Blu-Ray Folks Buy 1 Get 1 at CC & BB today

millerman 3732

I found this over at AVS.

Best Buy list $29

Invincible
Chicken Little
Wild Hogs
Eight Below
Pirates of C... 1
Pirates of C....2
Gone in 60 Seconds
The Lookout
Pearl Harbor
Apocolypto
Deja Vu
Guardian
The Prestige
Enemy of the State

Circuit City list
$24.99:
Black Hawk Down
Finding Neverland
G.I. Jane
Haunted Mansion
House of Flying Daggers
Into the Blue
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
King Arthur
Knights Tale, A
Kung Fu Hustle
Layer Cake
Memento
Remember the Titans
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Stealth
Tears of the Sun

$29.99:
Annapolis
Apocalypto
Bridge to Terabithia
Brothers Grimm
Casanova
Casino Royale
Chicago
Chicken Little
Click
Dark Water
Deja Vu
Dinosaur
Eight Below
Enemy of the State
Flightplan
Glory Road
Gone in 60 Seconds
Great Raid, The
Guardian, The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Invincible
Ladder 49
Lookout
Open Season
Pearl Harbor
Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
Prestige, The
Primevil
Pursuit of Happyness
Queen, The
Reign of Fire
Rocky Balboa
Silent Hill
Sky High
Stranger than Fiction
Talladega Nights
Ultraviolet
Underworld Evolution
Wild Hogs
Wild, The

Systems

Future shop in Canada has the same deal.Now if I just had a player.

cheddar

This is a pretty across the retailers discounting of disney/BV titles etc.

Amazon is doing the same thing. Might be better since they sell them at a discount initially.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_5653202_1/102-5292578-0883308?ie=UTF8&docId=1000146321&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=special-offers-1&pf_rd_r=087PJQNR206B20XTXWYT&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=316728801&pf_rd_i=B000N6UERA

Also, BB has a $14.99 blu-ray sale.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&id=pcat17071&type=page&ks=960&st=blu-ray&sc=Global&cp=1&sp=&qp=crootcategoryid%23%23-1%23%23-1%7E%7Eq626c752d726179%7E%7Enf383%7C%7C4f6e2053616c65&list=y&usc=All+Categories&nrp=15&iht=n

With transformers coming out on hd-dvd, this is a great week to go bargain hunting for blu-rays as the studios try to blunt the sales effect this exclusive will have for hd sales.

malikarshad

What are the good movies to own to show off your Blu-Ray player's sound and visual quality?
I have already ordered 8 Below and Chicken little.
I have "Open Season", "X-Men last stand", "Black Hawk Down".
I was thinking 5th element but i have heard that its not encoded properly and the future version of it will correct this. Have they come out with a new version?

What's else is on people's list?
I'll be ordering following this season
SpiderMan3
Rataouville
Shrek 3 (not sure of HD version is coming out)

cheddar

malikarshad wrote: »

What are the good movies to own to show off your Blu-Ray player's sound and visual quality?
I have already ordered 8 Below and Chicken little.
I have "Open Season", "X-Men last stand", "Black Hawk Down".
I was thinking 5th element but i have heard that its not encoded properly and the future version of it will correct this. Have they come out with a new version?

What's else is on people's list?
I'll be ordering following this season
SpiderMan3
Rataouville
Shrek 3 (not sure of HD version is coming out)

You can get a good idea for top tier movies here:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=858316

Yes, they remastered 5th element and cleaned up its problems. They pulled all the old disks from the shelves and offered replacements for owners of the old version.

Chicken Little and BHD are supposed to be great examples of PQ. Also all the Pirates movies from disney are supposed to be great PQ and reference quality AQ for their LPCM soundtracks. Also, I believe that x-men has a 6.1 soundtrack as does Crank. Which is supposed to have great PQ also.

malikarshad

cheddar wrote: »

You can get a good idea for top tier movies here:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=858316

Thanks much. This link is really helpful. AVSForum sometimes is very difficult to search thru.

millerman 3732

malikarshad wrote: »

What are the good movies to own to show off your Blu-Ray player's sound and visual quality?
I have already ordered 8 Below and Chicken little.
I have "Open Season", "X-Men last stand", "Black Hawk Down".
I was thinking 5th element but i have heard that its not encoded properly and the future version of it will correct this. Have they come out with a new version?

