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akuma587 on 20 September 2007

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/09/wal-mart-wont-c.html

Wal-Mart has opted not to carry Ventura's $200 SHD7000 HD-DVD player, which could have pre-emptively won the next-gen format war, beating Blu-Ray to death with the nerfbat of cheap.

Why would Wal-Mart turn its nose up at such an amazing piece of technology? Here are my tentative hypotheses: (i) It's such appalling trash even Wal-Mart won't carry it. This is extremely unlikely. (ii) Someone licked it and died. Some call lead a pollutant. We call it life. (iii) Wal-Mart's story, that it favors "leading consumer brands," is correct. Not so: Wally carries Ventura DVD players. Or (iv) the big box knows it has the power to choose a winner in the format war, and hasn't yet decided between the two (or has picked Blu-Ray).

Wal-Mart makes money selling disks, not players. My dollar is on (iv). Cynical? Yes. Wrong? No.

Note: Here is the quote found elsewhere online

“We have no plans to have Venturer in our stores this holiday,” Wal-Mart merchandise spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien said. “We will continue to offer the best values on popular HD DVD and Blu-ray products from leading consumer brands like Sony, Samsung, Philips, Toshiba and RCA.”



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Neos on 20 September 2007

Alright im gonna ignore the fanboyish part of your post hehe :D

ill guess wal-mart will not make enough profit on it..YET.



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akuma587 on 20 September 2007

Lol, I didn't think it said much at all, but I will go ahead and just give the news without adding anything.



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Neos on 20 September 2007

oh sorry my bad, i thought that was your part of the post

forgive moi!



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Hus on 20 September 2007

Money is in software not hardware, Br sales double.

Its that simple.



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akuma587 on 20 September 2007
Neos said:
oh sorry my bad, i thought that was your part of the post

forgive moi!

Hahaha, no problem.  Here is an actual quote from a Wal-mart spokesperson I found too:

 “We have no plans to have Venturer in our stores this holiday,” Wal-Mart merchandise spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien said. “We will continue to offer the best values on popular HD DVD and Blu-ray products from leading consumer brands like Sony, Samsung, Philips, Toshiba and RCA.”

 



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Onimusha12 on 20 September 2007

Actually its because the brand name is not large enough for them to justify the floor space. Pity really because it will be a big loss for Wal-mart.



nordlead on 20 September 2007

they probably got much better markup on the other players. For example, making $70/player vs. $10/player for the Venturer player.

Also, it doesn't say they won't carry it, just that they don't have plans yet. However, if they don't have plans now, it probably won't happen. I would have bought one so i could watch Transformers in HD

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nordlead on 20 September 2007
Onimusha12 said:
Actually its because the brand name is not large enough for them to justify the floor space. Pity really because it will be a big loss for Wal-mart.

Although this may be true (or my guess could be it), they carried Vizio TVs and i had never heard of them before. Did you find this in an article or is this just your guess for why they don't carry it?




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fazz on 20 September 2007

So, any other place to get this player aside from the WalMart?