On the Best Buy HD-DVD Gift Card.
So Best Buy announced earlier this week that they’d be giving away $50 gift cards to those of us unfortunate enough to buy into the HD-DVD format. This just landed in my inbox:
Our records show that you may have purchased an HD DVD player from Best Buy™. Recently, Toshiba announced that they will no longer produce HD DVD players, and movie studios decided they will no longer release new movies in HD DVD.
At Best Buy, we are dedicated to making sure you always have the right technology for you. That is why purchasers of an HD DVD player are eligible to receive a Best Buy™ gift card. To confirm your purchase, please call us at 1-888-BEST BUY (1-888-237-8289) with your receipt handy.
If you are interested in trading in your HD DVD player and HD DVDs, check out our technology trade-in service at BestBuyTradeIn.com where we will accept HD DVD hardware and software in exchange for a Best Buy gift card based on its market value.
We truly appreciate you as a customer. If you have further questions, please go to BestBuy.com/hddvd.
I called and asked a few questions. Anyone who purchased the HD-DVD player with a Rewards Zone card should automatically receive the Hah Hah Wrong Format Sucker Here’s Fifty Bucks Gift Card in a month or so. Everyone else, as the email above states, can call with their receipt (yeah, the same receipt they probably sent away in the envelope for the free movies offer) and get things sorted out for a free card.
Maybe I’ll use the gift card for HD-DVD movies.
Filed under crap I buy | Comment (0)I like ours better.
A comparison of covers, discovered by an astute observer on the Petro forums. Alien Front Online for the Dreamcast, the first console title to use voice chat online, and our very own Universe at War, out on the 360 this week.
While I own a Dreamcast (and recently jumped headfirst back into it, a topic for another post), I was a latecomer to the console, and never had the chance to play AFO while the servers were still active. Just picked up a copy for super cheap on half.com, I want to see this thing in person.
Sigh. They’re even doing the same dance.
Filed under crap I buy, video games, work | Comment (0)Vintage Computer Cables
I stumbled across the NKC Electronics ebay store via a post on the AtariAge forums, and purchased an S-Video cable for the Atari 800 so I could plug it into the tv in my office. Wow. The difference compared to RF is amazing:
(as seen on the tv in the Petroglyph lobby, it may not look it but the edges are crisp and the colors clean. Thanks for the lovely orange, iPhone)
If you’ve got an old Atari (or one of the handful of other computers/consoles he supplies for) that you’ve considered blowing the dust off of and plugging in, I recommend his stuff. Sent a couple questions that he replied to promptly, and I had the cable in hand within three days. RECOMMENDED WILL BUY AGAIN A+++++!!
Filed under crap I buy, video games | Comment (0)It’s alive.
1 hour after watering:
6 hours after watering:
Resurrection Plant
Attached one of these on a whim to a going-away present order.
Finally, the sort of plant my fiancé could keep around! I’m gonna toss the sucker into a container and see how it does. Haven’t found much on their lighting requirements, but I’m guessing if one of these guys can last for 50 years without water, low light conditions of the studio aren’t gonna kill em.
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