Huge hd dvd sale at frys..heroes and battlestar galactica $10 each

if200 · 12-01-08, 06:02 AM

Plus many movies at $4.99 and up. Don't know how to put a link up. Maybe they will honor the prices they post. Shipping is expensive but still decent deals.

Happy shopping.

laidbacklarkin · 12-01-08, 08:43 AM

here you go (sorted by price):

http://shop4.frys.com/search?query_s...y&from=0&to=24

DVD Polizei · 12-01-08, 09:51 AM

Prices are still rather high for HD DVDs. Only a fraction are $4.99.

Come on retailers. Blow these fuckers out. I don't wanna see an HD DVD sale in 2012.

Pizza · 12-01-08, 10:06 AM

Thanks for the info. There are some good deals (of course, for the stuff I already got) but most of the titles are stuck at $12. Great price for the Heroes and Galatica box sets. I can't recommend Heroes enough. The picture is stunning and the first season was great.

smashthesymbols · 12-01-08, 03:23 PM

If shipping wasn't nearly $7 I'd consider Heroes. Good deal though for those that live by Fry's and can do store pickup.

IamLegend · 12-01-08, 09:00 PM

I'd have got Heroes but shipping kills it and time,gas and standing in Fry's lines makes pickup even less attractive...thanks for the post though

conehead433 · 12-02-08, 10:06 AM

I ordered 6 or 7 titles recently and the shipping was still only ~$7. Funny that anyone could complain about having to pay a total of $17 to get Heroes Season One or BSG on HD DVD.

ResIpsa · 12-02-08, 04:29 PM

Picked up five titles at the Fremont CA store. Heroes was marked at something like $25. A few titles were a dollar or so less than the online prices. "The Thing," for instance, was $7.99 instead of the listed $9.99 price. Sure, I could have waited a few more weeks/months for the prices to possibly drop to $5.99 or lower, but these were the last 5 titles that I would ever considering owning from those that were released on the format and now I don't have to spend any more time hunting for HD-DVD deals.

RobLutter · 12-02-08, 04:46 PM

I wouldn't count on them getting any lower... I had a conversation with an employee at the Fry's in Houston, TX a month or two ago about why the HD-DVDs weren't marked down more and he said that they move at the same rate at $10 as they do at $3.... extremely slow.

So why sell them for cheaper if they're going to just take up space all the same. I say them do the ol' Laserdisc / ET 2600 steamroller on them and be done with it, but that's just me

GMan2819 · 12-02-08, 05:35 PM

Price them at $5 each and throw in free shipping every so often and maybe they'll move. There's quite a few titles I still want if they're < $5.

Manzana · 12-02-08, 10:17 PM

Here's my story... I had ordered BSG and Heroes HD-DVDs from Borders, and those orders showed in process last I looked. After hearing of all the Borders cancellations, when I read that Fry's has them for $9.99, I did in-store pickup and got both of them there. I then emailed Borders to cancel my orders and received the email cancellations today. Who knows if they would've cancelled them regardless.

Then I opened up both sets and saw that disc 3 of BSG was covered with lots of fingerprints and concentric scratches... some of which were a bit deep. I cleaned off the fingerprints, but I'm worried the scratches may be bad enough to cause the disc to freeze sometime during playback. Unfortunately I don't have any PC HD-DVD drives, so I have no way of scanning it for errors like I can on a regular DVD. I also won't have time to watch enough episodes to get to disc 3 before Christmas (and I don't like watching series out of order).

Should I drive 25 miles to Fry's to try to exchange this disc before Fry's is permanently out of BSG discs or just hope for the best when I play it? I guess I'm really asking... just how deep can the scratches be on a HD-DVD before they affect playback?

g · 12-02-08, 10:24 PM

You can also contact Universal for replacement. People have reported that they replaced theirs as its a common problem with the set.

Manzana · 12-03-08, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by g

You can also contact Universal for replacement. People have reported that they replaced theirs as its a common problem with the set.

Do you think Universal's remaining supply of Battlestar Galactica HD-DVDs for replacements will last another month or two until I watch through disc 3? I would be surprised if they have that many set aside, especially with lots of other people needing replacements. Hopefully Universal wouldn't require me to send in the whole set because I'd probably get a different bad disc... unless it's usually #3 that's bad.

g · 12-03-08, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Manzana

Do you think Universal's remaining supply of Battlestar Galactica HD-DVDs for replacements will last another month or two until I watch through disc 3? I would be surprised if they have that many set aside, especially with lots of other people needing replacements. Hopefully Universal wouldn't require me to send in the whole set because I'd probably get a different bad disc... unless it's usually #3 that's bad.

You could phone their customer service line and find out. Have them send the mailer out to you. I think they may just want the one disk. Thats what it was like in dealings I had with them.

