Toshiba HD-EP30 HD-DVD & HDMI Upscaling DVD Player For £49.99 Del & 2 Free Films.

spaceman5

PeteHerts wrote: »

Play are still showing stock so it's not as if they have over sold and are now working who to screw.

no buy it button now on the product, so i take it, there is no stock left.

spaceman5

and amazon have now put the price up to £69.99

PeteHerts

spaceman5 wrote: »

and amazon have now put the price up to £69.99

That's what I call taking the perverbiable!

spaceman5

i shall be straight on the phone to play in the morning, to find out what is happening, surely if it said packing yesterday, i should have one sat in the corner of there warehouse waiting to despatch, but i want to make sure that is the case. and if that is not the case, they shall be getting some strong language down the phone.

spaceman5

just checked bank account, the money came out of the account, so they must have one to send, maybe it is on its way, and they have just not got around to updating the my account bit on there website.

zappster1966

I bought one in Comet last week for £99, same package as on Play & Amazon, 2 free HD-DVDs (Bourne Supremacy & 300) & an HDMI cable ...

Thoughts ? It's an impressive piece of kit ... physically larger than any DVD player I've owned before ... and black seems to be the new ... black. Picture quality is absolutely stunning and I'm really at a loss to understand why the format is being killed off ... the machines are cheaper, the discs (should be) cheaper ... what's the problem ?

As an upscaler it's miles better than the £49 Philips machine I bought from Argos last year ... dunno why ... "it just is". Slight downside is the time it takes to load a disc up but that's liveable with.

If you can get it for £49 or even £69 you're getting a very good deal indeed. The new betamax ? Maybe ... but I'm quite happy with mine ... it'll do me until Blue-Ray becomes more affordable.

PeteHerts

spaceman5 wrote: »

just checked bank account, the money came out of the account, so they must have one to send, maybe it is on its way, and they have just not got around to updating the my account bit on there website.

It's not showing on my Barclaycard transactions but I have more than enough that's showing as pending.
Surely as I think someone said before you would process the transaction then package it but maybe they had such vast amounts in stock and got overwhelmed by orders that they put the invoice and address paperwork on first.

dc

Spaceman5, There is always this Sony DVD recorder at £89.99 with upscaler, that may be more usefull?

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/-/261/341/-/3432750/Sony-RDRGX350B-DVD-Recorder-With-HDMI-1080p-Upscaling/Product.html?searchtype=genre

Or wait till they reduce the 35, which has stayed at £119 ( or £139 with the extra 5 films)

Perhaps Amazon bought up the stock so they didn't have to price match.;)
I think they both have warehouses in Herts?

Mark_Ice

PeteHerts wrote: »

That's what I call taking the proverbial!

Ill second that!

Bloody cheek............. :mad:

bigturnip

zappster1966 wrote: »

Thoughts ? It's an impressive piece of kit ... physically larger than any DVD player I've owned before ... and black seems to be the new ... black. Picture quality is absolutely stunning and I'm really at a loss to understand why the format is being killed off ... the machines are cheaper, the discs (should be) cheaper ... what's the problem ?

The problem is that all but one of the major studios dropped support for HD DVD, so not much point continuing to sell a product that has no real content line up in the future. It may be as good as blu-ray in picture quality, but blu-ray has HD DVD beaten hands down on capacity and speed. The reason the players and discs are cheaper is because they are based on old DVD technology and converting factories to make HD DVD players and HD DVD's was a simple process, blu-ray discs are a couple of mm's thicker. It might not sound like a lot, but the DVD factories and parts for the drive mechanisms all have to be redesigned from scratch to accommodate the extra size.

If HD DVD had won the format war, which would have been the easiest and cheapest option, blu-ray would have been the new betamax. Fortunately the technologically better format has finally won out over the inferior, cheaper, product. Sure blu-ray will be expensive at first, as it's more expensive to bring a completely new format to market, and it may have a few more glitches, but in the end we will have the better product and costs will come down while reliability goes up.