Microsoft Cuts Price Of 360...HD-DVD Drive

[Bond]

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Announced at Comic-Con today, Microsoft have cut the price of their 360 HD-DVD drive from USD$199 to $179. As an extra sweetener, they're also going to be offering five free HD-DVDs to anyone picking one up (though you've only got 15 to choose from, and it's a mail-order dealio).

Source: Kotaku (http://kotaku.com/gaming/anyone%3F-anyone%3F/microsoft-cuts-price-of-360hd+dvd-drive-282649.php)

[gekko]

That's amazing. You're almost getting the player for free after the price of 5 movies. Simply amazing. Wish I didn't already own one.

It's a great started player. It'll buy you some time until you get a HDMI 1.3 receiver and TV, at which point HDMI 1.3 players should be pretty reasonably priced.

Doesn't beat Toshiba offering the HD-A2 for $99 the other week for people attending that convention. But it's the next best thing.

[Crash]

Buy it, then buy 300 on HD-DVD