How NOT to show off BLU to the masses.

[Copywriter]

For the love of BLU.

I was in Best Buy (yes, you, you idiots) yesterday and they had a setup to show off BLU.

Guess what they were showing.

Cars? No.
Ratatouille? No.
Pirates? No.
Planet Earth? No.
Anything else that's at least 4 star video? Nope.

They were showing House of Flying Daggers.

Are you kidding me?

It looked like complete CRAP!

While I enjoyed the film, the video (as you might know) is about 2 stars at best.

I about puked. It looked like a SP VHS copy on the TV.

Luckily, I've become friends with someone there (thanks to my 3-a-week visits). He went to management to be put in charge of the display (I sold him on BLU).

For all that is holy, check your retail stores and make sure they are showing good movies. It's up to us.

[UTVOL06]

Originally Posted by Copywriter

For the love of BLU.

I was in Best Buy (yes, you, you idiots) yesterday and they had a setup to show off BLU.

Guess what they were showing.

Cars? No.
Ratatouille? No.
Pirates? No.
Planet Earth? No.
Anything else that's at least 4 star video? Nope.

They were showing House of Flying Daggers.

Are you kidding me?

It looked like complete CRAP!

While I enjoyed the film, the video (as you might know) is about 2 stars at best.

I about puked. It looked like a SP VHS copy on the TV.

Luckily, I've become friends with someone there (thanks to my 3-a-week visits). He went to management to be put in charge of the display (I sold him on BLU).

For all that is holy, check your retail stores and make sure they are showing good movies. It's up to us.

Did you tell him to put cars in for the demo?

[Copywriter]

Originally Posted by UTVOL06

Did you tell him to put cars in for the demo?

I mentioned a couple "acceptable" titles.

Plus Cars would be a great selling point. Kids see it, parents ask.

You show off BLU and then say: "Also, you can only get Disney on Blu-ray."

Sold.

[buckshot]

the circuit city by me did the same thing, they were playing HOFD as an "audio demo" but advertising blu ray on the tv. almost made me go to the other side. before i became more informed.

[sleazypig]

My Best Buy used a 600 dolllar plasma to display blue ray. Now that sucks

[buckshot]

Originally Posted by sleazypig

My Best Buy used a 600 dolllar plasma to display blue* ray. Now that sucks

blu ray

[Beta-guy]

WTG glad you were there to protect BD, I'll try to keep an eye out for that

[gvortex7]

Originally Posted by buckshot

blu ray

Blu-ray

[kaliraver]

All our TV's at the BBY I work at has a whole wall in the Magnolia HT room playing Ratatouille on Blu-Ray of course

[gvortex7]

All my local Best Buys (4 stores) are showing Cars, Ratatouille and Planet Earth as display titles.

[buckshot]

Originally Posted by gvortex7

Blu-ray

well color me stupid. my splelign has awlasy bene betetr than my gramamr.

edit: I guess it would actually fall under punctuation rather than grammar. come on gvortex where you on that one?

[gvortex7]

Originally Posted by buckshot

well color me stupid. my splelign has awlasy bene betetr than my gramamr.

I can tell.

[LordGamer]

The saddest part, HotFD is a beautiful movie, both in the visuals and audio. I was blown away by the DVD and would consider it a "reference" disc. So, one would think the BR version should be spectacular.

Now, I admit, I haven't gotten around to checking HotFD on BR, but I do plan on picking it up. That being said, from the numerous reviews I've read, I believe I will be disappointed. Here's hoping Sony does a remaster.

[Copywriter]

Originally Posted by LordGamer

The saddest part, HotFD is a beautiful movie, both in the visuals and audio. I was blown away by the DVD and would consider it a "reference" disc. So, one would think the BR version should be spectacular.

Now, I admit, I haven't gotten around to checking HotFD on BR, but I do plan on picking it up. That being said, from the numerous reviews I've read, I believe I will be disappointed. Here's hoping Sony does a remaster.

I expected the same thing. It was the biggest letdown of my BLU life.

On a good note, Curse of the Golden Flower was amazing.

There MUST be a new version released. I got mine for cheap and I'm still disappointed.

[bajor27]

Heck, even if you aren't trying to sell blu, put something decent on it to sell the TV to someone.

It' boggles my mind whenever I would walk into a store and they were playing regular sable on an HDTV. YOu aren't going to convince anyone to upgrade if things don't look much better.

Pixar movies were made for selling video display equipment!!! They just happen to also have a great story and characters to make the sales pitch.

[X400]

the bestbuy/futureshop here shows potc

[Santeria]

the BB here had their sony bravia on with nothing displayed and ps3 and a standalone off

i turned on both and the ps3 displayed but i had no sixaxis

[AxlVanHagar]

LOL I am constantly giving our Home Theater sales team shit for some of their choices of HDM they use as "demo" material. Can't seem to get it through their skulls that the movies they open are meant to show off the player and or the TV, not to entertain them

[ShoNuff]

I see PLanet Earth a lot at Best Buy.

[esteban2]

Originally Posted by Copywriter

For the love of BLU.

I was in Best Buy (yes, you, you idiots) yesterday and they had a setup to show off BLU.

Guess what they were showing.

Cars? No.
Ratatouille? No.
Pirates? No.
Planet Earth? No.
Anything else that's at least 4 star video? Nope.

They were showing House of Flying Daggers.

Are you kidding me?

It looked like complete CRAP!

While I enjoyed the film, the video (as you might know) is about 2 stars at best.

I about puked. It looked like a SP VHS copy on the TV.

Luckily, I've become friends with someone there (thanks to my 3-a-week visits). He went to management to be put in charge of the display (I sold him on BLU).

For all that is holy, check your retail stores and make sure they are showing good movies. It's up to us.

Wow, that is sad.