Report from local Best Buy

[radagast]

I went to my local Best Buy today. I took my copies of Sky Captain and Enter the Dragon in to test some equipment. I asked the salesperson if he noticed any preference for either Blu or dud over each other. He said definitely. He said there are rarely people looking at duds while there are people regularly looking at Blu discs. And he said it wasn't just him that notices it. I remember when VHS tapes were slowly phased out there when DVDs became more popular. I wonder which will be phased out first, SD DVDs or hd-duds?

[buckshot]

but are they buying or just looking? i want to see more people buying. i've ordered or pre ordered something like 20 blus in the last month. uggg. and buying a new sub.....and getting my wife a new engagement ring/wedding band set. i don't even want to think about it. i don't want to pick up the slack of these lookers. smack them and tell them to buy the blu.

[supersix4]

Its good to hear, but I doubt that sd would go away sicne TONS OF people still have that

[TruBlu2]

hddvd will be phased out before SD. to many SD's and SD players.

Bye Bye hddvd.

The world is Blu

[The Guardian]

I was at Best Buy today (picked up Corpse Bride) and it was hilarious these two guys (friends I think) were arguing HD DVD vs Blu-ray. I was keeping mostly silent but when the HD DVD guy pointed out MI:3 from Paramount and mentioned how you couldn't get it on blu-ray anymore, I proceeded to closely inspect the package of the MI 3-pack on BD

On another note... only 1 HD DVD endcap vs 3 for BD, however the Samsung endcap had been screwed up (sabotaged?) and was not working at all, and the Sony endcap was showing Scooby-Doo which looked absolutely TERRIBLE!

[glenn22]

oh HD-DVD will be phased out waaaaay before SD DVDs will for sure. There are millions and millions of SD DVD players out there and it will be a few years before HD is commonplace.

[Blu-dock Saint]

A best buy employee telling the truth.......wha?

I see the same result happening at my best buy, Blu ray now makes up 2/3 of the shelf space in the hd section so this is very good. As to the whole dvd thing, dvd is going to be around for quite a while more I think, I'll give it up to 7 years before its phased out, but hd dud will be phased out plenty before then.

[Lord_Stewie]

Originally Posted by radagast

I went to my local Best Buy today. I took my copies of Sky Captain and Enter the Dragon in to test some equipment. I asked the salesperson if he noticed any preference for either Blu or dud over each other. He said definitely. He said there are rarely people looking at duds while there are people regularly looking at Blu discs. And he said it wasn't just him that notices it. I remember when VHS tapes were slowly phased out there when DVDs became more popular. I wonder which will be phased out first, SD DVDs or hd-duds?

sounds reasonable.