Blue Ray is doing a poor marketing job...

[blitz6speed]

I visited Frys and Best Buy today for various items and i can tell you that wherever i went, Blu-Ray was EVERYWHERE. At frys, they had a very high end sony LCD (i think 60", was gorgeous) with a sony blu-ray player playing Ultraviolet. Looked absolutely stunning. As we were watching, groups of others came and stared with a lot of "that looks so amazing" "look at how the colors are popping off of the screen", etc etc. They also had a Samsung display 2 isles down but it wasnt getting as much attention as the sony setup.

Best buy had the same 2 combo, Sony LCD + BD player playing a demo disc with scenes from Ice Age 2 and a few other flicks. Looked stunning of course. They had a Samsung end cap prominently displayed as well, and i didnt even notice it till i saw a crowd of people watching it and then realised its a blu-ray display again. Pop into magnolia, Pioneer Elite with the Pioneer Blu-Ray player playing Superman Returns.

I didnt see HD-DVD players anywhere. No signs. No end caps. Nothing. If you didnt know that the discs with red cases were HD-DVD, you'd have no clue a competing format even exists. I also saw a guy grabbing The Descent at frys on BD. I asked him what player he had, and he proudly answered he has a PS3 and absolutely adores blu-ray. Hes purchased 15 titles so far and has no plans to slow down anytime soon. I asked him where he bought them all, and no shock, from frys.

From what i experienced today, it just concludes one thing to me. HD-DVD lives and breathes on AVS Forum. It has no entity in the real world. As far as everyone is concerned outside of the forums, there is no war.

Anyway, thats my 2 cents.

[reiella]

Originally Posted by blitz6speed

I didnt see HD-DVD players anywhere. No signs. No end caps. Nothing. If you didnt know that the discs with red cases were HD-DVD, you'd have no clue a competing format even exists. I also saw a guy grabbing The Descent at frys on BD. I asked him what player he had, and he proudly answered he has a PS3 and absolutely adores blu-ray. Hes purchased 15 titles so far and has no plans to slow down anytime soon. I asked him where he bought them all, and no shock, from frys.

I recently noticed my local best buy has done the same.

They had the HD-DVD endcap and display unit up for about 2 monthes or so before the BluRay unit came in, then they had a competiting display set [right next to each other]. And just recently when I went shopping after buying my PS3 [muwahaha], I noticed that they now just had two Blu-Ray endcaps [why they'd feel the need to compare/contrast the Sony player and the Samsung, I dunno].