Wal-Mart To Start Black Friday Pricing Early (HD DVD players less than $100!)

MarketWatch ^ | Oct 31, 2007 | Angela Moore

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Not mentioned in this brief story is that Wal-Mart will be selling Toshiba HD DVD players for $98.97!!! Pre-prints of the Wal-Mart ad for this coming Friday show not only below-$100 pricing on Toshiba HD DVD players, but also HD DVDs for $14 and change. This appears to be the opening salvo for mass adoption of HD DVD and the chill of well-deserved demise for Blu-Ray.

[KarlInOhio]

Is there any particular reason you like HD over Blu-Ray?

I've kept out of the format wars because I don't have an HD TV yet and I figured I'd just wait until the format was unified or players commonly played both formats.

[Doogle]

I saw a DVD player in a Shop-Rite store this AM for $69.95

[NeoCaveman]

OK, how much for the HDTV to go with it?

[gridlock]

But Betamax Blu-Ray is superior technology. Betamax Blu-Ray will remain the standard for connoisseurs...

[TrueKnightGalahad]

LVD - ping for the High-Def list.

[Bogtrotter52]

I would rather go elsewhere and pay 20 bucks more rather than go to Walmart and push my way through the crowds of oafs there.

[Non-Sequitur]

People keep pushing the season earlier and earlier. There is a radio station in Kansas City that started it’s “All Christmas Music All The Time” yesterday and it’ll run through December 25th. Any predicitons on how many times they’ll be playing “Santa Baby” over that 57 day span?

[krb]

You can get a DVD player from Best Buy for $39.

It’s getting a high definition DVD player for cheap that is exciting.

[rb22982]

DVD != HDDVD

[SengirV]

Is there any particular reason you like HD over Blu-Ray?

$$$$

I think you'll see a tipping point in the not too distance future if HD-DVD players stay at $99 after Christmas.

[montag813]

I would rather go elsewhere and pay 20 bucks more rather than go to Walmart and push my way through the crowds of oafs there.

At my local WalMart last year, a white woman was elbowed and shoved by black youths on Black Friday, and they yelled "white bitch" as they grabbed one of the last items out of her hands. I watched as WalMart staff did absolutely nothing. We called the local news. They weren't interested.

[njrep]

lol, GOOD ONE!!!

[ArrogantBustard]

they’ll be playing “Santa Baby”

@#$%&*(&*()!!!!!!!

I hate that song.

Hate. Hate. Hate.

[cvq3842]

I amat least five years out of date when it comes to technology. I’m assuming I can keep using my existing DVDs for quite a while.

Although I’m sure the studios are working hard to give me a reason to buy all my favorite movies YET AGAIN in some improved format.

I still use my VCR frequently!

:)

[1rudeboy]

It really depends on who sings it to you and what she’s wearing at the time.

[7thson]

What I would like to see a radio station do is the day after Thanksgiving start playing Christmas music at the rate of days before Christmas. This year, Thanksgiving falls on the 22nd. Starting the next day, with 32 days till Christmas, every 32nd song is a Christmas song. The next day, every 31st song, and so on. By the time Christmas rolls around, more and more Christmas songs hit the playlist.

[sean327]

Nice generalization you made there. My turn to play:
I would rather go to Wal-Mart, pay $20 less, and not have to deal with the crowds of self-important pretentious a-hole snobs who look down on us common folk oafs.

[absolootezer0]

people shop the day after thanksgiving? i thought that was a free vacation day for hunting!

[Bogtrotter52]

Thanks, one less oaf to deal with.