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For this special circumstance, we are happy to offer an exchange for a Blu-ray player customer pays any difference in purchase price even if it has been several months since the customer made their HD DVD player purchase. If the customer does not want a Blu-ray player, we can issue a gift card refund for their original purchase price. For products purchased in the last 30 days, handle as usual. Meanwhile, Future Shop is allowing customers to return their HD DVD players between 7th March and 3rd April to receive a 100 discount off either an LG or Samsung Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player even if their HD DVD player was purchased at another store. However, HD DVD movies are not eligible for a refund or trade-in at either store. The Financial Times citing an unnamed senior executive reports that rivals Sony and Microsoft are discussing the possibility of offering a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 3 Sony Electronics US president Stan Glasgow also noted that the company was holding discussions with both Microsoft and Apple over Blu-Ray. The report even claims that there is also the possibility of an internal Blu-ray drive being incorporated into a new, more expensive Xbox 360 model, as it is already done in the PlayStation Currently all Xbox 360 consoles support the HD-DVD format only, but since Toshiba abandoned production last month, Microsoft has no choice but to reconsider Blu-ray as vital step forward. Microsoft refused to comment on the story. Tuesday, February 26th 2008 Acer plans to start offering Blu-Ray equipped laptops in the spring of this year, the companys Taiwan head explained on Monday. The executive confirmed that the computer firm will have two notebooks available with the worlds first 16 and 4-inch widescreen notebook LCDs, capable of playing Blu-Ray movies in full HD 1920×1080 resolution. Other specifications of the portables have not been revealed, though the Blu-ray feature will likely dictate dedicated AMD or NVIDIA graphics as well as a minimum 2GB of memory. Prices should range between 1, 900 and 2, 240 depending on the screen sizes and configurations. Thursday, February 21st 2008 Given that Toshiba has now officially discontinued its HD DVD business, this news acts merely as an extra thrashin thursdays in the formats coffin. Paramount has become the last of the big six Hollywood studios to decide upon Blu-ray, saying: We are pleased that the industry is moving to a single high-definition format, as we believe it is in the best interest of the consumer, the statement reads. As we look to begin releasing our titles on Blu-ray, we will monitor consumer adoption and determine our release plans accordingly. Universal, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios and Warner have already made the switch to Blu-ray, which looks almost certain to become the dominant high definition format for the next few years. Tuesday, February 19th 2008 The HD-DVD camp put up the white flag just a few days ago. Now what? Universal Studios has an answer to that question: everyone goes Blu-ray. Theyre very happy to begin that movement. As of now, everything coming out of Universal Studios doors will be in Blu-ray, if its in high-def. While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and catalog titles on Blu-ray. The path for widespread adoption of the next-generation platform has finally become clear. Universal will continue its aggressive efforts to broaden awareness for high-defs unparalleled offerings in interactivity and connectivity, at an increasingly affordable price. The emergence of a single, high-definition format is cause for consumers, as well as the entire entertainment industry, to celebrate Monday, February 18th 2008 Samsung Electronics will concentrate its ongoing efforts to strengthen Blu-ray products since Toshiba virtually pulled the plug on its HD DVD products. the company said on Sunday. Samsung officials have declined to further comment. The Korean electronics firm has currently been developing dual-format Blu-ray and HD DVD movie players such as the UP5000, but according to experts it will now focus on Blu-ray only with no plans to phase out any combo players. Samsung, which has been adopting a dual-strategy for both Blu-ray and HD DVD products, is likely to cut the HD DVD portion because of aggressive marketing and closer industry connections over the technology Saturday, February 16th 2008 Following closely on the heels of news that both Netflix and Wal-Mart plan to drop HD DVD support, it looks like Toshiba, one of the key firms behind the format, is planning to do the same. A company source is being reported as saying: We have entered the final stage of planning to make our exit from the next generation DVD business. An official announcement is expected to come within the next few days, and it is estimated that the move could see Toshiba suffer losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. This is likely to put an end to the HD format war, with Blu-ray, backed largely by Sony, looking almost certain to overcome HD DVD, which had powerful names including Toshiba and Microsoft supporting it. The media reported that Toshiba will discontinue its HD DVD business. Toshiba has not made any announcement concerning this. Although Toshiba is currently thrashin thursdays its business strategies, no decision has been made at this moment.