Toshiba & Circut City Giving away Movies Desperate Act or Good Deal.

[Gutter21]

Circuit City Ad for April 1-7, 2007



****Get 4 Free HD-DVD Movies with purchase of the TOSHIBA HD-A2 Player // Player Price is Listed As $399.99

Looks like 4 free HD DVD movies at Circuit City from April 1-7 with purchase of HD-A2 for $399. Plus the 5 free from Toshiba? Found this on slick deals.

Well Blu Ray had the Amazon deal so I guess this is a counter attack lol.So 4 free right off the back and 5 free by mail wow thats crazy. CC Only lol

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthr...uid=0&t=479565

[illegalprelude]

lol when Blu-ray has deals like this, its because their Desperate.

When HD-DVD does it, its good deals and their for the consumer...

Guh. Im so glad im supporting Laser Disc

But again, why is this a Smackdown topic?

[Gutter21]

Well when the P$3 was giving away rebates for the movies HD DVD Fan Boys complained. The rebates were only like $10.00. but now Toshiba is giving away 9 movies free. So I thought should be in smack down

[hstewarth]

Well when the P$3 was giving away rebates for the movies HD DVD Fan Boys complained. The rebates were only like $10.00. but now Toshiba is giving away 9 movies free. So I thought should be in smack down

The PS3 rebates are not a big deal, they are only a select group of movies. I actually submit wrong ones in and they at least sent back the request and mail two more that were actually on it the list. I forgot all about it until couple months later after reading in forum here from James.

[hstewarth]

Circuit City Ad for April 1-7, 2007



****Get 4 Free HD-DVD Movies with purchase of the TOSHIBA HD-A2 Player // Player Price is Listed As $399.99

Looks like 4 free HD DVD movies at Circuit City from April 1-7 with purchase of HD-A2 for $399. Plus the 5 free from Toshiba? Found this on slick deals.

Well Blu Ray had the Amazon deal so I guess this is a counter attack lol.So 4 free right off the back and 5 free by mail wow thats crazy. CC Only lol

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthr...uid=0&t=479565

Best buy has similar ad but ionly getting 2 HD DVD free and the player is normal cost of $499.

Circuit City is probably trying to clear stock.

[imdaly]

This week you get 2 free Blu-rays with the purchase of a $999.99 Sony player.

It's just marketing. Nothing of desperation of either side.

[cleeve]

9 movies, wtf.

[hstewarth]

This week you get 2 free Blu-rays with the purchase of a $999.99 Sony player.

It's just marketing. Nothing of desperation of either side.

2 free movies is big difference than 9. By the way you get $300 off the Blu-ray player if you buy a TV.

[jdobrole]

The coupons with the PS3 were not a big deal. I did not use a single one. They are very limited titles that suck.

[Count Westwest]

Circuit City Ad for April 1-7, 2007



****Get 4 Free HD-DVD Movies with purchase of the TOSHIBA HD-A2 Player // Player Price is Listed As $399.99

Looks like 4 free HD DVD movies at Circuit City from April 1-7 with purchase of HD-A2 for $399. Plus the 5 free from Toshiba? Found this on slick deals.

Well Blu Ray had the Amazon deal so I guess this is a counter attack lol.So 4 free right off the back and 5 free by mail wow thats crazy. CC Only lol

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthr...uid=0&t=479565

I'm not too impressed with CC's offer. Remeber that the MSRP for the HD-A2 is going to be $399.00 on April 1, which means it's going to sell at Amazon and other online sellers for about $299.00. I'm sure their margin is higher on the movies so you are really paying more for the player at CC since you can still get the 5 Toshiba movies if you buy the player it anywhere else.

As to the desperation aspect I would say being desperate is when you give away a $3500.00 TV as opposed to 5 $20.00 movies.

[Fumbduck]

9 HDDVDs? are there even 9 of them worth bothering with? I wonder if you can switch out the HDDVD with just regular DVDs, thatd be a better deal

[illegalprelude]

9 HDDVDs? are there even 9 of them worth bothering with? I wonder if you can switch out the HDDVD with just regular DVDs, thatd be a better deal

to answer that question. No. rofl.

[*Bill]

This week you get 2 free Blu-rays with the purchase of a $999.99 Sony player.

It's just marketing. Nothing of desperation of either side.

Personally, I think it's desperation on both sides. Regardless of who leads in disc sales, both have a budget to get their formats in the publics face. One hesitates, and the other will eat them alive. Both are losing alot of money here. I think in the end both will end up cutting off their nose to spite their own face.