BDA renews "Five Free Discs" offer

[jed]

We all knew this was coming, but the BDA officially announced it Tuesday:

The Blu-ray Disc Association has renewed its "Five Free Discs" offer through the holidays, refreshing the list of available Blu-ray titles.

The terms of the renewed program mirror those of the one that expired on September 30. Consumers who purchase any qualifying Blu-ray player (including the PlayStation 3) will automatically qualify to receive five free Blu-ray movies via a mail-in offer.

The 18 titles offered this time around are: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Wild Hogs, American Psycho, Chain Reaction, The Devil's Rejects, Flight of the Phoenix, Full Metal Jacket, Hart's War, The Last Waltz, Omen 666, The Patriot, The Prestige, Species, Stir of Echoes, Superman: The Movie, SWAT, Swordfish and Ultraviolet.

Full details on the promotion can be found at the website www.bluraysavings.com.

[illegalprelude]

wow. lots of good titles right there

[hddvdfanatic]

some great movie, like Pearl habor, Kiss of the dragon and TP2 are remove.

[glocks out]

And some of the worst transfers on Blu-ray are on the list. But also some of the strongest.

[ccphilly1984]

wow... this is such a shock... blu ray does everything hd dvd does and vice versa...

[nickdalodger]

Originally Posted by ccphilly1984

wow... this is such a shock... blu ray does everything hd dvd does and vice versa...

Hopefully they will do something like this for Europe then!

[messin18]

Definitly some good movies. Sucks to see the resell value of a bunch of the movies i own just go to $0 !

Pirates
Swordfish
American Psycho
The Patriot

Very nice.

[eghill1125]

I am brand new to the neutral game. Just ordered the PS3. I also picked up both Pirates in the deal for the PS3. I know I will be picking The Prestige for sure off this list, but I don't know alot about the others. My initial thoughts are this:

The Prestige
Superman: The Movie
American Psycho
The Patriot
Chain Reaction

I have The Patriot Superbit though, so I don't know. What are some of the horrendous movies and transfers to avoid? You guys would know alot more than me, as I am coming from HD DVD only and haven't looked at alot of BD's until now.

PS. The only high def music disc I have now is The Eagles. Is The Last Waltz any good? Movie itself and transfer?

Thanks,
Ed

[Cerdo24]

I got in on the very last day of the last five movie deal, which in my opinion had more films that I cared about...it would be hard to pick five movies from this selection....the only one I know I'd want is the Pirates, but I just bought it on SD like four or five months ago, and while it might be a nice upgrade, I'd want something I don't already have...

[Ginobili Fan]

Does anyone have a link or a copy of the old order form for the 5 free movies? I noticed on the old offer you have until October 30th to send it in. I qualify for the old offer but not the new one...but can't find an order form. Thanks!

[CiscoRucinski]

I bought a PS3 during the last deal, and was wondering if I select the blu-ray movies from paramount, will i get them. I thought I read somewhere, possibly here, that paramount got rid (discarded) of all there blu-ray movies.

[CiscoRucinski]

this should be the link to the old form

i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/pdf/rebates/13590.pdf

[messin18]

Originally Posted by CiscoRucinski

I bought a PS3 during the last deal, and was wondering if I select the blu-ray movies from paramount, will i get them. I thought I read somewhere, possibly here, that paramount got rid (discarded) of all there blu-ray movies.

lol no they didn't jus throw them all in the trash. They only stopped makeing them. All of the titles are still in stock on amazon so i doubt they're out of stock yet. If they can't fulfuill your choices they will pick another movie in it's stead.

[Westonian]

I just bought a PS3 to go with my A2, and I have to say, after the first tier of the offer the quality of titles goes down sharply. I struggled to find movies I actually would want to watch, and ultimately based my choices on current resale value on eBay. It seems a person with tastes nearly opposite of mine was solely responsible for coming up with this list.