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Wal-Mart To Start Black Friday Pricing Early (HD DVD players less than $100!)
MarketWatch ^ | Oct 31, 2007 | Angela Moore

Posted on 11/01/2007 11:31:00 AM PDT by TrueKnightGalahad

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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.
1 posted on 11/01/2007 11:31:03 AM PDT by TrueKnightGalahad
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To: TrueKnightGalahad
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.

2 posted on 11/01/2007 11:33:14 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
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To: TrueKnightGalahad

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


3 posted on 11/01/2007 11:33:28 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: TrueKnightGalahad

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


4 posted on 11/01/2007 11:34:23 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Every time you’re somewhere, that means you’re not somewhere else, Fred D Thompson 44)
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To: TrueKnightGalahad
But Betamax Blu-Ray is superior technology. Betamax Blu-Ray will remain the standard for connoisseurs...
5 posted on 11/01/2007 11:35:15 AM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

LVD - ping for the High-Def list.


6 posted on 11/01/2007 11:35:57 AM PDT by TrueKnightGalahad (Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Viking Kitties!)
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To: TrueKnightGalahad

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.


7 posted on 11/01/2007 11:36:52 AM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: TrueKnightGalahad

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?


8 posted on 11/01/2007 11:37:17 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Doogle

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

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


9 posted on 11/01/2007 11:37:36 AM PDT by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: Doogle

DVD != HDDVD


10 posted on 11/01/2007 11:37:53 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: KarlInOhio
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.

11 posted on 11/01/2007 11:39:17 AM PDT by SengirV
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To: 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.

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.

12 posted on 11/01/2007 11:40:06 AM PDT by montag813
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To: gridlock

lol, GOOD ONE!!!


13 posted on 11/01/2007 11:40:44 AM PDT by njrep
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To: Non-Sequitur
they’ll be playing “Santa Baby”

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

I hate that song.

Hate. Hate. Hate.

14 posted on 11/01/2007 11:42:22 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: TrueKnightGalahad

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!

:)


15 posted on 11/01/2007 11:43:08 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: ArrogantBustard

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


16 posted on 11/01/2007 11:43:21 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Non-Sequitur

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.


17 posted on 11/01/2007 11:44:35 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Bogtrotter52

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.


18 posted on 11/01/2007 11:45:17 AM PDT by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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To: TrueKnightGalahad

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


19 posted on 11/01/2007 11:47:46 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (Only two products have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. Coincidence? i think not.)
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To: sean327

Thanks, one less oaf to deal with.


20 posted on 11/01/2007 11:48:27 AM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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