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The Blu-ray Disc Association renews its "Five free discs" promotion

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 03 Oct 2007 1:14 User comments (14)

The Blu-ray Disc Association renews its "Five free discs" promotion

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced that it has renewed its popular "Five Free Discs" promotion through at least the holidays, and they have also refreshed the list of titles.
The offer is still the same and any buyer of a qualifying Blu-ray player or the PlayStation 3 will be eligible to receive the movies via mail.

According to HDDigest, the new 18 titles offered will be'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl,' 'Wild Hogs,' 'American Psycho,' 'Chain Reaction,' 'The Devil's Rejects,' 'Flight of the Phoenix,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Hart's War,' 'The Last Waltz,' 'The Omen,' 'The Patriot,' 'The Prestige,' 'Species,' 'Stir of Echoes,' 'Superman: The Movie,' 'S.W.A.T.,' 'Swordfish' and 'Ultraviolet.'

To find a list of eligible players, the BDA says to visit this site here.

Source:
HD Digest

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14 user comments

13.10.2007 14:25
26r0cK
Inactive

I forgot that Sony did this promotion..well now that kinda sux for the new 40gb PS3 that comes with Spider-man 3...cuz if ppl purchase that model then they'd be getting 6 Blu-ray movies and still no game. Well just play it smart and surely stores like Bestbuy will offer a free game along with the new PS3 for this holiday.

23.10.2007 15:20
hughjars
Inactive

Make sure whatever you pick it's not a BD+ Blu-ray movie.

There's a lot of people complaining they are not working properly with their players now that BD+ has appeared.

33.10.2007 17:10

BD+ works great on the PS3. Best picture ever.

43.10.2007 18:16

Full Metal Jacket in hd?? hell yea!!

54.10.2007 05:31
nobrainer
Inactive

Originally posted by glasssd:
BD+ works great on the PS3. Best picture ever.
BD+ is DRM it has nothing to do with good quality, its just there to stop copying or blu-ray drives running hacks as it can permanently disable them if you remove say, the multi region code.

64.10.2007 05:37

i hope this is on for more time , i'm traveling to states for christmas and i'm gettin a ps3 :) finally ... ps2 is no fun anymore i see squares instead of characters once you play the ps3 once ps2 is no fun anymore

74.10.2007 05:53

Nobrainer, I was responding to hugjar. BD+ worked fine, took 10 to 15 seconds longer to load up. "best picture ever" = Silver Surfer looks great. Awsome detail

84.10.2007 05:58

Nobrainer, thanks for the info, was not sure what the + was for.

94.10.2007 09:48

That's nice that they're renewing this deal... But I participated in the initial deal and I've been waiting now 8 weeks for my 5 free blu-ray movies... nothing. And the damn place is only an hour away from me where I send the offer to. Pisses me off.

104.10.2007 14:44

crappy deal for that much money

116.10.2007 08:18

Can people in the UK get these 5 blu-ray discs or is it only the US?

126.10.2007 11:19

Quote:
Originally posted by glasssd:
BD+ works great on the PS3. Best picture ever.
BD+ is DRM it has nothing to do with good quality, its just there to stop copying or blu-ray drives running hacks as it can permanently disable them if you remove say, the multi region code.
Is there a hack for the PS3 to make it multi region? But If its used does it create other problems?

I have a USA model and live in (Pal) NZ, cant buy BD discs here and have to import them all.

1310.10.2007 13:32

Not bad lil collection of movies.

1411.10.2007 07:18
nobrainer
Inactive

Originally posted by borhan9:
Not bad lil collection of movies.
there are two worth owning: "Full Metal Jacket" & "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" the rest are so, so or downright crap, with over half of them encoded in mpeg 2 not vc-1 or mpeg4

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