Blu-ray in retail stores - reports and anecdotes

[owa]

Originally Posted by haushausman

I just wanted to utilize Amazon's mass exposure to get some facts through to all the mom's and dad's that are going to jump into this war come holiday season.

Don't let people discourage you. We can't all retreat to sites like this and let the HD DVD fans have total control everywhere else. I don't have the stomach for it but I'm glad there are some that do.

[mgonzo2u]

Originally Posted by SBrooks1

How much will BD movies cost to rent?

The sole BB to rent BD movies near my Orange County, CA home is in Newport Beach (17th St) and they rent them in store for $4.99. The selection is meek but its a start.

[mgonzo2u]

Originally Posted by SS316SRV

Watch your toes before they get stepped on.

There are 564,456,789,147 threads regarding shelf space at retail stores. It could be posted in one of them.

Shelf space threads need to be treated with the same distain as black bar threads (I am guilty of creating one). But why do we need constant updates about shelf space.

The old/newly rehashed saying still stands, IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY, THEN JUST STFU.

Others don't care about your disdain. This is a forum for all of us who care to read others opinions. Everyones opinions. Even your repeated non-sense.

Keep on posting your relevant news people. I for one will be reading it.

[whippersnapper]

Originally Posted by SS316SRV

Great thanks...

I wear a size 11 shoe. See I can post irrelevant stuff to.

Why do we keep getting these threads. I don't care what your Best Buy looks like. I don't need a shelf space update for every retail location in the US and Canada.

....need a shelf space update.....

Dude, I have to go to my local Best Buy to pick something up for my wife. I'll check the current shelving situation there and post the results when I return.

[jee]

So I went to wal-mart today to pick up Alexander Revisted: The Final Cut on blu-ray (excellent 19.99 price point there), and while I was there I noticed a very nice blu ray stand 4 sided with blu-ray stock on each side, great selection and 2 Sony Bravia HDTVS on each side of the display playing looped information and demonstrations of blu-ray.

But... upon standing there while browsing the blu-rays they had I took a few moments to watch some of the advertisements shown on the tvs setup on the blu-ray display... and low and behold they are looping HDDVD advertisements on it, not blu-ray!

I figured ok maybe someone messed up, so I find the employee working in the electronics department and ask them if they may have made a mistake. The employee explains to me that it is no mistake and HD-DVD and blu-ray are the same thing. I explained to this person that they very much are not the same thing and I would assume the BDA paid for this display and would be expecting it to be playing information about blu-ray not about its competition. The employee shrugged if off and I went to find a supervisor/manager.

After about 15 minutes of waiting I finally was able to speak to the manager of that department and a few others, and she explained to me the exact same thing the employee said! HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are both high definition and thus the same thing. The loop playing on the blu-ray display is fine and will remain.

Needless to say I am dissapointed in wal-mart.

[CptGreedle]

Walmart = crap
I never shop there for electronics.
They don't care about customers
They have crappy products.

It is the nature of Walmart.

[CptGreedle]

Try reporting it (be specific by location, time, and names) to the HQ online.
They will prolly tell you the same thing tho.

[Proteus]

"Stupid is what stupid does." - Forrest Gump?

[dobyblue]

Take it a step further and contact Wal-Mart Canada corporate.

[spam.curitiba]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

Take it a step further and contact Wal-Mart Canada corporate.

HAH they won't do shit...I bet

[ground chuck]

what a bunch of donks!!

[tiger roach]

It's Wal-mart. Disappointment is what they do best.

[Caligula]

My walmart finally expanded BLU Ray Discs! I was so happy when i noticed that there were more BDs than HD dvd! I will go there and ask employee what blu rays are and have them compare between BLu and HD DVD. Ill correct if they were mistaken

[StilettoViper]

Don't you guys think if the Employee's selling the stuff are confused, how confused are the average consumers? They won't even try to understand it, they'll just say "What is the cheapest HD player?" buy it and leave....LOL

[BTBuck1]

Situations like this are exactly why Wal-Mart isnt ready to start carrying this type of stuff.

For all the Crap you hear about BBY & CC I have rarely heard something this bone-headed. (YMMV)

[wisper9999]

WOW...now im begging to think McDonalds workers are smarter.

[davidPS3]

You can try to report this, but they are so big, who will really care. All they care about is selling merchandise. One store is not going to matter to them and we all know it.

[wisper9999]

I guess you didn't explain it very well to them. They do have access to the internet. But I think it's more lazyness on their part. Too much work to change it.

[Drew664]

This is from a store in eastern South Dakota.



For every 1 HD DVD there are 3 Blu Rays.
Post up some pics of your local stores.

PS
On a side note, I did find 1 copy of Transformers, but it was behind another movie....I just left it

[jee]

Originally Posted by wisper9999

I guess you didn't explain it very well to them. They do have access to the internet. But I think it's more lazyness on their part. Too much work to change it.

Trust me, I explained it to both the employee and the manager like they were 4 year olds. Im sure at first it was a case of ignorance, but afterwards it was clearly a case of carelessness.