Best Buy Co. Wednesday said that the $ 50 gift cards to customers who bought HD-DVD-Video-equipment Toshiba Corp. dropped after the format and waives Sony Corp’s Blu-ray.

The retailer is to spend $ 10 million on payments, which go to customers, bought HD-DVD players and attachments before February 23. Most clients, maps of the email, Minneapolis-based Best Buy said.

Tokyo-based Toshiba said last month, that the high definition DVD market in the month following the direction of Hollywood studio Warner Bros. Entertainment said they would not be responsible for HD-DVD. Toshiba has completed the exit’s Home Entertainment-industry-the largest since the war ended in VHS format Beat Betamax in 1980.

Best Buy is also to customers the opportunity to trade with the HD-DVD, the unit in exchange for a gift card on the website of the company.