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Hi-Def Media Lovefest: The war is over and we can all go home.
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Broadbandito
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bune duggy said:
lol, so it did work for you? because im about to go try, and im comparing prices with amazon and basically if the 10% works its cheaper with the coupon over at bb otherwise its not
edit: actually its not a deal whatsoever for me. I can order these all for almost 10 dollars cheaper on amazon with free 2 day shipping (thank you amazon prime) kind of ridiculous at the price gap
Christoff Yurievich
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It worked but then, like I said on CAG, it depends on the cashier and how much they care. Just need to scan each coupon at the right time (during the first screen, not the coupon screen) and they'll both apply.
as a side, wth are the BB coupons never input into the coupon screen? So retarded and it really messes with the cashiers when I give them coupons. They always go to the coupon screen and I have to tell them to back out of there, like I'm their training manager or something. shit, man.
as a side, wth are the BB coupons never input into the coupon screen? So retarded and it really messes with the cashiers when I give them coupons. They always go to the coupon screen and I have to tell them to back out of there, like I'm their training manager or something. shit, man.
Broadbandito
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bune duggy said:
yea im just gonna keep sitting here on my futon and order them through amazon lol
edit: unless I can get The rock, Corpse Bride, Beerfest (24.99,14.99,14.99) 33 bucks for all 3 if the $20 and the 10% works
MassiveAttack
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Great article from this week's issue of The Economist.
Everything's gone Blu
Jan 12th 2008
From The Economist print edition
Warner casts the swing vote in the high-definition format war
IT HAD a green ogre and gang of huge shape-shifting robots on its sidebut that was not enough to ensure victory for HD DVD, one of two rival high-definition video-disc formats fighting to become the successor to the DVD. On January 4th Warner Bros, a big Hollywood studio that had backed both HD DVD and the rival standard, Blu-ray, said it would drop its support for HD DVD from June 1st. This tips the balance decisively in favour of the Blu-ray camp (see chart). Game over, said one analyst; HD DVD would now die a quick death, predicted another. Blu-ray's triumph seems almost inevitable.
For Sony, the leader of the Blu-ray camp, victory would be sweet indeed. Sony famously lost a similar format war in the 1980s, when its Betamax video-cassette standard was defeated by VHS, which won Hollywood's backing. This time around Sony had two advantages: it now owns one of Hollywood's biggest studios, and it built a Blu-ray drive into its PlayStation 3 games console, thus seeding the market with millions of players. Despite HD DVD exclusives such as Transformers and Shrek 3, sales of Blu-ray discs outpaced those of HD DVDs by two to one in 2007.
Warner's announcement came on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show, a huge technology fair that took place this week in Las Vegas. It threw the HD DVD camp, led by Toshiba and Microsoft, into disarray, prompting it to cancel promotional events and issue a statement saying it was evaluating next steps. Only two of the biggest studios, Universal and Paramount, remain committed to HD DVD. Paramount, which had supported both formats, abandoned Blu-ray last year after Toshiba offered it tens of millions of dollars in marketing incentives. But under the terms of its deal with Toshiba, it can resume support for Blu-ray in 2009and may be able to do so sooner if the deal has an escape clause. On January 8th Paramount said its current plan was to stick with HD DVD.
Blu-ray's victory would be good news for the industry, allowing it to unite to promote a single next-generation format as sales of DVDs start to decline (they fell by nearly 5% in America last year, the first ever year-on-year decline, and by around 3% worldwide). For consumers, most of whom have chosen to steer clear of both formats until a winner emerges, it would also be good newsexcept, that is, for those who have already bought HD DVD players. It is possible that HD DVD will live on as a data-storage technology for computers, suggests Eiichi Katayama of Nomura, an investment bank. But as far as the living room is concerned, HD DVD now looks like the new Betamax.
purnoman3000
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Man, I really have a love/hate thing going on with Amazon.com. They have all these fantastic deals, including the current one they have going on, that I would like to get in on but they fuck me up the ass as a canadian. The site charges 22$ shipping or so for an order, mindboggling. The more mindblowing thing though is that they actually ship them from within Canada from their distribution centre in Missasauga. 22$ for shipping within my own country, insane. It's not so bad in the BOGO sales as one of the free BR's covers the shipping charge but now all the cheap prices are negated by the shipping charge. Please Amazon, I want to give you money.
Warm Machine
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Is there a reasonably priced Blu-Ray stand alone player out there that has the proper/complete hardware spec. No PS3 as I want to be able to use my Harmony and the bluetooth remote portion of the PS3 drives me.
Just for the record I just finished up watching the 3:10 to Yuma Blu-ray and the video quality is very good. Some of the more up close character shots are not as crisp as I wanted but I think that might be the way the some of the shots originally looked when it was shot. Despite that it wasn't that grainy IMO, it was pretty crisp the rest of the way. I would give it 4/5 in video quality. However, that shouldn't matter as this is a really good movie that should be purchased anyway, whether or not the video quality is average or not.
Also, their was a post either on this page or the last page where someone talked about how Blu-ray should have finalized their specs at 1.1 instead of 2.0 and how all the HD-DVD features that people touted like PiP commentary and Web connectivity weren't "that big of a deal." First of, PiP is a big deal to me and is also a big deal to people that I know that also own HD-DVD's. It's cool to see directors and actors talk about the movies and it's even cooler to see a making of featurette run PiP like 300 and Batman Begins. So before you try to brush off the one thing HD-DVD had over Blu-ray, excellent PiP, you need to realize that a lot of people take special features into high consideration when they buy movies. You don't and that's your loss, but if I am paying a premium for HDM, then I expect my money's worth. Not crappy fox featureless blu-rays.