What's else is on people's list?
I'll be ordering following this season
SpiderMan3
Rataouville
Shrek 3 (not sure of HD version is coming out)

Check out Apocalypto, one of the best looking movies I've seen on either format. I also really like MI: 3 to show off PQ as well.

fireshoes

BTW, it sounds like many CC's are doing the BOGO for HD DVD's under $30 too.

margate21

fireshoes wrote: »

BTW, it sounds like many CC's are doing the BOGO for HD DVD's under $30 too.

very true i bought 8 last night bogo <$30. there goes me only buying the xa2 for upscaling.

cheddar

fireshoes wrote: »

BTW, it sounds like many CC's are doing the BOGO for HD DVD's under $30 too.

Looks like a bug in their system that only works on in store (not online) purchases less than $30. But it seems to work for all titles if the store honors it. According to reports on the forums, some stores are catching the mistake and only honoring titles in their ads. Other stores are running out of stock on everything. Better jump on this one quick.

BIZILL

got me enemy of the state blu-ray and shooter hd dvd last night for $15 each. going back first thing when they open today to get transformers and a few other with the bogo.

malikarshad

Got "Chicken Little" and "8 Below". BTW amazon jacked up the price by 50 cents later in the afternoon.
Still a good deal though.
I went to BB last night and they had "5th Element" for $14.95 but did not know if its remastered version or an old one.

Is there a similar link for best looking HD-DVD on AVSForum like they have for Blu-Ray.

BIZILL

$300 worth of hd dvd and blu for $150!:D

...including transformers hd dvd opening day!

cheddar

BIZILL wrote: »

$300 worth of hd dvd and blu for $150!:D

...including transformers hd dvd opening day!

Nice haul. Sometimes it is nice to have a big box store who's employees don't know what they're doing. The line employees of course are just scanning the titles in. But some guy who programs the system screwed up big time letting opening titles like transformers go out the door for half off.

Unfortunately the CC stores around me were either picked over yesterday or didn't have a very good selection to begin with. I don't usually shop at CC so I don't know which. However, the day was not a total loss as I stopped off at Frys and picked up a bunch of 10 buck blu-rays (bogo deals at $19.99). Good week .

BIZILL

WELL, i went back to circuit city to get my third wave and they pulled the plug on the deal. soooo... i went on down to best buy, showed 'em my circuit city receipt and they price-matched for me. BOGO. and this worked for $34 titles as well. now i'm about $350 deep in hd and blu. but worth twice as much. i'm gonna hate myself when it comes time to watch these movies and the electric company shuts my power off.;) :rolleyes:

shadowofnight

millerman 3732 wrote: »

Check out Apocalypto, one of the best looking movies I've seen on either format. I also really like MI: 3 to show off PQ as well.

For Apocalypto , I second that...stunning visuals and sound....you wanna show it off...thats a great one. The Wild ( Animated ) is also stunning...look at the Lion's mane...it looks so real

cheddar

malikarshad wrote: »

I went to BB last night and they had "5th Element" for $14.95 but did not know if its remastered version or an old one.

