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chris_617 · 11-02-2007, 05:06 PM

I'm a BD fan but I have to get this to replace my DVD player, and for....what the heck...Transformer!

Mitsubishi Wd73926 73" DLP
Sony STR-DA9000ES 200/ch 7.1 Receiver
Sony CX777ES 400 Disc multi DVD Player
Sony BDP-S1 Player
Toshiba HD-A2 Player
Sony Laptop PC for HTPC w/Gigabit ethernet
3Gb HDD based movies & music accessible around the house
Monster Power conditioner
Paradigm Studio 100's V3 & Center/Surr speakers
Velodyne SPl-1200 1000 Watts Sub

seto · 11-02-2007, 05:08 PM

Can we stop these posts please, we already have a whole bunch ranging on these topics. If you really feel the need to continue talking about this topic, please use the search function and post on already existing threads please.

Rathael · 11-02-2007, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_617

I'm a BD fan but I have to get this to replace my DVD player, and for....what the heck...Transformer!

Mitsubishi Wd73926 73" DLP
Sony STR-DA9000ES 200/ch 7.1 Receiver
Sony CX777ES 400 Disc multi DVD Player
Sony BDP-S1 Player
Toshiba HD-A2 Player
Sony Laptop PC for HTPC w/Gigabit ethernet
3Gb HDD based movies & music accessible around the house
Monster Power conditioner
Paradigm Studio 100's V3 & Center/Surr speakers
Velodyne SPl-1200 1000 Watts Sub

Good luck finding one.

Yesterday i looked on Best buy and Wal Mart sites in 15 states from the main cities perspective and some minor ones

NOT ONE had any in stock.

spam.curitiba · 11-02-2007, 05:09 PM

I sure the hell am not...the thing I find funny is about 60 to 75 percent of those players are going to be bought by people that already have hd dvd players...

an example.....

I talked to my friend that works at a walmart(they had 25) and he said 22 of them were bought by people that already had a player and wanted a second one.

BTBuck1 · 11-02-2007, 05:13 PM

I picked one up at wal-mart today to replace an upconvert player in my kids room. I figured I'd sell his 5 disc sony upconvert for $65-70 and onlye be out $30 plus i'll get another 5 free HDDVD's.

This won't equate to additional HDDVD sales for HDDVD format, it will mainly be used to play back his DVD's or if he wants to watch one the the HDDVD's in his room.

That said, I heard som hillarious conversation as I waited to get mine. and as I left.

While I was standing in line, two guys who already bought them were talking. A lady came by and asked "are these any good, or did you just get it cus it was cheap?" the guys chuckled a lil and said...just cus it was cheap. I wanted to laugh so hard but I was up next.

I asked for an HD-A2 (they had em behind the counter in the lay-a-way area. I paid for mine and started to leave. As I was walking out the lady who was behind me asked, "oh i'll take what he got" and the lady said oh one of these and pointed to the A2's the customer said "yeah the Toshiba DVR" I just chuckled with the A2 under my arm and headed out.

PS, not one person there had any movies with the HDDVD player. And I saw about 10 go out the door. I am guessing they had about 30 total

StilettoViper · 11-02-2007, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spankey

Another low post count member who bought a Wal-Mart special. The trend continues.

You still waving those Blu pom-poms?

What does post count have to do with anything other than prove you have no life and are a Fanboy sitting in mom's basement? Maybe people are coming here to be educated about Blu-Ray and are wondering what the deal is all around with these A2 sales? Post count doesn't mean anything. Have some respect for new posters and help educate them instead of blowing them off....

bwillcox · 11-02-2007, 05:22 PM

Well, if I wanted to replace an aging DVD player and wasn't yet ready to take the HD player plunge, rather than go to Wal-Mart (yuck) and stand in line to buy a brain-damaged HD-DVD player for $98, I'd simply buy an inexpensive DVD player to hold me over. I currently own 3 Blu-ray players (counting my PS3), but have also bought 3 Oppo DV-980H DVD players recently because they do SACDs and DVD-Audios also, *and* output the multi-channel digital audio over HDMI. I suspect one of these would be better for playing DVDs as well. (In '97 I bought a Toshiba DVD player and came to hate it...didn't keep it even 1 year as I recall).

