How Best Buy is selling HD DVD

[sodrock]

I was at two Best Buys today to see the state of the war was looking like. And as I expected there are now 4 Blu-ray displays and 1 HD DVD. Their entire stock of the A3's and A30's out on the floor, "clearing them out". There were not less than 5 open box units on display, with a sign saying to ask customer service for additional units.

Secondly, one of the employees was educating a customer on Blu-ray, i.e. HDTV Blu-ray deal. And the customer wanted to see the Regza, it happened to be hooked up to an HD DVD player. Conversation below

Customer: "What is this?"
BB E: "Oh, that plays DVD up to 1080p."
Customer: "Oh, only DVD's"
BB E: "Well, they also play HD DVD's"
Customer: "I see, Toshiba is competing with Blu-ray"
BB E: "Well, they did up until two weeks ago. Blu-ray has won the war."

Just as I had thought, Best Buy is going to clear out the HD DVD players as Upconverting DVD's and push Blu-ray as the High-def format. Why would an employee say such a thing unless directed.