The Ongoing Wal-Mart $4.88/$5.50/$5.88 Bargain Bin Thread (1 Viewer)

[TonyD]

Right! This is what I said back in post 1072.

i saw that post troy and to be fair you said..."I thought anything carrying a DTS 5.1 had to have a DD 5.1 by default."
not
"i checked and it DOES have the 5.1 dd track."

 

[Radioman970]

Yeah. I'm not gonna lose too much sleep (or gasoline) looking for them!

I'm thinking a lot of stuff like this is going to be much much more common in the near future in the form of streaming shows all over the place. I'm hoping a lot of stuff comes out of the woodworks. That happened when cable was new. HD TV too. I remember when I was in Sears years ago and Flipper and Ultraman, 2 of my favs that were unavailable at the time, were playing in widescreen on a TV. I nearly fainted.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Happened to be in another Wal-Mart tonight. Found one of the Howdy DVDs.
Thanks, James!

 

[troy evans]

i saw that post troy and to be fair you said..."I thought anything carrying a DTS 5.1 had to have a DD 5.1 by default."
not
"i checked and it DOES have the 5.1 dd track."

Fair enough. So, I did some checking and it does in fact seem that all titles carrying DTS 5.1 also carry DD 5.1. I was hesitant about saying that because there's always one out there that bunks the standard. Anyway, here's another title to at least support that and that's good to know.

 

[Radioman970]

Happened to be in another Wal-Mart tonight. Found one of the Howdy DVDs.
Thanks, James!

Keep looking! Hey, those look a little alike so check carefully. The picture of Howdy and Bob are different on each.
But congrads! Enjoy.

 

[Patrick Sun]

According to a Home Media Magazine editiorial, looks like Wal-Mart is going to be getting rid of the Dump Bins soon.
HomeMediaMagazine.com | Bringing Digital Entertainment To You

 

[Mike Frezon]

According to a Home Media Magazine editiorial, looks like Wal-Mart is going to be getting rid of the Dump Bins soon.
HomeMediaMagazine.com | Bringing Digital Entertainment To You

VERY interesting, Patrick. Thank you.
The dump bins, without a doubt, are hugely popular. People are ALWAYS congregated around them whenever I am in a Wal-Mart.
I, personally, haven't purchased much from a bin in a long time...except for the Young Guns SE I posted about a couple of months ago.

 

[Radioman970]

I've got to go back and pick up a spaghetti western that was in there. Hang em High, I think it was.
I'll be sad to seem them go. But I can get similar deals online. No big whoop if wal mart doesn't want my standard DVD biz.

 

[MarkBirds]

Does this mean they'll replace them with Blu-ray bargain bins?

 

[Mike Frezon]

Does this mean they'll replace them with Blu-ray bargain bins?

Yeah, baby!
Mark: I like the way you think!

 

[Aaron Silverman]

I like the implication that people will suddenly be more willing to pay $20 for a DVD if the $5 bin goes away.
Wasn't George Feltenstein talking years ago about how he wanted DVDs to become a cheap commodity that people would snag along with magazines as an impulse buy?
Can't get that toothpaste back in the tube.

 

[troy evans]

The move does come at the right time. With everything around us getting more expensive, it'll be easy to justify the removal of the bins. As Blu-ray becomes more popular the sd dvds of day and date titles will have to drop drastically in price as Blu-rays do the same. With new release Blu-rays coming out at $20-$22 eventually. At that time sd dvds will have to come out at $10-$15 if they want to compete. If they stay too close in price point people will buy the Blu-ray all the time. Why wouldn't you? Then, all the $3.98, $5.00, $7.50, $9.44 and $13.72 islands displays become below $10.00 displays of some nature. At least, that's how I see it happening in the near future.

 

[Aaron Silverman]

BD players will need a lot more market penetration before we get to "people will buy the blu-ray all the time."
Here's hopin'!

 

[Jeff Whitford]

An HDDVD bin is more likely.

 

[Radioman970]

I'm still finding a lot of great stuff in my bin. Every few weeks I wonder what the next Mill Creek set will be in there for 5 bucks. I've pretty much bought them all...lated, The Legend of Rin Tin tin.

 

[CraigF]

I also have seen a lot of good stuff in the bin lately, stuff I already have. A lot of the titles are on those double/triple feature discs now too, but if you only want one of them...
The bins are $5 in Canada. Used to be $6.88 for years. One I got recently for $6.88, so not quite in the bin, is the Hellboy 3-discer. One from the bin, likely only of interest to Canadians or air buffs, is The Arrow. I've been wanting to get that for a while, but usually hard to find or quite expensive (especially from U.S. dealers).

 

[Scott_J]

Yesterday, I saw a bunch of ESPN discs priced at $5.00 each (on the shelf and in the bin). I picked up the Wide World of Sports 40th Anniversary and Remembering Marshall (about the Marshall University plane crash) discs.

 

[Radioman970]

A few of those sports DVDs were $1 at my Walmart! Nothing of interest to me. I was hoping that Mike Tyson fight collection was among the cheapies (if that was ESPN). That's one I'd buy.

 

[Ron68]

I found some good titles in the bin this week, I picked up the Magnificent Seven, don't think it was the SE but it did have a 45 min Behind the Scenes doc, 2 trailers and a photo gallery. Also grabbed Fargo SE and Fallen, which I returned un-opened because I could hear the disc rattling around inside when I got home, they didn't have another copy, so I picked up Secondhand Lions instead. I hadn't seen anything I had wanted in these bins since I grabbed the Adventures of Robin Hood.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Yeah. My Wal-Mart's bin is currently overflowing with a new influx of titles. Some of them were pretty good...but I can't remember any right now because there was nothing for me to purchase. I do remember, for some reason, seeing Matrix Revolutions in there though.
Good call on Secondhand Lions, Ron!