BB Employee of the month!

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I was in best buy today simply to grab an external hard drive, but I always walk the Blu section. I was standing there as a customer asked an employee about her PS3 she bought for her son at Christmas. She said she bought it with 2 games but never picked up any movies before. She wanted to know if she could get a blu-ray movie (spiderman 3) and put it in the PS3 and play it without doing anything special such as buying an adapter etc...

Needless to say she was obviously not aware of anything blu.

The store employee tells her that he hasn't personally done that before and that he is unfamiliar with the blu-ray media. He tells her about hddvd, and I quote, "would play on anything". He then tells her that he thinks you need, again I quote, "a blu-ray compatible Television"...

I couldn't do anything except laugh loud and hard, grabbing both of their attention. I explained to them that she could do this without a problem, if her son was playing games, then there's obviously a picture on the screen, therefore the movie would work fine. I also explained the difference between TV aspect and resolutions to allow her to understand about HD. Turned out she has some sort of plat-panel (lcd/plasma) based on her description of the TV.

She didn't know if it 1080 or 720, but she seemed satisfied with my explanation and the employee, looking dumbfounded, asked me, and i quote one last time, "Why would they make hddvd and blu ray but not make them work in all dvd players."

At that point I just turned away and headed to the checkout line.... Normally I like informing people about blu-ray, but this guy was just to far gone.


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