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360 HD-DVD Add-on Dropped to $179

Posted by Zonk on from the cheap-red-rays dept.

Joystiq reports that the HD-DVD add-on for the 360 has been permanently dropped in price to $179. Additionally, Bob Barker style, you get five free movies too: "Appearing at Comic-Con in San Diego, the announcement was made amidst promotion for the HD-DVD releases of the film 300 and the cheerleader epic, Heroes. Not content with just a twenty dollar dip, Microsoft has extended Toshiba's 'Perfect Offer' promotion to Xbox 360 owners, awarding five free movies with purchase. The hard part now is choosing between Casablanca and The Dukes of Hazzard. Naturally, the Xbox Live Marketplace wasn't left out in all this news as 300 will be making its way to the service in HD on August 14th, while free content for Heroes will arrive sometime before its HD-DVD release."

3 of 77 comments (clear)

  1. blah by Is0m0rph · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone really buying into BD/HDDVD? I'd rather just watch a HD movie on one my HD movie channels or the occasional $6 rental off the Live Marketplace.

  2. Re:Keep the change.. by MBGMorden · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why spend $100 on Wifi? If you're not right beside your router (I like wired connections when I'm close enough anyways) just buy a $40 access point, a $20 switch, and you've not only saved $40 but with that hardware behind your TV you can connect ALL your consoles (and any other network enabled device) back to your router without having to worry about individual wifi adapters.

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  3. Re:Trolls and Orcs by tlhIngan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The benefit of the add-on drive is that it has been well and thoroughly hacked. If you want to rip HD-DVD's - the add-on drive, when added on to your PC, is the way to go.


    Which is the reason why I hope HD-DVD lives - it's got less DRM than Blu-Ray, and being able to rip HD-DVD is useful for those who don't want to carry around discs and such.

    Plus the DVD Forum got rid of the bloody region code for HD-DVD (at least, region coding doesn't exist on HD-DVD yet). Sure you can get region hacks, but considering they're not even necessary for HD-DVD...