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What Should I Do With My Economic Stimulus Rebate?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorMike D.
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I checked on my rebate status and it shows that I should have it in my bank on Friday. Been looking to upgrade to Blu, but wonder what other people thought I should do.
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If this is the sort of rebate that our politicians consider adequate, you might go all out and buy an ice cream.
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Voted other because I don't qualify for the rebate check.  Make too much.
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drop it all on the Wal-Mart bargain bin 
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Buy more Profiler? For friends.

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You, and everyone else in a quandary over what to spend their stimulus check on, can just send it to me. My economy could use all the stimuli it can get.

Thanks in advance.
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Chose "pay other bills".
The main reason herefor is, that Blu-Ray-Players are by far too expensive at the moment and will most likely get cheaper within the next 6 months.
It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?


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Well, the government of course wants you to spend it.  I was originally just going to stick mine in the bank and leave it there.  But then my kid had a fender-bender (literally) with our car so there went $500 and then a week later we got a nail in one of the tires and with it being an all wheel drive vehicle and 3 years old that meant a new set of 4 tires so there was $600.    That left us with $100 of our rebate so tonight I just said the hell with it and took my wife to dinner.  Dinner was pretty good. 
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I'm not sure if it makes a lot of sense to buy a Blu player that isn't 2.0 compatible and those aren't going to come cheap.  I guess there's always a PS3.  Personally, I'm banking mine for the time being.  I have an uneasy feeling that I'm going to be needing it soon enough for important stuff rather than "want" stuff.
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I'm not sure if it makes a lot of sense to buy a Blu player that isn't 2.0 compatible and those aren't going to come cheap.  I guess there's always a PS3.  Personally, I'm banking mine for the time being.  I have an uneasy feeling that I'm going to be needing it soon enough for important stuff rather than "want" stuff.


I can't say I agree. I really don't care for the online content on DVD's. The one's I did check out didn't have anything interesting to offer. I know the possibillities of Blu-Ray are much higher, but I still don't care for all the online stuff. I guess most of it will be marketing crap anyway.

So, if you are like me, go out and buy a profile 1.1 player   
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pay off other bills first !!!

then save half and spend half on the nice things in life....
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What rebate?
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What rebate?

You can read about it here.
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I'm not sure if it makes a lot of sense to buy a Blu player that isn't 2.0 compatible and those aren't going to come cheap.  I guess there's always a PS3.  Personally, I'm banking mine for the time being.  I have an uneasy feeling that I'm going to be needing it soon enough for important stuff rather than "want" stuff.


I can't say I agree. I really don't care for the online content on DVD's. The one's I did check out didn't have anything interesting to offer. I know the possibillities of Blu-Ray are much higher, but I still don't care for all the online stuff. I guess most of it will be marketing crap anyway.

So, if you are like me, go out and buy a profile 1.1 player   


I'm of the same opinion. Profile 1.1 is good enough for me.  Sure, it'd be handy when grabbing a firmware update to do it all on the player itself, but I've no interest in anything offered with an internet capability on my disk player. I'm quite happy with my Panasonic DMP-BD30.  I've done 1 firmware update so far and it was no real bother.
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What rebate?

You can read about it here.


Should have put a wiseguy on that post.

I'm not getting any rebate! 
Hal
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