Microsoft just lowered the price on the HD DVD player for the Xbox 360 only a few days ago. However, Best Buy doesn’t seem too impressed by the $179.99 price tag and has decided to offer it at an even lower price.
According to the Best Buy website you can get your own for $149.99. Granted, that’s only a $30 savings, but thirty bucks is thirty bucks. So far, Best Buy is the only store listing the HD DVD player for this low price.
Microsoft announced $20 price drop for Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on and will start selling it for $179 on 1st of August. Buyers will also get five HD DVD titles with purchase of the HD DVD drive add-on. The five titles deal is a mail-in offer similar to the one Sony offers for its Blu-ray player.
Xbox 360 HD DVD drops to $179, tempts with 5 free movies [via destructoid]
Still not sure which HD format is going to come out on top? Don’t worry, I don’t think any of us know for sure. If you want to play it safe and get something that’s going to play both, check out the new BD-UP5000 from Samsung.
Today Toshiba announced their latest addition to the Qosmio line with the new G45-AV680. This marks their first US model to include an HD-DVD drive and full 1080p playback resolution.
I really love numbers, they are so great to use when persuading people to believe something that may or may not actually be true. Remember when we told you that HD DVD was kicking ass and taking names over in Europe? According to that study, HD DVD players were outselling their Blu-ray competition 3:1. Now the Blu-ray Disc Association has their say on the matter.
There has been a rumor floating around the interweb about a Toshiba HD DVD player that will be sold for $99 with 3 free movies. While the rumor is in fact true, it’s not without a catch.
So Blockbuster decided to select Blu-ray as their choice of which HD format to carry in their stores. The HD DVD group isn’t worried, as they have inked a deal with Amazon that will likely bolster the sales of their own HD format.
If you were hoping to a sort of truce between the two Hi-Def disc formats in the form of Warner’s Total HD disc, you’ll have to wait a little while.
We haven’t had any good news on the battle for the next great disk format in a while, so here’s your fix. The HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360 has sold more units than standalone players.
Blu-ray certainly taking a market leap after Blockbuster decided to roll out Blu-ray to its 1,700 stores in US starting July. However, Blu-ray will not be the only format Blockbuster will offers, it will continue to stock HD DVD online and in its 250 stores.
Blockbuster will continue to monitor the renting pattern of its customers. Of course the HD DVD Promotional Group is not happy with Blockbuster’s decision.
I personally think that once hybrid HD-DVD and Blu-ray players hit the market with affordable price tag, most consumers would care less about the format.
Blockbuster puts its money on Blu-ray [via reghardware]
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