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[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.

[brps3]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

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

Why wouldnt he? Why would he say it? Just to say it?

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by brps3

Why wouldnt he? Why would he say it? Just to say it?

You originally said "employee". That could be anyone from the store manager, to department manager to the guy that polishes the floor at night. But the minimum wage employee just fits his narrative better. Funny thing about those "minimum wage employees". They are just like anyone else. They have ears, and those are just the ones that usually "break" stories on forums. Now they aren't always right, so you take what they say with a grain of salt. But to dismiss them outright and ridicule them makes no sense.

[thewildbunch]

Yeah, give me a break. I worked at a Chuck E Cheese as a "minimum wage employee" for years before and during college and I think I could have told you a thing or two about our product and what was going on with it. I'm sure if someone has been working in the electronics department at Wal-Mart for a couple of years they are able to notice the trends. Quit being so pretentious.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

Billion dollar businesses? None. Multi-million dollar businesses? Four. How many have you run?

does it matter? I did not say something completely stupid such as no studio will decide to delay B if both A and B are bringing in money, only a fan boy would do that. WB decided to delay HD DVD in order to help to put an end to a dying format. WB, Sony, Fox, Universal... decided to delay Netflix/redbox releases for the more profitable buy/rent at BB and other such places. Disney started a month delay for the DVD of Snow White over the BD and since then has done it on many titles.

I and the OP don't need to be a studio exec to know that manyt studios have done such things many times before, but you do need to prove your credentials when you say that prety much every movie studio is ran by fanboys.

Home Media Magazine. BR U.S. 2010 to 12/12/2010: $1.37972 billion. 2009 to 12/12/2009: $1.06742 billion. That's 29.26% growth ($1.37972-1.06742)/1.06742.

I don't know where you got those numbers from but obviously they are wrong assuming they are computed using the weekly HMM numbers then they are estimates based on VS first alert and assumptions on the rest of the market. Which have been proven to be off by a lot so far this year

Don't remember - it was probably WSJ or NY Times, but here's another one published 12/22 on the failure of 3D TV so far. Link to full article is below it.



http://www.zdnet.com/blog/home-theat...e_skin;content

well there is a link to the wsj article in your link. I can't see how any sane person would conclude bad 3D sales based on dropping prices around Christmas time. Everything always drops at the end of the year. 1) because there are stuff liker Black Friday in the US and Boxing day here in Canada. 2) because in January there is CES and the new models that come out.