Good & Bad News

[kaliraver]

Well tonight I went to Best Buy to buy TMNT and I noticed they have a whole aisle now full of HD movies! The bad news is that they were 3 BD sections & 3 HD-Dead sections, weaksauce. I was hoping that BBY would be increasing the size of their BD section and decreasing their section of HD-Dead. I sure hope BBY isn't increasing their HD-Dead sections at other stores around the country.

[j3yq]

i notice that too but alot of the hd dud were the same titles just more of them at least at my local bestbuy

[BStecke]

Mine are the same way, but all of their HD displays are BD, except for one in a corner room playing an HD DVD. I think they're all planogrammed this way.

[u_nick]

Mine havent budged since they started. Target and Best buy. Target has two vertical rows for each format, one best buy I go to has one five foot section each, the other two five foot sections each. the interesting thing though is that the one with the 2 five foot sections each is situated in a shortened row with only 5 total sections, instead of 6 like the other rows. my interest lies in seeing which one they eventually give the bonus 5 feet to.

[coolwavepic]

You also have to remember that Best Buy is over priced on their Blu-rays. I go to Fry's or even Target because they are $5 to $10 cheaper, hell, Planet Earth was $99 at Best Buy.. priced match Fry's for $65. The 3 best buys by my house have a lousy selection too.

[WickyWoo]

Fry's is loss leadering or selling at cost a lot of their Blus. All those $13.99 discs? They wholesale in the $18-19 range.

"Overpriced" is not selling at a loss?

[statikcat]

Frys only has a few 13.99$ movies.. none of them are new release or anything. They do sell a lot of 19.99$.. that place rules!

Also, you will not see stores stock more BD than HD until more movies are in HD format in general. It is easy to stock both BD/HD-DVD because there are only so many titles out. When more titles come out resellers will have to be more picky and go with what makes the most money which will likely be BD.

[Maaz]

my best buy has a small shelf towards the inside for HD-DVD after the Blu-rays and then theirs other sections set up advertising certain movies, and they are blu-ray only, like persuit of happyness and pirates and abunch more.

[atomik kinder]

The Best Buy nearest me has an equal section of each in their regular DVD section, but when you go look at electronics, they have two Blu-ray HDTV displays running and no HD DVD (they do have an XBOX for some reason, but it doesn't have the add on, just some game adverts running) and then they have a small selection of movies just under the TVs and by one there is a large rack of Blu-ray discs about the size of their regular sections. It looks as if they have twice as many Blu-rays.

[ground chuck]

from a business stance best buy has to sell both formats or alienate consumers that chose a different format than they support. alienating consumers is never good for the bottom line and that's all they care about. so, we'll see the same size displays for both formats probably until there is a clear and distinct winner.

why do you think they have created dual players for bd and hd-dud? to capture as much of the market as they can. these companies know what they're doing and they're playing the consumers against each other for this exact reason. they know that there will be people that only stick to one format and others that will go dual format.

so, let's go BD owners and spread the word.

[Terjyn]

The Best Buy closest to me has 2 equally spaced sections for both Blu and HD, and then a massive up front display containing nothing but HD-DVD.

The same store carries about 10 PS3 games total, all bad ones, and they have an entire rack and a half devoted to Xbox 360.

Methinks somebody in charge of said store has a serious grudge.

[statikcat]

Oh wait I totally forgot! BB here has a row split in half for BD/HD-DVD but then there is another small kiosk type display with more BD. So I guess BB does have more BD

[D1-2005]

to be honest i have both blu and hd, and ultamately blu will win no matter what, and the longer they drag this bs out the more they hurt the consumer and their own pockets.

[Matt X]

Originally Posted by kaliraver69

Well tonight I went to Best Buy to buy TMNT and I noticed they have a whole aisle now full of HD movies! The bad news is that they were 3 BD sections & 3 HD-Dead sections, weaksauce. I was hoping that BBY would be increasing the size of their BD section and decreasing their section of HD-Dead. I sure hope BBY isn't increasing their HD-Dead sections at other stores around the country.

walked into my local Target last night and noticed their BR section has doubled, while HDDVD remained the same. (BR selection is still shoddy, tho)

[MOONPHASE]

At my Best Buy the HD-dud movies are all disorganized like a little kid played with it but when i look at the blu-ray section its always so nice and organized and in alphabetical order

[fupduk2]

Here in SC it breaks down kinda like this at my local stores:

BestBuy - 10' BD and 10' HDdvd
Circuit City - 6' BD and 6' HDdvd
Target - 2' BD and 2' HDdvd
Walmart - 4' wide half BD(on top) and HDdvd(on bottom)
Sears - about a dozen BD titles and did not notice any HDdvd(Craftsman sign lured me away)
Blockbuster has about 40 titls in BD

[clownface]

I noticed that both of their shelf space was pretty equal in both stores but at Best buy they had the prices for Hd DVD were higher than Blu ray and they had LCD Tv's running both right near each other and it was clear to the general people in the area that the Blu ray was clearer. the sales man saw me looking and told me Blu ray was better and i let him know I was already a loyal supporter. So hopefully he contines to do that when other customers are trying to make a choice.

[zombieking]

The BB in the city near where I live usually has the slimmer selection of BD titles. When asked why the guy said cuz blu sells thru a lot quicker!!! I just have a knack of hitting the store before they re-stock