<![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> @TVGenius: Why are they idiots. they wont change their return policy just because HD-DVD is no longer around. We are talking about Costco Wholesale not BestBuy.

In short yes they are still accepting returns on HD-DVD and HD-DVD players do not fall under 90 day electronics return policy so just keep em until your done with them.

Straight from the source

kp

kp126

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> This is great and all. But do any of you honestly expect any retailer to do this? Especially in the U.S.? If you do, I pity you.

So you bought your HD DVD player and now you've taken it in the ass. Sounds like the price you pay for being an early adopter, or making a bad decision to pass on Blu-Ray. Fools.

imsochris

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> Wonder if Costco's taking HD DVD returns still. If they are, they're idiots, and deserve the screwing they'll get.

TVGenius

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> So which Blu-Ray player has good upscaling support? Them HD-DVD players have pretty damn good upscalers for $150 these days...

Worf

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> It's called Best Buy 4-year Replacement Plan. Take your "broken" HD-DVD player in, walk out with new blu-ray player.

mrAnderson

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> I keep hoping someone will do this over here (so I can ditch my HD-DVD player) but I really don't see it happening.

JordyO

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> @discounteggroll: What are you talking about? This store is doing something exceptionally cool, and the nationality of the chain is secondary. Also, yes, fetish.

Brian Lam

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> ah what kindness to offer them a second chance.

ittekimasu

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> @blacksamurai87: Yes, he'd get all of 5 minutes of glory on consumerist and such, and at the same time be flamed both by economic publications and shareholders alike. From what I gather, the logic that drives the japanese economy and way of life means that taking decisions like this will more likely be rewarded rather than punished.

citizen.lambda

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> You wanna know why it says 1920? Because it probably said 20th year of the Heisei era, starting in 1989 (hence 2008 = Heisei 20) and the auto-translator botched it. But I'm kinda too lazy to look at the original and check ;)

rentahero1

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> Ahh, classic example of Japanese customer service. It's why I don't buy electronic stuff in the States anymore.

jamar0303

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> @Serolf Divad: lol @ "seppoku". Makes me think you're trying to tickle him or something.

Seppuku*, AKA Harakiri, for anyone out there who cares.

But Japan is seriously the most perfect country out there. I'm getting sick of America for the sole reason being our selfish lifestyles. You'll never find these stories about American companies. If Best Buy, for example, were to do this, the chairmen responsible would deserve to be on the front page of every business and technology magazine in circulation.

blacksamurai87

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> @Biggy:

The machine translation translated the Japanese dates wrong. It's Heisei 20, which is 2008.

agahnim

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> @Theophilus P. Wildebeeste: lol! Sersiosly, why are all dates showing the year 1920?!!

Biggy

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> @Theophilus P. Wildebeeste: lol! Seriously, why are all dates showing the year 1920?!!

Biggy

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contents of the corresponding exchange As of March 1, 1920 from 1920 as of March 31,
So the format war was over ~80 years before it began.

Gotta love those robot translators.

Theophilus P. Wildebeeste

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> Sony would be really smart if they'd do such thing! this way they clear the market from HD-DVD's and make people hooked to Blu-ray! for example:

With every Blu-ray player, and instead of giving out 5 free Blu-ray movies they should say something like:

"Now, HD-DVD owners buy the xxx Blu-ray player and exchange your HD-DVD movies with a Blu-ray movie included in this offer"

So, instead of only giving out 5 movies they take from HD-DVD buyers the movies that they have, this way people forget about HD-DVD lose, enjoy Blu-ray and also feel rewarded, also Sony would pay less on offers, meaning that instead of giving out 5 Blu-ray movies they can give out as much the HD-DVD owner would give them from his or her HD-DVD movie collection, and most people have 1 to 5 movies and sometimes 10.

Biggy

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> FYI Circuit City IS offering this service to their customers, we exchanged ours yesterday.

scully33

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> Not good enough. The chairman should commit seppoku to erase the shame of having sold all those HD-DVD players.

Meanwhile, in the US I'm sure Best Buy is offering sweet bonuses to store employees who can con consumers into buying up the last remaining stock.

Serolf Divad

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> That BabelFished translation is hilarious. Seo-Knee for Sony? LOLZ A+

Nunya B

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> I heard that the store didn't want to do this but when Godzirra went to return his HD DVD player...well...

Poon

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> I've always liked the Japenese...they know the way of the Samurai!

jcrockerman

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> They'll recycle them hopefully

daftrok

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> @discounteggroll:

Giz has always had a fetish with Japan. It's land of gizmos, after all, innit?

Dearhaw

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> hmm once again the japanese rule!!

Gbirrueta

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> what's with the weird japanese fetish lately giz? I'm happy motherland is being represented, but its not like they've been doing anything out of the ordinarily-awesome lately

discounteggroll

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> That is freaking cool. In fact, that's the type of customer service that earns my loyalty.

quantumbits

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> There is no f**king way Best Buy is doing that.

radikaled

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> @jbhitter24: SMASH.

Brian Lam

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> I don't even care so much about my HD DVD player, it's still a good upconverter. I'd like to see the studios do an HD DVD to Blu Ray swap. As it stands right now the only thing keeping me from buying a Blu Ray player is price. If I were able to swap my HD DVD for Blu Ray discs, I'd have a reason to bite the bullet and spend $400 on a player plus I'd keep buying more movies. For now I'm not buying anything (SD DVD, HD DVD or Blu Ray). Just my two cents.

sdesposito

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> That's brilliant. I wonder if they'll include the PS3, since it's probably a "cheaper" system to exchange for. Probably not, but it'd be nice.

JustEaton

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> now what the hell are they going to do with all those hd-dvd players?

jbhitter24

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> How to factor this into the WWII format wars youtube video...


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Cameron Fredman

]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Great: Japanese Electronic Store Letting Customers Trade HD DVD Players for Blu-ray]]> It's nice to know that not every retailer has their head in their ass, even if I'll never be able to give them any business.

Spyrojoe

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