Also, their was a post either on this page or the last page where someone talked about how Blu-ray should have finalized their specs at 1.1 instead of 2.0 and how all the HD-DVD features that people touted like PiP commentary and Web connectivity weren't "that big of a deal." First of, PiP is a big deal to me and is also a big deal to people that I know that also own HD-DVD's. It's cool to see directors and actors talk about the movies and it's even cooler to see a making of featurette run PiP like 300 and Batman Begins. So before you try to brush off the one thing HD-DVD had over Blu-ray, excellent PiP, you need to realize that a lot of people take special features into high consideration when they buy movies. You don't and that's your loss, but if I am paying a premium for HDM, then I expect my money's worth. Not crappy fox featureless blu-rays.
Danne-Danger
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How's the PQ/AQ in Apocalypto? From what I remember of it, that movie should be spectacular in HD.RaidenZR said:
purnoman3000
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Apocalypto does look amazing but I got about 10 minutes into the movie before I said to myself, WTF is this shit? I'll have to give it a shot again soon.
Broadbandito
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my collection
Broadbandito
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justjohn said:
its still on topic, its kind of helpful too for people to ask about quality issues and such as well. plus its only like 2 or 3 pages out of 500 some
Forsete
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B-Ri said:
http://www.imediaman.com/download/mediaman/latest-version.html
The thing already supports videogames.
My PS3-collection
http://pici.se/pictures/liRrmnfPa.png
Broadbandito
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B-Ri said:
in the last couple pages. on mac its delicious library and windows its mediaman
Forsete said:
i see your ps3 with
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and raise you
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and
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Opus Angelorum
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Perhaps a new thread should be created specifically for people to post their collections?
in preperation for changing my body clock to stay up for the australian open tennis I didnt go to bed last night and I watched some movies i've been meaning to watch, 300 Blu-Ray (excellent film, excellent picture quality), Into the Blue Blu-Ray (suprisingly decent film with excellent picture quality, I just wish the lead lady was someone more attractive to make the most of the gratuitous slow mo shots) and Die Hard 4 standard def (watched this last and regretted it as I was missing HD, also that mac kid almost ruined the film for me, what a cunt)
I got 3 months free DVD rental online promo over christmas and I cashed it in and have Blade Runner Blu-Ray coming in the post, which I can't wait for.
I got 3 months free DVD rental online promo over christmas and I cashed it in and have Blade Runner Blu-Ray coming in the post, which I can't wait for.
SRG01 said:
Yes it does.
You can buy the Nyko Blu-wave IR dongle which works well or this guy's adapter which supports on and off with a little wire:
http://www.schmartz.com/product.sc?categoryId=1&productId=4
Opus Angelorum
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Does anyone know if the Blu-Ray version of Disturbia is region free (will it work on a UK PS3)?
Rabid Wolverine
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Opus Angelorum said:
Paramount were region free for Blu-Ray before going HD-DVD.
Should have no problems playing it.
Forsete
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Opus Angelorum
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Xater said:
Great site, thanks.
Gary Whitta
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Too much hassle, they should just let you bring in your old DVD copy and trade it in for the current retail value of that DVD against the BD price.captive said:
SlaughterX
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Dunno if it's been mentioned yet, but the retail price of all Toshiba HD-DVD players have dropped almost 50%. $150 for a really nice upconverting DVD player (that also plays HD-DVDs) isn't bad, espeically when you consider the 7 free movies, and the prices all other HD-DVDs will eb when the format actually dies...
OokieSpookie
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SlaughterX said:
You can get a good 1080p upscaler for 99 or less to be honest, but I think you will see the hd players drop even lower in a few weeks.
Gary Whitta
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I wonder how cheap HD-DVD discs will go before they disappear...
Picked up Pan's Labrinth on HD DVD yesterday. It's one FINE disc, and has much better special features than the BD version I hear. Too bad it's the last from New Line.
I heard that New Line isn't likely to print anymore copies of this disc so thought it wise to pick up ASAP, that and I had picked up two copies of the Bourne Ultimatim during BB's B1G1 sale in December, so I traded in an unopened copy for Pan's. Had to pay and additional $5, but it was well worth it.
I loved the movie and had already seen it four time on DVD, and it'll likely be a candidate for repeated viewings for years to come.
I heard that New Line isn't likely to print anymore copies of this disc so thought it wise to pick up ASAP, that and I had picked up two copies of the Bourne Ultimatim during BB's B1G1 sale in December, so I traded in an unopened copy for Pan's. Had to pay and additional $5, but it was well worth it.
I loved the movie and had already seen it four time on DVD, and it'll likely be a candidate for repeated viewings for years to come.
The Main Event
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thaivo said:
Same here. I just love the disc. I wonder what will happen to web updates on Warner and New Line HD DVD discs.
Gary Whitta said:
It doesn't seem to change much for now, but I keep looking at the sales thread on AVS and HDD. Got The Kingdom for $20. Can't go wrong with that.
polyh3dron
Banned
Been waiting on a bogo or something to get the aviator.. but I fucking love that movie.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
polyh3dron said:
There still may be a couple bogos, but I suspect that there won't be many, if any for awhile.
I do however, once all of this is over in may, expect MSRPs to drop a bit, if not then by fall.
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