People don't seem to be happy about Blu-ray

[DealsR4theDevil]

I have worked at a Hollywood Video for almost 3 years now. I am not the type of person who will start conversations with strangers so I never really told any of my customers about Blu-ray unless one of them asked (which almost never happened) or if it was one of the few customers I actually talked to. I pretty much dont like to get in peoples faces about this stuff.

But recently, like many Hollywood Videos, mine is going out of business and we are liquidating our inventory. People are coming in and buying a bunch of stacks of cheap used movies on DVD. When they come in I am ALWAYS asked the same questions: "Why are you guys closing?" "Whats gonna be here after you close?" "When is your last day?" "Do you guys still have jobs after the store closes?" etc.

One of the most common questions I get is "Did you guys get first picks on all these movies? I bet you guys cleared out all the good stuff." Now I dont like to get into peoples faces about Blu-ray but I dont mind answering their questions honestly (well its either an honest answer or a lie and since I am proud o my Blu-ray....). Whenever I hear that question I say "nah, I dont really buy DVDs anymore, I only buy Blu-ray discs." Now there are a wide array of responses to my statement. Some people ask what Blu-ray is, some people already know what it is and ask me how well I like it, etc.

Now here is where it gets interesting, almost all of them have this additude like Blu-ray is just some new conspiracy for the studios to take their money. For w/e reason, they dont see it as an improvement, they just think of REPAYING for all of their movies. And if I even suggest that it might not be a good idea to buy ALL the DVDs they are buying (they buy like 40 or more most of the time), because DVDs are a slowly dieing market and it might be a good idea to invest into something that will be around for many years, they give me all sorts of dirty looks and not ONE customer has even considered not buying those DVDs. And its pretty sad to because most of the used DVDs we are selling for 6 bucks, they could have bought for 5 bucks new at a circuit city or what not.

Bottom line is, people dont like the idea of a new movie format. I was young when DVDs came out but I remember people getting a bit hostile about them. Saying things like "Whats wrong with VHS?" I dont know why, but part of the reason Blu-ray/HD DVD sales are so low (besides the format war), is because people arent responding postively to the idea of a new format. For some reason this is never an issue with new game consoles or new computers.