Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Blu-Ray / HD-DVD ""FREE"" movie offer, supposedly.

Just curious, how many of us bit on the X# free movies with purchase offer. I got a Toshiba HD player at Sam's, registered on-line, sent in the check list for the 5 "Free" movies and waited, and waited. Got a card that said they were out of stoce and the next delivery would be in ANOTHER 6 weeks. So here I am at week 12 or 13 waiting some more. I just tried to email Toshiba customer service, only to get a "delivery failed notice".
Anyone else experience this shell game BS?

Scott

That sucks, I noticed Best Buy and American electronics are offering the same stuff in the flyers. You get 300 and Bourne Identity HD-DVD right away + 5 more you order.

I'll take those two easily. The other selections through Toshiba are so-so. Haven't sent in for my rebate yet. Mainly because most of the movies are ones I'm not so crazy about. They are free, though. . .

Yeah, the selection isn't the best. I actually liked the choices the "first" go around (for the rebate that ended the end of September).... The current rebate doesn't have as many movies that I like, but for free....

I am still looking at getting a lower end HD-DVD player (HD-A2 or HD-A3) soon. I would love to get the HD-XA2 for the analog out, but I am going to save my cash and get a new receiver some time in the future (not in a big rush, as I am going for HD picture as a priority over HD sound). By the time I am ready to get a new receiver, all of the decoding (DTS-HD included) will be ironed out and the ability to play it all will be more reasonably priced...

I bought mine too early, when there were no free ones, but I'll probably get a third-gen player this holiday season and hopefully there will be good freebies to be had. I really hope to see a lot more reduced prices on movies this holiday.

I got my free ones, but it was the first offering. It was 2 weeks or more after the published ETA.

I got three freebies with my A2 but they were included in the box so no choice as to what you get. Still for 199 and three movies, I was happy.

I'm still trying to locate an A2 in the $200 price range locally... BB wants $299 for old stock, and the A3 is the same price. I know that they exist, I just need to find one.

Nick, Amazon has it here with free shipping for $227.12 Toshiba A2

It seems like you only hear about Toshiba HD/DVD players, so two questions.

1. Who else makes them?

2. Is there a good summary somewhere of the different Toshiba models and what the differences are? As long as it does 1080p, it should be fine, although it sounds like if your receiver doesn't support TruHD audio (or whatever it's called) then you want the one with analog as well, correct?