Wow man!  When you run your car into a tree do you call up ford and demand a free replacement?  Just because its digital doesnt mean it should be treated like any other property.  You slam your game to ground its YOUR fault, even if its an accident lol

And yeah , sure, you care about copyright protection because you are worried about all the little kiddies out 

there that broke their copy of Sponge Bob.  These movie/media companys have WAY to much $ invested in these properties to have them easily stolen.  There are many reports that Transformers HD-DVD have been easily available via torrents.  That wont fly with these studios.  If these studios stay exclusive Blu Ray should be just fine, plus in next 2 months Sony should sell 2-4 million PS3.

How many of these $99 players do you think there are?  I have no idea.  There are lots of sell outs and Toshiba is 

looking to ramp up a new model instead.  So how many of these $99 players are out there?  1 million?  200k?

I really have no idea. 

I think that just did it! I'm getting at least 2 HD DVD players now! I hope they have a good bit in stock. I may make that the default Christmas gift for most of my cousins!

I got the 179 deal at Best Buy last night (for the A2). Called them up and am getting the refund to make it $99. At first I asked if they had a dvd player in stock, she stopped me there and asked if it was the Toshiba HD-A2 player. Apparently people have been calling alot about it.

The lady informed me that if you bought a player in the last 30 days they will pricematch to this new price. Just an FYI to anyone who has purchased an A2 recently.

I'm really debating whether $99 is worth it for an upscaling DVD player that will play the occasional HD-DVD. I just went through the movie lists for HD-DVD and Blu-ray and got a good chuckle out of them.

Good to see that HD-DVD released a bunch of Kubrick films. I always wanted to watch a 4:3 movie in high definition. Caddyshack in high def sounds great, too. As does The Breakfast Club. A young collection of Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Emelio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy in 1080i excites me to no end.

you get free movies with this deal?
Would I be able to purchase movies that are not out yet?
Harry Potter series is coming out late this month. That would be great.
Either way, I'm going to wal-mart tomorrow. Hope they have it in stock - I'll probably buy three or four - give it away as Christmas gifts, but I'll get the movies. (is that selfish?)

I wonder how Toshiba can afford to drop prices so low? It was rumored that they were losing $200 a player on the A2s at $250. $99? They are really putting it all on the line this holiday season.

 The Kubrik films are out on Blu-Ray also.

Also, the low stock at Best Buy leads me to believe the rumors from these past few days were true. The rumors were that these astonishingly low prices on the A2 are just to clear out old stock to make way for the A3. Why else would Sears be putting the A3 on sale for $169 on Black Friday if the A2 is what Toshiba is focusing on?

Toshiba can't have too much stock of teh A2s left. To sell a player with an MSRP of $499 for $1-200 would cost them a lot of money. If the had high quantities of the players in stock, they simply could not afford to sell them at such a low cost. They'd lose too much money, especially since it was rumored that they were subsidizing (selling below cost) their players even at $499.

If the remaining stock for the A2s is really low, this may not have much impact on the war at all. It will just serve to get rid of the stock sooner rather than later.

I just payed $299 for my A2 like 3 months ago, and now I'm broke. I wish i had saved that money till now so I could have $200 pocket money.

I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic and saying that those movies being in HD mean nothing since they really arn't graphic masterpieces to begin with.