Bogo

[vladittude0583]

First off, I will say that I am guilty of joining all those who proceeded to purchase several, if not, tons of movies during the critical BOGO weeks the BD camp ran. As good as the deals were, it led me to thinking something else entirely.

I am sure that the HD-DVD camp has ran also their own version of BOGO with utter failure, however, does the BOGO that the BD ran also have any negative views with respect to certain studios still lingering on both sides or maybe wanting to join a particular side? For example, it seems that the BOGO were ran primarily during weeks of "big" HD-DVD title releases, but none other. How does this look perhaps to Warner? In particular, during the week of Transformers, would it really have been possible for BD to finally have lost a week since the beginning of 2007 if it were not for the BOGO running during that week? I mean, especially perhaps to some HD-DVD fans, they might see it as a desperate attempt on BD's side to ensure their continued dominance in the sales charts instead of just letting the sales numbers speak for themselves and see who's week it really was? In addition, we also had BOGO during Shrek 3's release I believe and given the numbers released, I am sure BD would have still won the week without the BOGO. Now, we come to Bourne's release with perhaps another strike using the BOGO deals. Does this concern anyone? We definitely do not want everyone in the BD camp to get accustomed to waiting for these special deals to occur just to purchase some BDs, but to purchase BD movies mainly because they prefer the format and not because its cheap, etc.

What do you guys think about this? Add your comments, etc.