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This Harry Potter Blu-Ray Set Requires A HD-DVD Player
Best Buy is still selling a defective Harry Potter Blu-Ray set that contains a HD-DVD version of the Goblet of Fire. The bumbled bundles were first discovered in 2007, but reader Bill found one sitting on a Best Buy shelf in Grand Junction, CO. More » -
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Amazon Offers $50 To HD DVD Refugees
Not to be outdone by Best Buy (and perhaps in order to make Circuit City seem cheap), Amazon will be offering $50 in credit to you poor, poor bastards who bought an HDDVD player before Feb. 23, 2008. More » -
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Best Buy Offers $50 Gift Cards To Those Who Purchased HD-DVD Players
Best Buy is offering $50 gift cards to people who bought HD-DVD players before Feb 23. say CNN.The retailer said it will identify customers through its Reward Zone program, performance service plans and through online purchases and will mail out the gift cards to those individuals by May 1.
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Circuit City Extends Return Window For Suddenly Obsolete HD DVD Players
The Associated Press is reporting that Circuit City is tripling the normal return window for HD DVD players in the hopes of retaining some loyal customers. More » -
Jason Kottke interviews Steven Johnson about his suddenly obsolete HDDVD player.I mean, the Betamax adopters at least had a few years to nag their VHS friends about the better picture quality, before the format died a slow death. But HD-DVD — they just took it out back and shot it!
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Step 1) Convert HD DVD to Blu-Ray. Step 2) Give the finger to the man, baby. Step 3)Prof-... Realize that it was pretty expensive to actually do this.[Wired Wiki via Lifehacker]
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The Format War Is Over, HD-DVD Surrenders!
A Toshiba insider claims that the company will abandon its HD-DVD format, yielding the next-generation DVD format war to Sony's competing Blu-ray technology. So now that the war is over you should run out and buy a new Blu-ray player, right? Not so fast. More » -
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Walmart: Thanks For Buying All Those HD DVD Players, We're Switching To Blu-Ray
Walmart has just announced that they're going blu-ray exclusive. The store will no longer carry HD DVD movies or hardware. More » -
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Netflix Goes Blu-Ray Exclusive
Another nail in the coffin of the format war: top DVD rental service Netflix has announced that they will be going Blu-Ray exclusive. More » -
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HD DVD Loyalists Start Petition To Save Their Format Of Choice
James, an HD DVD loyalist, calls to our attention a petition with 24,000-ish signatures asking Warner Bros. to continue to support HD DVD: More » -
Correction:
A Panasonic fat cat (and probably also a big wig) wrote in to let us know that Panasonic does indeed make a Blu-ray player that can play 1.1 Blu-ray discs: "The current Panasonic model available (DMP-BD30) is based on version 1.1 (BonusView) and capable of playing Blu-ray discs offering the added interactive features such as PiP." -
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Buyers Beware: Current Blu-ray Players Won't Correctly Play Future Discs
After the past week, it seems more and more likely that Blu-ray will be the movie disc format of the future. But with the exception of the Playstation 3, current Blu-ray disc players were built without future-compatibility capabilities, so come this October owners won't be able to take advantage of features like Internet connectivity or enhanced interactivity (whatever that means—details are sketchy). "One key Blu-ray developer told BetaNews that although he builds discs for studios including Fox and Lionsgate, he did not buy a Blu-ray player for personal use." Regarding current Blu-ray player owners, Blu-ray developers told BetaNews, "They knew what they were getting into." More » -
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Warner Bros. Goes Blu-Ray Exclusive
Warner Bros. rolled up its sleeves in the format war today and announced that it was discontinuing support for HD-DVD after May 2008. More » -
The HD format war is in full swing. Warner may go Blu-ray only! We say: Don't choose until the market does. [Ars Technica]
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There's still no decisive victory in the high-def format wars, but here are the current standings: Sony's Blu-ray outsold HD-DVD in the U.S. by a 2-to-1 margin for the first 3 quarters of 2007, but analysts say the trend could reverse in these last few months due to high-profile titles (like "Transformers") being released in high-def exclusively on HD-DVD. The verdict? It's still either format's game. [Reuters]
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