Snag an NEC HD DVD drive for just $120

[HDTV News Poster]

If you've been waiting to get your hands on one of NEC's HD-DVD HR-1100A internal HD DVD drives, now's your chance. A seller on CDFreaks is offering one of the drives, which reads HD DVD discs at 2x, for a mere $120. That seems like quite the deal, given that the first home HD DVD players are clocking in at about $500 -- and won't be available until at least next month. Of course, we can't really think of anything you can actually do with this drive -- though it is backwards compatible with DVDs and CDs, so you can always use it for your old media and software discs. But where's the fun in that?

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