HD DVD Discussion - Warner Bros exchange program introduced 4/22/09 (see first post)

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[size=+1]***Warner Bros exchange program introduced for anyone interested in swapping some of their WB HD DVD discs for the Blu-Ray counterparts. It's not free, but you do get to keep the HD DVD disc. See the thread here.***[/size]

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The time has come to bid our preferred format farewell. An unfortunate but obvious conclusion to the HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray battle is that one of them would have to get buried in the end. I was happy to see many dual-format owners say that they preferred HD DVD, and even now the format offers some features that Blu-Ray is still catching up with.

Although the manufacturing of new players has come to a close, Toshiba will continue to support and service current players for the next several years.

The original HD DVD thread can still be found here and does have some helpful information here and there and was quite useful during the format's life. However, as it approached the 4500 post mark, it's clear that this is as good a time as any to start fresh.


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my 5 free came in Saturday

Billy Madison
The Bourne Identity
Troy
Aeon Flux
Blood Diamond

confused more than anything else but it's cool I guess.
 
[quote name='pinoy530']xploitedcinema.com has it for $35 shipped new[/quote]

Ah well, I can live with $5, good to know about that site though, thanks for that.

How quick do they usually deliver ?
 
Got my five free today.

Ordered:
Italian Job
Pitch Black
Full Metal Jacket
Firewall
Troy

Received:
Italian Job
Blood Diamond (Have)
The Departed (Combo) (Have)
Smokin' Aces (Combo)
Troy: Directors Cut

Only Smokin' Aces had a screwed up UPC. I think I'm going to throw The Departed, Blood Diamond, and Smokin' Aces up for trade.
 
Got my 5 today as well....


I totally forgot what it was that I had ordered, but I received the following.


1. Smokin' Aces
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. Troy
4. Billy Madison (Already Have)
5. Four Brother ( Already Have)


Does anyone want to to trade for my dupes? I also have an extra sealed "Manchurian Candidate"
 
Noice, just picked up 300 on HD-DVD for $10 from Play.com (they don't ship to the US unfortunately)

Also got Tremors, Mad Max 2, Enter the Dragon and Land of the Dead all at $10 a shot:)

EDIT - Went back for a few more got

Letters from Iwo Jima
The Shining (Special Edition)
The Game
Fearless
2001 A Space Odyssey (Special Edition)
Ray
V for Vendetta
Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition)

All for $10 a go.
 
I just got mine in the mail today....not very happy.

Billy Madison
Bourne Identity (Already own)
Lethal Weapon
Aeon Flux
Troy: Special Edition
 
got my 5 free hd-dvd's in the mail today... only got 1 substitution...

my 5 were
Troy
Blood Diamond
The Departed
Italian Job
Smokin Aces (already have.. wanna trade it if anyone wants it) *i think i selected Full Metal Jacket on the sheet, and i still want that
 
[quote name='guyver2077']yea silent hill is prob one of my favorite hd's.. i also ordered it from xploited some time ago..

it woops the domestic bd version[/quote]

I'm thinking of ordering the hd version, but already own the bd domestic. what's the difference?
 
Wow, looks like everyone got theirs today.
I got 0/5 that I requested.

Got:
Four Brothers (no interest)
Smokin' Aces (no interest)
Billy Madison (no interest)
Children of Men (might check it out)
Harry Potter 5 (will watch it)
 
Got my five
Blood Diamond
U2
Smokin Aces
Four Brothers
Troy

I am happy, I really wanted the departed so if there are any people that got them as extras that want to sell them to me id be interested in buying.
 
Still waiting on my 5.

For those who haven't noticed, it looks like Amazon has jacked up their prices. I've been considering picking up the Ocean's or Mission Impossible box sets but was hoping they'd drop. Amazon decided to jack them up another $20 instead. :bomb:
 
[quote name='WingsDJY']Still waiting on my 5.

For those who haven't noticed, it looks like Amazon has jacked up their prices. I've been considering picking up the Ocean's or Mission Impossible box sets but was hoping they'd drop. Amazon decided to jack them up another $20 instead. :bomb:[/quote]

Don't they sometimes jack up the prices before a sale?

Ah well, here's hoping.
 
[quote name='benjamouth']Don't they sometimes jack up the prices before a sale?

Ah well, here's hoping.[/quote]

Yeah, that's what I was hoping for when I noticed that the prices went up. But some of the prices kind of kill any potential BOGO.
 
[quote name='kingjeff']Wow, looks like everyone got theirs today.
I got 0/5 that I requested.

