HD DVD Add-on Player Sold Out At Amazon!

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Xbox 360 HD DVD Player sold out at Amazon.com
Published: 1 hours ago; 10:03am PDT
by Marcus Lai

Xbox 360 owners have nabbed enough Xbox 360 HD DVD Players to sell out the initial allocation at Amazon.com.
The $199 external option, due out on Nov. 7, will allow owners to play new HD DVD format high-definition flicks.

The item ranked No. 2 last week at Amazon.com's Computer & Video Games Top-Sellers.

Amazon.com published an apology to customers for the sell-out status and requests that interested buyers sign up for an e-mail notification when the item is back in stock.

The first allocation of Xbox 360 HD DVD Players will include a copy of Peter Jackson's King Kong on HD DVD and an Xbox 360 Universal Remote Control.

Microsoft this week dropped an Xbox Live to Xbox 360 owners to allow the console to play movies and games in 1080p, the holy grail resolution for high-definition enthusiasts.

Microsoft has sold 6 million Xbox 360 consoles to worldwide markets to date

As expected, this has been making its rounds like wildfire amongst the Xbox fanboys and HD-DVD fanboys.

It's nice news, but what was the allocation of units to Amazon?

Here's a hint: A whole hell of a lot less than the 400,000 PS3's coming out by year's end, for starters.

But don't tell them that. Suddenly, even though the PS3 was being bashed and "isn't going to be that important in the format war" you guessed it...HD-DVD is well on its way to sure victory because of this earth shattering news.