Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive sold at US$ 72.54 at Sam’s Club
According to a forum post at retail site Fatwallet.com, a few Sam’s Club warehouses in the US are selling dirt-cheap Microsoft Xbox 360 HD-DVD drives to interested parties at the low price of US$ 72.54, far below Microsoft’s suggested retail price.
The external drive that allows the playback of high-definition discs is officially listed at US$199, though Sam’s Club’s legitimate channel samsclub.com offers a discount that reduces the retail price to US$ 181.42.
The HD-DVD drive was created in conjunction with the impending US release of the Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite package which has HDMI and a 120GB hard drive bundled in.
HD-DVD is one of the two competing formats for the next generation of storage media. It was created by Japanese electronics giant Toshiba and is supported by the Microsoft Corporation along with Hewlett-Packard and Korean firm LG.
Its rival format Blu-ray, created by Sony, is the more high-end of the two, sporting a much bigger storage capacity. Blu-ray currently holds a 70-30 market share advantage over HD-DVD due in large part to the fact that all Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles sold are equipped with a Blu-ray drive. HD-DVD is supposedly the more preferred format, leading the competition in stand-alone player sales. However, users get Blu-ray automatically when they get a PS3, making it hard for Toshiba to cope up.
Via Fat Wallet
According to a forum post at retail site Fatwallet.com, a few Sam’s Club warehouses in the US are selling dirt-cheap Microsoft Xbox 360 HD-DVD drives to interested parties at the low price of US$ 72.54, far below Microsoft’s suggested retail price.
The external drive that allows the playback of high-definition discs is officially listed at US$199, though Sam’s Club’s legitimate channel samsclub.com offers a discount that reduces the retail price to US$ 181.42.
The HD-DVD drive was created in conjunction with the impending US release of the Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite package which has HDMI and a 120GB hard drive bundled in.
HD-DVD is one of the two competing formats for the next generation of storage media. It was created by Japanese electronics giant Toshiba and is supported by the Microsoft Corporation along with Hewlett-Packard and Korean firm LG.
Its rival format Blu-ray, created by Sony, is the more high-end of the two, sporting a much bigger storage capacity. Blu-ray currently holds a 70-30 market share advantage over HD-DVD due in large part to the fact that all Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles sold are equipped with a Blu-ray drive. HD-DVD is supposedly the more preferred format, leading the competition in stand-alone player sales. However, users get Blu-ray automatically when they get a PS3, making it hard for Toshiba to cope up.
Via Fat Wallet