Black Friday Online Deals 2009 : El-cheapo Movies on DVD and BluRay

Black Friday is almost upon us and all of you are probably getting ready to either go out to camp at your favorite retailer or go online to your favorite e-tailer. Amazon is offering some pretty compelling reason NOT to go to your brick-and-mortar retailers and instead stick to your computer and get some really awesome deals online.

If you are a movie junkie, the deals I am gonna talk about are gonna make you jump with joy. Amazon as well as others such as WalMart and Best Buy are offering some really great prices on BluRay players. This might in fact be the right time to make the switch from DVD to BluRay.

First up are the DVD deals for those of you who haven’t upgraded to BluRay yet. There some really cool deals which considerably lessen the gap between renting a movie and buying it on DVD. The favorites at and near the $20 price point are

Michael Jackson: This Is It – $17.99

Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition) – $19.49

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Two-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] – $19.49

The Hangover (Unrated Two-Disc Special Edition) – $19.99

Star Trek (Three-Disc +Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] – $19.99

Up (4 Disc Combo Pack with Digital Copy and DVD) [Blu-ray] – $19.99

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Two-Disc Limited Special Edition + Digital Copy) – $19.99

Inglourious Basterds (2-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] – $18.99

Now thats not the cheapest as it gets. There are several DVD movies available priced near the $10 point. These include DVDs of Ice Age 3, The Proposal and more. There is even a 2 Disc Widescreen edition of Casino Royale and Underworld : Evolution each available for $5.49.

When it comes to BluRay, Amazon really seems to want to promote the newer standard and are offering unheard of prices, in most cases, making the BluRay editions of some movies cheaper than the corresponding DVD versions. Such deals are available for both old and new movies as well as complete TV series. Here are a few such deals:

The Dark Knight (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray] – $12.99

Batman Begins (Limited Edition Gift Set) [Blu-ray] – $12.99

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (DVD + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] – $10.00

I Am Legend [Blu-ray] – $7.99

Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] – $9.99

The Punisher [Blu-ray] – $7.99

2001: A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray] – $7.99

Harry Potter Years 1-5 [Blu-ray] – $54.99

When We Left Earth – The NASA Missions (4-Disc Set) [Blu-ray] – $28.99

The BBC High Definition Natural History Collection (Planet Earth / Wild China / Galapagos / Ganges) [Blu-ray] – $89.99

If you are in the market for a BluRay Player, you can check out these cool offers. There are several BluRay players available in the $100-$130 price range.

LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc Player – $103.98

Sony BDP-S360 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player – $109.99

Panasonic DMP-BD60 Blu-ray Disc Player, Black – $124.99

So basically what Amazon is saying, the time of the Blu-ray has come! Happy shopping!

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