At $1.25... Cmone. totally worth it.

Europe is still selling HDDVD as if there was no BluRay.

Futureshop is still selling old HD-DVDs in Canada. They've even discounted some of them.
HMV is also still selling them in Canada, though inexplicably at the same prices as Blu-Ray.
They're all gone from the Wal-Marts though.

Its cheap and so are HD DVD's, I dont see why not pick one up and build a sizely collection of HD DVD's cheap. Sure they wont make any more, but who cares if your movie collection is half blueray half HD DVD, you saved a bunch of money, and all your movies are Hi Deff either way.

Everyone needs a DVD Collection! Buy hundreds! Please! Our Economy depends on your personal collections - forget netflix and borrowing or sharing with your community. Please ignore your local library where you can check out movies for free. Buy now! Buy buy! Retirement? You'll be dead by then! Buy!

@liveinvt:

They have DVD's in VT?

I stopped buying HD-DVDs as soon as Warner flopped, but I still get use out of my HD-DVD drive. It's handy to have two discs in my 360 at once, since it's my main DVD player, and I've used it a few times as an external USB drive on computers that didn't have working optical drives.

Amazon isn't the only place still selling HD-DVD's.

Deep Discount:
[www.deepdiscount.com]

Buy.com

DVDPacific.com

... and others that you can find through dvdpricesearch.net.

I give it a week before Microsoft announces that they will not service or replace any broken HD-DVD drives.

Two weeks ago I was in my local Wal-Mart, and what was once the combined HD DVD and Bluray section, was void of all HD DVD titles. Only Bluray titles filled the shelves.

Last night while I was there, the shelves were once again split down the middle with both HD DVD and Bluray titles, and HD DVD discs were the same (full) price as the Bluray discs.

Tsk, tsk, tsk Wal-Mart!

@male roof blower (CFB): that's exactly the point I wanted to make.
Obviously there's plenty of HD-DVD product out there on store shelves so they're not going to say "Well HD-DVD is dead so don't buy them, we'll take the loss". What they will do is try and sell the remainders and THEN say it's dead.

Does it play poo? Because i think i'd prefer it.

I have two of the Xbox HD-DVD players. I got my money back for my A-2, I got 15 free HD-DVDs from offers and spent only $70 for the Xbox drives.

Until it becomes clear that Blu Ray will take over, I'll stick with HD-DVD, when I can buy HD-DVDs cheaper than standard DVDs.

Hardware failure is not something I am concerned about. I have had very few optical drive failures in my life.

Will the HD DVD Player play the game discs as my 360 has just stopped reading discs?!

one of the topics that came up was the defunct (but cheap!) HD DVD player, which you might still be tempted to eBay for $1.25. But you shouldn't!

I went over to eBay to check, and they all seem to be selling in the $50 range, which is about what the stand-alone players were being sold for when I last saw them. But, it is a good thing we are re-assuring people that there is a reason to keep their players and not sell them for a buck, since I am sure that this will be happening any day now. Why keep equipment that you just spent hundreds of dollars on when you can sell it for $1.25?

@Lizard_King:

Hardware failure is not something I am concerned about.

I understand. You own an Xbox 360, so possible hardware failures on the HD DVD drive seem minimal by comparison. Plus, there should be a wealth of drives for $1.25 any moment now.

Sounds like Microsoft is still cheerfully denying they bid on the wrong horse.

@Pasukin:
Wal-Mart probably made the suppliers buy back the HD-DVD's and eat the loss. They can probably do that because, well, they're Wal-Mart.

The fact that it couldn't output any advanced audio codecs was a killer for it, imo.

@liveinvt: Fuck yeah, libraries are for pussies!

@Hvedhrungr:
You really don't know you are talking about.

I have only seen Bluray in Europe (at least in Portugal, Spain and France) since the beginning, so your info is totally BS.

this baby does not play regular DVDs, as Microsoft asserts

Thanks to Amazon issuing me a $50 coupon code on an HD-A30 I payed only $130 for (after $43 in price-protection credits were issued), and another $50 for a 360 add-on I only paid $50 for in the first place, I'm pretty happy that I got into hd-dvd this January (I previously bought a PS3 and bd-laptop in November). I got an HD-A30, and PC hd-dvd drive, a better, back-lit remote for my HTPC, and 13 hi-def movies for $80 flat. Pretty hard to beat a deal like that.

it allows you to have game discs and movie discs, whether HD DVD or DVD, within the console at one time.

Wait, does it actually allow you to play games from the HD-DVD drive. IE you can select which drive (HD-DVD or internal) to launch a game from.

Because if that's the case, I might grab one for $10 so I don't have to swap my halo3 / cod4 disks all the damn time.

@Monty: I own two Xbox 360's and the same amount of failures on both than my one PS3 that I had owned. One Failure each.

Seriously, how many optical drives do you go through?

@lordargent: I highly doubt that.. But if it does, Ill grab one right now for 50$ lol

Your ex is still awesome too.

I'm sure you will find both pieces of information equally useful.

The whole argument of "Having a DVD and a game in the Xbox at the same time" applied to me until HD-DVD lost, and I "had" to buy a PS3 to play Blu-Ray movies. Now that the PS3 is my DVD player, my HD-DVD drive is only good for playing my small library of HD-DVD's, which I will do once in a blue moon.

And unless HD-DVD's are selling for ten bucks a pop or less, I refuse to stock up on obsolete movies. I know they will still play in my 360, but I don't know how long I'll have that, and what if I want to bring a movie over to a friends house to play. I really just want one HD format, and I'm willing to pay for it, given I don't buy all that many movies anyway (I rent whenever I can).

For the record, the answer is no. Your xbox cannot play games placed in the HDDVD player.

x219c: For the record, the answer is no. Your xbox cannot play games placed in the HDDVD player.

Ahh, screw that then, so much for wishful thinking.

/waiting for a game system that can be hooked up to a disk changer :P

I bought a few of them now. I got Big Lebowski for $14, The Kingdom, The Aviator, and Being John Malkovich. I'm also still waiting for the five free ones, so hopefully those come. All in all, for a $50 investment (waited for the movies prices to drop) it worked out well.

I've got bids in on Xbox 360 HD Dvd players for $1.25 plus $5 shipping. And HD DVDs are $.01- $.99 plus $3-$5 shipping. I'm sorry, but paying less than $50 for Transformers, Top Gun, 300, Troy and Planet Earth on HD DVD, plus a new player = I'm an f-ing WINNER

I've got the 360 HD-DVD player and let me just say that the remote it comes with is nearly worth the $50 you pay for the whole package (although King Kong in HD is like -$12).
Seriously, I've got a 500gb Western Digital MyBook hard drive plugged into the 360 full of movies and tv shows and it's so nice to be able to just grab a normal remote control, turn on the 360, navigate to the movie I want and hit play AND have full play/pause/rewind/fastforward capabilities at my fingertips without having to do it through a 360 Controller that shuts itself off every 10 minutes.

I bought the 360 HD DVD player as a backup in case my A2 ever went out and now I haven't even touched the A2 in weeks.

I have an HD DVD player for my 360 and I'm not giving it up. HD movies are cheap now (saving money so I can buy more games). Also you would have to be stupid to rebuy something that you already have that is still in working order. Last, not everything really needs to be HD. Drama movies, don't think so. Sci-fi movies, hell yeah. Comedies, maybe. Marshal arts, it doesn't hurt. TV shows, some yes most no. CGI movies, damn right.