This news started surfacing on July 7th, but in an effort to push BluRay, Game Crazy recieved a memo that when you purchase qualifying BluRay players (and the PS3 happens to be one with no distinction between 20GB and 60GB versions) between July 1st and September 30th, you qualify to recieve 5 free BluRay movies.  You get to pick one movie from each of the five following categories.  The mail-in form can be found here:

Cat. 1:  The Guardian, Pearl Harbor, Invincible, Chicken Little

Cat. 2:  Corpse Bride, Phantom of the Opera, Blazing Saddles

Cat. 3:  Stealth, Resident Evil 2, Underworld Evolution, Stir of Echoes

Cat. 4:  Italian Job, Black Rain, Babel, The Devil’s Rejects

Cat. 5:  Omen 666, Kiss of the Dragon, Transporter 2, Hart’s War, Species, The Last Waltz

This makes for an interesting push from Sony to get BluRay out into the market.  I did some research to see if by some chance (no matter how unlikely) there was some sort of similar offer for purchasing the HD-DVD addon for the XBox 360 (I’m not going into regular HD-DVD players as this is a gaming site).  It looks like through June 16th of this year, Best Buy and Circuit City were offering two extra HD-DVDs in addition to King Kong that the addon comes with.  The only deal I could currently find is that Amazon.com is currently offering a free movie when you purchase the HD-DVD drive through them.  If Toshiba ends up adding the HD-DVD addon to their offer of free movies and anyone lets me know, I’ll be happy to put that up.  It would seem natural that they would just to add to their customer base.