Gadgetell | Tech News, Reviews, and Interesting Things

Wal-mart has announced that it is now offering refunds for HD DVD players purchased on or after November 1 2007. Consumers have until April 30 2008 to return the players with or without the original packaging. Consumers just need to present their proof of purchase to get a refund. If… Continue Reading »

While the announcement from Toshiba pulling HD DVD support essentially killed of the format, we can now officially declare it dead. The HD DVD Promotion Group has officially been closed, which removes any chance of resurgence of the format. The group, as of March 28 quietly shut themselves down, and… Continue Reading »

Best Buy has updated their HD DVD Trade-In website and is now offering up some pricing details. Sadly it seems that most people would be better off keeping the players and simply using them as an up-converting or spare DVD player around the house. Remember those Toshiba A2 players that… Continue Reading »

In a move to help those upset customers who purchased an HD DVD player, Best Buy has announced they will begin offering $50 gift cards for those who made their purchase before February 23, 2008. Considering the HD DVD players will still function and work fairly nice as an up-converting… Continue Reading »

The Blu-ray format continues to be a winner especially now that Blu-ray players such as those from Samsung, Sharp, and Sony are hitting record highs with their prices, which is contrary to their move earlier this year to offer players for a mere $300. But since Blu-ray purchases increased with… Continue Reading »

In a move similar to Circuit City, but not quite as generous an offer, Canada’s Future Shop is helping those customers that were unfortunate enough to commit to the now dead HD DVD format. The offer from Future Shop does have some nice points and some limitations. First off they… Continue Reading »

With HD DVD officially having been declared a dead format, this news should not come as much of a surprise, but Samsung has officially killed off the BD-UP5500 combo player. The BD-UP5500 was originally introduced at CES this past January and seemed to be a dead product right from the… Continue Reading »

Thanks to a leaked memo entitled “HD DVD - The End” that was posted on an internal Circuit City forum we have learned about the possibility of having your HD DVD player exchanged for a new Blu-ray player to include a Playstation 3. With that, you cannot expect to simply… Continue Reading »

While Netflix has already announced they will be stopping the rentals of HD DVD titles, they have also announced some good news, but also hinted at some possible bad news as well. With HD DVD now leaving, Netflix is confident enough to announce they will soon be offering four times… Continue Reading »

Toshiba may have officially killed off HD DVD and we have seen just about everyone else make their announcement to switch to Blu-ray, but one is remaining. Dreamworks, who is currently is under contract with Toshiba to exclusively support HD DVD have stated they “have an obligation to see this… Continue Reading »