The small business cards are merely educational and not soliciting business or advertising a product of any kind.
If one could openly converse about the topic of "widescreen" in the store, which one can, I can't see much harm in distributing a few cards with an *educational* illustration.
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Martin,
I would leave these cards on the shelf at best-buy and have no fear of someone seeing me.
Best Buy sells both aspect ratios on dual-releases so no sale would be "lost". Is one consumer allowed to help educate another?
Anyway, the long-term goal here is to form an advocacy group so...
Why is everyone giving Mark such a hard time here?
He printed some cards with a brief but clear tutorial on the explaination of widescreen vs Pan-and-scan and he distributed them where they need to be read...by those purchasing full-screen DVD titles who don't understand the concept of...
Mark and Eric,
you are 100% right on the ball. There is absolutely nothing with leaving some printed cards or materials. This is not "pushy"...it's certainly *less* pushy to leave a card or flyer explaining widescreen than it is to invade someone's space with a forced conversation about aspect...