JAGUAR1977 · 11-02-2007, 05:29 PM

All evidence suggests these are being picked up as second players and DVD upconverters, maybe 2/10 are 'new' HD-DVD owners who will spend cash on HD movies.

All of which will be swamped by the 40GB PS3.

Elandyll · 11-02-2007, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bwillcox

Well, if I wanted to replace an aging DVD player and wasn't yet ready to take the HD player plunge, rather than go to Wal-Mart (yuck) and stand in line to buy a brain-damaged HD-DVD player for $98, I'd simply buy an inexpensive DVD player to hold me over. I currently own 3 Blu-ray players (counting my PS3), but have also bought 3 Oppo DV-980H DVD players recently because they do SACDs and DVD-Audios also, *and* output the multi-channel digital audio over HDMI. I suspect one of these would be better for playing DVDs as well. (In '97 I bought a Toshiba DVD player and came to hate it...didn't keep it even 1 year as I recall).

You miss the point of it

The goal was to save a poor Joe-schmo from buying a HD DVD player, and then him have to buy HD DVD discs for it

plee · 11-02-2007, 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elandyll

You miss the point of it

The goal was to save a poor Joe-schmo from buying a HD DVD player, and then him have to buy HD DVD discs for it

It will be interesting to see how many returns Wally is gonna get...

I seen on "deal" sites that some are trying to turn around and ebay them, but I think like it was said earlier, "getting because it's cheap"

Blu-Nightingale · 11-02-2007, 06:23 PM

Just saw the holiday commericial from our leader in low prices and it is this moronic woman plugging how great her "low price" HD-DuD player was and how much her husband loves it and it would make an awsome gift for X'mas, blah, blah, blah. It really made me sick to my stomach...

Oh, by the way, this is my first post EVER, so hi everybody.

Blu owned: 43
Recent Purchase: Spidey Hi Def Trilogy, License To Wed.
Most wanted on Blu: Stardust (screw you Paramount!!!)

Cheers

E-Dogg · 11-02-2007, 06:26 PM

Welcome to the forum. Yeah, I had seen the commercial too. Complete crap and don't be too worried. They won't make HD-DVD any real profits or help them win the war that we are battling.

scook · 11-02-2007, 06:27 PM

Yeah I saw it to, a disgrace that there poisoning the general public with horrible information and faulty, cheap, low quality dud players. Toshiba is just Pitiful and sad hopefully eveyone sees this and doesnt fall for the gimmick.

Xerious · 11-02-2007, 06:32 PM

they had to cut out the part when christmas morning came and the dude was like "WTF is this, i told you i wanted a HiDef player not an piece of shit you c**t. get the f*uk out of my house!"

of course they would use a wal*mart woman to plug their shitty product. i like that little part where she said. an hd dvd player. a toshiba. as if there was anything else but.

tiger roach · 11-02-2007, 06:32 PM

Wal*Mart already gets as much of my hatred as I can possibly spare. Their HD-DVD fixation changes nothing.

Wal*Mart

clyon · 11-02-2007, 06:38 PM

I saw two adds yesterday, one was Toshiba with a cartoon cookie in it saying that 'it looked sooo goooood', I thought it was an ad for a new movie not a hddvd player.

2nd was the wally world ad: 'And it's a Toshiba!!' well who else makes hddvd player?? Not impressed but what do you expect from them.

dakota81 · 11-02-2007, 06:38 PM

My local Wal*Mart still had a palette full at lunch time, and 2 laptops.

BLackie · 11-02-2007, 06:39 PM

I went to walmart this morning early to pick up dog food and i went by the electronics and they had 23 people in line buying that crapy toshiba and all the HD DVD movie selections were gone

then i went to another walmart because that one didnt have my dog food and people were in line to!!! Im worried

Iceman_II · 11-02-2007, 06:43 PM

Don't be worried, there is a limited supply of the cheap players, and it is costing Toshiba out the butt to sell them that cheaply. Top that off with it costing toshiba for the free movies, and you can see that they are hemoraging cash.

