INSANE Best Buy HD-DVD 360 player deal

[Timber]

Starts on the 21st in store at Best Buy. You get the Heroes Season 1 set, King Kong in the box with the player, and you can still send away for 5 more movies.

Easily the best deal on the player so far.

[bandit]

Nice. I might have to get this

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I'm so glad I bought that piece of shit less than a year ago.

[Jetman]

Whoah, not a bad deal.

Kinda sucks though. I guess this means HD DVD is pretty much done?

[Timber]

Kinda sucks though. I guess this means HD DVD is pretty much done?

How so?

Neither format has even a tiny fraction of the DVD market so it's a little early to declare a winner.

[Rumpy]

Bluray has had the same "get 5 free movies!" promo for awhile.

[The_Meach]

send away for 5 more movies.

This looked tempting, but I can't justify $180 on a format that I'm not ready to invest in.

And those five movies? You have to choose one from each category:

A:
Aeon Flux
Babel
The Italian Job

B:
The Hulk
Pitch Black
The Thing

C:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Swordfish
Full Metal Jacket

D:
Firewall
The Frighteners
U2: Rattle and Hum

E:
Black Rain
Darkman
Troy

The only thing that would interest me is Rattle and Hum and that's not really the kind of movie that needs (or even benefits) from HD.

Heroes would be cool, tho (haven't seen anything other than the first ep).

[Jetman]

How so?

Neither format has even a tiny fraction of the DVD market so it's a little early to declare a winner.

I just assumed that a deal like this meant, "Hay, we cant sell these, take them off our hands please", but if the same thing has been going on for Blu-ray, then I guess thats not it.

Im kind of like Meach, that looks like a tempting deal but not sure if I want to start dropping down on HD just yet....

[Advocate]

And those five movies? :

A:
The Italian Job

B:
The Thing

C:
Full Metal Jacket

D:
The Frighteners

E:
Black Rain

Heroes is awesome.

[Sinista]

FYI - Buy.com also has this deal http://www.buy.com/prod/xbox-360-hd-...203249984.html

Even if you don't like any of the hd's you could sell them to pay for the drive or get other movies you do like. Pretty nice deal imo.