Edion (Japanese retailer) offers Blu-ray player swap

[lgans316]

Many criticized me and few other budget HD DVD owners for requesting Blu-ray player/movie swaps. Check out this good and reasonable move by this Japanese retailer.

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/429010

OSAKA — Major consumer electronics retailer Edion Corp said Friday it will allow customers to return HD DVD products to swap for rival Blu-ray machines. The move follows Toshiba Corp's recent decision to retreat from the HD DVD business, Edion said, adding it will pull products in that format from its store shelves.


Subject to the trade-in are seven Toshiba-made recorder and player models, including the RD-A1, RD-A300, HD-XA1 and HD-XA2, sold at some 1,100 Deodeo Corp, Eiden Co and other Edion group retail outlets. Customers with receipts or other suitable documentation can exchange their HD DVD products for machines made by Sony Corp, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co or other manufacturers in the Blu-ray camp.

[ResOGlas]

Wow, I wish my HD-A1 in America wasn't a useless piece of shit. Japan really has some soul to pull this off. Sears and Wal-Mart couldn't give two shits about the lost investment I put into DUD.


Not that I should get reimbursed, but I'd love to trade my DUD for a Blu player that I could give to a friend as a gift or something.

For the record, HD DVD was always glitchy and annoying, but my PS3 always ran smooth. HD DVD with it's "complete spec" was still never a real product ready for mass adoption. I say to defeat DVD, you have to have a product that not only has better offering than DVD, but also performs just as well. Blu made it happen, DUD didn't.


Blu-ray = successor to DVD
HD DVD = Better than DVD, if you have the patience of a Saint.

[Knoxer]

This is just one more reason why I love japan!