HD-DVD player and movies for $80, would you?

[radagast]

Originally Posted by Zman2k2

I have a chance to buy a Toshiba A3 and 5 movies from a guy locally for $80. I guess he's moving on to BR. I'm thinking though, that I could buy the player and take advantage of the HD-DVD firesale going on now, and pick up some good movies for pretty cheap.

What firesale? Only a few movies can be found below $10 and I wouldn't want any of them. Any movies I would want are still too expensive for a dead format. And in case anyone wants to argue that point, consider this: regular DVDs SHOULD BE more expensive than hd-dvds. SD DVDs are playable on a very large number of players whereas hd-dvds are playable on a relatively small number of players. So, the demand should be higher for SD DVDs and the price therefore higher.

Right now the studios, or the distributors that put out hd-dvds haven't figured out that they ALL should be going for well under $10. Except special boxsets of course. They should ALL be around $20.