Many many Blu Ray BOGO offers over at Amazon.Com .. latest two are:

Buy One Get One Free - Starting at $14.95 (Titles include Die Hard 1 - 3 and Harry Potter 1 - 4)

Up to 50% on Disney Titles - Starting at $14.99 (Titles include Cars, Ratatouille and Pirates 1 -3)

I was at work earlier and couldn't post all I wanted

Warner shouldn't have gone the exclusive route, and consumers would've seen competition between the 2 formats drive prices down at a faster pace. And who knows what sales would've been like in 08 with aggressive price cuts!

Either way, I'm tired of shuffling through DVD's of yore, and disc media in general. In the end the, HDD(PC) wins for me!

PS--I have neither format primarily cause I don't have a dedicated 1080p set, just my 24" monitor, I stayed clear of this one

So far there aren't many HD-DVD or Blu-Ray titles I want to buy. I'm fine with upscaled DVDs and HD movies from HDNet until BR players (that looks to be the winning format) are cheaper.

Excellent decision by Warner. HD media has only a chance with one format. With two it's doomed for niche existence and lack of more obscure titles. I want a broad choice and the better technical specs of BR. Looks that's what we will get.

This is the reason Warner decided to choose a format in this war. The situation has become so silly that people weren't buying either format and on top of that it was starting to effect the sales of standard DVDs too.

Quote from Warner Home Entertainment president Kevin Tsujihara;



Ali

From thedigitalbits.com -

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/dc409afa-bd75-1 ... ck_check=1

Paramount & Universal are about to drop HD-DVD too. The format is dead

Ali

raam naam satya hai!

*yawn*

The only format I care for is WMV-HD, H264 and size of my hard drive!

Then you have to wait for legal HD downloads, record from TV or live off piracy.

As much as three choices, spoilt as we get

'legal HD downloads' - will only happen once the piracy underworld have created this market - very much like what happened with music. People seem to forget what Napster was and what I-Tunes is modelled on

'record from TV' - which is grey as it gets legally.

'live off piracy' - winner, since this HAS to be done to create the legal market. This intermediate optical medium (read HD-DVD, Blu-ray or any disk based media) is not going to last long, I would say half the DVD life and DVD is about 10 years isn't?

Ali

I'd rather have physical discs than to have all my movies and TV shows on a server, waiting for a crash, corrupted files, etc.

Even a 40GB PS3 for $299 as BR player is hard to beat till today imho! Fast upload/playback, SACD for 60GB, games plus network etc etc....Secrets home theater who did not rate it as dvd player too high in benchmark, crowned it with product of the year!

I'm with Awaaz--The voice of the future! Disc media is a thing of the past. Moore's Law! Technology is supposed to get cheaper, faster, higher power or capacity, and smaller over time, not remain the same...sure the casing is smaller.


Hm..generally, disk crashes are due to the spinning platters in the harddrives. Solid state drives are on the horizon! http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/sams ... varieties/
These are laptop drives! at 64gb! Imagine how much they can pack onto desktop drives....They can already pack this much onto Compact Flash drives, 64gb on CF!!

Anyway, even if there is a hypothetical crash, if you purchased them legally, I don't see why you can't re-d/l them from your provider.

I hear MS Marketplace via xbox is pretty decent? Anyone have experience? Netflix supposedly announced plans of HD downloads! If they don't have legal means, BDRips it is!!

Buy the 40GB PS3, you can do so much more with it as compared to a standalone blu ray player. You can surf the net, download and play games, trailers etc and load and play your mp3s on it! To me a standalone blu ray player doesn't make sense right now! If that is the base sony blu ray player (BDP-S300) in the picture, it can't decode some of the audio tracks on blu ray disks that the PS3 can.