This is actually pretty generous

If you're one of the suckers people who bought now defunct HD DVD players or discs from Best Buy, you're not out of luck. Best Buy will give you $50 gift cards in compensation!

Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. said Wednesday it will give gift cards to customers that bought HD-DVD players or HD-DVD attachments from its U.S. stores as the format goes away in favor of the Blu-ray standard.

Best Buy said it will give a $50 gift card for each item, which will likely lead to the distribution of more than $10 million in U.S. gift cards.

This follows Circuit City which is allowing its customers to return HD DVD players.

Check out the details here.