BD dominance in B&M stores

[squire23]

In my local area, Blu Ray dominance is everywhere.

*Best Buy: Shelf Space 70% Blu Ray. 4 display TV's (2 playing blu demo disk) hooked up to Blu Ray, only 1 for HD DVD.

*Target: Shelf Space 70% Blu Ray

*BJ's: Sony Blu display as soon as you walk in (multiple titles available). No HD DVD

*Tweeter: 3 display TV's (1 playing demo disk) hooked up to Blu Ray. No
HD DVD.

*Sears: Blu Ray demo disk was playing on every display TV (like 50 TV's) in the department. They also had 3 players on display. HD DVD sold there, but no display.

*Boscovs: Sony Blu Ray display front and center. They had an HD DVD display, but the TV was not even turned on.

That's about it. Pretty good indicator of what will happen come Christmas.

[w_tanoto]

my local areas:
Hatfield, 70% Blu
Jakarta (Indonesia), 100% Blu
London, 66.66% blu (maybe more, since more disc stacked in single rack, compared to HD DVD)

[Thundercrash07]

My store: 100% BLU.

(I made sure of that!)

[Rike255]

It's all 50-50 up here, for shelf space at least. In terms of numbers of movies, my Walmart and BestBuy have more Blu-Ray. (Walmart's Blu-Ray's are taking HDDVD's shelf space now).

[monkyman]

My target expanded both formats, 11 verticle rows of BD and 5 for HD-DVD.
Best buy equal.
CC is equal.

[Vonscoot]

If you've been in a Wal-Mart this week, you've likely noticed the new HDM endcap that has 35 Blu and 21 HD-DVD in most stores.

[delavoie]

same here went to Walmart today, and last week they had 6 shelves total..3 for BD and 3 for HD-DVD.. today BD took over 1 of HD's shelves.. 4 for BD and 2 left for HD-DVD.. hahahha suckers

[Blu-Ray Buckeye]

I was a tad bothered today. My BB has always had more BD and recently they had gone to 2 full shelf sections of BD and 1 of HD-DVD. I walk in today at lunch and they have moved the whole HD section more upfront, which is good, but now coverage is equal... 2 full sections of both. Not sure why they added an HD-DVD section.

[pscoop]

Most of the stores I frequent have a larger Blu display. I also noticed the BD video running last time I was at Sears. If was some looking into getting HDM this would be a major factor in my decision. Keep it up.

[Existentialist]

In my area, Topeka, KS, it is as follows:

Best Buy
Standard shelf space 50/50. Both formats have a player hooked up to HD tvs as a display. Blu-ray also has half of an islander devoted to it.

Wal-mart
I am happy to say that my Wal-Mart now has an High Def movie section. It consists of an endcap with five columns of blu and three columns of HD-DVD.

Sams Club
Has about a ten blu-ray titles compared to one HD DVD title --- Transformers.

Hastings
A four foot hi-def section with five rows blu and three HD-DVD. It also rents a small selection of blu-rays.

Target
Until tuesday it was blu-ray four columns and hd dvd 2 columns. Now hd-dvd has three columns and blu still only four.

K-mart
lol...yeah right....

Also I have never checked the local FYE....

[sj001]

Most of my stores are slightly in favor of Blu-ray, like 60/40 or so. Though both Best Buys have an extra Blu-ray endcap. My closest CC though has an HD-DVD endcap but no Blu-ray endcap, that was irritating to say the least.