Off Amazons site Step 1. Purchase the Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD player from Amazon.com for $199...You dont think that with the price drop Amazon will try and charge for the DVDS?..Only reason I ask is that now I have the HD DVDS shipping and the price is the B2g1f price

Now at $159!!!

Heh, $169 now. This is like watching a sporting event.

I got charged for the HD DVDS. Anyone else?

No, that is incorrect. Look closely to the right and you will see Amazon selling it for $159.99. I bought this at best buy for $199.99, but still haven't opened it. However, tomorrow I will bring Bernie's ad (they have it for $99.99 from 8am to noon) and pm it (should be $79.99 then after 110%). If they won't do it I'll just return it to best buy and order from Amazon. Btw, when you use 2-day shipping on this player will it arrive before Christmas?

I tried it out without checking out and the 3 Kubrick movies from the list came out free for me. Make sure you use the link on the player page and select 3 from that list.

I used the link at the beginning of this thread. I placed the player in my cart and then picked the 3 free dvd's and checked out. Did I do something wrong?

Try this link for the list of movies you can choose from - http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...d_i=B000U62N1S

That is the link I used. did anyone else get charged for these?

I would just email amazon about it and they should drop your whole credit card charge and then charge you $159.98. They are pretty good about it, but it might take a few days.

Yes, I already emailed them. Strangely enough, I tried it again(placing everything in my cart and going to checkout w/o completing order) and the discount went through.

Just bought one for $159.98 total out the door...and I already have an A-2 I bought this Summer for the "bargain price of "$299!" But dammit I wanted a deal! Thanks for the post OP and price tickers ...

I just ordered this shit yesterday for 197.99. Why the fuck do they do this shit? Yeah it might be more expensive to buy a Blu Ray player but at least you know your not gonna get fucked out of a lower price like 5 minutes later. Fuck HD DVD.

I just get the refund of 39.02$

Thanks to whoever posted the price drop.

Yes, HD-DVD is a real son of a bitch. I hate that guy.

Anyway, if you did buy this from Amazon you can email their customer service and they'll refund you the difference within 30 days.

Oh Really? Thats great. Thanks man.

Wow, this is amazing. $159?!?! I was so close to getting this at $199, but now I am really tempted.

4-5 weeks is a long time though and I am always concerned that I am buying this and BluRay will turn out to be the "winner" in a year. Does this HD-DVD play regular DVDs and DVD-R's?

I don't know how compatible it is with DVD-R, I'm sure somebody else can fill that in, but it absolutely does play regular DVDs. If you're going to hook it up via an HDMI cable, it will upconvert your standard DVDs and make them look absolutely outstanding.

I'll just jump in here and say that to get into HD-DVD for 160 bucks with 5 free (good) movies up front and 5 by rebate is almost unbelievable. I paid 450 for an A1, and I just picked up an A35 with this deal. If you've got an HDTV, you would almost be doing yourself a disservice at this price. Even if BD wins next month (which it won't, neither will likely "win" for a long while) you've still got one of the best deals on upconverting your standard DVD collection. I've got HD and BD, and they're both amazing, I could not possibly recommend either any higher.

I didn't know it upconverts by regular DVDs. That's great to here for my 38" Sharp Aquos LCD. Is the picture difference noticable?

The thing that bothers me the most is that some titles are exclusive to BluRay and HD-DVD. That is ridiculous.

Yeah it will play standard DVDs, and it should upconvert them so they look better than they would on a standard player. It sounds like the higher end models do a better job of upconverting, but from what I read even the highest end model does not do a better job upconverting than the Oppo player. If you don't have a good upconverting player already, this might improve your viewing of standard DVDs.

Considering you get 10 free HD-DVDs at this price, it's hard not to jump on the deal. Sell those all off if you want to and the player will probably cost you well under $100. If Blu-Ray players get down to that price too, it'd probably be a good deal to buy both, since each format has movies exclusive to it. If we could all get a combo player for $200-300, we probably would, right? So getting both players for that price would be almost the same thing. And here's the chance to get one of them.

Let's say Blu-Ray did win the format war. I'd have to imagine at that point, combo players would become the norm, so your existing HD-DVDs should remain playable. You'd only be out the cost of this player, which should be worth it if you get even a year's worth of regular use out of it. If HD really is retired, then the value of older HD-DVDs should go down and you could build a collection that you could still watch. The reviews all seem to state that there's no difference in picture quality between HD and Blu-Ray. At this price, it becomes a question of do you want to wait several years just to save $100, and not get to sample high-def discs until then?

One reservation I have is that this is still an early technology, and they really seem to be in the process of working the bugs out. At this price though it seems worth the risk to deal with those headaches. My other reservation is that the cost of older HD movies are a lot more than the $5 you tend to pay for SDs these days. However the cost of new releases seems to be getting closer every day, especially since new SD 2-disc editions start out at $23 now and HDs match that content. You also get a pretty good starter set of movies with this offer. And I could always move to renting instead of buying until prices come down. HD media only debuted in APRIL, 2006, so I have a feeling older HD discs will start dropping to prices a lot closer to SD in another year or so. New SD releases usually take a couple years to get under $10 themselves. Technically you can buy 3 boxed sets of HD discs on Amazon right now that would cost $10 per movie, so prices are already getting better.

If you are going to hook it up using HDMI, the difference is absolutely noticeable. There are only a few players that are reviewed to upconvert any better, mainly Oppo, but they can be pretty expensive. I've had two other upconverting DVD players, one a Sony 400 disc changer and one a single disc Samsung, and the HD-DVD players put them to shame.

But be warned, even if you think the upconverting is great, it's not in the same league as HD titles. It's actually hard to go back to SD after you get used to watching HD-DVDs, there is that big a difference.

I think this is worth it just to upconvert my SD DVDs and DVD-R's (I got a good amount of those).

I'd probably buy Planet Earth on HD-DVD with the 20% off DD deal (I only have another day huh?) and eBay the free HD-DVDs that come with this deal. Any reason why my 38" Sharp Aquos won't work well with this HD-DVD player? I also assume I can get a $10 HDMI cord through monoprice for this player?

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I'm so tempted to get this but two things are holding me back. 1) The possibility of another $99 deal by Wal-Mart in the near future and 2) The fact the player doesn't ship until at least the day after Christmas.

Yup. Super easy. I ordered it at the 189.00 mark and it already shipped for a Tuesday delivery. Then when it dropped to 159, I called and they credited me the difference, so I'm getting the best of both worlds - 2 day shipping and the low price.