IamLegend · 12-05-08, 12:37 PM

is sale still on at Brick and mortars..will pick up Heroes still on sale..

runner001 · 12-20-08, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by g

You could phone their customer service line and find out. Have them send the mailer out to you. I think they may just want the one disk. Thats what it was like in dealings I had with them.

Does anyone have the phone number or the correct email address for me to email them? I just finished watching the BSG set and it freezes on disc five.

thanks!

stronghold7000 · 12-20-08, 04:42 PM

I wouldn't worry about HD-DVD titles being impossible to find - not yet anyways. I've bought pretty much all the titles i'm looking for on HD-DVD, and i've yet to find a title that I already own being hard to find. BSG1 especially.

Alan Smithee · 12-20-08, 08:20 PM

I was just at the store yesterday and nothing was 'on sale'- Heroes and BSG were marked $24.99. They've got a TON in stock though so these will probably have to drop to $10 eventually if they want to get rid of them all. Right now I've got them on order from Borders.com so I'll see if those actually come in.

GMan2819 · 12-20-08, 08:45 PM

Their website has BSG S1, Heroes S1, bundled with the XBox360 Add-On drive for $50. Without the drive, each set is $15 each.

howwon · 12-20-08, 09:54 PM

I had 6 movies in my basket, including heroes but they will not ship these movies to non-US based locations.

runner001 · 01-09-09, 10:01 PM

Sorry to bring this thread back but I didn't know where else to ask this question. If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know so I can get more responses.

To those that have contacted Universal about the Battlestar Galactica HD DVD set, what have you been offered for a compensation? I was offered season 1 plus my choice of season 2.0 or 2.5 or 3. Just wondering if I'm getting the same thing as others.

darkside · 01-09-09, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by runner001

To those that have contacted Universal about the Battlestar Galactica HD DVD set, what have you been offered for a compensation? I was offered season 1 plus my choice of season 2.0 or 2.5 or 3. Just wondering if I'm getting the same thing as others.

That is a better deal than I got. I got my choice of 3 HD DVDs (I took this offer, but the selection was weak I ended up with Van Helsing, Fast and the Furious and Time Cop) or Season 1 on DVD. I wasn't offered season 1 plus another season.

kenbenobi · 01-09-09, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by runner001

Sorry to bring this thread back but I didn't know where else to ask this question. If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know so I can get more responses.

To those that have contacted Universal about the Battlestar Galactica HD DVD set, what have you been offered for a compensation? I was offered season 1 plus my choice of season 2.0 or 2.5 or 3. Just wondering if I'm getting the same thing as others.

So they couldn't replace the bad disc, and offered you guys all that stuff instead?

melih69 · 01-11-09, 10:30 PM

they still got those 2 but it is $14.99 now.

darkside · 01-11-09, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kenbenobi

So they couldn't replace the bad disc, and offered you guys all that stuff instead?

They sent me a replacement set first try and it took months to even get it. When I did it was in worse shape than the set I set in and it was missing disc 5 completely. I contacted them again and they said they had no more sets to replace BG with due to all the replacements they had to send out and offered the other replacements instead.

12-01-08, 06:02 AM	#1
if200 Cool New Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 31	Huge hd dvd sale at frys..heroes and battlestar galactica $10 each Plus many movies at $4.99 and up. Don't know how to put a link up. Maybe they will honor the prices they post. Shipping is expensive but still decent deals. Happy shopping.

12-01-08, 03:23 PM	#5
smashthesymbols DVD Talk Special Edition Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 1,947	If shipping wasn't nearly $7 I'd consider Heroes. Good deal though for those that live by Fry's and can do store pickup. __________________ 2008 Horror Movie Challenge List \| 2009 Academy Award Challenge List \| 2009 Sci-Fi Challenge List 2009 Horror Movie Challenge List Unwatched Movie Pile

12-02-08, 04:46 PM	#9
RobLutter Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 466	I wouldn't count on them getting any lower... I had a conversation with an employee at the Fry's in Houston, TX a month or two ago about why the HD-DVDs weren't marked down more and he said that they move at the same rate at $10 as they do at $3.... extremely slow. So why sell them for cheaper if they're going to just take up space all the same. I say them do the ol' Laserdisc / ET 2600 steamroller on them and be done with it, but that's just me __________________ ~ Rob Lutter / www.orangeanime.com

12-20-08, 04:42 PM	#17
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12-01-08, 08:43 AM	#2
laidbacklarkin Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 407	here you go (sorted by price): http://shop4.frys.com/search?query_s...y&from=0&to=24

