Cuban teams with Dell to offer bundled HDNet Blu-ray content

Now that Dell's riding high on the Blu-ray bandwagon, what more could you ask for when picking up that now-BD-equipped M1710? How about a free flick from Mark Cuban? While we can hear the groaning in the back, ole Mark has decided to plug his very own HDNet by partnering with Dell and tossing in a free Blu-ray title -- "HDNet World Report Special: Shuttle Discovery's Historic Mission" -- with each XPS M1710 notebook. Although further details on the deal weren't readily available, it was implied that future Blu-ray equipped machines would also grace buyers with free BD titles of Cuban's choosing, and while you might not agree with Mark's antics, you can't really complain with free.

[jhranjr @ Dec 14th 2006 11:25AM]

Ok... let the post stating that people hate SONY and Cuban because they use BD start pouring in.

[Manuel @ Dec 14th 2006 11:43AM]

OK ill do it ... Sony Sucks !!

[The Jeremy @ Dec 14th 2006 1:44PM]

If the "HDnet" logo is that prominently displayed on the [Blu-Ray] box, I can see Joe Consumer making the mistake of buying the disc for their HD DVD.

Okay, Joe Consumer meaning someone's grandmother trying to buy little Jimmy some HD formatted movies for his Xbox360's add-on drive, since almost no Joe Consumers actually have an HD DVD stand-alone deck.

[Veritas II @ Dec 14th 2006 5:53PM]

The HDDVD add-on only sold 42,000 units. That's pretty bad considering 360 sales this year. I doubt anyone's gonna be looking for HDDVD's for their grandkids in any case, seeing as Disney is Bluray.

[Z @ Dec 15th 2006 12:17AM]

Blu-ray is dead.

[Z @ Dec 16th 2006 3:55AM]

Uh, not exactly, the war started long ago.

And Blu-ray is dead. The writing is on the wall, anyway.