Damn. So far so good. Ordered this afternoon and just got shipping confirmation. Let's see if it takes the 8-15 days to arrive that it says.

Today I ordered MIB and The Fifth Element, which was under $9. They shipped MIB but TFE must be backordered.

Oop. Actually read the email too fast. MIB has shipped but Cloverfield is processing and "shipping soon." Still fast.

amazon.fr is having a huge HD DVD sale right now. Many imports are available for about $10 American before shipping. Picked up Mullholland Drive, Elephant Man, Leaving Las Vegas and American Dream for about $70 shipped.

I finally caved for the same deal. Hopefully its worth it.

Just got shipping confirmation on Cloverfield. Both discs shipping within 24 hours. Not bad, Tower.

Hmm you guys are actually giving me hope to order from Tower.com. I've been scared away by all the negative reviews about them from various sites. Looks like I'm going to go with the Cloverfield/Men in Black combo.

Edit: DEAD. They cancelled my order.

xbox 360 hd-dvd drive for $17.

http://www.conns.com/9z500013.html

buy 2 and use code freeship to get free shipping.

Thanks for the heads-up, I've got The Shining and 2001: A Space Odyssey coming my way for ~$7 each, shipped. Just got the shipping confirmations for both of them, so it looks like they went through just fine.

Drat. Dead. Would've loved to get two for $34.

ezydvd.com.au is having a sweet fire-sale for HD-DVDs right now - I guess their last one. -- ranging from $3.75 US (Big Lebowski, Born on the 4th of July, etc) to $47.60 for Star Trek Season 1.

https://www.ezydvd.com.au/promo.zml?...v=1&himg=pr836

Not a bad deal.

edit - note: shipping for the star trek set is $20 Aus

Also, before I forget - buy any 3 and get HP: order of the Phoenix HD free.

9.99 Euros is about $15.50 US - or is that a price increase from what it was before?

edit - I'm seeing some cheaper ones now. BTW - can anyone tell if the "Curse of the Golden Flower" HD-DVD is subbed or not? the amazon.fr page says jack and the fnac.fr entry says languages are "English and French" with "French" subtitles - nothing about mandarin or anything. Anyone know?

Its about $13 for a movie thats 9,99 before VAT is removed. Dunno the exchange but check out google.

Didn't notice the VAT removal until checkout.

Picked up "La Haine", "Curse of the Golden Flower", and "Brotherhood of the Wolf" for about $64 shipped.

Thanks for the tip.

Your welcome. $20 is not a bad price for some titles they may never be available in HD. Pain trying to figure out the French though...thank gid my high school came in handy.

Wouldn't be so bad if they listed all the specs clearly - I had to dig through several different review sites for "Golden flower" before I could figure out that it had any subs, much less English.

Yeah its a pain. Most of mine were heavly imported titles so I found reviews in all of them.

Fry's is getting ready for something HD DVD related...mine had tons of boxes of Warner titles and what looks to be Universal as well. Other people on AVS said their Fry's was doing the same thing... Tomorrow may be very expensive for me.

A friend of mine said Fry's had some kind of list of incoming HD DVD's up in the section.

I won't get to see the ad until after I get to work, but if they are doing any Uni titles for under $10 I'll probably get some more of the ones that seem doubtful for Blu any time soon.

Check DVD Bargains, fido posts the ads pretty early.

Is it safe to assume that this will be in-store only? Should it happen of course

Just checked the morning ad (Seattle Fry's) only showed some titles at $9.99.

The flyer for Fry's in Atlanta listed these HD DVD titles for $9.99:

Letter from Iwo Jima
Battle of the Bulge
Beerfest
Blazing Saddles
The Fugitive
Eyes Wide Shut
V for Vendetta
Million Dollar Baby
Enter the Dragon
Casablanca
Unforgiven
Good night and good luck
Lethal Weapon
The Road Warrior
Wyatt Earp
The Cowboys
The Dukes of Hazzard (Unrated)
Superman the movie
Michael Clayton
The Shining

Damn. Still no Superman II