Microsoft Giving Away Free HD DVD Movies October 22, 2007
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Ah, Christmas, season of goodwill and cut-throat commercialism. In the high-def war, the HD DVD camp has been taking a kicking in the publicity stakes [and sales, apparently] from its Blu-ray rival.
As a result, Microsoft has extended its US offer of free HD DVD movies to the UK. That’s right, if you buy the HD DVD player for the Xbox 360 between now and the end of January 2008 you will get five free HD DVD movies. Just buy your HD DVD add-on for the 360, then pop over to this page on the Microsoft site and enter in your details along with the barcode from the player and your movies will be winging their way over within 28 days.
The downside is that you only get to choose from the following:
Serenity
The Chronicles of Riddick
Hulk
Children of Men
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Troy
Full Metal Jacket
Corpse Bride
The Prestige
Swordfish
Black Rain
Dreamgirls
Word Trade Center
To be fair there are a few keepers in there but, the rest should be chosen for eye-candy value only. The offer is also extended to anyone that bought a HD DVD after Oct 1st [as long as you have the receipt] but early adopters of the HD DVD add-on are, sadly, left sucking eggs. -Martin Lynch
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Comments
It'll take more than that to buy into that piece of junk.
Wow, what a selection! That's worse than the jokes in your average Christmas cracker!!
Making it sub 100 quid would probably get more attention
I'd be interested except I've already seen (or bought) the decent flicks mentioned in this list.
Plus there is rumoured to be an XBox 360 with built-in HD DVD in the not too distant future.
I think I'll wait.
You can buy a sub £100 drive from a certain UK high street game store (not the one with the purple logo).
haha, hulk!
Why do they always include films like Full Metal Jacket?!?
It's a great film, but it was recorded years before HD was available. How are they going to improve the picture quality any more than they did when they 'upgraded' it to DVD?
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