Yes, the local FYE has quite a few of them marked down to $9.99, some of them were over $20 in the past. I will buy them for $10 each no problem!

Got this email from DDD today. Buy one UMD get one free.

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/promo...e=pspb2g1_0806

I picked up Goonies and Happy Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone for about 10 bucks apiece at FYE last week. Unfortunately they only had a few titles marked so low.

Picked up 10 umd's using this deal. No tax makes it even better.

Finally made it to FYE today. Picked up:

HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE (Not marked on sale, but rang up at $9.99)
CLERKS (Marked $9.99, but rang up at regular price. The guy hesitated, but gave me the discount.
ROBOTS (Marked $14.99, rang up at $14.99 -- I know that's not a huge bargain, but the kids have been asking for that one)

I also saw ROMEO MUST DIE, RUSH HOUR, RUSH HOUR 2, and SWORDFISH marked at $9.99. (These are all Warner or New Line titles...hmmm...)

Please post any more bargains!

They will end up on eBay, being sold as rare and collectible for who knows how much money.

They sell quite well on Ebay, especially when offered in lot form. I think UMD's have a good future in the collectible business! Just my opinion...

Kind of like Batamax, 8-Track, and DAT -smile- ... I never got it, perhaps I missed it, why buy UMD's when a DVD player is cheap and you don't have to dupe your collection.

Bottom line : UMDs were selling well when there were very few games to play on the system. Now that there are lots of games, most don't want to plunk $20-$25 on a movie they already own.

Perhaps a bare launch could help BD as well. :)

BUMP

Found a few deals online. Anymore deals spotted in stores?

The appeal in theory is that it would be one less device to carry around. If you're already bringing a game system, why not have it play your movies as well? And even the smallest portable DVD players are somewhat bulky in the sense you couldn't fit it in most jacket pockets. PSP is much more portable in that regard.

Of course, none of this matters when Sony/the studios overprice the discs. At under ten bucks these are a decent option. But when they are charging MORE than a DVD in most cases, for a product with less diversity in use and few or no extras, it defeats the whole point.

My Local Best Buy had Toy Story for $14.99, Clerks for $9.99, Tron for $9.99, those are the only ones I recall, but they had other titles marked down to the $9.99 price.

Interesting, those are all Buena Vista titles. By looking at the same titles and others from Buena Vista at Deep Discount DVD it appears there has been an official price drop. Toy Story is listed at DDD at $12.71, Clerks is $8.47.

Other Buena Vista bargains at DDD:

$8.47
The Crow
Sin City
Kill Bill vol. 1
Kill Bill vol. 2
King Arthur
Lost - The Pilot Episodes
Hero
Clerks
Gone in 60 Seconds (Nic Cage version)
Sky High
Glory Road
Hostage
Cursed (unrated)
Dark Water (US reamke)
Tron
Flightplan
Coyote Ugly
Reign of Fire

$12.71
Toy Story
The Incredibles
Eight Below
Pulp Fiction
Armageddon
The Chronicles of Narnia
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Herbie Fully Loaded
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
National Treasure
The Rock
Adventures of Sharkboy & Lavagirl

Assuming these things are still at stock and still cheap, these could be a great bargain during the 20% off sale. These are the types of price points we should have been seeing all along. It would be interesting if they sold a bunch of these at this price. Would it cause studios to reevaluate the UMD market?

wow! for $8.47 I have no problem getting The Crow, Sin City, KB I and II, Lost, Hero and Clerks.

Resurrecting this thread again...Got VAN WILDER at BJs for $3.90. It was the last UMD movie in the store. I think that it had fallen behind the shelf and been lost for several months before it was found and marked down.

Long live UMD's! I still love them!

Oddly enough, I noticed our Target has gotten a few UMDs back in the store (Click & Monty Python & the Holy Grail), although they are in the PSP case now instead of the DVD section.

UMD was a solution to a problem nobody had.

An answer to a question nobody asked.

A disc format for a system nobody bought.

Hahaha!
We get the point guys...UMD blows! :lol:

Wrong, people bought the system, just not the UMDs. There were video cartridges for the GBA, which has sold tens of millions of units and people didn't buy those, either.

Chill, it was a joke. (we all know the PSP is not as sucessful as it could have been, but you'd have to be insane to think it is a failure).
What does GBA have anything to do with it? Talking with Majesco at e3 a few years back, the video series on GBA was a huge sucess limited only by the life span of the GBA. They even went on to start porting over full length films to the format. That's saying a lot since the sheer manufacturing costs alone was prohibitive to the format. Majesco is now currently working towards a video line for the DS... so I would say your statement is incorrect.

I have been reading on the net that UMD movie format is making a comeback and Target is or about to stock them again. I hope so, I think the format is a great idea for the PSP. I just wish they could have kept the prices around 10-15 bucks though.

The argument about using other means to watch movies also have their faults. You would be lucky to watch a whole movie on your lap top even with the brightness level on dark. :D Portable dvd players are a good option, but they are still really bulky compared to the PSP.

BTW, any of Canucks looking for deals, check out Futureshop. I found Saw, Crash, Open Waters and The Devil's Rejects for only 5.99 Canadian. Wal Mart had a 2 for 10 deal over a month ago. Bought a nice stack from that sale (Blade, Bourne Identity, Cursed, Unleashed and Butterfly Effect).