Wow, after a few weeks of mediocre sales, this week Amazon Unbox is offering a plethora of titles, with prices once again starting at $.99! Michael Clayton and The Brave One are just $.99. The Heartbreak Kid, The Invasion, 13 Going on 30, Gattaca, Lords of Dogtown, The Mask of Zorro, and The Patriot are all $1.99. Paprika, Angel-A, Interview, I Know Who Killed Me, and Jackie Chan’s: The Myth are all $2.49. And finally, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Justice League: The New Frontier are each $2.99.

But that’s not all. Fifteen episodes of HBO’s new series In Treatment are available for free!

Dave Zatz of Sling Media has posted their latest TV commercial on YouTube:

It is a bit ironic that, after the ‘death’ of the format’, the HD DVD studios have released some of the formats strongest titles ever. This has boosted HD DVD’s market share in its final weeks. For the week ended 3/3, HD DVD took a 25% share, with Blu-ray holding the other 75%. This puts them at 76:24 for the year, and 66:34 since inception. HD DVD didn’t manage to take the top selling spot this time around, that went to 30 Days of Night on BD, but it did grab the second and third spots - with the new release Beowulf, and American Gangster, in its second week of release. Beowulf was close, selling 82.52% of 30 Days of Night’s sales. After this, there aren’t really any Blockbuster HD DVD releases left. So I expect their percentage to start falling off again.

This issue of Home Media Magazine also includes an article which states Sony and Microsoft are in talks to bring Blu-ray to the Xbox 360. President of Sony Electronics U.S., Stan Glasgow, said that a Blu-ray drive could be incorporated in the Xbox Elite model, or as an add-on, as originally reported in the Financial Times online edition. Glasgow also said that Sony is in talks with Apple about the use of Blu-ray in Macs.

If you live in Australia, and you’re interested in TiVo, you have another chance to try it out before it becomes generally available. It looks like TiVo Australia is searching for additional beta testers to play with the box before release. They’d earlier stopped accepting beta applications, after presumably filling all the slots for the first round. So if you missed out last time, here’s another chance. Via Gizmodo Australia.

It seems that if you’ve purchased an HD DVD player from Circuit City in the 90 days leading up to Toshiba’s announcement of the end of the format on February 19th, you can return it for a credit towards the purchase of a Blu-ray player equal to the original purchase price. Alternatively, you can receive the credit on a standard Circuit City gift card, which you can use towards any purchase. This is a quiet offer - you have to ask for it. Via Electronic House.

From the press release:

ALVISO, Calif., March 7, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced that it will present at the Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference on March 11th. The webcast of the presentation will be available on the Investor Relations section of the TiVo website at http://investor.tivo.com under the events calendar tab.

Conference Details:
Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference
Palm Beach, Florida
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
3:00 PM ET
Tom Rogers, CEO and President