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Bboid on 17 December 2008
crumas2 said:
Bboid said:

My walmart has a 4 sided cube(3 sides movies 1 side the sale player) in the aisle of bluray, 1 end display of new release bluray and in the normal aisle 8 feet of blu ray movies and 8 feet of blu-ray players.  They actually carry more blu-ray players than dvd now (which is strange and stupid to me) but their redesigned electronics dept focuses on HD entertainment.

On a side note since you also find issue with price, check Amazon.  If theres a specific movie you want to buy, find it on amazon, bookmark it, and check 2x a day and it will probably fall close to your price range soon.  I managed to get Band of Brothers on blu-ray for $33.99 the saturday after black friday, and that price was only posted for 2 hours.  I'm waiting for The Big Lebowski to be released on Blu-ray but it doesnt look likely.  There is quite a high demand for it too.  Just make sure you shop around for low prices and you can get most movies for $10-20 on blu-ray but sometimes it is B1G1 or B2G1.

 

Wow! what part of the country do you live in?  Our Walmart in Xenia, OH is the second largest in Ohio (200,000 sq ft), and has 2 Blu-ray players and just a small end-aisle Blu-ray display.

I just purchased a Blu-ray player, yesterday.  Very nice on my 40" Bravia set.  But they MUST GET THE PRICES DOWN.  I purchased the player at Circuit City, went over to the Blu-ray disc aisle, and every stinking movie was $25 and up.  Not a single title for less, and most of the popular movies were $35.  I'm going to check out Walmart today and see what the prices are currently like.

By the way, I recommend the Panasonic DMP-BD35k for anyone wanting a standalone player.  Very low profile, lots o' features, for about $300 (I wasn't going to buy until the prices came down further, but I received a sizeable bonus from work so I went for it).

 

 

 

I live just outside the DC metro area. nearly every supercenter that had their electronics reset has a similar setup. WalMart has been pushing blu harder than any other retailer it seems in my mind.

edit: the cube with bluray used to be half HD-DVD, so they just spread out on it.

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redspear on 17 December 2008
crumas2 said:

Wow! what part of the country do you live in?  Our Walmart in Xenia, OH is the second largest in Ohio (200,000 sq ft), and has 2 Blu-ray players and just a small end-aisle Blu-ray display. 

 

 Yeah but I believe the largest Wal Mart is in Cambridge OH(although I believe that was 5 years ago).

 

Anyways the Circut City here in SF has only one shelf for Blu Ray the big Best Buy has significantly more space but still minor compared to DVDs I haven't been to the other Best Buy on Masonic. Virgin has a nice selection though

 

The issue right now for media is exactly the price not jsut the players but movies that cost 25 dollars at the cheapest 35 for the new releases. However TV shows are just right 99 dollars.

The thing is with enterainment DVD is the standard and people are less willing to pay more for all except the Biggest titles(read The Dark Knight). For ti to take off they really need to have a ton of movies available at a retail store for under 15 or 10 bucks. Then people will start building collections and it will go from novelity to staple.

Go buy a movie for someone it is a safe bet you could buy a DVD and they will be able to watch it and if they don't it was a reasonable expectation(unless you hang out with luddites). However the same is not true with Blu Ray in fact it is almost the opposite. This of course could change and I fully expect growth in this field over the course of the next 3-4 years however it will be hampered by digital downloads after that and I do not expect the mass permation of BR players that DVD has attained as in people who make under the poverty line having them and really that is a neccesary component of something like this.



Hyruken on 17 December 2008

Can someone explain to me how it is a hit if it only has 4% market in 3 years? At that ratio it will be on par with dvds in 24 years....



Feylic on 18 December 2008

It's more like 8%, and big movies, that people would want to see in awesome resolution, usually sell more. I think Iron Man sold 20-25% on Blu-ray. and you have to remember, it has, like, 99.9% market share over HD-DVD, which was it's main competitor.



The Anarchyz on 18 December 2008

And another thing, people compare DVDs since launch vs BR since launch, remember, BR had to fight HD-DVD until early 2008, DVD was the unified format since launch...



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Ail on 18 December 2008

Blu-Ray new releases are 25$ at Best Buy provided you purchase them within 7 days of the release. I believe that is a chain-wide policy so I don't know how some people keep claiming new releases are 35$.



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

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redspear on 18 December 2008
Ail said:
Blu-Ray new releases are 25$ at Best Buy provided you purchase them within 7 days of the release. I believe that is a chain-wide policy so I don't know how some people keep claiming new releases are 35$.

 

 Maybe because they are. If you have to hunt down or do day one purchases to get a discounted price it is not the regular price. If you want the Dark Knight or any other New Release like Iron Man right now you pay 35 dollars.

You can also get BR movies cheaper online. Yet most people goto a store at some point and pick up the new releases. Don't pick and choose.

BR movies seem to sell in a frontloaded fashion right now it is mostly enthuasiasts and early adopters with a small but growing mainstreem portion. Ironman may be 20% BR right now but in a few months it will be around 15% BR and so forth.