The *Official* HD DVD Clearance Thread

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  • millerman 3732
    millerman 3732 Posts: 1,488
    edited March 2008
    Wal-Mart has the HD-A2 and the HD-A3 (with 300 and one of the Bourne movies in the box) for $74.00
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  • MKZ
    MKZ Posts: 1,068
    edited March 2008
    Polkmaniac wrote: »
    The D3 is supposed to come with the two Bourne movies, mine says it right on the box, at least that's what all the ones at my Costco show...

    It might be from Sam's Club. They beat the Costco price and going for $68 now. No 5 Free HD DVD I guess.
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited March 2008
    My XA1 bite dust this weekend. Welcome screen stays on so I decided to take it apart (I still have my A1 to play movies with). I'll most likely replace the inside with a HTPC and put in BD burner once they get cheaper... Why? Because the case looks good and is built much better than the $200-300 HTPC cases you see for sale. :)
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  • sbpolk
    sbpolk Posts: 644
    edited March 2008
    I have a line on an XA2 I am going to go pick up tomorrow.... $99 new in box! Wish me luck!
    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    Complete Bourne Trilogy at Amazon for 30 bucks
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • polksda
    polksda Posts: 716
    edited March 2008
    Also a whole boatload of HD-DVDs at Amazon have been dropped to $11.95 (free shipping over $25).
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  • sbpolk
    sbpolk Posts: 644
    edited March 2008
    sbpolk wrote: »
    I have a line on an XA2 I am going to go pick up tomorrow.... $99 new in box! Wish me luck!

    I was headed to Utah today from Boise, and yesterday I did some calling around to see if I could find an a35. Noone in Boise had any. So I called a store called RC Willey, and they didn't have any a35s either.

    On a whim I asked if they had an XA2, and the sales looked it up and said they had a clearance one in the warehouse for $99! I was very stoked, gave him a card number to pay for it, and drove down. I understood it to be new in the box.

    When I picked up the player, I found it was an open box. I spoke with the manager and told him that it was second gen player, open box, and that I was upset that I had been told $99 and had not been told it was an open box. I told him I thought the player was worth about $50 to me.

    He pulled it up in the computer, and informed me retail was $799, their cost was $531, and that HDDVD was a "dead format." I told him I understood that, and given that HDDVD was dead, it was not worth $99 to me.

    He asked me if I would still take it for $50, and I indicated I would.

    He refunded me $53, and I was out the door with a mint XA2 for $53!

    I used to have an XA2, which I sold when things started looking bad for HDDVD. Glad I did, I sold it used for $430. In the meantime, I have been using a $98 Walmart HD-A2, which I took back today for a full refund. The CSR said they had been trained to expect returns on HDDVD players, and to go ahead and give full refunds.

    It was a good day for me. Last week I bought a D3 for $79 (costco) and an a30 for $109 (bestbuy), and now will decide which of those to keep.

    Woot@!
    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell
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