Just went out, so-so news

[stockstar1138]

I went to WM and Hastings, the only two retailers that sell HDM in my town. At both there were people buying HD DVDs. REally peed me off, especially cause ive never see anybody buy hd dvd in my town. both looked like college kids, probably got 360 add ons. No HD DVD players at wal-mart from what i could tell, there was no shelf space for them either.

[PaulGo]

I just went to my local sears (owned by K-mart). Even though K-mart is pushing HD-DVD my Sears seems to be pushing Blu-ray. They had a Blu-ray Sony display hooked up to a 1080p Sony TV. Playing Happy Feet. They had a Sony Blu-ray box almost full with Blu-ray movies (they did have a few HD-DVD movies in the box). Also they had one Toshiba A2 without a price tag mixed into the low price DVD players. All in all sony is doing a much better marketing job! I also stopped into FYE the had three time more Blu-ray than HD-DVD titles.

[yakman]

Originally Posted by PaulGo

I just went to my local sears (owned by K-mart).

Actually. it is the other way around.

[Intamin]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

No HD DVD players at wal-mart from what i could tell, there was no shelf space for them either.

Same report from the two wal-marts I went to in my area and the fry's I went to. All three had no place in the hardware section for hd-dvd, and fry's had 8, yes 8, blu ray set ups to just 2 dud set ups. Wal-mart had no sign of dud anywhere, be it shelf space or an ad for the sale. To me, this came off more of let's get this junk off the shelves and forget it ever existed than this being an actual legitimate sale.

[vdc530]

Originally Posted by yakman

Actually. it is the other way around.

Actually. it is the other way around.

On November 17, 2004, Kmart announced its intention to purchase Sears, Roebuck and Company. As a part of the merger, the Kmart Holdings Corporation would change its name to Sears Holdings Corporation. The new corporation announced that it would continue to operate stores under both the Sears and Kmart brands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmart

[bmr76]

paulgo, you can definatley rest assured sears has no interest of ever going dud exclusive. Sears has sold as a company 3 times as many blu standalones than dud. The weird thing is-sears actually makes a profit on blu ray players!Weird concept, to bad toshiba cant figure that out. I dont think selling the a3 or a2 for 15% margin is anything sears wants to do longterm

[bluskiff]

no sigh of any hddvd players at all at my walmart and no space for them .

[Blu Titan]

No HD DVd players in the Miami Walmart I go to. the $99 A2 sale was more smoke and mirrors than anything else.

[PaulGo]

From what I see at EBX and a few other stores the 40GB PS3 is getting sold out quickly. I think most people want to stay away from a product that enjoys limited studio support.

[psx3man]

at my walmart they are always playing information about blu-ray on all the tvs and they barely had any hd dvds in stock

[ESUNintel]

Originally Posted by PaulGo

I just went to my local sears (owned by K-mart). Even though K-mart is pushing HD-DVD my Sears seems to be pushing Blu-ray. They had a Blu-ray Sony display hooked up to a 1080p Sony TV. Playing Happy Feet. They had a Sony Blu-ray box almost full with Blu-ray movies (they did have a few HD-DVD movies in the box). Also they had one Toshiba A2 without a price tag mixed into the low price DVD players. All in all sony is doing a much better marketing job! I also stopped into FYE the had three time more Blu-ray than HD-DVD titles.

I work part time at Sears, and we have a Sony end cap featuring a 46" XBR4 and an S300 BD Player playing the BD demo disk. We also have Blu brochures and signs all over the department and we all got Blu-ray certified (so we have little pins ) I know that as far as our store goes, as well as Southwest Plaza (the other close Sears Store), we're trying to push Blu.
As far as HD-DVD goes, we have two Toshiba A2's in stock, none on display. The manager doesn't want it displayed casue there aren't any HD-DVD players on the floor plan, plus we've never sold an HD-DVD player before. We've sold a few BD players though
We only have about 8 HD-DVD's in stock, all under a 40" Olevia TV cause they ship them, just not on the floor plan either. We do have a small Blu-ray movie display, with most of the favorites, like 300, and we get about 1-3 copies of the new releases every week. We got Cars in already .

Here's something somewhat weird, Sears has a blue logo, K-Mart a red logo, can that mean something? Who knows.

[Zyclone]

OP if seeing someone buy a product that you dislikes upsets you i imagine you do your grocey shopping online.

[blitz6speed]

I went to frys, 2 walmarts and a circuit city today. Not a single person was looking at HD DVD anything at every store i went to, but there was a lot of people browsing/buying BD discs, especially at frys. The BD demo at frys and walmart had people watching all the time. Overall very good except for the amount of BDs that are sold out at the moment, BDA needs to be ontop of re-orders!!

[Fozziwig]

And still no sign of HD DVD hardware at Walmart.com:

http://www.walmart.com/search/browse...catNavId=62055

I mentioned this a few days ago and someone said maybe they were updating the site ( ). Oversight or something else?

Try searching the entire site for Toshiba and see what you can find.

[hoser]

Originally Posted by bmr76

The weird thing is-sears actually makes a profit on blu ray players!Weird concept, to bad toshiba cant figure that out. I dont think selling the a3 or a2 for 15% margin is anything sears wants to do longterm

Or anyone else for that matter.
Retail businesses are NOT stupid....they want to make the max $$$.

[gr3y]

I work at BB in home theater

We've got our work cut out for us guys... ALL A3's where sold out at my store this FRI-SAT... about 9 total. ( the 3 that came in on truck on Friday night where sold today ). Funny thing is, NO A30 models sold at all... I guess people want cheap crap? lol

we sold about 6 A3's and the reminaing A2's we had (3) in the whole walmart thing. Only 3 blurays sold... 2 sony 300s and one samsung in the 2 day 'sales'..

With that being said... in my store is about 3x's more shelf space for bluray movies and poeple most often buy blurays then hddvd.

BLURAY MARCHES ON!

[darinp2]

Originally Posted by gr3y

We've got our work cut out for us guys... ALL A3's where sold out at my store this FRI-SAT... about 9 total. ( the 3 that came in on truck on Friday night where sold today ). Funny thing is, NO A30 models sold at all... I guess people want cheap crap? lol

Were the HD-A3s on sale, or regular price? Did they throw in extra discs with them?

Thanks,
Darin

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by BlueNeon

No HD DVd players in the Miami Walmart I go to. the $99 A2 sale was more smoke and mirrors than anything else.

What? Rdjam promised me they were going to sell a million of them.

[Spankey]

A little better news. I was at Circuit City the other day to pick up some computer speakers. When I walked out, a lady was talking to one of their people and she said she had to pick up a Blu-ray something for "him".

[gr3y]

Originally Posted by darinp2

Were the HD-A3s on sale, or regular price? Did they throw in extra discs with them?

Thanks,
Darin

sale price
$199 and 2 free movies in store, plus the 2 in box, plus the 5 free