Just Left Walmart

[Cyorg]

I just went to Target and they're sold out as well.

[MFGR63]

During a 15 minutes wait to check out at BB (houston, TX), I talked to a couple of older guys (I am 44..., they were white hair kind of type), each one was buying PS3s (80gigs) for themselves, a couple of minutes later another guy joined them, he was holding a copy of motorstorm in his hands.

There were other guys buying PS3s, these guys were about my age, I am sure these PS3s are going to be for their families .


Our Sams, is out of PS3s and Sony BD players too.

[balla_ricky]

This is great! considering that toshiba is practilly giving their players away! i heard hd-d3 is only $99.99! hahaha!

[Elandyll]

At the Best Buy i stopped 2 days aggo for my Xmas shopping, they were sold out on the sammies 1400, getting there (2 left) on the Sony BDS300, half way down for Panny 30k and Sharp DH20, and full rack for A30's and only 1 gone for A3's O.o

[sj001]

Wow, BD players are selling like crazy! It's great to hear all of this, BD continues to build momentum!

I was in my closest Best Buy yesterday, and they had THREE endcaps that were BD only with displays, and NO HD-DVD endcaps. But the other cool part, FINALLY they are 2 to 1 BD to HDDVD... they were the last holdout in my area that was equal shelf space.

[davidPS3]

You guys are brave going out to retail today. I got my shopping completed by the first week in December. WHEW!

[schizbomb]

So I usually just read what you guys say, but I thought I would tell you what just happened to me ~ 1 hour ago.

I went to Wal-Mart for some late Christmas shopping, and somehow I always drift into the electronics, lol. Well while I was there, I went to look at the state of blu ray, and much to my surprise, I could not find any BD movies, at all. I asked a worker where I could find the BD movies, and she tells me they have none, none in the "back" either, that they can't keep them on the shelves. I was much overjoyed.

Then I heard a guy talking to his father I assume, and he had an HD-DVD in his hand, and said something along the lines of "Well I have an HDTV, so HD movies will work." Being it my duty, I informed him he would need an actual "HD-DVD" player, and he said oh, and then I told him I recommended Blu Ray anyway, and he says "oh that's that thing on my PS3, right?" lol. So I then told him he already had an HD movie player in his PS3, and he was much overjoyed, then sad because that Wal Mart had no BD movies.

Summary: Walmart in San Antonio has no BD movies, and I met a PS3 owner who didn't know he could play HD Blu Ray movies.

[krispyjala]

It's not that bad actually. I think most people are done with the Christmas shopping. I went to Best Buy but didn't buy anything hehe. There were a lot of people, though, but nothing like maybe about 2 weeks before.

[krispyjala]

Originally Posted by schizbomb

So I usually just read what you guys say, but I thought I would tell you what just happened to me ~ 1 hour ago.

I went to Wal-Mart for some late Christmas shopping, and somehow I always drift into the electronics, lol. Well while I was there, I went to look at the state of blu ray, and much to my surprise, I could not find any BD movies, at all. I asked a worker where I could find the BD movies, and she tells me they have none, none in the "back" either, that they can't keep them on the shelves. I was much overjoyed.

Then I heard a guy talking to his father I assume, and he had an HD-DVD in his hand, and said something along the lines of "Well I have an HDTV, so HD movies will work." Being it my duty, I informed him he would need an actual "HD-DVD" player, and he said oh, and then I told him I recommended Blu Ray anyway, and he says "oh that's that thing on my PS3, right?" lol. So I then told him he already had an HD movie player in his PS3, and he was much overjoyed, then sad because that Wal Mart had no BD movies.

Summary: Walmart in San Antonio has no BD movies, and I met a PS3 owner who didn't know he could play HD Blu Ray movies.

Good job of informing the uninformed Seriously, for J6P's sake, Sony should just advertise on TV stressing the point that a PS3 plays blu ray...I dunno how but do something that'll be catchy and make people remember, so they won't waste their money buying a HD DVD player in addition.

[mred612]

Originally Posted by schizbomb

So I usually just read what you guys say, but I thought I would tell you what just happened to me ~ 1 hour ago.

I went to Wal-Mart for some late Christmas shopping, and somehow I always drift into the electronics, lol. Well while I was there, I went to look at the state of blu ray, and much to my surprise, I could not find any BD movies, at all. I asked a worker where I could find the BD movies, and she tells me they have none, none in the "back" either, that they can't keep them on the shelves. I was much overjoyed.

Then I heard a guy talking to his father I assume, and he had an HD-DVD in his hand, and said something along the lines of "Well I have an HDTV, so HD movies will work." Being it my duty, I informed him he would need an actual "HD-DVD" player, and he said oh, and then I told him I recommended Blu Ray anyway, and he says "oh that's that thing on my PS3, right?" lol. So I then told him he already had an HD movie player in his PS3, and he was much overjoyed, then sad because that Wal Mart had no BD movies.

Summary: Walmart in San Antonio has no BD movies, and I met a PS3 owner who didn't know he could play HD Blu Ray movies.

Great job!! I was able to talk a guy out of buying a 360 along with a hd add on. He said his kid hasn't had a game console, nor was he asking for a specific one. He however, just bought a 1080p tv a couple days before. I let him know about the PS3. He was excited as I walked over to help him find the PS3's and showed him where the movies were located. I also picked up X Men 3 and Silver surfer. They were bogo at Fry's here in Bay Area, Ca. Also, I noticed that my local Targets, cause there are about 3 close to me, are all Blu infected!!!! They all have blu ray players set up.