidently buying but not lending to people.
Hero of Legend
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Luckily you're not in Quebec, so surely Rogers has them? I swear they do, though I haven't been in one for 2 years since the move from Toronto... :/
DJ_Lae
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I still really miss Blockbuster, especially their game pass. There's nowhere to really rent movies (or worse, games) anywhere in Victoria. The library is passable for the odd movie but actually finding what you want or sitting through the wait lists is painful.
I have a bunch of streaming options available to me, of course (iTunes, Optik, Zune, PSN) but anything with action scenes suffers from artifacting and looks like shit.
Every time I buy groceries in Oak Bay I get it rubbed in my face too - that Blockbuster location is still vacant.
I have a bunch of streaming options available to me, of course (iTunes, Optik, Zune, PSN) but anything with action scenes suffers from artifacting and looks like shit.
Every time I buy groceries in Oak Bay I get it rubbed in my face too - that Blockbuster location is still vacant.
Mikey Jr.
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Hear anything about dvdlink.ca?
They do blurays apparently, but I havent heard anything about them.
DJ_Lae
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I looked at them a while back, I think (there were a couple of other sites too, I believe) but initially figured they were likely located out east which would mean quite the turnaround time on discs.
I might give their cheapest plan a shot at some point.
UP was advertised at $20ish at FS or BB this week. Disney Blu's seem to be going on sale often lately.
Rogers no longer rents anything. There were huge store closing sales a couple of months ago. As someone else has mentioned, ZIP.ca is your best bet besides local mom and pop places. (Alternatively, you can rent any Disney title from me if you want, as I have most of em on Blu, lol)
BTW, I'm le tired of Theatrythm and going to sell it. Anyone want it for cost and free shipping? It's the LE with the stylus. I have yet to use the stickers or the Square Enix code, so it's essentially brand new. Just shoot me a PM.
Rogers no longer rents anything. There were huge store closing sales a couple of months ago. As someone else has mentioned, ZIP.ca is your best bet besides local mom and pop places. (Alternatively, you can rent any Disney title from me if you want, as I have most of em on Blu, lol)
BTW, I'm le tired of Theatrythm and going to sell it. Anyone want it for cost and free shipping? It's the LE with the stylus. I have yet to use the stickers or the Square Enix code, so it's essentially brand new. Just shoot me a PM.
firehawk12
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Your only other alternative is to find one of those zip.ca kiosks. Although I hear they only stock new releases now.
Disney discs go up in price pretty quickly though. That's just one of the things that they do. :/
Disney discs go up in price pretty quickly though. That's just one of the things that they do. :/
Mikey Jr.
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Not sure. Can't remember the last time I went to a library. But you hit the nail on the head with the problem with that. Wait times.
Were those for dvd's? How was the blu-ray selection?
Rogers stopped renting stuff aswell like Blockbuster. You would think with Blockbuster going out, Rogers would keep up with it since they would pretty much have a monopoly. But nope. Not sure why they got out to be honest.
East would be great for me.
Heh, thanks for the offer, but I was just using UP as an example. I want to really start watching movies again (I stopped about 5 years ago, and missed a LOT of movies. I focused on tv and videogames for entertainment.) But UP just shows that if you want to see that movie, right now, you would have to spend $40. If you want to see it in nice quality of course. I want to see the movie 21 jump street. The only way to see it on blu-ray is to buy it and it sells for $25. That is too much for a movie I intend on watching once.
Hmmm. I guess its between a kiosk, zip.ca, and dvdlink.ca.
Zip and dvdlink both have free trials. I'll check them out then I'll write a review on them.
Sad that this is what it has come to.
You can also rent the videos from itunes in semi HD quality for pretty cheap. Something like 21 Jump Street will look just as good in 480p as it's not animation or a big budget action movie.
shira
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They changed to 2 gb "unlimited"
shira
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Zip.ca
PROS
is better if you are closer to Ottawa.
DVD selection - lots of obscure and art films
CONS
They seem to have built their library only on DVD's.
The cost of +$1 per blu-ray is ridiculous.
Almost no 3D titles
DVDlink.ca
PRO
has games too wii/360/ps3, obscure games too (Zack and Wiki)
very good if you live in BC.
Price and selection make it worth it if you want 2 or more of anything.
Plus they have a better selection of 3D.
Blu-rays are no extra charge.
CONS
BC takes 3-5 days shipping from eastern Canada
Need to pay for 2 or more discs package
PROS
is better if you are closer to Ottawa.
DVD selection - lots of obscure and art films
CONS
They seem to have built their library only on DVD's.
The cost of +$1 per blu-ray is ridiculous.
Almost no 3D titles
DVDlink.ca
PRO
has games too wii/360/ps3, obscure games too (Zack and Wiki)
very good if you live in BC.
Price and selection make it worth it if you want 2 or more of anything.
Plus they have a better selection of 3D.
Blu-rays are no extra charge.
CONS
BC takes 3-5 days shipping from eastern Canada
Need to pay for 2 or more discs package
Zip has a facility in Ottawa. It's where 90% of the titles I got came from.
When I was with them I never got charged anything extra for Blu Rays? I just paid the monthly fee and took out as many DVD/BR's as I wanted.
Hero of Legend
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It was a US retailer had it priced at 10 bucks.
Yeah that's the deal I really wanted to find, but for ~$20 I'll bite. Almost all the the games I've bought for Vita have been on sale. I feel bad about that, but I just can't get over the mental hump of $40 portal games.
shira
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Yeah, $1 per blu-ray when they already raised the base prices of their monthly rental plans is ridiculous. I would consider paying the $2 for an overnight blu-ray rental, if they had anything I wanted in the kiosks: at least I wouldn't have to worry about Canada Post taking their sweet time with it or breaking it. I swear someone was opening my DVDs and watching them before they delivered them to me, because it shouldn't take 9 days for a DVD to get from Ottawa to Halifax that often, and a few times I could totally tell the envelope had been opened -- pretty freaking annoying when it limits how many rentals you can get in a month.
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
so in
edit: actually, I'll wait till a 10% sale. the 800RZ isn't going anywhere.
So happy we still got our local Mom and Pop video store that's not going anywhere. I've been going to them for about 15 years now. Maybe even longer. Moved for 4 years and returned recently to find they are still going strong since they are literally the only store to rent BR at now.
Nealand Liquor
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Future Shop has a ton of crazy deals:
Uncharted $10
Tiger woods 13 move bundle $45
MSG4 $7
Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.
Uncharted $10
Tiger woods 13 move bundle $45
MSG4 $7
Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.
Is that from a new flyer? MSG4 is still $15 on the site.
$150 at EBGames, I believe. Sale ends tomorrow.
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