They go on to write, “…you have purchase a HD DVD player and as a result we are sening you a Best Buy gift card to treat yourself.” Additionally they end with this bit of good news, “If you are interested in trading in your HD DVD player and HD DVDs, you can visit BestBuyTradeIn.com where we accept HD DVD hardware…for addtional Best Buy gift cards base on its market value.”

Well, kudos to Best Buy and be safe in the knowledge that you have a customer for life. Like I needed another reason to not visit Circuit City. So if you were like me and bet on the wrong horse and bought a HD DVD player from Best Buy you may be receiving a gift card in the mail.

When Best Buy writes, “We truly appreciate you as a customer,” I believe them.

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From my experience owning both an HD DVD player and now a Blu-Ray player I can say that it probably isn’t a good move to buy an HD DVD player. Oh, the quality to my untrained eye is comparable to the Blu-ray player, although Ratatouille [Blu-ray] looks incredible on the Blu-ray DVD player and is the best looking movie you can buy if you want to see how good Blu-ray can be. No, the reason I’m not recommending the purchase of a HD DVD player is because the battle between the two competing DVD formats is over, unofficially speaking and Blu-ray has won.

When Disney decided to go with the Blu-ray format I thought that was the first big red flag for HD DVD, but now that Warner Bros. will support the Blu-ray DVD format the battle has been lost for the HD DVD format. Initally the biggest reason I bought the HD DVD as to be able to see The Ultimate Matrix Collection [HD DVD] and since the movie was made be Warner Bros. that is what I had to purchase. Well, now Warner Bros. has moved and the Matrix will be available for the Blu-ray format and I’m fully confident in stocking my DVD collection with Blu-Ray DVD and have no fears I’ve boarded the Beta max train of obsolescence.

If you are considering a high definition DVD player, stick with the Blu-ray DVD players, although the HD DVD players have come down in price lately, but that is because they will soon be part of the dinosaur crowd.