Plenty for you to drool over today at a wide range of price points – a telly, a Blu-ray player with a big bundle of free discs and a laugh-filled DVD for buttons.

Divert your praise away from us and in the direction of HotUKDeals – they’re the ones with all the moves…

We tried battering you all into submission with a TV/Blu-ray player one-two last week but in case you missed out on it or have suddenly acquired £800 from somewhere, here’s another one.

Basically, you’ve got your 50 inch Panasonic VIERA TX-P50S10B which is just £629.10 for TODAY ONLY with the help of a voucher and your Samsung BD-P1580 Blu-ray player that comes with ten Disney blu-ray discs – that’s just £154.95 delivered. What’s not to love about all of that?

Next today comes a big price drop for THE game of 2009 – Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Sure, it was available for a knockdown price when it was first launched but it’s hovered around the £40 mark ever since.

Now it’s down to £24.99 on both the PS3 and Xbox 360 and generating some mighty heat over at HotUKDeals. If you’ve held out from buying it until now, it’s hard to resist at such a low price.

Finally today, one of the most underrated British comedy series of recent years – The Armando Iannucci Shows. All eight episodes on DVD for the miniscule price of just £2.97.

In case you don’t know of Iannucci’s pedigree, he’s the man behind The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You, I’m Alan Partridge, The Thick Of It and In The Loop. Clip beliow – yes, he’s even better than Joe Pasquale!

(deals found by HUKD members gary_rip, Bass Monkey, goner_187 and spurious)

We’ll sort you right out today – good and proper. Like Danny Dyer but in a nice way. There’s a big new telly, some delightful films to watch on it and a game to play that you’ll only have to wait eight weeks or so for.

You can thank us if you like, but it’s HotUKDeals that deserves all the kudos really.

Here’s a couple of shiny new TV sets that might attract the attention of your magpie eyes – and they’re both racking up some major heat over at HUKD. First up comes a ginormous 50” Panasonic plasma 1080p for only £699 (although there are mumblings of Quidco and discount vouchers as well.)

Cheaper still is the Sony KDL-37W5710 37” (1080p 100Hz) LCD telly which is only £499.99. Sadly, if your dealbreaking question is ‘does it have an ice dispenser?’ the answer is ‘no, it isn’t a frigging fridge.’

Now that you’ve chosen your new telly, you’ll need something to watch on it. How about some Disney films on pin-sharp-picture Blu-ray discs from only £9.99?

Plenty to choose from including titles like Monsters Inc, Ratatouille, Cars, Wall-E and The Nightmare Before Christmas. No Song Of The South because IT IS A RACIST! Oh, and if you don’t have a Blu-ray player, you should get one. You owe it to your new TV.

But if films aren’t your thing and you’d prefer to play games on your magnificent new TV but are happy to wait until the end of April before you do it, and if you’d like a free exclusive T-shirt as well when the bloody thing finally bloody arrives, well here’s one that might tickle your danglers.

It’s a pre-order of Super Street Fighter IV on the PS3 and Xbox 360 and it’s only £21.86 with possible Quidco cashback on offer as well. So that’s you sorted then. No need to leave the house ever again.

(deals found by HUKD members scottm, cuthbert23, neilhukd and Spark)

There’s balls and then there’s balls. And then there’s brass balls. And then there’s bomb-proof platinum balls filled with truffles and caviar. They’re the balls that are hanging between the legs of Blu-ray player makers Lexicon.

They recently launched a snazzy $3500 Blu-ray player called the BD-30 – and for that amount of money, you’d expect oodles of snazz inside it. So the good folks at Audioholics opened it up in a hunt for the aforementioned snazz. Guess what – no snazz.

Their review explains….

“When we received the player the first thing we did was open it up to get a look at the inside. Imagine my surprise when I found that not only did the Lexicon share the same boards and transport as the Oppo – it was in fact AN OPPO BDP-83 PLAYER, CHASSIS AND ALL, SHOVED INSIDE AN ALUMINUM LEXICON WRAPPER. As far as we could determine, Lexicon didn’t change a single thing in terms of the hardware. Heck, they didn’t even lift the boards out of the chassis, opting instead to cut out the bottom of their own chassis to accommodate the venting locations, and putting a darker blue filter over the Oppo’s VFD display to give it a slightly deeper hue.”

Just so you know, the Oppo BDP-83 retails for around $500. Look at the balls on Lexicon!

[Gizmodo]

Nobody likes to wait for anything these days, but while Bitterwallet reader Gunn assures us he is the patient sort, he’s not entirely satisfied with TheHut.com’s release schedule:

I think pre-order is a good idea – sometimes you get a good discount if you order early enough. Thing is, this one has a few problems:

• Will I be at the same address in 11 years time?
  
• The credit card/debit card I use to pre-order will have definitely expired by that time
  
• What state will the economy be in? Will Blu rays be selling for £1000 – if so, could this be a bargain!?
  
• Worst case scenario, I’m not alive to take the delivery
  
• Worst still, 2012 passes and the earth explodes

If you enjoy wasting the capabilities of a Blu-ray player by watching old-fashioned DVDs from the 1960s on it and have a big fat backside that you’d like to hide, then this is the place for you.

Your destiny has been fulfilled by HotUKDeals. Enjoy your visit.

