Circuit City offers HD DVD trade-in program

[tyler811]

With the death of HD DVD, a lot of early adopters felt betrayed by Toshiba and its vendor partners for giving up on the format, and just consequently they might feel they wasted a chunk of money in a technology that barely lasted enough to make it worthwhile. Circuit City is now trying to improve PR a bit offering a trade-in program to its customers.

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[QueBert]

you know what sucks, I understand Toshiba no longer makes HD-DVD players, but millions of them have been sold right? Why the fuck can't studios support them still? When Sega stopped making the Dreamcast it seems developers jumped ship the next friggin day. And millions of us were stuck with Dreamcasts and no new games. I still have my Dreamcast. I would have liked developers to support it at least 6 months to a year after it died. It's not like the people who owned it wouldn't have bought new games.

oh well such is life

 

[RKS]

I didn't read the article but if I remember correctly; you can't buy a PS3 or a BR/HD combo player. It has to be a stand-alone BR player.

 

[isekii]

that' sucks..

i'm keeping my HD DVD player.
FU BLURAY. (I do want a PS3 though 🙁)

 

[slayer202]

Originally posted by: QueBert
you know what sucks, I understand Toshiba no longer makes HD-DVD players, but millions of them have been sold right? Why the fuck can't studios support them still? When Sega stopped making the Dreamcast it seems developers jumped ship the next friggin day. And millions of us were stuck with Dreamcasts and no new games. I still have my Dreamcast. I would have liked developers to support it at least 6 months to a year after it died. It's not like the people who owned it wouldn't have bought new games.

oh well such is life

dreamcast was the shiit

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: QueBert
you know what sucks, I understand Toshiba no longer makes HD-DVD players, but millions of them have been sold right? Why the fuck can't studios support them still? When Sega stopped making the Dreamcast it seems developers jumped ship the next friggin day. And millions of us were stuck with Dreamcasts and no new games. I still have my Dreamcast. I would have liked developers to support it at least 6 months to a year after it died. It's not like the people who owned it wouldn't have bought new games.

oh well such is life

What gets me even more is that HD-DVD titles that were released after the platform was officially cancelled are still going for $20-$30. When will the firesale start? 😉

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: QueBert
you know what sucks, I understand Toshiba no longer makes HD-DVD players, but millions of them have been sold right? Why the fuck can't studios support them still? When Sega stopped making the Dreamcast it seems developers jumped ship the next friggin day. And millions of us were stuck with Dreamcasts and no new games. I still have my Dreamcast. I would have liked developers to support it at least 6 months to a year after it died. It's not like the people who owned it wouldn't have bought new games.

oh well such is life

What gets me even more is that HD-DVD titles that were released after the platform was officially cancelled are still going for $20-$30. When will the firesale start? 😉

On eBay you see some for like 6 bucks, and players for about 60.

It's a great intermediate step until Blu-Ray becomes affordable if you ask me.

 

[isekii]

Everyone should just boycott HD-DVD's and BLURAY all together... and just continue purchasing regular DVD's.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: isekii
Everyone should just boycott HD-DVD's and BLURAY all together... and just continue purchasing regular DVD's.

Yes because that makes a whole lot of sense; continue to pay for 720x480, nobody needs 1920x1080. Your arugment fails as an "anti-HD media" argument because you forgot to mention that we should wait for OMG DIGITAL CONTENT WAVE OF THE FUTUREZ.

</sarcasm>

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: isekii
Everyone should just boycott HD-DVD's and BLURAY all together... and just continue purchasing regular DVD's.

Yes because that makes a whole lot of sense; continue to pay for 720x480, nobody needs 1920x1080. Your arugment fails as an "anti-HD media" argument because you forgot to mention that we should wait for OMG DIGITAL CONTENT WAVE OF THE FUTUREZ.

</sarcasm>

I'm not anti-hd 😛
I already own an HD DVD player...
But I'm fine with regular dvd's upconverted for the time being.

 

[jlee]

Is it a trade-in program or an extended return period? 😕

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: QueBert
you know what sucks, I understand Toshiba no longer makes HD-DVD players, but millions of them have been sold right? Why the fuck can't studios support them still?

Only about a million in the US I think.

HD-DVD disc sales tanked after the WB announcement, and they were set to spiral down to almost nothing as stores stopped carrying any discs.

Even if new titles were pressed they'd be in low numbers, online sales only, and would probably cost 2-3 times as much since there would no longer be a point to selling them at a loss to build up the market.

Would it make sense to sell Iron Man for $60 on HD-DVD while it's only $30 on blu-ray?

 

[allisolm]

Originally posted by: JLee
Is it a trade-in program or an extended return period? 😕

The way I read it , it's a return program. If you bought an HD-DVD player at CC, you can return it within 90 days and receive full purchase price store credit for the return.