Sponge Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 My HD TV gets delivered on Friday and I have ordered a HD-DVD drive for my Xbox 360, so now I need to start my HD-DVD collection. Where do you buy yours? Have you come across any special offers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I dont really buy any HD titles yet (bluray), still buying dvds some are £2-3 in the shops! The shops seem expensive.... zavvi, hmv etc £18-28 each approx Try this site MovieTyme Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burble Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I've only got a couple but they came from play.com. It's a shame that the 360 is so noisy as I think it makes it next to useless as a DVD player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Yep, dont think the PlayStation3 is silent either.... its also lacking bitstream output for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-Master Audio Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy32 Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 keep an eye here for some good bargains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted January 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Can anyone recommend an online DVD rental service? I was just about to pop out to rent my first HD DVD when my Mrs told me the local video store closed down! So it looks like I'll have to rent via the web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ttm4son Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 I use Lovefilm.com and so far they have been really fast. No problems as yet with faulty DVDs either. (touch wood) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turrican Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Don't forget to claim your 5 free hd-dvd's now that you have bought the drive for the 360. Linky http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/hd-dvd/default.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted January 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Form already filled in. I'm just waiting until I've photocopied all the paperwork in work on Monday before I post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loafer27 Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 buy almost all my HD-DVD's from amazon.com much cheaper just takes a while for them to arrive using the cheapo postage option got the bourne trilogy from them for less than they wanted for each individual film at hmv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted January 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 I'm after the Bourne Trilogy. How about customs charges on deliveries from Amazon (US) though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loafer27 Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 haven't been charged any customs fees yet i believe the threshold is something like £30 pounds before customs fees apply so i just make sure each box set is less than 60 dollars. that being said i'm still waiting for the bourne films to arrive . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted January 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Cheers /me looks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanG Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 VAT threshold is £18 for Postal Imports..... sometimes you can get away with it, but more recently they have been more watchful. Thats said, you can always ask an Ebay.com member to write down the value on the customs slip to say $10..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 You don't want to read this then........... Blu-Ray soon to rule the Roost?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 [ QUOTE ] You don't want to read this then........... Blu-Ray soon to rule the Roost?? [/ QUOTE ]Already discussed HERE Woohoooo Blu-ray Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy32 Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] You don't want to read this then........... Blu-Ray soon to rule the Roost?? [/ QUOTE ]Already discussed HERE Woohoooo Blu-ray Riz [/ QUOTE ] As a non gamer I bought into HD DVD because it is the format that did everything that I wanted, region free, cheeper to buy software and hard ware and a format that was finished when launched. Unfortunately to get a bluray player that will play every bluray disc I would have to buy a PS3, stand alone players in the uk are not even version 1.1 at the moment. No matter how you look at it HD DVD is the format for the consumer and it is us that will loose out if or when sony's Blu ray win as prices for hardware and software increase because one thing sony like to do is charge to much for there products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 HD-DVD is old technology revamped..... waste of time and the movie producers will dictate who wins...... I would say its gone Blu-ray at this stage. Sony and other Blu-ray members were very slow indeed and are still behind when it comes to the specifications. HD-DVD was released in its final form..... but yet its now on the back foot. Im sure in time prices of Blu-ray hardware and media will drop...... just at matter of time. The consumers did not decide that HD-DVD was the better format... clearly sales dictate Blu-ray has been leading from a very early stage sales-wise.... and the PlayStation3 was a key tool in doing this... as a games machine its still way behind though. Im not a hardcore gamer but bought the PS3 due to its multimedia facilities....... the picture quality has been very highly rated and with the next few firmware updates it should have all the small issues taken care of including BD 2.0 profile (currently 1.1). Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Sony learnt the painful lesson of poor marketing when they were burnt on Betamax Video. so, they buy a film company and put all the films onto Blu-Ray. Microsoft and Toshiba should have known about marketing and should have done more. After all, since when has the best technological solution (debateable!!) won a technology war..........(WARP OS/2 v Windows, Betamax v VHS, Blu-Ray v HD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 ...and today's announcement of Paramount looking to ditch HD-DVD just like Warner Brothers has already announced has effectively killed this format war dead. Who'd have believed that the makers of Betamax and MiniDisc actually won a media format fight! All we need now is for the rumoured Apple/Sony alliance to be realised and the world will become a much stranger place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 [ QUOTE ] ...and today's announcement of Paramount looking to ditch HD-DVD just like Warner Brothers has already announced has effectively killed this format war dead. Who'd have believed that the makers of Betamax and MiniDisc actually won a media format fight! All we need now is for the rumoured Apple/Sony alliance to be realised and the world will become a much stranger place! [/ QUOTE ]Paramount have released a press statement that they are still with HD-DVD... a pretty useless statement to be honest..... I think they will change soon though. Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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