Topic: A Hi Definition Holiday Season
We all expected Walmart to start offering the HD-A2 for $198 on Saturday, November 3, and then Circuit City and Amazon immediately started offering the player for a penny less. Next, we heard that Sears would feature the HD-A3 for $169 during their Black Friday sale. It's still not over folks! Walmart is now offering up the HD-A2 for $98.97 this Friday, November 2, in a "secret sale" at selected locations. It's actually not much of a secret considering that they've got information about it plastered at one of their websites.
The sale also features the following HD DVD movies for $14.96: 12 Monkeys, The Big Lebowski, and Blood Diamond. I also read that the following movies should also be available for $14.96: Clerks 2, Lucky Number Slevin, Pulse, Failure to Launch, Four Brothers, Italian Job, Sleepy Hollow, Casino, Backdraft, Sea Biscuit, Alexander Revisited, Full Metal Jacket, The Last Samurai, Swordfish, and Unforgiven.
And that's not all that Wally has in the works for HD DVD. Behold the following commercial that's been appearing on the TV networks.
I've read that the sale on the discs goes for the entire weekend, and it should be available at all stores, but the HD-A2 sale is only at some locations. If you're interested, then visit the website to locate your nearby stores, and then give them a call to find out more.
*Walmart's "secret sale" site
*AVS Forum thread about the big list of $14.96 movies
*AVS Forum thread about the Walmart website.A big thanks to all of the Walmart employees who submit the first bits of news about these things to the AVS forum, and the Walmart customers who post verifications of those reports at the AVS forum too.
http://www.hddvd.com/go.php/hd-dvd-mart-i-mean-walmart/
UPDATE: Apparently, Best Buy is already selling the HD-A2 for $99 today. I'm unable to link to the right page at the site, but a reader has provided a link in the comments. There is no HD-A2 listed online, so this is likely to be an in-store deal. Call ahead to make sure.
I'm actually stunned - I mean really stunned. People, what more can I say. You can now get an entry level, 2nd generation, standalone HD DVD player for the same price as a regular, plain old, standard definition DVD player, plus HD DVDs for the same price as regular, plain old, standard definition DVDs. Wow
This will no doubt be the first of many holiday shopping deals that take place over the 2007 holiday season, and it is a whopper of a deal at that. All I can say is, that at these prices you'd be simply crazy not to make the upgrade to HD and give that HDTV you've got sitting there doing nothing, a real work out. Oh, you say you do not have a HDTV? Well a little birdie tells me that this is not going to be much a problem for too much longer (I'll have to spill the beans at a later post once I got positive confirmation), but suffice it to say, that holiday 2007 may finally be the jumping on point for everyone who has been sitting on the HD fence waiting for prices become something more palatable. So keep your eyes open peeps, Thanksgiving is right around the corner and super-sweet holiday deals along with it.
Oh and one final thing. That $99 HD DVD player still qualifies purchasers to get five FREE HD DVD movies from Toshiba. Just use this rebate form after you purchase your player, and you are good to go