HD DVD player cheap cheap!

So Lien's been bugging me for the last few days to write a post. So here it is.

It seems like the major retailers are gearing up for a very ugly (for them) holiday season, with the economy going south, the USD slipping, and high oil prices, they're worried, and rightly so, that people aren't going to shop as much this holiday season. Pre-Black Friday sales have already started, with Walmart advertising a $100 hd Toshiba player, with 5 free hd movies via a mail in rebate, available in store only. BestBuy, in hopes of advertising their new business geared website, decided to one up them and offer it online for $100.

I ordered that, figuring that regardless of who wins (personally I think Blu-ray will), a hd dvd player and 5 free hd dvds was still a pretty good price, plus I've got netflix, which allows you to rent hd dvds. Anyways, long story short, they sold out of the Toshiba hd-2 dvd players. I expected to receive a refund and maybe a 10% off coupon or something, but was really surprised when they said they were going to send me the next generation model which just came out, msrp of $300, which also comes with 2 free hd dvds included in the box, bringing it to a total of 7 free hd dvds. I think the previous model sold for $200.

So that brings us to our first hd dvd experience as a family (minus the wife, who was sleeping after being up for 36 hours straight working on her work and some papers for school). Preparing early for my new HD dvd player, I queued up some hd movies on netflix, Transformers, some misc ocean documentary, and some other movie I forget. So I set up my new player, pop in the "documentary", which in reality turns out to be more of a screensaver, granted, a very pretty screensaver.

So the sweet pea and little goose plop down, one kid sitting on each leg, and we start watching the screensaver. There are tons of fish swimming around coral reefs and of course clownfish swimming around sea anemones, and sweet pea starts shouting "NEMO! NEMO NEMO NEMO!" "DOOOORI!!! DORI!" as the colorful fish swim around. The view switches to another camera, which is focused on a lobster, and sweet pea goes from shouting "DORI" and "NEMO!" to "AHHHHH SCARED!". And then there's a sea snail or something that's clinging to the sea wall, and it lets go and falls to the ocean floor, and sweet pea finds this hysterical, laughing and giggling uncontrollably. There honglien, happy? I posted:P THE END

J