Seeing Red - will you stock up on the inevitable clearance sales on HD DVDs? (1 Viewer)

[Demise]

I plan on picking up a fair number of discs at reduced cost. Will likely purchase a back-up player, too, when they're firesaled.

 

[Nick Graham]

I'm honestly hoping the prices of some import HD-DVDs go down. Some stuff is pretty universally regarded as superior to the Blu-Ray counterpart, or isn't available on HD or Blu in the US at all. Of course with all of them having friggin' DTS-MA tracks, I won't be doing this unless the Sammy combo player truly does end up decoding DTS-MA, and it's price drops due to the impending demise of HD.

 

[Vincent_P]

I thought HD-DVD and BD used the same blue laser?

Vincent

 

[Paul Arnette]

Nope. As long as studio support remains at 70% or more for Blu-ray Disc, I'm done with HD DVD.

 

[Seth T]

Not really. You put a DVD in, and the laser turns on to read it. It just turns the other one on instead. In fact, if you think about it, a dual format device like that could last even longer due to the read duty being split between two lasers when different formats are viewed.

I've had my HD-A3 about a month and have yet to purchase any DVDs. It came with two in the box and a mailoff for 5 more. I'm not into it for a whole lot of money at this point. As others have said, it's all about the movies. So when prices drop into clearance, I'll probably pick some more up as well.

 

[Terry Hickey]

Sure, if there comes the time that the format dies out, I'll pick up some, because my HD DVD player is operating very nicely, and I hope to continue using it for a long time like some of the forum members who still have their LD players.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Well, in light of today's big announcement, anyone still going to pick up some HD DVDs on clearance now?

 

[Walter Kittel]

Why not? I still play the occasional laserdisc.

I'll continue to purchase those HD-DVDs that hold my interest. I don't treat Home Theater as an investment; merely as an exercise in discretionary spending that provides great rewards.

- Walter.

 

[Paul Arnette]

My 'magic' price-points are $10 or less for single-disc HD DVDs, and $15 or less for double-discs. Otherwise, no.

 

[Brandon Conway]

'll probably be trying to find the following Universal HD-DVD titles at a discount myself, seeing as it may be a while before we see these on BD:

Army of Darkness
Billy Madison
The Breakfast Club
Happy Gilmore
Land of the Dead
The Last Starfighter
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Tremors
The War

 

[Stephen_J_H]

I'll pick up what I want, but mostly newer releases.

 

[Scooter]

I think in the "Deals" section there should be a thread for found blow out sales on HD-DVD related stuff.

For myself, I regret the format's demise. I favored it above BD...

que sera

 

[Patrick Sun]

We can probably accomodate a sticky for HD DVD blow-out deals once they materialize.

I'll probably pick up a few classics that I hadn't done so yet (but some are Warners, and I wonder how long it'll be to make it to BD, like for Casablanca, Forbidden Planet, etc).

 

[Jason Seaver]

Hell, yes. Not that there's a whole lot out there I want but haven't purchased, especially after that recent DeepDiscount sale on Uni titles.

Besides, I love my HD-A1 versus attempting to overlook my BDP-1000s shortcomings. Until I upgrade that thing (likely with the inevitable Toshiba combo player this fall), I'm still going to favor buying an HD DVD over a BD of the same film whenever possible.

 

[PaulDA]

I thought Forbidden Planet was also "blu".

I will look for bargains and titles that I think will take a long time to go "blu". I didn't think it would happen this quickly though, so I will be far less "aggressive" in my HD DVD purchases than I might otherwise have been.

 

[Patrick Sun]

I did a check on Amazon, and it seems like it's only HD DVD/SD DVD for now, but I think eventually it'll be blu since it's a Warners product.

 

[Chuck Anstey]

My price point is under $10 delivered but only for movies that I know I will watch at least twice as rentals for Bluray seem to be around $4-$5. Plus it will have to be something that would be improved by having it in HD if I already have it on DVD. "Animal House", "Caddyshack", and "Christmas Vacation" aren't any funnier in HD.

 

[PaulDA]

I have it in "red" and it is fantastic (if you're a fan, of course). If you're format neutral, it's worth picking up as I don't think many of the "red" only catalogue titles from Warner sold all that well so it could be some time before they surface in "blu".

 

[Doug_H]

I started picking these up from the early outers in January and will continue cherry picking. I am also planning on picking up another player. I wish the Samsung dual format player was more reasonably priced just to simplify connections so I may wait and see what happens with it.

 

[Jari K]

I picked up several Universal-releases (with 12.20$ etc, it´s hard to complain), but now when Universal goes Blu, I probably won´t buy any more of them.

I have skipped all the Warner HD DVD-releases and I don´t have that many from Paramount either (HD DVDs, I mean). It´s going to be blu for me from now on.