Author Topic: Dilemma or The Unofficial HD-DVD players owners' thread :( (Read 9706 times)

antikryst · « **Reply #30 on:** Feb 28, 2008 at 11:39 AM »

guess im still lucky. been hoarding stuff in amazon. FREE SHIPPING!!!

i send it to my sisters place or my office where they ship it to me in manila for free..hintay lang ng uuwi.. which just takes a month or so

Clondalkin · « **Reply #31 on:** Feb 28, 2008 at 01:24 PM »

Well I'd rather pay shipping than wait for months. I did the same scheme before. Delivered the stuff by free shipping to my mom's address in CO and waited for them to mail the stuff to Tokyo. I'm too impatient for that unless Amazon won't deliver an item outside the US (like software).

tonedeaf · « **Reply #32 on:** Mar 01, 2008 at 07:06 PM »

i'm in the process of upgrading the firmware of my A3 to 2.0. keeping my fingers crossed that things will go well

btw, i just tried playing S-DVDs on my HD-A3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which my trusty Pioneer couldn't play anymore (picture freeze etc) played flawlessly! and the PQ is pretty good. i even set the resolution to 1080i.

tonedeaf · « **Reply #33 on:** Mar 01, 2008 at 08:15 PM »

update successful!

i've thought about my dilemma again, and for now, my compromise is to buy only the sd/hd combo discs. that way, i get to use the dvd even when i have no more player.

have you guys seen the prices on the A30/135 supposedly available from best buy and other brick and mortar stores? If I could get my hands on them, I'd buy again. And then open another thread like this of course, after experiencing buyer's remorse.

tonedeaf · « **Reply #34 on:** Mar 01, 2008 at 10:34 PM »

Article from Slate:

I'm the Idiot Who Bought an HD-DVD Player
A casualty of the format war tells all.
By Josh Levin
Posted Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, at 5:18 PM ET

Toshiba finally mercy-killed its HD-DVD format last week, ending a drawn-out fight with Sony's Blu-ray for high-definition disc supremacy. The format's demise has brought HD-DVD owners untold humiliation: reams of newspaper stories comparing them to the losers of yore who bought into Betamax and LaserDisc, the sad sight of desperate early adopters peddling brand-new players on Craigslist, and, worst of all, a Web site celebrating the similarities between HD-DVD and Hillary Clinton. I'm sick of the mockery and abuse. You see, I'm one of the morons who bought an HD-DVD player.

While I freely admit my moronitude, I still believe the HD-DVD owner is an unfairly maligned creature. It wasn't dumb to jump on the HD-DVD bandwagon: Toshiba's technology was cheaper and more consumer-friendly than Sony's. It was dumb, though, to assume that the forces of good would triumph. In the end, the fight between Sony and Toshiba played out like some kind of bizarro sports movie: The bad guy won at the end by clocking the lovable underdog in the crotch with a baseball bat.

In retrospect, it might've been smarter not to buy either player. But alas, I have a strange affliction that left me susceptible to HD-DVD's limited charms: I'm a gadget-loving cheapskate. The typical early adopter opens his wallet first and asks questions later; he doesn't care how many gigs of RAM are inside the MacBook Air, just that it slides into a Manila envelope. The HD-DVD player, however, appealed to a different group, electronics fetishists too imprudent to wait out a format war yet stingy enough to base their purchasing decisions entirely on price. Of course, this is an irrational position, like signing up for the inaugural commercial flight to the moon but only paying for a coach-class ticket. But that's how my brain works—I have a Creative Zen Micro, not an iPod.

more here -> http://www.slate.com/id/2185365/pagenum/all/#page_start

demmet · « **Reply #35 on:** Mar 02, 2008 at 01:37 AM »

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8132095&type=product&id=1158321865239

Cheap!!! ...eheheheheheheheh

barrid · « **Reply #36 on:** Mar 02, 2008 at 05:14 AM »

Yesterday, i returned my A3 at Bestbuy. Coz I found a D3 at Costco and is cheaper by $20.

jackryan · « **Reply #37 on:** Mar 02, 2008 at 06:52 AM »

Quote from: jackryan on Feb 24, 2008 at 09:16 AM

right, you can sell them to me at a discount ;-)

Remember, just in case you are tired of your HD-DVD titles, I am here to collect them

Trig · « **Reply #38 on:** Mar 03, 2008 at 10:17 PM »

Sana gawing cheap nalang ng Toshiba yng HDDVD burners tapos ipacrack nila yung Bluray para kayang iburn sa HDDVD hehe

Sayang naman yng Xbox addon ko :'(

Moks007 · « **Reply #39 on:** Mar 04, 2008 at 10:40 PM »

Another "so called good news" for those who still buy hddvd discs. Universal prices went down further.

I got american gangster 16.95, Eastern promises 16.95, Elizabeth the golden age 16.95, Pianist 11.95. By the way, reminder for those who just ordered universal titles at 14.95 or 19.95, its now 11.95 and 16.95

, Email them for the credit. Hopefully mine will be approved. They have a 30 day price guarantee.

demmet · « **Reply #40 on:** Mar 05, 2008 at 03:51 AM »

Quote from: Moks007 on Mar 04, 2008 at 10:40 PM

Another "so called good news" for those who still buy hddvd discs. Universal prices went down further. I got american gangster 16.95, Eastern promises 16.95, Elizabeth the golden age 16.95, Pianist 11.95. By the way, reminder for those who just ordered universal titles at 14.95 or 19.95, its now 11.95 and 16.95 , Email them for the credit. Hopefully mine will be approved. They have a 30 day price guarantee.

what store dude?

barrid · « **Reply #41 on:** Mar 05, 2008 at 07:11 AM »

Amazon, for sure.

pchin · « **Reply #42 on:** Mar 05, 2008 at 08:16 AM »

Congrat tonedeaf for your new hd player.....enjoy!

