You feel slighted by being an early adopter of HD-DVD players, I can’t say I feel your pain this time but I’ve been in similar circumstances.  If you bought it from Amazon.com you will be getting $50 credit and there’s no better use for that $50 credit than to put it towards a PS3.

Okay, so this is a bit limiting.  One, you need to have purchased a HD-DVD player from Amazon.com in the first place and two, hope that you do indeed get your $50 credit which should be good towards nearly anything but put it towards a PS3.  Seriously, do it.

I suppose there are other things to consider.  You could sell your HD-DVD player plus whatever movies you have on eBay for slightly more and get your $50 credit at Amazon as well so you could get a couple Blu-Ray movies or a game for the PS3.

There you go.  Fifty dollars off a PS3 and a “free” PS3 game or Blu-Ray movie(s); but remember your still taking a loss on that ancient, useless, HD-DVD player of yours.

The only purpose of an HD-DVD player now is as a glorified DVD player, put that sucker on eBay and get your $50 off or see whatever retailer you may have purchased it from for special offers specific to them and put said special offer towards a Sony PS3; it’s the cheapest Blu-Ray player deal in town.

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Entry was posted on Sunday, April 13th, 2008 at 9:20 am under PS3, PlayStation 3.

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