Now Best Buy Canada is trying to pull a '360' on consumers.

[sohjonn]

have a look at exhibit "A"

Flyer image on lower left with price of $399 CAN; Description can be found on the left side in the middle



If i hadn't already known that the 360 didn't have an HD-dvd drive, then this advertisement would have made me think otherwise. What a great way to mislead people!

at first it didn't make any sense to me why the HD-DVD version of 300 was offered without the HD-DVD drive included in the bundle. But now it all makes sense: it's a combo disc!

This ad is very misleading: making the consumer think the 360 has an integrated HD-DVD drive. is this possible, well ~40% of ps3 owners didn't know it could play blu-ray, it seems very well likely that MS or Bestbuy can mislead people into believing the 360 has HD-DVD.

Is MS/bestbuy trying to kill hi-def? people will pop in the 'dvd' believing that it's HD-dvd watch it and say "what's the big deal, looks like a normal dvd" of course it does, because it is.

or are they trying to '360' people into buying another hd-dvd attachment and have them ask "hey what gives 300 works but my other hidef disc doesn't work?" only to be later told they have to buy the hd-dvd drive attachment to run it properly and they probably will.

That's not good/smart business; it's sneaky and concieving.

Furthermore, selling the HD-DVD 300 boosts their numbers of sales/attachment units. closing the gap b/n the blu-ray version and HD-DVD. Will it be substantial, probably not, but cheating is cheating.

just when i thought 360 owners couldn't be 360'd anymore.
first it was RROD's
-then HDMI input
-HDD required for games
-and now this
- if you didn't know already the Halo 3 Special Edition xbox doesn't come with the game!

what next HD-dvd integration, a new system, what gives.

Update: I've got the actual copy of the flyer in my hand and do you want to know what the '*' reads?

"Can be played on any DVD player"

remember the asterisks appears as (HD-DVD*)



so does that mean HD-DVD can be played on any DVD player?

BB should know that they do have SDVD version of 300 in FullScreen format and WS format.