I got a Toshiba A2 HD-DVD player for $59 (plus tax) at WalMart in Oxford, OH 45056. There were 2 on clearance stack, I took 1. Anyone interested in nearby area can take a look. I was only looking for a dvd player for its upconverting ability and i'm not intersted in its HD feature. It would be great to watch my old dvds now...
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TheKevMaster said:The Kev Master is wondering how the OP found a HD-A2 as opposed to the newer HD-A3? I saw the A2 here at WalMart on Colerain Avenue as well thats all they had.Gone now. Never saw the A3's. I just remembered WalMart was selling the A2 as a Friday special for 100.00 back in November last year, I believe. These are probably leftovers.
none of my 3 local walmarts have had any of these for a long time.....i was lucky enough to score the hd addon for the 360 for $12 a few weeks ago at Kmart. i wish my walmarts had this tho, ive been looking for a back up player.
desynced said:Why do you think they're on clearance? Alot of stores are clearing out HD-DVD lately since BluRay is now the standard.
Lets not use words like "the standard". It beat out HD-DVD no doubt but Blu-ray sales are still absolute crap compared to DVDs. In fact, some leaked Wal-Mart memos have shown that they're actually floating around the idea of dropping Blu-ray because it just isn't worth the shelf space for them when compared to just selling DVDs.
VictorGuttmann said:desynced said:Why do you think they're on clearance? Alot of stores are clearing out HD-DVD lately since BluRay is now the standard.
Lets not use words like "the standard". It beat out HD-DVD no doubt but Blu-ray sales are still absolute crap compared to DVDs. In fact, some leaked Wal-Mart memos have shown that they're actually floating around the idea of dropping Blu-ray because it just isn't worth the shelf space for them when compared to just selling DVDs.
Yeah, but WalMart is a bizarre place to sell what is still "early adopter" media. If true (lots of untrue rumors and fake memos float in the Internet) I don't think that says anything about Blu-Ray's future. I remember back in 1987 when I bought my first DVD player. It was a 1st gen Sony that set me back $1000. Back then DVDs were $20-25, and the only place to rent them was Blockbuster which only had a smattering. It was slow going for awhile. The only reliable place to even buy the latest releases was online as BestBuy was always a few weeks behind. There are a lot of parallels between DVD then and Blu-Ray now. Blu-Ray will eventually outpace DVD just as DVD crushed VHS. Its not going to happen overnight. Look at how many people still don't even have one HDTV yet.
Yeah, but WalMart is a bizarre place to sell what is still "early adopter" media. If true (lots of untrue rumors and fake memos float in the Internet) I don't think that says anything about Blu-Ray's future. I remember back in 1987 when I bought my first DVD player. It was a 1st gen Sony that set me back $1000. Back then DVDs were $20-25, and the only place to rent them was Blockbuster which only had a smattering. It was slow going for awhile. The only reliable place to even buy the latest releases was online as BestBuy was always a few weeks behind. There are a lot of parallels between DVD then and Blu-Ray now. Blu-Ray will eventually outpace DVD just as DVD crushed VHS. Its not going to happen overnight. Look at how many people still don't even have one HDTV yet.
I doubt it, by the time there is 100% adoption of HDTV technologies, people will not be marching off to WalMart etc to buy plastic discs.
Blueray is a stopgap, and not as big of a technological leap that dvd was from VHS. I think that WalMart memo makes sense because honestly most people I know don't really care.
OT: I think the whole market is going in the wrong direction. What the problem is not the size of the medium, but the compression algorithm. If they used better compression to make higher quality using same medium, I think that's the next big thing. I think more people want to d/l (paying $1-$5) < 1gb movie that's high quality. I used to work for a now defunct company, that was developing that based on wavelet algorithm. I wish the industry would move more towards standardizing a better algorithm.
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