Moks007 · « **Reply #43 on:** Mar 05, 2008 at 08:31 AM »

Quote from: demmet on Mar 05, 2008 at 03:51 AM

what store dude?

Sorry did not mention, ya its amazon. However, the sale only lasted a few hours ata last night. Maybe amazon got the quota already. Few people from america are mad it lasted only few hours, reading from the forums. I think it ended noon time daw. I was lucky to order these and I emailed amazon right away for the price diff from my previous orders. I was lucky they took action right away and they credited me for the price difference.

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demmet · « **Reply #44 on:** Mar 05, 2008 at 12:20 PM »

thanks for the info.. hope that major retailers like bestbuy will soon follow.. ..

Marl☆1 · « **Reply #45 on:** Mar 06, 2008 at 11:50 AM »

Don't you wish...

Shhh! Circuit City Trading HD DVD Players for Blu-ray
Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 07:30 PM ET

Circuit City is allowing customers to trade in their HD DVD players and apply the original sales price toward the purchase of new Blu-ray players.

As first reported by Gizmodo earlier today (and confirmed at a Washington-area Circuit City this afternoon by High-Def Digest), the unpublicized offer is giving in-the-know customers a second chance at making the jump to high-def.

The offer only applies to players sold in the last 90 days, but that should give those who received HD DVD players for the holidays enough time to trade in their gifts for the winning next generation format. You must return the player in the original box with all of its accessories in order to qualify. Considering the price differences between the two player formats, there will likely be additional costs in making the exchange.

Note that this offer only applies to players and not to HD DVD discs.

tonedeaf · « **Reply #46 on:** Mar 06, 2008 at 08:19 PM »

Quote from: pchin on Mar 05, 2008 at 08:16 AM

Congrat tonedeaf for your new hd player.....enjoy!

thanks!

athos45 · « **Reply #47 on:** Mar 07, 2008 at 08:07 PM »

good day, people. I just ordered a Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player from Amazon for under 100 bucks w some free hd dvds. So welcome me to the Loser format club, (hell, i dont care, its much cheaper)just wanna get HD on my Panasonic PV70.

My question is, how can we make it play our different region SDs? Is there a code we can get now that they stopped production already so they might not care so much for region coding?

pchin · « **Reply #48 on:** Mar 09, 2008 at 09:58 AM »

Quote from: athos45 on Mar 07, 2008 at 08:07 PM

My question is, how can we make it play our different region SDs?

Welcome aboard to HD, yup it will surely look great on your Panasonic PV70.

So far, there is no available code to make it play different region DVD. Guess we are stucked with R1 DVDs. $:-\$

athos45 · « **Reply #49 on:** Mar 10, 2008 at 12:08 AM »

Quote from: pchin on Mar 09, 2008 at 09:58 AM

Welcome aboard to HD, yup it will surely look great on your Panasonic PV70.

So far, there is no available code to make it play different region DVD. Guess we are stucked with R1 DVDs. $:-\$

hopefully in the future they give us a code to unlock the region, like my HTib Samsung, they just gave me the code multi region na.

juanch · « **Reply #50 on:** Mar 10, 2008 at 09:38 AM »

I was searching the net trying to find a region free hack for my HD-A2 and it seems I found one.
However, it's sound too complicated to do.

here's the link to a thread in avsforumhttp://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=981941

I really pray that there's an easier way to make HD-DVD's region free

athos45 · « **Reply #51 on:** Mar 12, 2008 at 03:02 AM »

hey thanks will look into it and give feedback

Clondalkin · « **Reply #52 on:** Mar 12, 2008 at 01:20 PM »

What dilemma. I just grabbed another HD DVD Add-On drive for JPY4,980 ($48) during lunch break for my wife's PC. Can't resist. Just can't resist. Tinipid ko lang konti lunch ko for today.

Moks007 · « **Reply #53 on:** Mar 12, 2008 at 01:58 PM »

..I also got another backup, the a30 just recently.. I'm also pretty happy purchasing the 8.95 to 13.95 priced discs

tonedeaf · « **Reply #54 on:** Mar 12, 2008 at 05:01 PM »

uy, na-inspire naman ako sa mga HD-DVD owners here. will buy the combo discs muna - like the latest harry potter. tapos wait for the region free hack.

iiinas · « **Reply #55 on:** Mar 13, 2008 at 04:49 PM »

got a 2nd hand toshiba a3, okey lang dead na hd dvd, still a lot of hd dvd to buy out there. pag na ubos na then bluray naman.

besides toshiba din lcd ko, i'm sure the player match nicely with the player, and the hd dvd player will now be my official r1 dvds upscaler while my hongkong ps3 will be my r3 dvd upscaler. and syempre hd games via ps3.

tonedeaf · « **Reply #56 on:** Mar 30, 2008 at 08:48 PM »

Hey!

Have you guys received the 5 free HD-DVDs that come with the player?

barrid · « **Reply #57 on:** Mar 31, 2008 at 01:18 AM »

Yes! I got those free discs from my A2. And waitng for my free discs from my D3.

antikryst · « **Reply #58 on:** Mar 31, 2008 at 01:38 PM »

took it 9 weeks almost to get the 5 free discs. then another 5 weeks for it to get here from the states lol

streetsmart · « **Reply #59 on:** Apr 10, 2008 at 09:50 AM »

Amazon is giving a $50 credit for anyone who purchased an HD-DVD player before Feb. 23, 2008! I got mine.