I've never heard of them doing that and have matched their online price dozens of times.

Besides, it is $50 in store as well anyway.

Well, I was thinking more of picking up Top Gun. They still want $25 in store, but it's $15 online.

just picked up a 360 drive at the wyomissing,pa bestbuy today. They stilll had about a dozen or so left as of 3pm today. I went to the blueshirt to verify price. He said it was $50 before I even asked. So if you want one and arein the area, stop by there

Remember that going to a blueshirt for a price isn't going to work much of the time.

The computer changes the prices, and there is no way for any employee to keep up with even a fraction of the real prices. Also, many times the price will ring up as full, but then lower after the cashier hits total and the "package price" is found.

So asking a BB employee for the price or even doing a pricecheck is a waste of time.

It wouldn't work in this situation since that is the new price of the drive, and not a special price. It should ring up as $50

Not likely, since they didn't really sell a lot of the HD-DVD drives. They would also have to write a Blu-ray interface into the software. I don't think MS would think it was worth the effort.

But they've already built it. Didn't you see the photoshop picture?

Agreed - I just ordered one for in-store pickup at BB.

Well, I'm in. At $50, I finally caved and went HD.

I was content with my Dish Network subscription, especially with the Monsters HD channel (love it!).

It's not that I was sitting out the format war, it's just that I've really cut back on my buying and there wasn't too much on HD media that interested me. I used to be like a lot of you - completely addicted to buying DVDs. I stopped years ago and my rule now for buying a title is: It has to be a movie I love, and it has to be something I would watch more than once a year. That REALLY cut down on my buying.

But at $50...

Now, I'm going to send the rebate in, but I don't expect to get them. I'm almost certain Toshiba will pull the 'while supplies last' bit and not honor these flood of rebates they are going to get. While that stinks, I'm still happy with the steal I got at $50 for the drive, King Kong, and the remote. And if I do get the free movies, well, it will be a killer deal.

I'm not going to go crazy on buying media. There's probably about a dozen titles I want and I don't plan to rush out and buy them all at once. If there are some good sales ~ $10 (the $12 DDD sales will definitely get some of money), then I may splurge and pickup a few extras.

Eventually I'll go blu, too, but that is even further off, so I may even get a few HD-DVD imports at some point to tide me over.

so if Best Buy reduced players like this, is there any reason to believe they'll cut prices on some HD-DVDs too?

I picked up my second 360 add-on from BB today. They had about 9 left on the shelf. I played around with PowerDVD ultra but I still could not get HD movies to play. I think the problem is my 7800 GS video card. Here is a little app you can run to see if your system meets all the requirements.

HD-DVD/BD Advisor

I was able to rip though.

It is your card, but FWIW, there are drivers available on the .net that will allow your card to play this stuff. It seems NVIDIA deliberately disabled playback on these because they might stutter if the processor isn't up to snuff.

Thanks, I'll look into that.

Will this drive work as an external DVD/HD DVD drive for a laptop?

Yes.

But remember that a computer has to be fairly hearty w/ a very good video card to play HD.

If it works on a laptop, can it be plugged directly into a TV monitor?

Sure, if your TV has a very good video card and a strong enough processor.

yeah, after looking at the previously-posted requirements, i don't have a beefy enough video card, so i decided not to bite on it. i was only considering it as a cheap backup for my A35, but i can probably get a clearance A3 for cheaper than the drive + new video card and would prefer a standalone anyway.

...and if the TV has PowerDVD Ultra or other hi-def disc playing software installed on it

I'm so glad I sold my 360 add-on last week to Play 'N' Trade for $80. Sold about 15 HD-DVDs to Hastings last week too. Goodbye HD-DVD!

Now down to $37.00 at Kmart.