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News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:07 pm

Seibertron.com has just got info on a sale going on with the online retailer iNetVideo.com.

The video sales site is selling the HD DVD two disc special edition of Transformers the live action movie for 90% off! Yes, 90% off.

$3.99 USD is the price tag on this flick with a shipping cost of $2.50.

Could this be a direct affect from the mass popularity brought on be the BluRay release of the film? Who knows? But anyone with HD DVD can get a dirt cheap copy of the blockbuster movie of 2007.

To view the listing click here.

News Credits: 1 · by **Switchpoint** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:15 pm

Well crap!! I'm sure glad I bought mine last November for $30.

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:16 pm

Omgroflhddvd.

by **Koloth** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:25 pm

Nope, this is a direct result of the massive death of HD-DVD. They had some left over and figured "what the hell, might as well try to clear some shelf space."

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:29 pm

Good thing ive got an xbox 360 isnt it?

Ill purchasing the crap out of that...

News Credits: 1 · by **Absolute Zero** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:35 pm

To bad no one owns HD players anymore. Bluray won.

News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:53 pm

Absolute Zero wrote:To bad no one owns HD players anymore. Bluray won.

Or did it?

Blu-ray market share on the decline?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10050918-1.html

Blu-ray Market Share Drops, Sony Pushes End-of-Year Sales
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007792.html

Blu-ray's market share has almost doubled since HD DVD's demise
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/25/bl ... ds-demise/

I'm an owner of an HD DVD player. I bought it because I thought it was a cheap alternative for next gen DVDs. I'm pretty sure that Blu-Ray is not the next leap from DVDs. The average consumer seems pretty happy with traditional DVDs, especially with DVD players that upconvert the quality. Regular DVDs look just fine on my 56" Samsung DLP on an HD DVD player.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:48 pm

Anyone know where I can get a copy on Betamax or Laserdisc?

by **King Slick** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:46 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:Anyone know where I can get a copy on Betamax or Laserdisc?

I am having a hard time finding the soundtrack on 8-track.

by **Koloth** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:07 pm

Seibertron wrote:Regular DVDs look just fine on my 56" Samsung DLP on an HD DVD player.

And they would look just as good on a blu-ray player. Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray players did upconverting. The difference is Blu-ray movies are still being released. Personally while I still buy DVDs most new movies I do get I get on Blu-ray.

Ironman is far better on blu-ray than on DVD, as is Transformers even with the up conversion. The sound and picture quality both are much improved.

As for blu-ray market share and its slow growth there are a few things to consider. First Blu-ray is only about 2 years old. DVD didn't really hit its stride until about the third year after its release. Second we are hitting economic ard times. Now is not the time that the vast majority of people are going to be upgrading their entertainment systems. Lastly HD in general has been a slow build. Again most people either don't see the point of it or don't want to spend the money if they already have a perfectly good TV. As many times as i have tried to convince my grandmother to upgrade from a 36" SDTV to a 42" or 46" HDTV the majority of the time the responce I get is either "why" or "it is only 6 years old". She like most people isn't going to upgrade unless the current TV breaks, or you can convince her that there is a legitimate reason beyond because it looks better.

News Credits: 56 · by **BlackMagnus** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:40 pm

King Slick wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:Anyone know where I can get a copy on Betamax or Laserdisc?

I am having a hard time finding the soundtrack on 8-track.

I have it on vinyl, want me to make you a mix tape?

by **Galvatron628** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:53 am

Most places that have any HD-DVD's left sell them at a price of about $5 anyway. There's a lot of good movies on HD-DVD and I honestly can't tell a difference in quality between the 2 rival formats. About has me tempted to get an HD-DVD/Blu-ray combo drive for my HTPC!