Blu-Ray or HD-DVD? Which do YOU think, eh?
For
Consumer-mas, a pair of friends from San Diego –
the very same ones that are visiting us right
now – got me a Blu-Ray movie for me because they
saw it on my Amazon Wish List.
Problem: My wish list is a list I keep for the sake
of keeping tabs on things I want to eventually get
for
myself. You’ll
also see on there, Large Screen 1080p LCD’s,
expensive camera equipment, and… Blu-Ray Players.
Which is to say that I don’t currently
have a blu-ray
player, making the gift sort of a good doorstop.
When they told me that they had gotten something off
of my Wish List, my very first reaction as “I hope
it’s not something that requires something else off
the list to be useful.” They didn’t quite get what I
was saying at first, then it dawned on them. What
good is a DVD player without DVD’s, right? And what
good is a DVD without the player, as well? They rely
on each other for usefulness.
Well I guess they missed the fact that there were
Blu-Ray players on my list, meaning that the disc
would be without use until I got one of those dang
player thingies.
Enter Saturday.
We were doing OK this month financially, despite
Christmas, and figured we could afford the cost of a
player. None of the local shops had the player we
wanted (which was priced at about $400), that being
the Sony model which has gotten rave reviews. I
didn’t want to pay essentially the same price for a
player from another brand that wasn’t reviewed as
well (cough cough,
Toshiba cough
cough). But I also wanted to have it in time for
their stay with us, so we could get down in HD in
their honor (sort of).
I went back to amazon, and I
found a killer (killer!) deal on the player I
wanted. Overnight shipping was affordable. There
was no tax. It came with a movie. A really really,
really
really sucky
movie (Spiderman 3), but what the heck, right? It’s a
good deal, and actually ended up cheaper than what we
were prepared to spend. Yes, for all that, including
the shipping, we only paid $350. Yikes, that was a
smoking deal.
Kinda funny, actually, as the “normal” box without
the free spiderman movie was $400. So now I know
exactly how much Spiderman 3 sucks; they have to
pay
you $100 to
watch it. Wow. That’s a sh!tty movie. I’ll be
donating it to charity later today.
Because that’s when my Blu-Ray player arrives. Joy to
me. Merry Consumer-mas after all!
Peace. And a happy New Year.