{"id":899,"date":"2007-06-03T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T14:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/03\/hd-dvd-player-prices\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T14:39:22","slug":"hd-dvd-player-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/03\/hd-dvd-player-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"HD-DVD Player Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a counter point to the Blu-Ray post below, today\u2019s Circuit City circular lists a Toshiba HD-DVD player for $299.99 (original price was $399.99), and includes five free HD-DVDs (after a mail in rebate).  The Xbox 360 HD-DVD attachment costs $199.99; throw in the price of an Xbox 360 and you are at least $200 over the cost of the Toshiba stand alone unit (really depends on which Xbox 360 system).<\/p>\n<p>Is there a point to the comparison?  Probably not, but to me it shows that if you want to go HD-DVD, there is no reason to go with an Xbox 360.  If you want to go Blu-Ray, you are better off going with a PS3.  This is very similar to how the PS2 helped the DVD format achieve market success.  However, there are two key differences.  First, the price of a PS3 is a lot different than the price of a PS2.  Second, the quality of the PS3 Blu-Ray player is far superior to the quality of the original PS2 DVD player.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a counter point to the Blu-Ray post below, today\u2019s Circuit City circular lists a Toshiba HD-DVD player for $299.99 (original price was $399.99), and includes five free HD-DVDs (after a mail in rebate). The Xbox 360 HD-DVD attachment costs $199.99; throw in the price of an Xbox 360 and you are at least $200 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/03\/hd-dvd-player-prices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HD-DVD Player Prices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}