UMD movie Prices.......Is this RIGHT?!?

[marshall]

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/search-ng.gsp?search_constraint=4096&search_query=umd&ics=20&ico=0


$28.95 is what they are selling House of Flying Daggers for at Wal Mart
That does not sound right.....

[Guest]

way thats soo expensive stuff that

[wshakspear]

MSRP is $29.99

Most places have it on sale from $19.99 to $24.99

When you consider that it IS a new media and a new release movie, that there makes around $20 understandable. Now remember that the GBA/DS video carts are $15 to $20, are really shitty quality and run for half the time...oh, and its pure kiddy fare.

[CoconutSport]

Sams Club has PSP movies for like $13.88 All of them. Except House of Daggers which is $19.99.

[Renegade_zero]

that'sthe one I think is a rip-off. 14.99 is understandable, but not $30

[kool aid man]

The online price is NOT the same as the in-store price. Walmart here has xXx, Hellboy, Resident Evil 2, and Once upon a time in Mexico for $12.xx and House of Flying daggers for $17.xx.
However, Pirates of the Carribean and Kill Bill Vol. 1 are a whopping $23.88 each at walmart. Dang Non-Sony film movies :(

[dtrinh]

I see no need right now to actually buy umd movies. the idea is novel, but I'd rather pay the same 20 bucks for the actual dvd (which I can play on a lot more devices than my psp).

[calidrfiter]

point well taken but who wants to lug around one of those portable DVD players everywhere you go. Much easier to put a PSP in your pocket also.

[Flea]

I have seen PSP movies for $13 at some stores. Still not worth it.

[nugsfan]

Well do to an impending deployment I plan on picking up a few, but the prives are about the same as a DVD w/o the special features so I will be bringing the DVD's and a portable DVD player as well, the PSP movies are for when I can only take one device and to have something to watch its ok for that purpose.

[E_Dogg_001]

In last weeks Ad at Circuit City they had xXx, Hellboy, Resident Evil 2, and Once upon a time in Mexico for $13

[ProjectGSX]

At Walmart, the issue is price matching. The listed price in first post of this thread IS what they have it listed at. At certain stores they will have price rollbacks due to price matching. I checked on Pirates of the Caribean at Walmart and they wanted $28.95 for it, also.

I got XXX and Hellboy on sale at Circuit City for $12.99 a piece, but they have since raised the prices back to $14.99.

The current prices for these movies are BS.

[silverbullet24]

man walmart in pa has them for 12.00 i might pick up a couple!

[Guest]

yeah thats a good price

[silverbullet24]

and that's the price at walmart...all umd movies are that price even flying daggers...might pick it up but i already have the dvd!

[the-daryl]

Hopefully as the media/format becomes more popular the prices will drop a bit...

Right now it's just another aspect of the ooo aah of the PSP, but the novelty is attractive.

I spent hours just trying to find one that still had the Spiderman 2 UMD , just so i could save 20$ buying another movie (Have to have at least one for "show off" value).

Overall I was really impressed with the quality of the film on that screen. And I certainly wouldn't mind maybe a dozen or so titles on UMD in my collection. But the price just doesn't feel "right" to me yet.

Perhaps, before too long they'll offer deals if you buy both (Bestbuy seems to have these often "BUY BOB II AND BOB III on the same RECEIPT SAVE 10$) if they offer those kinds of deals for UMD's with the same title on DVD, I can see my collection expanding much quicker.

Speaking of House of Flying Daggers... The DVD was 19.99$ some places, while the UMD was 24.99$ at the same place (Heck Toys R Us here has Daggers for 29.99$!!!).

[magilacudy]

UMD prices are probably going to drop by Christmas, when the PSP itself is dropping to $199.

[nugsfan]

I still dont see a price drop that soon, not until demand cools a bit, they still cant launch in europe or keep them on the shelves so why cut the price?