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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/03/07/tech-future-hddvd.html
Canadian electronics retailer Future Shop is offering consumers on the losing end of the high-definition DVD format war a chance to upgrade their systems.
The Burnaby, B.C.-based company announced Friday customers who own HD DVD players will be able to trade in their players for a $100 rebate off either an LG or Samsung combination Blu-ray/HD DVD player.
The retailer said the offer was good from March 7 to April 3 and said the HD DVD players do not have to have been purchased from Future Shop. The traded-in players will be donated to Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, the company said.
Yesterday U.S. retailer Circuit City offered its own trade-in, allowing customers who purchased an HD DVD player within the last 90 days to return the machine for store credit.
Both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats provided crisp, high-definition pictures and sound and allowed for much greater storage of information on the discs. But the formats were incompatible with each other except on combination players. Sony Corp. developed the Blu-ray format, while a number of companies, including Toshiba and NEC, backed HD DVD.
After a number of movie studios moved to back Blu-ray, Toshiba decided on Feb. 19 to stop making HD DVD machines at the end of March, effectively ending the format war.
On the same day, Future Shop announced it would be moving to the Blu-ray format exclusively.
Upgrading their player to the combination player would allow the roughly 35,000 Canadians who bought HD DVD players to continue using the movies in their libraries, while allowing them to access movies in Blu-ray, said Future Shop spokesman Eric Stockner in a statement.
The combination models available are Samsung's BD-UP5000 and LG's BH-200.
HD DVD owners are also one of the few potential buyers left for the combination players, which first appeared on the market in 2007 in response to the deadlock between the rival formats but have since dropped in price following Toshiba's announcement.
Future Shop's website on Friday lists the price of the BD-UP5000 at $499.99, on sale from $899.99. LG's BH-200 also is also on sale for $499, from $799.
On Wednesday Samsung announced it would be cancelling the next version of its combo player, the BD-UP5500, which it had announced at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/03/07/tech-future-hddvd.html
Canadian electronics retailer Future Shop is offering consumers on the losing end of the high-definition DVD format war a chance to upgrade their systems.
The Burnaby, B.C.-based company announced Friday customers who own HD DVD players will be able to trade in their players for a $100 rebate off either an LG or Samsung combination Blu-ray/HD DVD player.
The retailer said the offer was good from March 7 to April 3 and said the HD DVD players do not have to have been purchased from Future Shop. The traded-in players will be donated to Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, the company said.
Yesterday U.S. retailer Circuit City offered its own trade-in, allowing customers who purchased an HD DVD player within the last 90 days to return the machine for store credit.
Both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats provided crisp, high-definition pictures and sound and allowed for much greater storage of information on the discs. But the formats were incompatible with each other except on combination players. Sony Corp. developed the Blu-ray format, while a number of companies, including Toshiba and NEC, backed HD DVD.
After a number of movie studios moved to back Blu-ray, Toshiba decided on Feb. 19 to stop making HD DVD machines at the end of March, effectively ending the format war.
On the same day, Future Shop announced it would be moving to the Blu-ray format exclusively.
Upgrading their player to the combination player would allow the roughly 35,000 Canadians who bought HD DVD players to continue using the movies in their libraries, while allowing them to access movies in Blu-ray, said Future Shop spokesman Eric Stockner in a statement.
The combination models available are Samsung's BD-UP5000 and LG's BH-200.
HD DVD owners are also one of the few potential buyers left for the combination players, which first appeared on the market in 2007 in response to the deadlock between the rival formats but have since dropped in price following Toshiba's announcement.
Future Shop's website on Friday lists the price of the BD-UP5000 at $499.99, on sale from $899.99. LG's BH-200 also is also on sale for $499, from $799.
On Wednesday Samsung announced it would be cancelling the next version of its combo player, the BD-UP5500, which it had announced at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show.
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So who's going to jump in?
