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Old 07-02-12 | 06:49 PM
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Re: Amazon Blu-ray Discounts and Deals Thread #27

A.I. Artificial Intelligence for $10.95. I think this is a new low.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FECNIO/
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Old 07-02-12 | 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Todd B.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence for $10.95. I think this is a new low.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FECNIO/
It is indeed.
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Originally Posted by TimeandTide
It is indeed.
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Old 07-03-12 | 04:46 AM
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Re: Amazon Blu-ray Discounts and Deals Thread #27

Originally Posted by Todd B.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence for $10.95. I think this is a new low.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FECNIO/
I saw A.I. for $9.99 in-store at Wal-Mart.
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Before and After $5.57

Mr. Wrong $5.58

Flight of the Phoenix $5.68

Away We Go $6.62

The Amateurs $7.28

Brüno $7.34

Greenberg $7.37

Forbidden Planet $7.47
Next $7.47
Reindeer Games (The Director's Cut) $7.47

Tremors $7.73

Fistful of Dollars (1964) $7.83

The Duchess $9.45

The Dilemma $9.47

Chaplin (15th Anniversary Edition) $11.26

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Movie-Only Edition + UltraViolet Digital Copy) $12.99

My Bloody Valentine 3D [Blu-ray 3D] $14.58

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + UltraViolet Digital Copy) $14.99
In Time [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital copy] $14.99
This Means War $14.99
Project X (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + UltraViolet Digital Copy) $14.99
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The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series is now $179.99

This is the Gold Box Deal of the Day.
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Old 07-04-12 | 07:52 AM
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Re: Amazon Blu-ray Discounts and Deals Thread #27

$36 a season sounds pretty good, if you don't already own the set. MBV is tempting for the 3D, but I doubt I'd watch it more than once or twice.
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Old 07-04-12 | 11:01 AM
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I'm hesitating on the Twilight Zone set. It's a good price but I can't help to wonder if I could have better down the road.
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Old 07-04-12 | 02:09 PM
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Re: Amazon Blu-ray Discounts and Deals Thread #27

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I'm hesitating on the Twilight Zone set. It's a good price but I can't help to wonder if I could have better down the road.
Same here. Not a bad price a month after release, but I would hope it gets cheaper.
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Old 07-04-12 | 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
I saw A.I. for $9.99 in-store at Wal-Mart.
I went by my Wal-Mart last night, and, as usual, couldn't find jack crap. Fortunately, Amazon has dropped their price to $9.96 to match walmart.com, so I jumped on it today.
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Old 07-05-12 | 09:40 AM
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When Lizard posts prices, I sometimes make price notes of ones that interest me to use as fillers since I don't have Prime and have to wait until I have $25 worth. Unfortunately with the way Amazon literally jacks around with prices daily (usually in an upward direction unless I already own or don't want it), this strategy doesn't work well because by the time I'm ready to place an order my filler items are all $1-$3 more expensive, and I can't bring myself to pay the higher prices. Maybe that's why I only place maybe 1 small order at Amazon per month. I understand that prices change, but Amazon's prices are beyond hyper volatile. To get the prices here you have to jump instantly which I can't do w/o Prime. Supposedly I'll be able to get Prime around BF since they have a waiting period between trials (18 months, I think). Sometimes I think every time someone looks at an Amazon product page, their software registers interest in it and jacks the price up a little later each time.

The most expensive BD season sets I ever bought was the Lost series at about $22 each. I guess I'm weird that $36 per season of Twilight Zone seems expensive. I got the DVD sets for $18-ish from Deep Discount long ago (back when I did business with them). Those will have to suffice for me.
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Old 07-05-12 | 02:11 PM
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Re: Amazon Blu-ray Discounts and Deals Thread #27

Prime is not expensive at all if you go in with a few people. I only pay $16 a year, which is totally worth it to not have to worry about "filler" items and all of this other crap that makes some people go insane.
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Old 07-05-12 | 02:46 PM
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...I understand that prices change, but Amazon's prices are beyond hyper volatile...
The price changes lately have been ridiculous. I simply can't sort through that many tiny changes to try to find ones that are significant drops. It is beyond tedious.

Like many others here I put items of interest in my "Saved for Later" list on the shopping cart page and check it each day for price changes. Now every day I have a blizzard of changes. It is clear that Amazon automated their price adjustment algorithm; I sure would like to know how and why it works the way it does. I can't be the only person who is finding it a lot harder to spot bargains at Amazon and, therefore, ordering less from them!

