I’ve decided I’m going to take advantage of the death of HD-DVD through the inevitable clearout of stock. A few web stores are having clearance sales, one example being dvddownunder.com.au which is clearing stock at $9.95 per disc. I plan to buy at least a few movies during these sales.
My primary reason for buying more movies, rather than abandoning the format completely, is that I was a late adopter - but not so late that I got any advantage out of the reduced player prices. I bought an XBox 360 HD-DVD drive late last year, and a few movies a couple of weeks later. Including christmas gifts and the bundled King Kong, this means I only own 5 movies in the format.
Doing the sums, this means that I had effectively paid roughly $65 per movie. Ouch!
By buying at least a few more movies over the next couple of months I hope to bring the cost per movie down to a reasonable level. After buying another 6 discs, the cost per movie is now around $35 per movie. This is much more reasonable, and will at least let me get some decent use out of a player that will hopefully last a couple of years.
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Allow me to play devils advocate here.
By buying extra, cheaper HD DVD’s in order to bring the average price you have paid per DVD down is in my mind like going out and buying something you don’t need just because it is on sale. The saying ‘going broke saving money’ comes to mind. Maybe you should look at what you have spent so far as a sunk cost that you cannot recover and cut your losses while you still can. Your average price per DVD may be lower but you would have still spent more overall, which at the end of the day is all that matters.
All that being said, if you would have bought those movies anyway whether they were at the normal price or even Bluray, then I guess you are saving money and you should go for you life and buy the DVD’s
By the way, can I borrow some DVD’s??
I definitely thought of the sunk cost argument, and my answer to convince myself was that $9.95 is a good deal regardless of the format.
I don’t know whether I would buy these movies at normal price, but if I walked into JB and they were on sale at $9.95 for normal DVD I’d probably pick up at least a couple of them.
A lot of this is psychological - I hate feeling like I wasted my money, so even though I’m spending a bit more it increases the utility of what I already own.
And of course you can borrow some DVDs!
Oh, and I was hoping someone would come back with that argument. My money was on Al though
Can you PLEASE buy some Scarlett Johansson in HD??!?! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE? I personally don’t mind what format as long as there’s well, Scarlett, in HD….
I’ll tell you what - you find any movies you want on sale I’ll see what I can do!
I want Scarlett Johansson in HD too!
For some reason I think its for the same reasons as Rae…
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