We kick off today with a great deal for a Blu-ray player. It’s normally £249.99 but you can get one for as little as £129.99. That’s a saving of OVER SEVEN POUNDS! Plus, it plays DVDs as well, so if it turns out that they’ve been blowing smoke up our back-holes with this who Blu-ray thing, you’re covered.

It’s the Sony BDP-S360 and comes with an added bundle of discs to play on the bloody thing. They are Angels & Demons, Slumdog Millionaire and Terminator Salvation. We remember reading somewhere that they had recently been voted as the three greatest films ever made ever, so that’s brilliant bonus news.

Next, some more shiny discs to play on the thing. These ones are good old-fashioned DVDs, so you know they’ll be around forever, even when the Blu-ray fad has died away like Cabbage Patch Dolls, the Enigma machine and Right Said Fred did before them.

This is the complete collection of James Bond movies – if by complete you mean “all of them except for the most recent one and Never Say Never Again and the David Niven one and the Bob Holness one that wasn’t even a film anyway.” If you can barely believe that, imagine how you’d feel if we told you it was only £64.99. Okay, here goes – it’s only £64.99. What? Nothing??

Finally, and we don’t wish to sound sexist and degrading here, but if you’re a woman with a big fat arse, chances are that James Bond wouldn’t look at you twice. Sorry, but them’s the facts Jill.

But you can improve your chances of scoring between the sheets with the fictional spy by squeezing your rump into a pair of nylon/lycra body-shaping briefs for only £2.99. They come in black and nude. Nude? Phwoooaaar!

(deals found by HUKD members amibees, amibees and Ibiza)

Research funded by the British Video Association (BVA) shows that despite the recent global financial fiasco, uncontrollable unemployment, and rising bills, Blu-ray sales are better than ever. Year-to-date, sales of Blu-ray movies in the UK are up 396% and is just short of 1.5M units sold. So it’s not just botox, then.

This is however still very short of US sales, mostly due to pricing discrepancies. But it is still a vast improvement from last years sales figures, as the increasing demand for Blu-ray discs and dropping prices on blue rays add to the already powerful momentum driving the high-def home theater segment. In fact, Blu-ray Disc titles are now selling for less than the cost of a single movie ticket.

In the spirit of gathering some good Blu Ray Deals, here’s a few offers discovered by your fellow readers on HotUKDeals:

• HMV from £7.99: (found by adsldave and Whizzkid): For as little as £5.99 you get choose from HMV’s huge selection of Blu Ray Titles including Shawshank Redemption, Shot Em Up, Spiderman 3, Apocalypto and Casino Royale.  HMV is also offering 2 Blu Ray for the price of £22, and as adsldave pointed out today,  Head up to alsldave’s list at HUKD.

• Amazon.co.uk from £8.98 and 40% off: (found by obers82 and alsdave): Amazon is discounting 40% off all Blu Ray titles to compete with Play & HMV. Selected Blu Ray box sets like James Bond movies, Band of Brothers, The Godfather X-Men Trilogy and Harry Potter are up to 30% off.  You can also get 3 Blu Ray discs for the price of 2. Amazon is also offering 3 for 2 promos on selected Blu Ray titles. EDIT: They are also doing £5.99 each on 3+ purchases as well. (thanks, ’saywot’)

• Borders.co.uk are giving 20% discount on some of their Blu Ray titles. As whizzkid points out, you can also pick up Spiderman Trilogy Blu Ray / Mission Impossible Trilogy Blu Ray for £17.99 each instore.

• Morrisons from £6.99: Reader daveniuk found quite a few Blu-Rays at excellent prices in South Birmingham, including Saw III for £6.99.  Movies like War, Good Luck Chuck, The Condemned, The Eye were being sold for £8.99. daveniuk has also done some price check using Pricedevil and found several other titles that are cheaper if bought online. But it appears that not everyone know about Blu Rays. Reader d_dixon50 said he went to his local Morrisons and asked if they stocked Blu-Ray, and got the reply: “Is that a type of fish or cheese sir?”

As a final note, don’t know if Blu Ray really makes a difference? You have to see it to believe it. Futuresource Director Jim Bottom said that once people could see and experience the benefits of Blu Ray, viewers would know the difference. So if you don’t want to buy a new blu ray player to see what the craze is all about, just drop by your local Sony and indulge in a quick peek at Megan Fox starring in Transformers. The screen wont’ be the only thing poppin’.

In my head, the world of pirated films began with ET. Dad turned in from the pub, smelling of Skol and clutching a VHS copy of the Spielbergian classic, a white sticky label slapped over it with the title scrawled in Biro. The film meanwhile, looked as if it was shot through the bottom of a jam jar smeared with vaseline. I wasn’t impressed.

Fast forward 26 years and I’m still not; not because I’m a hardened man of morals and virtue, but because movies look gob-stoppingly amazing on a movie screen and not unlike a burglar’s dog when viewed in illegal form on a television.

There’s still a massive market for pirate movies, and those in the business are always on the lookout for the next hook that’ll pull the punters in. According to Gizmodo, they’ve found it in Blu-Ray. Now that the format is breaking through into the mass-market, there’s money to be made from downgrading Blu-Ray films and copying them to regular DVDs, before tarting them up with some shiny packaging to dupe the punters. Lest we remind you that such rubbish is against the law, but for the same price you can see the film as it was intended; with a sense of scale, splashed across the big screen and without some shiny nosed teenager pissing about with the auto-focus.

[Gizmodo UK]