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Hi-Def Media Lovefest: The war is over and we can all go home.
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Dot50Cal said:
I don't know if it's been proven, but you can read more about the issue here: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=831181&highlight=traffic
DarthWaiter
Banned
my Blu-Ray collection is growing pretty nicely:
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
A Scanner Darkly
Blood Diamond
Die Hard
Die Hard - With a Vengeance
Die Hard 2 - Die Harder
Eyes Wide Shut
Kung Fu Hustle
Lost - Season 3
Mr. Brooks
Pixar Short Films Collection
Ratatouille
Reservoir Dogs
Robocop
Spider-Man 3
The Departed
The Fifth Element
The Prestige
The Shining
The Simpsons Movie
X-Men III - The Last Stand
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
A Scanner Darkly
Blood Diamond
Die Hard
Die Hard - With a Vengeance
Die Hard 2 - Die Harder
Eyes Wide Shut
Kung Fu Hustle
Lost - Season 3
Mr. Brooks
Pixar Short Films Collection
Ratatouille
Reservoir Dogs
Robocop
Spider-Man 3
The Departed
The Fifth Element
The Prestige
The Shining
The Simpsons Movie
X-Men III - The Last Stand
gray_fox224
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http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/251/bladerunner.htmlGuessWho said:
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Buy 2 get 1 free Blu Ray at DeepDiscount.
Definitely not on par with the HD DVD BOGO, but an offer nonetheless. I'm still trying to figure out which movies to get from Amazon. I'm thinking if I wait a few more weeks, I could get Pirates 3 and Rat on a BOGO rather than pay $19.95. Plus I definitely need to jump on Children of Men being offered on a BOGO for the first time.
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BTW, I was reading that Traffic thread, and it's a damn shame. Universal should really do a replacement program like Sony did with Fifth Element. And Josh Zyber, who writes all those level-headed posts on High Def Digest, should be ashamed for defending that garbage. Netflix shipped out Traffic HD DVD for me, and I'm not looking forward to that anymore.
Definitely not on par with the HD DVD BOGO, but an offer nonetheless. I'm still trying to figure out which movies to get from Amazon. I'm thinking if I wait a few more weeks, I could get Pirates 3 and Rat on a BOGO rather than pay $19.95. Plus I definitely need to jump on Children of Men being offered on a BOGO for the first time.
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BTW, I was reading that Traffic thread, and it's a damn shame. Universal should really do a replacement program like Sony did with Fifth Element. And Josh Zyber, who writes all those level-headed posts on High Def Digest, should be ashamed for defending that garbage. Netflix shipped out Traffic HD DVD for me, and I'm not looking forward to that anymore.
Skiptastic
Member
Just a random note: I came home from my parents place on Christmas Eve after spending the day there and checked my mail. I had a small package and a little note from the same place. The note was mentioning the fact that it might take until January to get my five free HD-DVDs. Then I opened the package. It was my five free HD-DVDs.
Wacky. :lol
Wacky. :lol
Skiptastic
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StoOgE said:
Shit, I forget, it's when Best Buy did the whole "Buy the 360 Add On, Get 300 Free" deal.
StoOgE said:
I called Toshiba last week and they said orders had been delayed because they "ran out of discs."
I'd mailed away for mine in late September and was told in mid-November that my order was "in the final stages of processing," lol. Like throwing some movies into a box with some bubble wrap requires surgical precision.
Anyway, turnarounds are slow but I guess we'll finally see our movies in January.
My Christmas haul in HD-land consists of the following Blu-Ray discs:
POTC:AWE
Ratatouille
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban (these last two are aka the only two potter movies worth a damn.
)
If you want to count PS3 games since they're printed on Blu-Ray media than I also got Ratch and Clank and Uncharted.
Watched a bit of Ratatouille last night and I think it looks freaking incredible. CGI always looked really good upscaled anyway, but the material really shines in HD, OMG!!!
POTC:AWE
Ratatouille
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban (these last two are aka the only two potter movies worth a damn.
)If you want to count PS3 games since they're printed on Blu-Ray media than I also got Ratch and Clank and Uncharted.
Watched a bit of Ratatouille last night and I think it looks freaking incredible. CGI always looked really good upscaled anyway, but the material really shines in HD, OMG!!!
The Main Event
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Got Stardust and Eastern Promises HD DVD.
Been really, really impressed with Universal titles lately. TrueHD tracks, and the bonus features are all in HD just like The Bourne Ultimatum. Add the web enabled features on top of it and you have one slick package. They are currently the best in terms of HD media presentation as far as I'm concerned.
I'm really hesitant to pick up a few BD and HD movies from the Amazon deals, since their shipping rate to Canada ($7.98?!?!) is killing me.
Been really, really impressed with Universal titles lately. TrueHD tracks, and the bonus features are all in HD just like The Bourne Ultimatum. Add the web enabled features on top of it and you have one slick package. They are currently the best in terms of HD media presentation as far as I'm concerned.
I'm really hesitant to pick up a few BD and HD movies from the Amazon deals, since their shipping rate to Canada ($7.98?!?!) is killing me.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
gkrykewy said:
I mentioned this sale about five pages back, but no one seemed to care. To me, this is better than the stale b1g1 Amazon promotion, because, even though you're in for five movies, it only works out to be about $15-$17 a movie (which is perfectly suitable) and you can actually pick out ones you want instead of the same friggin' 30 junkers that show up on discount all the time.
