Quote Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn
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So, he went into Best Buy, where he bought the Samsung and someone there told him that Sony owns the Blu-ray technology and that they code the Blu-ray disks so that they can't be played in other brands. The guy then told him that he should only ever buy a Sony Blu-ray player (yet it was also a Best Buy employee who sold him the Samsung!).

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I once heard the BB sales staff get on-the-side commissions direct from manufacturers. But this might be just as big a steaming pile as the bit about buying only Sony BRPs.

In my experience 4/5 of BB staff are ignorant a$$holes.