Target Deal: Free $50 Gift Card w/ Sony BDP-S360 Purchase
June 17, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · 2 Comments
Just in time for Fathers day, Target has a deal on the Sony BDP-S360 in which you get a $50 Target gift card with purchase. The deal is going on now through this Saturday (June 20th), which is the day before Fathers day.
The Price for the Sony BDP-S360 is $299.99.
Sony BDP-BX2 Blu-ray Player is Coming to a Costco Near You
June 3, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · 2 Comments
The Sony BDP-BX2 Blu-ray player should be hitting the shelves of most Costco warehouses within a week or two. We noticed a full page Sony ad mentioning the BDP-BX2 in the June issue of “The Costco Connection” magazine, which is sent out to all Costco members.
The BDP-BX2 looks to be a Costco only version of [...]
Twilight Blu-ray Giveaway Winner Announced
June 2, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · Leave a Comment
The winner of the Twilight Blu-ray Giveaway is: Akon!
If you didn’t win this time, a new giveaway starts this Friday!
Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray Player Now at Your Local Wal-Mart
May 21, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · 3 Comments
Sony’s new BDP-S360 should be on the shelf at your local Wal-Mart stores. The BDP-S360 is priced at $288.00 which seems a little over priced for the feature set that Sony is offering with this player. Sitting right next to the Sony player is the Samsung BD-P1590 player that includes Pandora internet radio, as well [...]
Blu-ray Giveaway: Twilight
May 20, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · 18 Comments
This Blu-ray giveaway is for “Twilight” From Summit Ent.
The giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. (Mehar is helping out with Canadian only giveaways).
You can only win once every 6 months.
The Winner will be announced Monday June 1st.
Winner will be selected by a Random.org number sequence.
How To Enter:
Reply in the comments with your answer to [...]
Samsung BD-P1590 Blu-ray Player Spotted at Wal-Mart
May 7, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · 3 Comments
It looks like the store specific model bandits have struck again. This time the culprit is Samsung BD-P1590 Blu-ray player, which looks to be an exact clone of Samsung’s BD-P1600 (MSRP 299$). The BD-P1590 is on sale now at your local Wal-Mart for $248.00. Our local store had just received a shipment of 5 of [...]
Warner Launches “Red2Blu” HD DVD to Blu-ray Upgrade Program
April 23, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · 4 Comments
Warner has announced a new HD DVD to Blu-ray trade-in/upgrade program. The program dubbed “Red2Blu” allows you to upgrade up to 25 Warner HD DVDs to the Blu-ray versions of the movie. The cost is $4.95 per disc (some multi disc sets are more) and a flat shipping fee of $5.95 per order.
Lucky for us [...]
Panasonic DMP-BD605 Blu-ray Player Lands at Costco
April 1, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · 8 Comments
Panasonic has released it’s DMP-BD605 Blu-ray as a Costco exclusive model. The player is priced at $279.99, and as far as we can tell is the same exact player as the Panny DMP-BD60 (but with a free HDMI cable included in the box). We have a feeling this is to reduce the amount of returns [...]
Blu-ray Benchmark Disc Released, Includes RED Camera Footage
March 25, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · 2 Comments
Video GURUs Stacey Spears and Don Munsil have just released their Blu-ray Benchmark Disc. The disc includes display calibration patterns, Blu-ray player and display evaluation patterns, as well as multiple clips for testing for proper video scaling and deinterlacing.
We are currently working on our full review of the disc, but we wanted to give some [...]
Blu-ray Accounts For 24% of DVD Player Sales In Denver
March 19, 2009 by Tyler Pruitt · 3 Comments
ABC News has a new story called “Blue Skies for Blu-ray” which is pretty much an overview of Blu-ray’s recent news, with a little caveat at the end of the story about the Digital Downloads threat to Blu-ray’s future.
One interesting tidbit that was mentioned is that in Denver, Blu-ray (players) have a 24% market share [...]
