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Future Shop offers HD DVD deal

JACK KAPICA

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Latest comment posted at 2:04 PM EDT 08/03/08

Consumers who bought HD-DVD players from any retailer can return them to Future Shop for $100 against a combo player ...Read the full article

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  1. Joseph Whistle from Canada writes: $100 off on a combo player. pfff, yeah right. The only people buying this thing is people stuck with an HD DVD player and discs. The cost of the combo player comes down, and Future shop will be keeping the cost $100 artificially higher, making it 'seem' you're getting a 'deal'.
    What's the point anyway, if you already have an HD DVD player, just keep it to play your HD DVD discs. Buy another Blu Ray player when the cost comes down.
    Perhaps someone can just provide a hack one way or the other to let to store those movies on your computer after which you can just burn it as an HD divx (put on normal dvd, yet hd content still).
  2. D M from Canada writes: If the HD DVD players are more expensive at Future Shop, then do some comparison shopping and make them do a Price Match. This way you get $100 off the lowest price that you can find.

    They have a Price Match Policy so use it to your advantage. I use it very often with electronics and computer stuff.
  3. Andrew Pakula from Caledon, Canada writes: Whats the point of buying a new combo player, HD-DVD is dead, just suck it up and buy a normal Blue Ray drive
  4. Howard Young from Canada writes: Your HDTV only has so many HDMI inputs, plus some people don't like their entertainment units overly cluttered.
  5. Some Guy from Ottawa, Canada writes: Why anyone would buy either format before the market officially decided is beyond me. It was very apparent that once the studios decided to support one format or another, that this would mark the end of either format. Consumers ought to have waited, patiently, BEFORE spending money on such an upgrade. As if the VHS/BETA saga wasn't fair warning enough. Caveat emptor!
  6. C D from Victoria, Canada writes: what a deal...
  7. Matthew Dalzell from Canada writes: Who needs all this junk anyway? Save your money
  8. Dan Smith from Canada writes: It's a great idea to offer the trade in HD DVD players to the Boys and Girls Clubs until they go to use them. They take as much time as a computer to boot - it's not as if you push the on button and things are good to. Picture looks great though and it upconverts well.
  9. Pete Best from Canada writes: I was very impressed with the article, a great idea from Future Shop, however, the quote from Digital Home Canada, is in my opinion worth nothing at all, that site has expressed it's hatred for Future Shop in many posts on their Forums.

    So I would say to anyone reading this, please ignore the bigotted comments referred to they are meaningless, go ahead swap out your HD DVD if you choose.
  10. Carl Hansen from Canada writes: Keep your HD DVD player. It is an excellent DVD/CD player and it upconverts. Blue-Ray players will be 300 dollars by Xmas.
  11. Dave W from Vancouver, Canada writes: Why is it that only one person has figured out the absurdity of this 'article'.
    It's an advertisement! Nothing more. Nothing less.
    Before you start debating the latest technology, maybe you should all be asking yourselves why this piece was even written.
  12. ishmael daro from Saskatoon, Canada writes: I never liked the name HDDVD anyway. They should have called it HDVD: High Definition Video Disc.
    In any case, it's unlikely that you absolutely need one player or the other. In time, we'll probably just use our computers for movies, just as we use mp3's for our music now.
  13. Jeff Pritchard from Canada writes: To those of you who think Future Shop is giving a good deal here: A similar plan was announced two weeks ago, to reimburse the purchasers of HD-DVD, by a major Japanese chain. However in that case the chain reimbursed their customers the entire value of the HD-DVD player; those buying new Blu-Ray units had only to pay the difference. Goes to show you how customers are regarded in NA. This is nothing more than a promotion to get rid of these dual-format players. G&M, I hope you got paid for providing this advertising, as this is not news. Disgusting.
  14. Jeff Pritchard from Canada writes: To those of you who think Future Shop is giving a good deal here: A similar plan was announced two weeks ago, to reimburse the purchasers of HD-DVD, by a major Japanese chain. However in that case the chain reimbursed their customers the entire value of the HD-DVD player; those buying new Blu-Ray units had only to pay the difference. Goes to show you how customers are regarded in NA. This is nothing more than a promotion to get rid of these dual-format players. G&M, I hope you got paid for providing this advertising, as this is not news. Disgusting.
  15. Gabriel Stefan from Toronto, Canada writes: @ Jeff Pritchard

    Well firstly I'd like to point out the Future Shop or any retailer has absolutely no obligation to do anything on this matter. Future Shop could have simply said, so sad too bad to all the people who bought a HD-DVD.

    And many other stores here in Canada as well as the US have no plans to deal with the now useless HD-DVD. So Future Shop is doing something it never had to do to begin with.

    Like the saying goes 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth'
  16. Swordfish Trombones from Canada writes: Pete Best from Canada writes: I was very impressed with the article, a great idea from Future Shop, however, the quote from Digital Home Canada, is in my opinion worth nothing at all, that site has expressed it's hatred for Future Shop in many posts on their Forums.

    So I would say to anyone reading this, please ignore the bigotted comments referred to they are meaningless, go ahead swap out your HD DVD if you choose

    Pete - do you work for Future Shop?

    Also why doesn't Best Buy do the same thing - Isn't FS owned by BB?
  17. Gardiner Westbound from Canada writes:
    Stung by Betamax, I waited for the latest format war to sort itself out. I'll delay my purchase for another few months for Blu-ray prices to fall.
  18. Orest Zarowsky from Toronto, Canada writes: @ Andrew Pakula: And what are these people supposed to do with all the perfectly fine HD discs they may own? Replace them with equivalent technology? Why waste money on that? Not to mention pollution via landfill. I can see replacing vinyl with CDs, but not HD with blue-Ray discs. This is similar to the combo DVD-VHS players. And you know, kids under 10 are real menaces to DVD discs. Fingerprints, the way they toss them around etc. And that's before we get into a discussion of how the tend to abuse the DVD player itself. As opposed to a VCR where all the kid has to do is stick the tape in and off we go. I speak from direct experience with my niece and nephew. It is clear that you are a very lonely person - no siblings and no cousions. Which means no basbysitting. Your experience and perspective is limited and narrow. Pipe down before you are requesting condiments to go with that foot you have in your mouth.
  19. Brian W from Burlington, Canada writes: Some Guy from Ottawa, Canada writes: Why anyone would buy either format before the market officially decided is beyond me. It was very apparent that once the studios decided to support one format or another, that this would mark the end of either format. Consumers ought to have waited, patiently, BEFORE spending money on such an upgrade. As if the VHS/BETA saga wasn't fair warning enough. Caveat emptor!

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    Hmmm. If everybody waited to pick one, how would the marketplace be able to determine a winner? BTW, I bought my blu-ray player about 6 months ago. No thanks is necessary.

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