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Round 24: Toshiba vs Microsoft
This is Round 24 in our Worst Company in America contest, Toshiba vs Microsoft. Vote which sucks more, inside...
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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 Provides Excellent Customer Service!
You don't become the number one retailer of electronics to American consumers without getting a few things right awesome, as Daniel shows us in this letter of compliment he sent The Conglomerist about a recent experience at Best Buy:
I stopped in the other night because my old HD DVD player died so I went in hoping to get a deal. On the shelf I found 2 open box Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD players. Looking around I found the department head Derrik and we went back over to the DVD player aisle.More »He tells me that since they're open box he'll sell one for $99 which, IMO, isn't bad it was $30 off their normal price and $20 off Amazon's price...
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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.More »
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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.The nation's No. 2 electronics retailer has instructed its stores to "take care of our customers" and accept returns of HD DVD players within 90 days of purchase, spokesman Jim Babb said.More »
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Circuit City, which has a usual 30-day return policy, is allowing customers who purchased HD DVD players to return them for store credit. The policy doesn't apply to HD DVD movie discs.
The rumors were true. HDDVD... requiescat in pace. [CNNMoney]
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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
Best Buy is going to recommend blu-ray players to its customers. [NYT]
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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:You had an article shortly after the WB exclusivity announcement on the 4th of this month, right? Well, I think this could make for a great follow-up that gives your readers the opportunity to voice their opinion, and hopefully sway the minds of the studio executives who've acted prematurely and stuffed words in the mouths of consumers everywhere.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 »
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Sutton vs McDonald's Corporation (PDF) Frank Sutton orders a Mickey D's Chicken Sandwich on August 8th, 2005. Bites into the sandwich and hot lava grease exploded on his lips. When approached about the matter, the McDonald's worker says something to the effect of, "This is what happens to the sandwiches when they aren't drained completely." Sutton wants $2 mil for his damaged puckers. While that might seem steep, McDonald's should make be making sure their employees are properly draining the chicken sandwiches.
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Sutton vs McDonald's Corporation (PDF) Frank Sutton orders a Mickey D's Chicken Sandwich on August 8th, 2005. Bites into the sandwich and hot lava grease exploded on his lips. When approached about the matter, the McDonald's worker says something to the effect of, "This is what happens to the sandwiches when they aren't drained completely." Sutton wants $2 mil for his damaged puckers. While that might seem steep, McDonald's should make be making sure their employees are properly draining the chicken sandwiches.
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Are You Still Stuck In Vista Upgrade Hell?
If you bought a laptop at the end of last year, you probably qualified for a free Vista upgrade. We did and although it took 6 weeks to get the disc in the mail from our laptop manufacturer, we didn't run into too many hassles. No so for a lot of people, according to PC World:"I was told it would be an easy process," says William Bond, of Tampa, Florida. But, he says, the process has been anything but simple. Bond purchased a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion desktop in November at Circuit City and is still waiting for his Vista upgrade disc from ModusLink, the company handling the program for HP.More »
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Meghann Will Ship Her Broken DVD Player Back
The people have spoken. Meghann will ship her broken DVD player, not make a video of her smashing it. Spoilsports. More »
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What Should Meghann Do With Her Brokeass Woot DVD Player?
After Meghann pitched her woe about getting a Woot!ed DVD player that wouldn't turn on, we tried to convince her to do ship it back to Toshiba. More »
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Woot: Thanks for the Broken DVD Player
We've been a member of Woot since Feb '05, but until the other day, we never saw anything we needed. Then our DVD player broke, and Woot had one, and it was like 40 bucks, and so we finally tried Woot! More »
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Format War Hurts Sales
Few things irritate us more than stupid format wars. We thought they'd learned their lesson when they avoided a war with DVD, but, alas, no. This time, though, the electronics manufacturers may be paying the price. From the Denver Post:"The fight between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, reminiscent of the 1980s battle between Betamax and VHS tape formats [is] shaping up as a business disaster for movie studios, electronics companies and retailers that had counted on a robust holiday selling season for the fancy new players - which cost $500 to $1,000 - and movies to play in them. More »
