Something's afoot @ Wal-Mart?

[Bluzombie]

Hey folks,

So I happened to stop in to Hell-on-Earth... er, ah... Wal-Mart the other night to pick up some odd's 'n ends and I decided to make a pit-stop into the electronics dept. Well, my-oh-my what a surprise! Now normaly, the Wal-Mart across from where I work (and most others I've been to in and around Vancouver) have had the same, pathetic looking Blu-ray display shared with HD-DVD. Usually four rows of BD, filed spine out and two rows of HD-DVD... filed the same way.

Not today.

Today, as I entered the section, I was immediatly greeted by a large square display, smothered in Blu propaganda and Sony LCD's and stocked (or very soon to be) with Blu-ray titles. It seems that this was a work in progress as most of the shelf space was empty and there were lots of unopened boxes scattered about the floor space around it.

Here's the best (though probably most unethical) part of it all. I started to scan the surrounding area for any sign of HD-DVD... looking... looking...

AH-HA! there they are... ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE BLU-RAY DISPLAY!

This display is SMOTHERED in Blu-ray... from facts about the format to logos... hell it's even topped off by a nice looking laser-cut metal sign at the top of each side that says "Beyond Hi-Definition".

Now it would seem to me that the staff needed someplace to dump the HD-DVD's they hadleft and found the ass-end of the display to be the best area. I took a chance and asked one of the staff puttering around the floor if he knew what was going on with thier HD-DVD stock. His reply... "I dunno. We're not getting them in anymore. Didn't even get Transformers. We're only supposed to stock the other one now" "The other one" I asked him. "You mean Blu-ray?"

"Yeah. We're only carrying Blu-ray"

Huh. Interesting. Blu only and no Transformers on HD-DVD. Suddenly Hell-on-Earth just got a little better.