JimPullan · 11-02-2007, 06:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bwillcox

Well, if I wanted to replace an aging DVD player and wasn't yet ready to take the HD player plunge, rather than go to Wal-Mart (yuck) and stand in line to buy a brain-damaged HD-DVD player for $98, I'd simply buy an inexpensive DVD player to hold me over. I currently own 3 Blu-ray players (counting my PS3), but have also bought 3 Oppo DV-980H DVD players recently because they do SACDs and DVD-Audios also, *and* output the multi-channel digital audio over HDMI. I suspect one of these would be better for playing DVDs as well. (In '97 I bought a Toshiba DVD player and came to hate it...didn't keep it even 1 year as I recall).

Shhhhh . . . now everyone will know about the Oppo. This is one outstanding player, agreed? It seems to have the best upscaling I've ever seen.

[Jim]

11-02-2007, 05:06 PM	#1381
chris_617 Junior Member Member since:May 2007	HD DVD for $98.97 @ Walmart, who will buy? I'm a BD fan but I have to get this to replace my DVD player, and for....what the heck...Transformer! Mitsubishi Wd73926 73" DLP Sony STR-DA9000ES 200/ch 7.1 Receiver Sony CX777ES 400 Disc multi DVD Player Sony BDP-S1 Player Toshiba HD-A2 Player Sony Laptop PC for HTPC w/Gigabit ethernet 3Gb HDD based movies & music accessible around the house Monster Power conditioner Paradigm Studio 100's V3 & Center/Surr speakers Velodyne SPl-1200 1000 Watts Sub

11-02-2007, 06:23 PM	#1391
Blu-Nightingale Member Member since:Nov 2007	New Wal-Mart commercial... WTF?! Just saw the holiday commericial from our leader in low prices and it is this moronic woman plugging how great her "low price" HD-DuD player was and how much her husband loves it and it would make an awsome gift for X'mas, blah, blah, blah. It really made me sick to my stomach... Oh, by the way, this is my first post EVER, so hi everybody. Blu owned: 43 Recent Purchase: Spidey Hi Def Trilogy, License To Wed. Most wanted on Blu: Stardust (screw you Paramount!!!) Cheers

11-02-2007, 05:08 PM	#1382
seto Senior Member Member since:Jul 2007 Blu-ray reviews:1	Can we stop these posts please, we already have a whole bunch ranging on these topics. If you really feel the need to continue talking about this topic, please use the search function and post on already existing threads please.

11-02-2007, 05:09 PM	#1384
spam.curitiba Expert Member Member since:Jul 2007 Blu-ray collection:172 Blu-ray reviews:2	I sure the hell am not...the thing I find funny is about 60 to 75 percent of those players are going to be bought by people that already have hd dvd players... an example..... I talked to my friend that works at a walmart(they had 25) and he said 22 of them were bought by people that already had a player and wanted a second one.

11-02-2007, 05:13 PM	#1385
BTBuck1 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jun 2006 Location:Oceanside, CA. Blu-ray collection:507 DVD collection:1	I picked one up at wal-mart today to replace an upconvert player in my kids room. I figured I'd sell his 5 disc sony upconvert for $65-70 and onlye be out $30 plus i'll get another 5 free HDDVD's. This won't equate to additional HDDVD sales for HDDVD format, it will mainly be used to play back his DVD's or if he wants to watch one the the HDDVD's in his room. That said, I heard som hillarious conversation as I waited to get mine. and as I left. While I was standing in line, two guys who already bought them were talking. A lady came by and asked "are these any good, or did you just get it cus it was cheap?" the guys chuckled a lil and said...just cus it was cheap. I wanted to laugh so hard but I was up next. I asked for an HD-A2 (they had em behind the counter in the lay-a-way area. I paid for mine and started to leave. As I was walking out the lady who was behind me asked, "oh i'll take what he got" and the lady said oh one of these and pointed to the A2's the customer said "yeah the Toshiba DVR" I just chuckled with the A2 under my arm and headed out. PS, not one person there had any movies with the HDDVD player. And I saw about 10 go out the door. I am guessing they had about 30 total

