Stores are waging a DVD price war

[Funk]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/..._dvd_price_war

And we get to benefit! I just pre-ordered my Star Trek DVD for 9.99 on Target.com with FREE shipping! I wouldn't even be able to walk into my own Target store and get it that cheap!

So, if you want to get new movies cheap, now is the time!

[Alzar]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

WHAT ABOUT BLU RAY

[John Mora]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

DVD is so passe~

[Funk]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

They're invoking a penalty on those that move on to new technologies before those technologies even close to being necessary.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

Thanks to this news I found out about the book price war, and so now I ordered Stephen King's new book for just $9 new. GO TEAM.

[Goufunaki]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

They need a Bluray price war! Especially this time of year.

[Perversion]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

They're invoking a penalty on those that move on to new technologies before those technologies even close to being necessary.

Blu-Ray is not quite, but almost a necessity with a high def TV. Standard definition DVDs look like ass on an HDTV.


It's like those older customers I get at work who are shocked to hear that DVD might be phased out soon, because they just got their first DVD played 2 years ago. It's like, DVD has been out for a decade now. You had a full decade to decide to purchase one.

[Sampson]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

It's like those older customers I get at work who are shocked to hear that DVD might be phased out soon, because they just got their first DVD played 2 years ago. It's like, DVD has been out for a decade now. You had a full decade to decide to purchase one.

Might be? Its already being phased out.

Blu-Ray's time will be short lived, if its ever the dominant format at all. Its going to go completely streaming or all digital download from here.

[d2king10]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

Might be? Its already being phased out.

Blu-Ray's time will be short lived, if its ever the dominant format at all. Its going to go completely streaming or all digital download from here.

This ^

[Vonwert]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

It would be nice to just have a hdtv. I am still stuck with my standard def tv.

[John Mora]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

Streaming/digital download is never going to completely replace Blu-Ray, in my opinion, because it's impossible to get the same quality of picture and sound over the Internet with the current infrastructure.

[Toaster]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

Anyone know what the average size of a blu-ray disc takes up? I think I remember hearing it had a capacity of 60GB, but I doubt that most of them even come close to taking up that much space.

[John Mora]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

Anyone know what the average size of a blu-ray disc takes up? I think it has a capacity of 60GB, but I doubt that they even come close to taking up the entire disc.

50 GB, if it's dual-layered. And some do.

[Toaster]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

50 GB, if it's dual-layered. And some do.

Enjoy downloading your 50GB movies and vidya games, wave of the future~

(I'm sure there will be a time where 50GB won't be that big, as 1GB used to be a lot one day. But for now? Hellll no.)

[John Mora]

Re: Stores are waging a DVD price war

Not as long as America's broadband infrastructure is so far behind the times! Fiber-optic lines with download speeds in the gigs would be nice!