Amazon is now selling a Blu-ray player and DVDs for over half-price. The Samsung BD-P1500 player is priced at $184 and selected movies are 50 percent off.
By: Bill Waters
Published: Dec 14, 2008
Updated: Jul 1, 2009
Amazon.com Inc is now selling a Blu-ray player and DVDs for over half-price. The Samsung BD-P1500 player is priced at $184. Amazon also has selected DVD movies at 50 percent off.
Blu-ray BD-P1500 offers HD 1080p video output and features Dolby Digital Plus and TrueHD audio. The unit has a built-in Ethernet card to download the latest firmware upgrades over the Internet.
The Samsung BD-P1500 has a four-star customer rating based on 124 reviews.
Some of the Blu-ray titled include Mad Men Season 1, Rambo 1-3 Boxset, Total Recall, The Bank Job, Stargate, The Punisher, and others. The DVD movies start at $9.99 each.
Amazon also has a buy-2-get-1-free Blu-ray disc promotion. Sony PS3 game titles are also slashed by 20 percent.
Blu-ray is a new optical disc format with over five times the storage capacity of a standard DVD. A dual-layer disc can hold up to 50 GB of information. The increased storage allows movie studios to provide 6 times the resolution in high definition.
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