Circuit City's Offer to Take My HD DVD Drive

I'm not biting. Circuit City is quietly offering to let customers return their HD DVD players and apply the cost toward one that plays the Blu-ray format, which recently won a two-year format war. The offer covers any HD DVD drive bought in the past 90 days. It's a nice gesture by Circuit City.

But the math doesn't work.

A low-end Blu-ray player costs $400 at Circuit City. My HD DVD drive cost me about $100 a few months back. So I'd pay $300 for the upgrade.

For now, I've got HD DVD disks that I can rent from Netflix. And by the holidays, even Sony's Blu-ray drives should cost only $300 or so. Cheaper players could be as little as $200 by then.

I'll wait. The HD DVD drive does a good job of upconverting standard DVDs. Plus it's supposed to play my home videos in high definition, though I haven't tried it yet. It'd be nice if I can burn a few minutes of HD-quality video to a standard DVD and play it in the HD DVD drive.

Seems like a keeper, even if it is a loser.

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