Update on local Wal-Mart in a rural area.

[Proteus]

Does anyone here truly believe that the average Walmart customer can understand the concept of updating firmware, boiling discs to get them to work, understanding why a disc 'froze' and the player had to be restarted a certain way to make it play again, comprehend the concept of 'web update' and why they have to wait 45minutes for it before they can watch their movie and the list goes on.

If you honestly believe Walmarts customers, and the people who would likely buy these A2's, can handle all that, you need to get your head examined.

Every one of these A2's will be a curse for HDDVD when people tell others about their terrible experiences with them. Average people do not understand the issues of the A2 and what 'generation' hardware is. I suspect this will only brand HDDVD as 'cheap' even more... To the point of not even Walmart's customers wanting it.

The only downside is it will artificially inflate HDDVD standalone numbers. I would hope that studios and retailers would not be so stupid as to give any credence to these figures from this firesale though.

Let's just watch what Walmart does after the new year.