I presume that someone at Amazon sees orders going up from regular customers or something, as opposed to the serious bargain shoppers here.
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National Parks Exploration Series: The Black Hills and the Badlands - Gateway to the West $3.95

National Parks Exploration Series: The Everglades - A Subtropical Paradise $4.21

One Missed Call $5.49

Under Siege $6.02

Semi-Pro $6.59

Away We Go $6.62

Tremors $6.95
The Marine 2 $6.95

Eastern Promises $7.21

Austin Powers in Goldmember $7.03

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me $7.31

28 Days Later $8.19
Eagle Eye $8.19

Life as We Know It $8.43

Pleasantville $8.72

Franklyn $8.60

Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within $8.87

The Mechanic $9.83

A.I. Artificial Intelligence $9.96

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Re: Amazon Blu-ray Discounts and Deals Thread #27

^
Tremors' transfer is a typical Universal DNR-fest, but for $6.95 I'm tempted.
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Originally Posted by NoirFan
$36 a season sounds pretty good, if you don't already own the set. MBV is tempting for the 3D, but I doubt I'd watch it more than once or twice.
I have season 1 on Blu. Would like to order it but then I would have e extra one.
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I have season 1 on Blu. Would like to order it but then I would have e extra one.
Sell the extra one on Amazon then - you should be able to get $40 for it.
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Old 07-05-12 | 04:23 PM
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I'm hesitating on the Twilight Zone set. It's a good price but I can't help to wonder if I could have better down the road.
Is it even worth buying this for a 4:3 black and white series?

I would think a Dvd for much less money would provide the same viewing experience based on the source material.

It would be like buying Clerks on BD. I just do not see the point of spending the money.

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It all depends on what can be done with the source material. To me, a B&W movie can look just as good as a color one on blu-ray. If the reviews are to be trusted, Twilight's video quality is amongst the best B&W blu-ray out there.
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Is it even worth buying this for a 4:3 black and white series?

I would think a Dvd for much less money would provide the same viewing experience based on the source material.

It would be like buying Clerks on BD. I just do not see the point of spending the money.
Umm, it would not be like buying Clerks on BD. You should probably read up a little on what the Twilight Zone was shot on, as well as other 4:3 black and white films.
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Old 07-05-12 | 05:33 PM
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Re: Amazon Blu-ray Discounts and Deals Thread #27

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Is it even worth buying this for a 4:3 black and white series?
Good Lord, yes. Seriously, those are some of the absolute most gorgeous Blu-ray discs on the market, period.

Comparing a lovingly restored 35mm television series (well, aside from those 6 shot on video eps) to a gritty, fiercely independent, 16mm production is pushing you in a very wrong direction.
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I (and everyone else) can enthusiastically vouch for the transfers on the Twilight Zone episodes - it's as if you're watching restored short films, not episodes of a television show.
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Lizard, what you do is cool and I appreciate it. I don't expect you to keep track of tiny changes or list everything. Just posting a handful of titles is good enough and gives me some ideas. There's just no way I could search Amazon daily or weekly for price drops. My post was just commenting on Amazon's beyond-normal price volatility lately. In the past, prices changed but not almost daily, and typically prices drifted downwards rather than up-down-up-down by a couple dollars. So my filler item strategy isn't working well lately, and as a result I haven't bought much from Amazon. I seriously wonder if Amazon now factors in how many people view a page in deciding if the price should tick upwards. No proof of it... just a gut feeling as stuff I look at and don't buy tends to go back up in price. Amazon is the closest thing to the Nasdaq that's not a market exchange... we should their pricing system AmazonDAQ.

Shagrath, unfortunately I don't have anyone else to split a Prime membership with, and if I did everything would have to be shipped to one person's home making the logistics a bit difficult. Fortunately I'm not in much of a movie buying mood lately, so I'm OK not spending much. Actually about the only things I've ordered from Amazon in the last couple months are a slew of Disney animated BD preorders.

I'm hoping that I'll get a Prime trial in time for BF as my 18 month waiting period is supposed to be up mid November.
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Old 07-06-12 | 05:37 AM
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Shagrath, unfortunately I don't have anyone else to split a Prime membership with, and if I did everything would have to be shipped to one person's home making the logistics a bit difficult. Fortunately I'm not in much of a movie buying mood lately, so I'm OK not spending much. Actually about the only things I've ordered from Amazon in the last couple months are a slew of Disney animated BD preorders.
I don't understand why everything would have to be shipped to one person's home. You can have up to 5 "family members" on the plan at different addresses. My "uncle" lives in Oregon, and he's the one who paid for the account. I just paypal'd him $16, and he added me on there.
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The People Vs. Larry Flynt is now $7.99 (matching Bestbuy.com).
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