BestBuy giving away consolation money to please HD-DVD owners.If you don't want to keep your HD-DVD player you have two options from Best Buy - 1) If you bought the player from them before Feb'23'2008 then you can exchange it for $50 of the store credit card.
2) If you didn't buy from them then they have some trade-in program which you could benefit from.

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This is truly a arbitrage opportunity for those who bought these players for less than $50 as Best Buy doesn't seem to care the model of HD-DVD player. I didn't buy the player from them but from Sam's club for $68.00. I gotta find out what trade-in options they have for this HD-D3 that I own.

If you already own a HD-DVD player, I feel there is no rush to get rid of your player on eBay. If you don't own it then this is a good time to buy this player for the below reasons.One compelling reason - its a great upconverting dvd player at a bargain price.Everywhere you see the comparison of HD-DVD players to lost battle of Betamax to VHS which in my opinion is not correct. With Betamax there was no earlier formats and simply to put it no backward compatibility for its commercial success when that tapes format war ended. With HD-DVD players the scene is different it competes with all existing upconverting DVD players and fares well in the quality section.

Look at the prices of these players, you can get a HD-A2 player at Sam's club for now $68. [ Click here for $68 Toshiba DVD player - enter your zip code and pick up the player from your nearest store ]. This trend will make the demand go up for these players in upconverting players market and supply will become scarce in near future. I personally still waiting for Blu-Ray players prices to come down as after the announcement of HD-DVD format pull back announcement from Toshiba, a surge in demand for Blu-Ray players kept their prices intact with out any good bargain deals.

Also consider the already available 500 plus HD-DVD titles that makes a good collection. I recently bought Bourne trilogy - The Bourne Identity , The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum for deal price from Amazon. [ Click here for Bourne hd-dvd]. Keep looking for these HD-DVD prices to drop as low as $10 and at least until May of 2008 we can expect new releases which were already promised to release in HD-DVD.

There is one more great reason that it seems it is possible to burn HD content to a regular DVD-R discs . Once burnt you can play it as an HD movie on an HD-DVD player. I'm sure there are restrictions in the video length as DVD-R can support less of HD content. All my camcorder HD content can be burned this way to DVD-R as anyway they are short duration clips. I'll research more and write a post with step-by-step guide of burning HD content to DVD-R discs.

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Bestbuy too joined the early Black Friday like sale in response to Wal Mart's secret sale.Bestbuy business marked down Toshiba HD-A2 - HD DVD player to 99$ price matching to what Wal Mart offered to its shoppers BUT online.Looks like their site is getting hammered right now with heavy onslaught of shoppers who could not get to Wal Mart deal.

Here is the link to try your luck at this deal : click me for Bestbuy Toshiba HD-A2 - HD DVD player

Also don't forget to grab your 5 select free HD DVDs [ click for free 5 HD-DVDs ]

If you happen to grab this online let the deal community know this via comments.

Good Luck

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