11-02-2007, 05:22 PM	#1387
bwillcox Member Member since:May 2007 Blu-ray collection:1	Well, if I wanted to replace an aging DVD player and wasn't yet ready to take the HD player plunge, rather than go to Wal-Mart (yuck) and stand in line to buy a brain-damaged HD-DVD player for $98, I'd simply buy an inexpensive DVD player to hold me over. I currently own 3 Blu-ray players (counting my PS3), but have also bought 3 Oppo DV-980H DVD players recently because they do SACDs and DVD-Audios also, and output the multi-channel digital audio over HDMI. I suspect one of these would be better for playing DVDs as well. (In '97 I bought a Toshiba DVD player and came to hate it...didn't keep it even 1 year as I recall).

11-02-2007, 05:29 PM	#1388
JAGUAR1977 Special Member Member since:Aug 2007 Blu-ray reviews:1	All evidence suggests these are being picked up as second players and DVD upconverters, maybe 2/10 are 'new' HD-DVD owners who will spend cash on HD movies. All of which will be swamped by the 40GB PS3.

11-02-2007, 06:26 PM	#1392
E-Dogg Expert Member Member since:Jun 2007 Blu-ray collection:159	Welcome to the forum. Yeah, I had seen the commercial too. Complete crap and don't be too worried. They won't make HD-DVD any real profits or help them win the war that we are battling.

11-02-2007, 06:27 PM	#1393
scook Senior Member Member since:Apr 2007 Location:Rochester, NY Home Theater Gallery:14 Blu-ray collection:171	Yeah I saw it to, a disgrace that there poisoning the general public with horrible information and faulty, cheap, low quality dud players. Toshiba is just Pitiful and sad hopefully eveyone sees this and doesnt fall for the gimmick.

11-02-2007, 06:32 PM	#1394
Xerious Special Member Member since:Mar 2007 Location:Washington, DC Blu-ray collection:238 Blu-ray reviews:4	they had to cut out the part when christmas morning came and the dude was like "WTF is this, i told you i wanted a HiDef player not an piece of shit you c*t. get the fuk out of my house!" of course they would use a wal*mart woman to plug their shitty product. i like that little part where she said. an hd dvd player. a toshiba. as if there was anything else but.

11-02-2007, 06:32 PM	#1395
tiger roach Special Member Member since:Aug 2007 Location:Houston, TX Blu-ray collection:141 Blu-ray reviews:1	WalMart already gets as much of my hatred as I can possibly spare. Their HD-DVD fixation changes nothing. WalMart

11-02-2007, 06:38 PM	#1396
clyon Special Member Member since:Feb 2007 Location:Just left of the Alpha Quadrant 4K collection:57 Blu-ray collection:824 Blu-ray reviews:8	I saw two adds yesterday, one was Toshiba with a cartoon cookie in it saying that 'it looked sooo goooood', I thought it was an ad for a new movie not a hddvd player. 2nd was the wally world ad: 'And it's a Toshiba!!' well who else makes hddvd player?? Not impressed but what do you expect from them.

11-02-2007, 06:38 PM	#1397
dakota81 Expert Member Member since:Apr 2007	My local Wal*Mart still had a palette full at lunch time, and 2 laptops.

11-02-2007, 06:39 PM	#1398
BLackie Member Member since:Jan 2007	I went to walmart this morning early to pick up dog food and i went by the electronics and they had 23 people in line buying that crapy toshiba and all the HD DVD movie selections were gone then i went to another walmart because that one didnt have my dog food and people were in line to!!! Im worried

11-02-2007, 06:43 PM	#1399
Iceman_II Expert Member Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Ft. Worth Home Theater Gallery:2 Blu-ray collection:308 Blu-ray reviews: 4	Don't be worried, there is a limited supply of the cheap players, and it is costing Toshiba out the butt to sell them that cheaply. Top that off with it costing toshiba for the free movies, and you can see that they are hemoraging cash.

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