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Phantom Menace Pre-Orders Available

Posted by emmett on from the i'll-take-the-widescreen-no-jar-jar-edition dept.

Geckoman writes "Amazon.com has The Phantom Menace available for presales in both widescreen and pan-and-scan. If you're boycotting Amazon, then you can also find it at Reel.com among other places."

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  1. Other things you could be doing and spending on... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    These are a few of the things I'd rather do than give money to someone whose new trilogy is supposedly about the evil of greed and then sets new standards in it (the real reason SW1 not on DVD? I'm betting it's that there's only 5 million players out there now. Drive demand up, wait till there's an established base of 40 million, say, then flood it out).

    10) Install Windows 2000

    9) Surf the Gay Jedi fanfic page.

    8) Call up the MPAA and rat on people who link to DeCSS

    7) Make Natalie Portman posts on /.

    6) Try to make money by getting my friends to read my epinions (you too can be a spammer).

    5) Run Ultima 9 on a non VooDoo 3 card.

    4) Start a Daiktana fan page

    3) Meet Jeff K on IRC for hacking tips. (FrEE KEVIN NITMACK!)

    2) Code a DOS Emulator for Linux so I can play badass games designed for 486s

    1) Order DVDs from MPAA aligned studios on Amazon.

    These may sound evil - but they're probably more productive for your own karma in the long run.

  2. Re:It keeps getting better and better! by Hrunting · · Score: 4

    Well then here is a link for you my apathetic friend. You complain about an edition costing more. If you'd stand for something like the rest of us, it may just bring the prices down.

    Real mature. Amazon isn't keeping prices high for me (in fact, Amazon's continually got lower prices than my regular bricks-n-mortars locations) and DeCSS has only turned out to be a pissing contests between people who think they have the right to everything and people who think those same people have the right to nothing. I can choose better battles than Amazon's patenting rights (which isn't doing jack for prices one way or the other) and DeCSS, both of which are destructive battles, not constructive battles. Simply because I do not share your views about OSS legal views is not a reason to lessen my opinion about Star Wars marketing habits.

    The major point is, Lucas is releasing a common video format in a much more expensive 'Collector's Edition'. I'd rather he release a special edition with a DVD in it instead or a regular Widescreen edition, like he did with the Special Edition videos. It has nothing to do with boycotting Amazon or my views on DeCSS.

    And as far as prices go, Amazon is $4 cheaper than Reel.com for the same Collector's Edition. I could care less about their patent. Fifteen percent off is a good bargain, and the fact that they patented their e-commerce model is a trivial reason to not take advantage of it. I'm sure millions of shoppers also agree.

    You pick your battles. I'll pick mine. But my views about Star Wars have nothing to do with any of them.

  3. Referral? by Fizgig · · Score: 4

    There is a referral link in that link, and I doubt it's Slashdot's (of course I could be wrong, but why would they still have links to Amazon?). I consider it extremely lame to try to get your affiliat link slashdotted. Really lame. And if it isn't supposed to be there, I forgive emmett :) He's new

  4. no DVD, no sale by LocalYokel · · Score: 5
    No DVD, no sale -- and even if there was one, I'd be hesitant to get a copy of TPM before The Matrix and about a hundred other movies that I think were better, including episodes IV-VI.

    Can an article be moderated as flamebait? We've been over all of this, and I'm sure that it will just be a matter of moments before the forum is ignited and flames about the lack of DVD (like myself), the evil MPAA and their handling of DeCSS, the supposed "boycott" of Amazon.com for their software patent, and of course, the beautiful Natalie Portman start flying...

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  5. Re:Sigh, Amazon! by gargle · · Score: 5

    In case you haven't noticed, Slashdot has a partnership with Amazon.com. There's even a nice big Slashbox where you can search for books on Amazon, and if you buy something, Slashdot gets a cut. When money is involved, professed principles get thrown out of the window.


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