Wal-Mart has unveiled that it will sell a $78 Magnavox Blu-ray player on Black Friday, the cheapest retail price for a BD player this year, undercutting Meijer’s $89 Sylvania Black Friday promotion.
Notably however, neither the Magnavox or the Sylvania models are BD-Live compliant, and will lack Web features such as Netflix-streaming, which is available via Best Buy’s $99 Insignia model, which should be the best deal available if the $20 higher price tag is not a deal breaker.
Wal-Mart will also have $9.99 Blu-ray titles such as The Dark Knight, Wanted, Fast and Furious and all the Harry Potter films. For those who have not moved to HD, standard DVDs will be on sale for $1.99 including movies such as Casino Royale, Hellboy II, I Am Legend, Blood Diamond, Underworld and Spaceballs.
For new releases, Star Trek and G.I. Joe will sell for $8.99, extremely cheap for movies that were released in the last month.
On the gaming front, the company is offering a $299 PS3 bundle that also includes the new games Batman Arkham Asylum and Infamous, as well as Dark Knight on Blu-ray.
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Universal has announced its roadmap for Blu-ray releases this summer and has added that its Blu-ray titles will see same day release dates as its standard definition counterparts.
The studio, which was once the premier supporter of the now obsolete HD DVD format, announced that ‘Doomsday’ would be their inaugural Blu-ray title, and that 40 other films would follow in the second half of 2008.
According to the source article, the releases will include ‘Hellboy II: The Golden Army,’ ‘The Incredible Hulk,’ ‘Wanted,’ ‘Mamma Mia,’ and ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.’ In hopes to spur sales of the new Mummy installment, ‘The Mummy,’ ‘The Mummy Returns,’ and the spin-off ‘The Scorpion King’ will be released in late July as well on Blu-ray.
A few of the other titles mentioned for Blu-ray included ‘Land of the Dead, ‘ ‘End of Days,’ ‘Knocked Up,’ ‘American Gangster,’ ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin,’ ‘Miami Vice,’ and ‘U-571.’