Whipped Spartan
Member
Just picked up order of the phoneix, the kingdom and eastern promesises from BB for $60. They are doing buy two get one free on non season/boxsets on HD DVD's in store.
I know it's been mentioned in earlier posts but DAMN.................HD DVD is owning the Amazon HD charts right now.
With the recent reduction of standalone player prices, I expected HD DVD software sales to improve slightly, but to completely surge ahead of Blu-ray in such a short period of time (albeit on amazon) is no mean feat.
I wonder what's going on?
With the recent reduction of standalone player prices, I expected HD DVD software sales to improve slightly, but to completely surge ahead of Blu-ray in such a short period of time (albeit on amazon) is no mean feat.
I wonder what's going on?
OokieSpookie
Banned
I am most likely going to put my 360 add on in the buy/sell/trade thread tonight.
360 add on, (still have the box with the UPC, also includes the receipt for the free movies which I never sent in)
Also will include the Heroes season 1, Shaun of the Dead, Batman Begins, Hot Fuzz, and King Kong.
Something like $150-$160 shipped.
360 add on, (still have the box with the UPC, also includes the receipt for the free movies which I never sent in)
Also will include the Heroes season 1, Shaun of the Dead, Batman Begins, Hot Fuzz, and King Kong.
Something like $150-$160 shipped.
OokieSpookie
Banned
DC R1D3R said:
Well gosh it couldn't be the often in the last two pages mentioned 19.95 + bogo sale going on, so it must be the aliens...
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
How much would you sell Shaun of the Dead for, ookie?
edit: and Heroes?
edit: and Heroes?
DC R1D3R said:I know it's been mentioned in earlier posts but DAMN.................HD DVD is owning the Amazon HD charts right now.
With the recent reduction of standalone player prices, I expected HD DVD software sales to improve slightly, but to completely surge ahead of Blu-ray in such a short period of time (albeit on amazon) is no mean feat.
I wonder what's going on?
simple: BOGO. Great deals = great sales.
plus, you are looking at relative data, not actual sales, so we have no idea what the actual disparity of sales is.
wait for the real numbers.
what it does show is that HDDVD is healthy and capable of very good numbers when the price is right.
I love how blu fanboys are just blowing off the recent sucess of HD-DVD as "well it's because their is a BOGO" and "a lot of people got players for christmas." I don't understand how this is exactly helping your argument because your basically conceding that since the prices are cheap, people are buying the product. No shit sherlock.
As a proponent of HD media in general I'm glad to see prices going down and as an HD-DVD owner, I am very happy that I can buy movies for cheaper than usual.
As a proponent of HD media in general I'm glad to see prices going down and as an HD-DVD owner, I am very happy that I can buy movies for cheaper than usual.
OokieSpookie
Banned
VanMardigan said:
YGM
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I just think Nielsen's is a better barometer for judging software sales success. Although it dose seem like HD DVD is managing to at least maintain its ratios despite the spike in Ps3 sales. David Vaughn pointed out that both formats are seeing record sales volumes, so that's good for HD disc media in general. Both formats are growing.
OokieSpookie
Banned
YagizY said:
Hd being big on amazon charts is nothing new or recent, but at the end of the day it is one retailer and never makes a difference when the numbers hit at the end of the week and even then honestly it really wouldn't matter anymore.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
OokieSpookie said:
Why are you selling it? Are you sure you want to do that? Think it through Ook! If you keep it you can keep an HD DVD player away from someone who might really want one. What if the person who buys it from you goes on to buy petrarca like amounts of HD DVD discs? Could you live with your conscience knowing you inadvertantly were the cause of hd dvd sales? I dont think the BDA would be very happy with you in slightest way. Don't do it man!
Your charts are meaningless.
- The screen grab chart is of just one day, and not even a full day at that.
- Charts from an interweb retailer don't mean jack. You've got to consider your demographics.
- There's a ton of sales data you won't get to see, unless you're a studio or a retailer.
You're going to have to take six months to a year into account when yakking about sales stuff. On top of that, there are other trends you don't have data for, like Christmas sales of players. It's logical that HDDVD stuff is on the rise right now - the players were cheap and people needed Christmas presents.
Back off a bit from the zomgNOW data from your interwebs and look at the bigger picture - there's not a whole lot of deviation from that viewpoint.
- The screen grab chart is of just one day, and not even a full day at that.
- Charts from an interweb retailer don't mean jack. You've got to consider your demographics.
- There's a ton of sales data you won't get to see, unless you're a studio or a retailer.
You're going to have to take six months to a year into account when yakking about sales stuff. On top of that, there are other trends you don't have data for, like Christmas sales of players. It's logical that HDDVD stuff is on the rise right now - the players were cheap and people needed Christmas presents.
Back off a bit from the zomgNOW data from your interwebs and look at the bigger picture - there's not a whole lot of deviation from that viewpoint.
Chiggs said:
Actually, the reason why this is notable is that HD has almost never been close to BD on Amazon charts, and that no HD or BD disc has ever held the number 1 slot in Amazon DVD sales previously.
Obviously its impact if any on weekly numbers is questionable, but to pretend it's par for the course is asinine.
It's also funny that this thread was built on a "takeover watch", waiting for the BD line for Amazon sales to cross the HD line, and that now Amazon sales are dismissed.
OokieSpookie
Banned
YagizY said:
I didn't see anyone try to spin it as desperation, but I also kind of skip around.
It is a bogo, it is no more and no less.
Not a bad time for one either considering gift cards and whatnot.
Now, pointing to amazon charts ...THAT I can spin as desperation...
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