The HD DVD Fire Sale Thread

[The Don]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Big PS/3 game?



Gary

ahh a game is fine...I kind of considered a huge announcement to be a price cut...

[gamer4eva]

yeah keep on cutting the prices thats all you can do...................... and get some stupid ppl in your camp who will be watching shitty ass HD-DVD movies on their standard def TV LOL .............................. i know 1 guy

[shug7272]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

I really think microsoft doesn't care that much. just look at how much they could have helped out hd dvd, but havn't.

MS does care. The minute HD DVD goes under that makes Blu Ray THE next gen DVD. That gives the PS3 a HUGE advantage that MS does not want it to have.

[Spankey]

“I can tell you this… On June 11th PlayStation nation will be smiling wide, because they are gonna have something the 360 people can only dream of and it was real time!!! …real time im tellin ya!!

Maybe it's World of Warcraft for the PS3

[JTK]

Originally Posted by sltmag

Maybe it's World of Warcraft for the PS3

Tough to imagine playing something like that on a console unless they enable full KBM support, among other things.

Frankly, I'll be letdown if that's the case. WoW is very popular on the PC, but it's old news. Most of the people that wanted to play WoW are playing it by now.

I'm not sure how many more people out there would really go ga ga over WoW on the PS3.

So it's June 11. When is this news supposed to finally come out?

[Weez_Dawg]

Originally Posted by sltmag

Maybe it's World of Warcraft for the PS3

We are a little off topic and maybe a new thread should be made, but here is my guess....Starcraft anyone??? It is June 12th in Guam. I am really excited now because I have heard nothing of this till today.

[JTK]

Originally Posted by Weez_Dawg

We are a little off topic and maybe a new thread should be made, but here is my guess....Starcraft anyone??? It is June 12th in Guam. I am really excited now because I have heard nothing of this till today.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=9643

[bluflu]

Originally Posted by Weez_Dawg

We are a little off topic.

It's because the unknown announcement is more interesting.

[dgator783]

sony has gone HD DVD......the sales figures have finally convinced them to scrap that crazy blu ray idea and go with a format that is so super superior.......then I wake up from the nightmare, realizing ti was just a dream!

[blublublu]

Looks like the price cuts are paying off for Toshiba.

They now have 150,000 standalones sold, up from 100K a couple of months back.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/s...e,119772.shtml

These reductions are getting too tempting for a lot of people.

[bluflu]

Originally Posted by blublublu

Looks like the price cuts are paying off for Toshiba.

They now have 150,000 standalones sold, up from 100K a couple of months back.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/s...e,119772.shtml

These reductions are getting too tempting for a lot of people.

Wouldn't surprise me if most of the additional 50K are replacements for defective merchandise. Toshiba isn't exactly know for making the most reliable HD player.

[Esox50]

Originally Posted by blublublu

Looks like the price cuts are paying off for Toshiba.

They now have 150,000 standalones sold, up from 100K a couple of months back.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/s...e,119772.shtml

These reductions are getting too tempting for a lot of people.

And yet they cannot gain on software sales. Things that make ya go hmmm!!!

[blitz6speed]

Originally Posted by Esox50

And yet they cannot gain on software sales. Things that make ya go hmmm!!!

Most of the people will buy 1-2 movies theyve been wanting (which shockingly tends to have Batman Begins in there somewhere), and then wait for their free movies and netflix. The die hard buy tons of movies guys already have their players.

[JTK]

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=7648

^^ I guess the firesales haven't been working out real well for Toshiba.

[Longshot]

Originally Posted by JTK

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=7648

^^ I guess the firesales haven't been working out real well for Toshiba.

Someone you should send a copy of that article to those clowns at Universal.

This is great news for BD supporters. When your competition cuts their prices to the bone and still has to lower sales projections by 50% they (Toshiba) are in big trouble.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by blublublu

Looks like the price cuts are paying off for Toshiba.

They now have 150,000 standalones sold, up from 100K a couple of months back.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/s...e,119772.shtml

These reductions are getting too tempting for a lot of people.

The 100K was for the US. The 150K number doesn't say. It could be worldwide. Toshiba is prone to using numbers in such a way to maximize the impact.

The 1 million target is worldwide.

Gary

[The Don]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

The 100K was for the US. The 150K number doesn't say. It could be worldwide. Toshiba is prone to using numbers in such a way to maximize the impact.

The 1 million target is worldwide.

Gary

when you're in statistics...and someone wants you to come up with the figure...

the usual response by the person creating the numbers is...

"what do you want the numbers to say?"

[deathscripture]

Ran a search, didn't see it.

I thought this was funny. They are just giving them away now. I don't want one, but if I was in the market for a new TV set I would take it. It'd be funny if someone went in there for a TV and told them that they didn't want the player.



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[CJS234]

wow...just wow....

[The Don]

it was mentioned that you can buy a HD DVD player for 199 I think with the addition of a Toshiba HDTV player....

I may have seen it for 99.99...but I could be wrong...

but for free?....hgfkihuoghiehklahahahahahaa