[kosovosteve]

Hi chaps,

I just wanted to tell you all about the situation I found my self in just this week. I have had my PS3 for 8 months now and am a very keen Blu ray supporter. I thought to myself, why not spread a little happiness this Christmas and buy my Dad a PS3 and some Blu ray movies. The problem I found is that on searching for the best deals on the net I kept comming across the Tosh HD DVD players. This would not normaly even cause a second look but I found myself being seduced by the cheap price and 7 free movies. I thought to myself why not buy my Dad a HD DVD player instead as I will save a bit of money and he will get 7 movies to boot. Before you guys go mad and try to tell me I am mad I went and got him a 40Gig PS3 and the Spidey Trilogy.

The point that I'm trying to make is that these deals that Toshiba are putting about are really getting people interested.....in the wrong format! I only chose Blu because I know better but many do not! this chrismas season is, as we all know, critical to the format war and I think that the BDA need to pull their sleeves up before HD DVD drag themselves back into the fight.

We do not benifit from BOGOF offers here in the UK so 7 free HD disks aswell as a cheaper player will entice people. Things such as region coding are hurting us also as we have to wait for months for the best releases on Blu. HD DVD titles can be imported easily usuallly at a reduced cost to UK prices.

Would it hurt to drop the region codes and hook us up with a few deals?

Steve