HD DVD drive $119.99, movies up to 50% off

HD DVD-HD DVD-HD DVD-HD DVD!!

I will support it til it flat-lines!!

Who's with me?!! SCREW BR!!

The blogs and subsequent comments over at engadgethd are hilarious.

Hurry up and die HD-DVD. And will someone PLEASE make a 2.0 Blu-ray player (that isn't a PS3)??!!?

I don't understand the point of advertising this stuff. I mean,it's essentially going to be dead and out-dated,so why buy a player when movies are going to stop being made for it in the near future?

I still support regular DVD. HD content is too expensive for it's quality jump for me at this point. Get a 38 inch HDTV down to the $250 - $275 mark and i'll be in. Until then,fuck off.

I came close to buying an HD-DVD...I feel better without it OR the Blu-Ray though....what's wrong with DVDs? There was a giant leap between the VCR and dvd...I just don't see it between these other two.

"I mean,it's essentially going to be dead and out-dated,so why buy a player when movies are going to stop being made for it in the near future?"

Reasons: There are still movies for it right now. It's a great Up-Converting DVD player, and it's not going to blow up on you when/if HD DVD dies.


"Is this another sign that the high-def format war is winding to a close and Amazon is letting go of its inventory or are they trying to make room for that Blu-Ray add-on that we've heard Microsoft talk about?"

It's neither, these sales have been happening all the time. It's just a way to gain momentum for HD DVD. Nothing more, if any company was trying to stop selling or give up on HD DVD, they would publicly state it like Netflix did.

@AfroCelt

You are the majority. I've always thought that Blu-ray or HD DVD made a terrible mistake of keeping so closely to the DVD with the design of the Discs and the players that look the same. They should have scraped the whole backwards compadible idea and used a completely new format for the average consumer to notice. People converted their VHS to DVD, why would it be hard to convert agian? People want Innovation that they can see and touch, not innovation based on numbers and specs. 50GB doesn't mean anything to the Average consumer. Convience and easy of use is the consumers want. Neither format does that, long wait times, etc. It's really sad that you can base the entire player with the design of a dvd player, yet you have start times as slow as the first dvd player? People want to see quickness, the first dvd players were exceptable to people because it was the first ever, VHS didnt have the capabilities DVD had. Unforunately, people are lead to believe this is the NEXT-GENERATION DVD, so why is it as slow as the original dvd player? I truely believe that they could have waited a couple more years to release a new format, dvd isn't in a dead spin and probally won't be for awhile.

Make it free and i bet the HD DVD movie sales go thru the roof.

Damn it... This sucks. If HD-DVD dies, the attachment will be dead, meaning when I get my HDTV (Hopefully soon), I'm going to have to buy a PS3... Which I don't really want to do until I can say "Wow, those 7-8 games are amazing. I need them..".

*sigh*

What ever formats cheaper to burn wins for me.

the only reason why all that crap is going on sale is because they're just trying to get rid of it to make room for blu-ray.

if you are still buying movies for this you are a moron.
It's that simple

DVD ftw!

If it was built in to every XBOX360 it would of been a very different story but then again the XBOX360 would of been very expensive. If the could of manufactured the XBox360 with the HDDVD Built in for the same price Blu-Ray would be losing. To be Honest I like Digital Distribution but Dang it is expensive. I can rent DVD's for a dollar a day. Come on DD You need to come way down in price.

HD: Hardly Different

Its not just a sharper picture, its not just more screen size. The pixels are smaller, and there are more of them on the screen. 1920×1080. You simply see things on an HD screen that is not their in SD. Play GoW and on a pioneer and see what I mean.