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Amazon has e-mailed me that they are canceling my HD DVD orders for There Will Be Blood and for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead with the following statement: "Though we had expected to be able to send this item to you, we've since found that it is not available from any of our sources at...

No matter what I put in my shopping cart at Amazon, it shows only a $0.20 discount. Is anybody else having this problem? Previously I was getting the 10% discount regularly. Are they going to end this at the end of 2007? Is it still working at all? Thanks for any insight.

The WSJ technology columnist Walt Mossberg has added his two cents to the fray, but adds no new insight: http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html

There are posts on Amazon which say that these two disks will not play. They make reference to the AVS forum, which I checked. There some folks report problems with them and the 360 add-on and some say the A2 has a problem with them. Mine got bounced back to Amazon by the USPS because the USPS...

The package says 2.35:1 widescreen DVD format, or some such. This usually means unenhanced I find. It certainly doesn't say "enhanced for widescreen" or "16x9." Although the review at movies.insidepulse.com (found through IMDB) says it is anamorphic, I don't know how reliable this site is. A...

This week Best Buy had an insert in our local newspaper (and I assume everywhere else they sell) stating that all SciFi and Horror DVD's will be "on sale" Thursday through Saturday (maybe Sunday). Anyhow, the ad gave no further details. The handwritten signs in the store also just said they were...

I received the following e-mail today:

I don't know what this could suggest other than the fact that Dreamworks has a lot of pull, but I saw a strange ad on TV the other night for Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron which was somehow a Wal-Mart tie-in. The intriguing thing about it was, of course, that it was nicely letterboxed. Maybe...

From DVDFile:

See this (yipee) http://www.thedigitalbits.com/rumormill.html

DVD Review says this is not enhanced for 16x9, and the package certainly doesn't mention it. However, DVD File says that it is indeed enhanced, in spite of the labeling. Has anyone here had a chance to screen this and determine how it is encoded? Thanks for your help.