Got:
Four Brothers (no interest)
Smokin' Aces (no interest)
Billy Madison (no interest)
Children of Men (might check it out)
Harry Potter 5 (will watch it)[/quote]

Children of Men was good... give it a watch
I hear Four Brothers was surprisingly good
Harry Potter 5 might have been one of the best movies I saw last year
If you don't like Sandler, you won't like Madison
Smokin' Aces I hear blows.
 
I finally got mine as well today. I got:

Aeon Flux
Children of Men
Smokin' Aces
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Billy Madison

Aeon Flux was the only one I got of the ones I originally ordered. I'll keep that and Children of Men. I'm not sure about the others. I might keep harry potter, but I'll definitely trade the other two.

I'm tempted to buy some more HD-DVDs from deepdiscount.
 
yay finally got my 5 hd dvds too bad not one of them are the ones i ordered

Four Brothers (can't go wrong with marky mark and now i can get rid of my dvd version)
Lethal Weapon (i mean seriously? why would they send me this? stupid offer)
Troy (semi-interested)
Billy Madison (eh why not adam sandler)
Smokin Aces (not gonna lie, didn't hate it, but im a sucker for 50 cal)
 
Finally got my free hd-dvd's.

Aeon Flux
The Departed
The Bourne Identity
Sleepy Hollow
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I all ready have The Departed, Order of the Phoenix, and Bourne Identity, so if anyone is interested in a trade, let me know.
 
Finally got my free HD-DVDs today. Except the box was torn open and I only got 3 instead of 5. Nice job Post office, I appreciate it. Anyway I got Children of Men, The Departed, and Children of Men.
 
[quote name='Purkeynator']Finally got my free HD-DVDs today. Except the box was torn open and I only got 3 instead of 5. Nice job Post office, I appreciate it. Anyway I got Children of Men, The Departed, and Children of Men.[/QUOTE]

That sucks! Mine came in a padded envelope which was beat to hell but all the movies were there.
 
so i know that two or so pages back that a guy linked to the trade forum when a guy asked where to trade but my question is if there is a specific place to trade just hd dvds (for instance i want children of men, but its hard to find it in trade lists) so yeah just wondering if there is a specific place or do we just have to sift through the trading forums
 
[quote name='Gumby the Green']so i know that two or so pages back that a guy linked to the trade forum when a guy asked where to trade but my question is if there is a specific place to trade just hd dvds (for instance i want children of men, but its hard to find it in trade lists) so yeah just wondering if there is a specific place or do we just have to sift through the trading forums[/quote]

Use the search function and just narrow the search to the trading forum. Only trade lists with the item you want will be shown. Yeah, some of them might be looking for it like you, but some will obviously be trading or selling it, as well.

Also, there is the Blu-ray and HD-DVD master trade list.
 
Got mine today as well. Requested:

Babel
Hulk
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Firewall
Darkman

Of those, I only really wanted the last two. The rest were picked because I didn't have them already. What I got:

Children of Men (already had it)
Departed (already had it)
Four Brothers (already had it)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (whoop dee doo)
Bourne Identity (YAY!)

Well at least I got ONE movie I wanted, and another that I ordered. :)
 
[quote name='geko29']Got mine today as well. Requested:

Babel
Hulk
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Firewall
Darkman

Of those, I only really wanted the last two. The rest were picked because I didn't have them already. What I got:

Children of Men (already had it)
Departed (already had it)
Four Brothers (already had it)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (whoop dee doo)
Bourne Identity (YAY!)

Well at least I got ONE movie I wanted, and another that I ordered. :) If anybody wants CoM, Departed, or Four Brothers, I'll happily trade them off.[/QUOTE]

Interested in CoM but waiting too see what I end up with .
I'll post whatever I end up with .
 
Deepdiscount 20% off sale has started a day early, several HD DVDs I've been holding out on getting I finally bit on, like Slither for $9.58, Planet Earth for $36.88, Galapagos for $12.30, and Ultimate Matrix for $42.52 after discount.

Several other Combos like Children of men ($9.58 AD) and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang($10.35 AD) have recently dropped in price since I checked DD about a week ago.

I honestly didn't think HD dvd stock would make it this far into June.
 
