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Friday, November 30, 2007
Entertainment

Wal-Mart IS Carrying the $199 Venturer HD DVD Player After All

9:20AM Jason Chen | After flat-out denying that they were going to carry the $US199 Venturer HD DVD player this holiday season, Wal-Mart’s turned around and carried the $199 Venturer HD DVD player this holiday season. But if you take more than a cursory look at this sub-$200 player, you’ll find that the cheap Chinese knockoff isn’t actually a better deal than a name-brand third-gen Toshiba HD-A3. Toshiba’s is actually $196 on Amazon, and comes with a bunch of free movies as well. [Wal-Mart via Electronista] More »
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First Sub-$200 HD DVD Player Announced: Venturer SHD7000

6:30AM Jason Chen | Is this it? The HD DVD stake into Blu-ray’s heart that will signal a start to the resolution of these next-gen DVD format wars? We tracked down a price on the upcoming Venturer HD DVD player and discovered it to be $199, the magical price that everyone’s been waiting for. AU: No doubt that would end up converting to something around $299-$399 out here. Would a player hitting a certain price point tip you over the edge on buying an HD format, regardless of which format it was? Or would you still ‘wait and see’? OR are you already committed one way or the other, even if you haven’t already purchased? -SB More »
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