Format war development :-)

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Slowly but surely, we're seeing retailer after retailer conjure up its own trade-in / exchange program to deal with the finality of the format war. Canada's Future Shop, however, has certainly put an interesting twist on things. First off, it'll accept standalone HD DVD players purchased from anywhere. In exchange, you'll receive $100 off the purchase of an LG or Samsung Blu-ray / HD DVD combo player, but not a standalone Blu-ray player of any kind. Unfortunately, that means your options are pretty limited, but we can certainly understand the retailer's desire to wash its hands of anything with an HD DVD logo on it. Better still, Future Shop will be donating all of the returned HD DVD players to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada "for use in their after-school and evening programs." Now if that's not a reason to trade-up, we don't know what is.

[Thanks, Josh]

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Topic - Format war development :-) - Duilawyer 08:07:28 03/10/08 (2)

wonder if KEKL will make an appearance there? nt - robert young 15:22:38 03/10/08 (0)

You know it's not appropriate to copy and paste content from other bulletin boards here w/o your own commentNT - Jazz Inmate 10:15:22 03/10/08 (0)

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