Blu XMas

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

Like a minimum wage WalMart store employee would actually have any insight into that.

If they've been working there a while, it wouldn't be hard to notice the rate at which Blu-ray shelving was taking over DVD shelf space. I know my local Best Buy went from having something like 30% shelves for Blu-ray and 70% for DVD to having about a 50/50 split. It's not so unbelievable that Blu-ray would soon make up the majority of shelving in certain stores.

The many individual titles available on DVD make a lot of money when combined together, but it's not worth it for the store to use up shelf space for many low-priced DVDs with individually small profit margins. Especially when you consider the same title on DVD with a small profit margin might very well be available on BD with a higher profit margin and that sells at a higher rate. For example, Back to the Future trilogy on DVD probably sells for about 20 bucks and sells very few copies, while the BD of it probably goes for like 50 and sells more copies as people update their collection from DVD to BD. In that case, it makes sense to drop the DVD edition from the shelf in order to make more room for BD.

PS There have been tons of articles about how 3DTV hasn't really taken off. That doesn't mean BD has failed to take off and it doesn't mean HDTV has failed to take off. Strawman argument like crazy, man. You can't say "3D has failed to take off" and decide that that means Blu-ray isn't doing well because of that. Blu-ray is doing well IN SPITE OF that.

Anyway, as was pointed out, before long, every major TV model will be a 3D set. People who hate 3D for whatever reason will just avoid buying glasses and only view 2D material on their 3D set.