Microsoft Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player Price Slashed

malware · Feb 6, 2008

The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player price has dropped from $179.99 to $129.99 (U.S. MSRP), Microsoft announced today. This new price is effective immediately in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Microsoft is also offering the player with five free HD-DVD movies.

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bruins004 · Feb 6, 2008

malware said:
The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player price has dropped from $179.99 to $129.99 (U.S. MSRP), Microsoft announced today. This new price is effective immediately in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Microsoft is also offering the player with five free HD-DVD movies.

Source: Major Nelson

Recently I have seen it for even lower.
I believe $89.99 was the lowest I saw it for.

DaMulta · Feb 6, 2008

I want one of these for my PC.

All the movies that I want to buy in HD are for HD-DVD anyways.....

Scrizz · Feb 6, 2008

sweet even lower

freaksavior · Feb 6, 2008

thats what i got mine for.

Dangle · Feb 6, 2008

It's too late Toshiba.... You should have done this since the start.

killatia · Feb 6, 2008

DaMulta said:
I want one of these for my PC.

All the movies that I want to buy in HD are for HD-DVD anyways.....

it works on the pc too, you'll need the help of AnyDvD-HD to get it to work though and powerdvd is the only one i've seen to play hd-dvd/blu-ray decently.

newtekie1 · Feb 6, 2008

bruins004 said:
Recently I have seen it for even lower.
I believe $89.99 was the lowest I saw it for.

I was just going to say the same thing. I saw them at Circuit City for $129.99 weeks ago, and I've seen them at Gamestops/Babbages for $89.99, $69.99 Used.

moto666 · Feb 6, 2008

In 2years there wouldn't be any new films for it!
HD-DVD has Lost!
Live with it!
:pimp:

snuif09 · Feb 6, 2008

moto666 said:
In 2years there wouldn't be any new films for it!
HD-DVD has Lost!
Live with it!

$^%@^*#*** you %*@&#**/-*&@ HD-DVD pwns and will never die :rockout:

Ravenas · Feb 6, 2008

Good news for xbox 360 owners! Although I still believe Toshibia is just trying to make a profit on a product near death. Good news for 360 owners, but I think if you buy it is bad news in the long run...

moto666 · Feb 6, 2008

snuif09 said:
$^%@^*#*** you %*@&#**/-*&@ HD-DVD pwns and will never die

Yeah same for You!
We will sea!
:nutkick:

suraswami · Feb 6, 2008

snuif09 said:
$^%@^*#*** you %*@&#**/-*&@ HD-DVD pwns and will never die

I hear beaten up d.g houling

springs113 · Feb 6, 2008

i use it and nero ultra 8 and to me it works better than powerdvd 7 ultra...also a special edition of windvd works as well... Nero gives the full output as oppose to pdvd. every other disc that came out in hd powerdvd needs an update...while from i updated nero from the first installation it does quite well with all the hd movies...with the kingdom being the last one bought

Water Drop · Feb 6, 2008

Amazon was recently selling the for $79.99 with 6 HD-DVDs free, but that is no longer the case. Microsoft also officially announced the MSRP drop of the device to $129.99 today (from 179).

MilkyWay · Feb 6, 2008

see this is what it bottles down to price because movies are going to look the same on both players
and the fact that the hd dvd addon for the 360 can work on a pc is a major bonus
its like this i dont really see hd formats taking off as storage because the way removable and external hard drives have been going they seem to be the obvious choice for storage and even flash memory is starting to get bigger capacity and lower price
i dont see pc games or any console taking up hd format disks except sony

smaller high tech games come out and then extra content to extend the gmae is distributed in the form of downloads and expansions

i fully support HD DVD tho as its cost is the main winning factor for me and i think if the consumer wasnt mislead into buying a ps3 because it has a blu ray player (blu ray is seen as something people might use in the future) it would be no1

WarEagleAU · Feb 6, 2008

Wow, I might grab one for 90 bucks or 70 bucks used. Id like to see Xbox 360 games utilitze the player personally. I mean, they charge too damn much for the game as it is, put it on HD DVD media and make the 10 dollar hike worth it.

MilkyWay · Feb 7, 2008

no well USB cannot handle a the information in a game
someone else might explain abouit bandwith and speed of usb and how it cannot be used for hd dvd games

hacker111 · Feb 7, 2008

How much for the one with the free HD DVDs? :toast:

newtekie1 · Feb 7, 2008

WarEagleAU said:
Wow, I might grab one for 90 bucks or 70 bucks used. Id like to see Xbox 360 games utilitze the player personally. I mean, they charge too damn much for the game as it is, put it on HD DVD media and make the 10 dollar hike worth it.

What I don't understand is, why are Xbox360 games already the same price as PS3 games, if they are using older+cheaper media?

kieran_fletch said:
no well USB cannot handle a the information in a game
someone else might explain abouit bandwith and speed of usb and how it cannot be used for hd dvd games

Sure USB can handle it. The transfer rate of HD-DVD is only ~36MB/s, that is far below the 60MB/s provided by the USB 2.0 connection. The HD-DVD drive is actually slower than the internal DVD drive, in terms of transfer speeds though, so load times would be longer and streaming data off of it might be a problem, though this isn't an issue with the interface, it is an issue with the drive itself. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray drives haven't reached the transfer rates that regular DVD drives have.

The issue is that eventually Xbox360 games will have to be multi-disc game because DVD9 discs simply don't provide enough storage space.

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