Success! Paramount and Dreamworks Animation are exclusively running with HD-DVD. They have said sayonara to Blu-Ray and hello to HD-DVD. The rumor mill is fully buzzing on this one as well. Saying that a $150 million dollar “consideration fee” was payed outright to the studios. People are already screaming “bribe”, “consideration Fee” or “bribe” does it really matter? Don’t you think the Blu-Ray fellows had to lay some dough out for the Blockbuster and Target deal ? I think this is a great thing for HD-DVD, I am a bit bias though since I have already purchased an HD-DVD player and HD-DVD’s. So you will get nothing but bias reporting from me on this one. I did this silly tango when laser-discs came out as well, so I pray I wont have to eventually buy a Blu-Ray player, I better not be wrong like I was with the laser-discs, those things were awful.

I cant wait for Transformers on HD-DVD. Take that Blu-Ray! More info on this deal below.

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Major Nelson writes to tell us that 300 has hit the Xbox Live Video Marketplace! You can download both SD and HD versions of the film. The HD version is a whopping 5.3GB download but I bet looks absolutely wonderful on a HDTV. 300 did break HD video records when it hit stores at the end of July.

I’ll be starting my download later this afternoon on my Xbox 360.

Since I am always hunting for the best price for you guys, and probably some of you didn’t get in on the $149.99 deal from best buy, so I figured I would serve this one up while it still lasted.

Over at NewEgg they are selling the HD-DVD player for $162.99. granted you

don’t get the instant gratification, and you have to pay shipping of $7.52. It is  3 day shipping though.

After going through that whole process I would still go buy it from Best Buy, but if are one of those ebayer types that never pays attention to shipping then hell your getting an HD-DVD player for $162.99, AWESOME!!!

Link to sale.

So I read this morning over on engadget that Best Buy was offering the XBOX360 HD DVD players for $149.99. Then Brandon my counterpart wrote about it here at The Geekery. Then a saw a counter post by engadget saying that they were wrong. So I hop on over to Best Buy’s site and I see them for $179.99. I was all like WTF govna! So I called my good pals at the local Best Buy and probed them with a good amount of questions. So in the end I am picking up an XBOX360 HD DVD player tonight for $149.99. He said he read $149.99 on the internal site. So I don’t think it was a mistake, I just don’t think they are ready to sell them in the wild yet for $149.99. But the nice gent stamped my name on the thing and took it to the front counter. Plus get this, Toshiba is upping the ante with the HD DVD give-away, the nice chap at Best Buy told me today that whenever you buy a HD DVD player from Best Buy you will receive a form, you fill out this form with your choice of 5 HD DVD movies you would like and Toshiba sends you those movies for free. WOW!

Now I am not sure if this is just the XBOX HD player and if it is just with Best Buy that you receive this offer from Toshiba, I didn’t want to barrage him with anymore questions. Hopefully he was not feeding me lines just to get into the store.

“So tonight we dine in hell!!”, because I am watching 300 in HD tonight!!!

Engadget is saying Best Buy is selling the Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player for $149.99. That’s after Microsoft had announced a price-cut for the HD-DVD Player too.

I want one. But I think The Geek wants one more.