I think the easiest way to tell is that the old 5E had only an LPCM track for lossless audio. The new 5E has both an LPCM and Dolby TrueHD track for lossless audio. It should state it right on the box. 10 bucks at Frys with the bogo $19.99 disks offer. This, unlike the CC offer, is an official promotion. The blu-ray bogos from disney and sony should still be on this week.

cheddar

BIZILL wrote: »

WELL, i went back to circuit city to get my third wave and they pulled the plug on the deal. soooo... i went on down to best buy, showed 'em my circuit city receipt and they price-matched for me. BOGO. and this worked for $34 titles as well. now i'm about $350 deep in hd and blu. but worth twice as much. i'm gonna hate myself when it comes time to watch these movies and the electric company shuts my power off.;) :rolleyes:

Bizill, one way to take the sting out of your purchases might be to buy some of the blu-ray movies from the official promos at amazon and frys. The CC deals were great, but the half off was on pretty high prices to begin with ($30+ buck titles, ouch). You might be able to save like 5 bucks more per disk if you can buy them from amazon or frys bogos and just return them to CC. Don't know how many blu-rays you bought that are on the official disney and sony lists, but it could make a difference if you bought some disks that are only 10 bucks at frys.

BIZILL

cheddar wrote: »

Bizill, one way to take the sting out of your purchases might be to buy some of the blu-ray movies from the official promos at amazon and frys. The CC deals were great, but the half off was on pretty high prices to begin with ($30+ buck titles, ouch). You might be able to save like 5 bucks more per disk if you can buy them from amazon or frys bogos and just return them to CC. Don't know how many blu-rays you bought that are on the official disney and sony lists, but it could make a difference if you bought some disks that are only 10 bucks at frys.

fry's with shipping and tax don't better the deal cc messed up on. i do normally buy through amazon and deepdiscountdvd, though. i never pay retail for anything. though i would have for transformers!

cheddar

BIZILL wrote: »

fry's with shipping and tax don't better the deal cc messed up on. i do normally buy through amazon and deepdiscountdvd, though. i never pay retail for anything. though i would have for transformers!

I wasn't thinking of frys online, but maybe you don't have a B&M one near you. Just thinking if you had the time to go to CC and pay tax, if you could get to a frys, you could save a few bucks. A lot of people over at AVS bought hundreds of dollars in disks but they didn't seem to know that quite a few disks they were loading up on were actually cheaper with the bogo at frys since they discount to retail better in the first place.

Anyways, in addition to getting cheaper blu-rays, visiting frys also had one more plus for me. While I was waiting for a price adjustment at the software counter, a guy came up with the news that they had 25 wiis just in. Thought what the heck and walked out with a new game system too. Truly a good week for my electronics shopping...:D.

shadowofnight

cheddar wrote: »

I wasn't thinking of frys online, but maybe you don't have a B&M one near you. Just thinking if you had the time to go to CC and pay tax, if you could get to a frys, you could save a few bucks. A lot of people over at AVS bought hundreds of dollars in disks but they didn't seem to know that quite a few disks they were loading up on were actually cheaper with the bogo at frys since they discount to retail better in the first place.

Anyways, in addition to getting cheaper blu-rays, visiting frys also had one more plus for me. While I was waiting for a price adjustment at the software counter, a guy came up with the news that they had 25 wiis just in. Thought what the heck and walked out with a new game system too. Truly a good week for my electronics shopping...:D.

Usually the opposite happens to me...I go for PC parts and walk away with at least a couple of blu-rays I dont like the Indiana Jones Frys ( Brokaw ) ...The Sunnyvale Frys and the Fremont Frys are awesome though...WAY less " Returned " items and they always have the items in stock...Frys is a weekly trip for me

cheddar

shadowofnight wrote: »

Usually the opposite happens to me...I go for PC parts and walk away with at least a couple of blu-rays I dont like the Indiana Jones Frys ( Brokaw ) ...The Sunnyvale Frys and the Fremont Frys are awesome though...WAY less " Returned " items and they always have the items in stock...Frys is a weekly trip for me

There was a time I worked so close to one, every time the new ads in the paper came out, I took an extra long lunch trip.

BIZILL

closest fry's is in phoenix. not worth driving to another city over. but i wish we had one here in tucson.

shadowofnight

cheddar wrote: »

There was a time I worked so close to one, every time the new ads in the paper came out, I took an extra long lunch trip.

Friday Baby...Friday....My wife picks up the Friday Mercury News JUST for that killer 4 page ( Well 8 I guess...front/back ) ad