Now that the Toshiba has exited the HD format war many companies are supporting Blu-ray with full force. Some, like Circuit City, offered an extended return policy on HD DVD players. Others are just dumping their players at drastically reduced prices. Today, Best Buy announced that it will be giving away $50 gift cards to everyone who purchased an HD DVD player at their store...
I was in BB Monday and they still had a big HD-DVD display (tv, player, sign pointing out benefits, etc) 10 feet from the BD one. No one said anything to the one guy I saw buying a hd-dvd movie at checkout about the format. They just sold it to him.
I think this is a great goodwill gesture for them, reminds me of what happened with divx players when that format went under. They need to do something for the people who are still buying hd stuff and are unaware of the current situation with it. Or they'll end up alienating a lot of people.
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Originally Posted by birdonthebeach
I expect to get my gift card from Wal-Mart any day now....
LOL. Me too. Let's both hold our breath.
I knew full and well, when I bought my HD-A2, that I was probably buying into a soon to be dead format.
I'm not looking back. So what. I spent a hundred bucks and spun the wheel of destiny.
Cool, add that to the ton of reward points I got for buying the HD-DVD player. I had some coupon that gave me triple points, so I got decent money back. This is just icing on the cake!
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