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There are some hot deals out there right now for new HD DVD owners and existing Blu-ray Disc player owners. Starting with the HD DVD camp,anyone buying any of Toshiba's HD DVD players between March 1 and July 31st can send a mail-in form to receive five free HD DVDs. On the Blu-ray side, if you're looking to build out your collection Amazon is unloading almost four dozen titles at 50% off of retail.

The Toshiba promo allows HD DVD buyers to choose one disc from each of five categories. It features a nice balance of catalog and newer titles, including classics like Casablanca and Blazing Saddles and newer, showier demos like Chronicles of Riddick. On Saddles I wasn't kidding aboout it being a classic- late last year the Library of Congress added it to the Nation Film Registry. Details of the Toshioba offer can be found here .

On the BD titles, a number of them are as low as $14.49 with none priced higher than $19.97. Among them are A-list demo material that no BD powered system should be without, like Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, (both of which are excellent movies too IMO, especially for Ridley fans) and Tears of the Sun. Click here for a complete list.