Amazon and Wal-Mart are two more companies joining the multitude of companies including Best Buy that are rebating their customers who bought an HD DVD player just before the end of the high-definition format war. This war is over with Blu-ray emerging victorious in the format battle.

Though many people were tempted into buying an HD DVD player by the extremely low prices toward the end of the war, the retailers don’t want the consumers to get a bad taste in their mouths for them by just being stuck with a DVD player that is now almost obsolete and relegated to playing only regular DVDs for the rest of its mechanized lifespan. To make nice with their customers many of the retailers have taken to giving rebates back to their customers that have purchased these HD DVD players.

Many of the rebate offers vary, but Amazon is issuing a rebate to those customers who bought an HD DVD player before February 23 with an Amazon.com $50 credit, with no strings attached. Wal-Mart is issuing a full refund to any customer that bought an HD DVD player before November 1 of last year, but the offer expires on April 30.

As reported, Best Buy is offering a $50 gift card to anyone who bought their HD DVD player before midnight CST on February 22nd. This includes most Toshiba models and also the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive but Best Buy is letting customers keep the HD DVD player and letting them keep the gift card too.