12-01-08, 09:51 AM	#3
DVD Polizei DVD Talk Hero Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: On the edge of sanity Posts: 31,257	Prices are still rather high for HD DVDs. Only a fraction are $4.99. Come on retailers. Blow these fuckers out. I don't wanna see an HD DVD sale in 2012. __________________ Blu-ray Titles: 121 \| HD DVD Titles: 309 "If you think you have the Swine Flu...relax...it's just gas." - DVD P Initial Body Weight on October 2008: 305lbs \| Current Body Weight: 215.5lbs \| Baseline Body Weight: 219lbs \| Net Weight Loss: 89.5lbs

12-01-08, 10:06 AM	#4
Pizza Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 814	Thanks for the info. There are some good deals (of course, for the stuff I already got) but most of the titles are stuck at $12. Great price for the Heroes and Galatica box sets. I can't recommend Heroes enough. The picture is stunning and the first season was great.

12-01-08, 09:00 PM	#6
IamLegend DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 2,244	I'd have got Heroes but shipping kills it and time,gas and standing in Fry's lines makes pickup even less attractive...thanks for the post though

12-02-08, 10:06 AM	#7
conehead433 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 394	I ordered 6 or 7 titles recently and the shipping was still only ~$7. Funny that anyone could complain about having to pay a total of $17 to get Heroes Season One or BSG on HD DVD.

12-02-08, 04:29 PM	#8
ResIpsa Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Hayward, CA Posts: 457	Picked up five titles at the Fremont CA store. Heroes was marked at something like $25. A few titles were a dollar or so less than the online prices. "The Thing," for instance, was $7.99 instead of the listed $9.99 price. Sure, I could have waited a few more weeks/months for the prices to possibly drop to $5.99 or lower, but these were the last 5 titles that I would ever considering owning from those that were released on the format and now I don't have to spend any more time hunting for HD-DVD deals.

12-02-08, 05:35 PM	#10
GMan2819 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Earth Posts: 887	Price them at $5 each and throw in free shipping every so often and maybe they'll move. There's quite a few titles I still want if they're < $5.

12-02-08, 10:17 PM	#11
Manzana DVD Talk Special Edition Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,792	Here's my story... I had ordered BSG and Heroes HD-DVDs from Borders, and those orders showed in process last I looked. After hearing of all the Borders cancellations, when I read that Fry's has them for $9.99, I did in-store pickup and got both of them there. I then emailed Borders to cancel my orders and received the email cancellations today. Who knows if they would've cancelled them regardless. Then I opened up both sets and saw that disc 3 of BSG was covered with lots of fingerprints and concentric scratches... some of which were a bit deep. I cleaned off the fingerprints, but I'm worried the scratches may be bad enough to cause the disc to freeze sometime during playback. Unfortunately I don't have any PC HD-DVD drives, so I have no way of scanning it for errors like I can on a regular DVD. I also won't have time to watch enough episodes to get to disc 3 before Christmas (and I don't like watching series out of order). Should I drive 25 miles to Fry's to try to exchange this disc before Fry's is permanently out of BSG discs or just hope for the best when I play it? I guess I'm really asking... just how deep can the scratches be on a HD-DVD before they affect playback?

12-02-08, 10:24 PM	#12
g DVD Talk Special Edition Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,996	You can also contact Universal for replacement. People have reported that they replaced theirs as its a common problem with the set.

12-05-08, 12:37 PM	#15
IamLegend DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 2,244	is sale still on at Brick and mortars..will pick up Heroes still on sale..

12-20-08, 08:20 PM	#18
Alan Smithee DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: USA Posts: 2,125	I was just at the store yesterday and nothing was 'on sale'- Heroes and BSG were marked $24.99. They've got a TON in stock though so these will probably have to drop to $10 eventually if they want to get rid of them all. Right now I've got them on order from Borders.com so I'll see if those actually come in.

12-20-08, 08:45 PM	#19
GMan2819 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Earth Posts: 887	Their website has BSG S1, Heroes S1, bundled with the XBox360 Add-On drive for $50. Without the drive, each set is $15 each.

01-09-09, 10:01 PM	#21
runner001 DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NY Posts: 2,011	Re: Huge hd dvd sale at frys..heroes and battlestar galactica $10 each Sorry to bring this thread back but I didn't know where else to ask this question. If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know so I can get more responses. To those that have contacted Universal about the Battlestar Galactica HD DVD set, what have you been offered for a compensation? I was offered season 1 plus my choice of season 2.0 or 2.5 or 3. Just wondering if I'm getting the same thing as others. __________________ Wii Friend code: 5228 8198 0063 7157 SSBB code: 0903-2413-9219 MK code: 5198-3237-4176

01-11-09, 10:30 PM	#24
melih69 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 457	Re: Huge hd dvd sale at frys..heroes and battlestar galactica $10 each they still got those 2 but it is $14.99 now.