I wish I could have gotten in on the whole "free movie" deal, but I got mine waaaay too late. Of course, anyone who gets movies they don't want can skate them my way. ;)

Ebay is killing me here lately (got ripped off last month for Justice League New Frontier HD which never shipped and the seller canceled her ebay account 3 days after I paid and now i'm in claim process through paypal), and my local moviestop is now done with HD period. A local gamestop did have 2 hd's for $17.95 used (Big Lebowski and Bourne Identity), and I refuse to give them that much on a used hd. Craigslist is coming up with nothing since I got Bladerunner for $15 shipped. Maybe I'll jump on the DDD deal since the Inetvideo shipping is way to much for what I want (Fear and Loathing is my main want on there, but shipping is horrid).

Bah, my collection of 11 is getting lonely...
 
Got mine a few days ago.

Ordered:
Italian Job
Hulk
Full Metal Jacket
Frighteners
Darkman

Received:
Italian Job
Bourne Identity
Children of Men
Blood Diamond
Billy Madison

I'll probably see about trading off those last 3.
 
I got my last five today. Of course now of the ones I asked for.

Children of Men
Billy Madison
Blood Diamond
Miami Vice
Four Brothers
 
Does anyone think Amazon is going to have a sale soon? The inetvideo.com sale and Deep Discount sale really finished up the rest of what I really wanted to get in terms of HD-DVD. There are only 2 HD-DVDs remaining that I would really like to get (Beowulf and Appleseed Ex Machina) but I recently saw the prices of several of them go up (such as Beowulf).
 
Last time I called on my 5 free status I was told they were mailed out on May 27th, and it could be 4-6 more weeks from that date. I read posts of people getting theirs 1-2 days after their mailing dates. I'd really like to buy more, but I really don't want any doubles. I guess I'm just going to have to wait.
 
[quote name='Chucki Norris']Does anyone think Amazon is going to have a sale soon? The inetvideo.com sale and Deep Discount sale really finished up the rest of what I really wanted to get in terms of HD-DVD. There are only 2 HD-DVDs remaining that I would really like to get (Beowulf and Appleseed Ex Machina) but I recently saw the prices of several of them go up (such as Beowulf).[/quote]


I need Beowulf and Appleseed too. I wanted Transformers on HD DVD...but I already got the SD transforming case one from Target. Too cool to pass up.
 
hey i just got one cheap, and it is new

here is my question, what can this drive do? can i watch that with reg DVD?
only reason i will keep it is to make sure i dont overhead my 360 when i watch movie. so base on that reason, should i keep it or sell it on ebay?

thanks
 
Keep it. your not gonna get much on ebay and it does upscale. Also its great to have so you dont use you 360's drive with movies. Not worth selling for a craptastic 30bucks!
 
I had completely forgotten about the 5 free HD DVD's I haven't received until the inetvideo sale this weekend. It's been 4-5 months and from all indications I'm not going to receive any of the ones I asked for. I've heard people say it is the same distribution company sending out the HD and BD. I haven't looked into it but is that true and if it is why has the HD DVD side been such a disappointment? I mailed in for my Blu-ray movies, got them back 6 weeks later and got all the ones I asked for.
 
[quote name='wtfmate']Keep it. your not gonna get much on ebay and it does upscale. Also its great to have so you dont use you 360's drive with movies. Not worth selling for a craptastic 30bucks![/quote]

Actually, the 360's drive will upscale as well, but they both have to have either VGA or HDMI to do so.
 
Well, just got my 5 free ones today:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Casino
Babel
World Trade Center


I already own the first three, not really that interested in the last two, so I'm willing to trade any of them for any other HD DVD that I don't have.

Haves:
300
40 Year-Old Virgin
Accepted
American Gangster
Anchorman
ATL
Babel
Backdraft
Batman Begins
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Blood Diamond
Born on the Fourth of July
The Breakfast Club
Casino
Constantine
The Corpse Bride
The Departed
District B13
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Goodfellas
Happy Feet
Hot Fuzz
Justice League: The New Frontier
King Kong
Knocked Up
Million Dollar Baby
Old School
Pan's Labyrinth
Serenity
Shaun of the Dead
Shrek the Third
Superman Returns
Top Gun
The Warriors
Zodiac
Harry Potter Collection
Ultimate Matrix Collection
Ocean's Trilogy

Or I'm willing to sell them, just PM me with a decent price.

-edit-
Trading The Thing for Billy Madison.

Still willing to trade the others for almost any other HD movie, even willing to do 2 or 3 if needed.
 
I sent in my rebate form in early March and yesterday I received a postcard from Toshiba saying that due to the overwhelming demand, my order would be delayed. Card stated they would be delivered before Sept. 1, 2008.

The only plus side is, the longer it takes, the higher the probability of getting better titles since they're almost garaunteed to be out of the 15 titles listed on the rebate form.
 
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