High-Def
Digest reports that Circuit City is offering people who bought an HD-DVD
player from their stores a way to return them and get the original sales price
back to help purchase a Blu-Ray player. The offer (which is apparently not being
publicly advertised by the retailer) is only for those people who purchased a
HD-DVD player in the last 90 days and the player must be returned in its
original box with its included accessories. The offer doesn't apply to HD-DVD
movie disks.
So, if I understood well, this deal is only going to be good for those people
who, within the last 90 days, got their HD DVD player and didn't spend a lot on
movies. Which is probably a lot of new HD DVD buyers, actually. I bet many
bought one to use as more of an upconverter and have, at most, a handful of HD
DVD discs (like the 5 free they got for buying the player). Those people can
take advantage of this and not be out a lot of money. For those who invested a
lot on movies, just keep the player and buy a PS3 or wait for BD players to drop
in price.