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Master & Commander in widescreen, finally! They've only ever had full screen of that before. EVen that double set with Dances with Wolves, I believe, was full screen all over the place. Can't wait to see it. Looks amazing.
With Master & Commander, James, it's all about the awesome audio. It is my favorite soundtrack of all time. The creaking of the old wooden ship's quarters along with all the other nautical sounds is one of the best audio mixes I've ever heard. Be sure to select the DTS track! Combine that with a great score and a good story and you are good to go, my friend! :emoji_thumbsup: :D
 

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Mike Frezon said:
With Master & Commander, James, it's all about the awesome audio. It is my favorite soundtrack of all time. The creaking of the old wooden ship's quarters along with all the other nautical sounds is one of the best audio mixes I've ever heard. Be sure to select the DTS track! Combine that with a great score and a good story and you are good to go, my friend! :emoji_thumbsup: :D
I wish I had a decent sound system. I have a couple of PC satellite speakers and a sub. It sounds surprisingly good but I need a proper system. I've looked at the cheap Phillips that walmarts has. Real tempting...
I'm a fan of anything involving the sea. Athough those Disney Pirate movies aren't high on my list. Haha! This does look great...and you're making me want to watch it soon.
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This thread's been quiet for a long time.
I'm wondering if it's because of the reason I suspect: The $5 bin at my Wal-Mart has been gone a long time now. My store has done a great thing and gotten rid of all the bins/kiosks/whatever that used to clutter their main aisles. The store is now much more clean and much more roomy. But, alas, no more $5 bin. They do have a $5 endcap in their DVD section...but it's not quite the same.
I'm reading in other places about Wal-Marts amping up their blu-ray inventory in-stores...but I have yet to really see a major impact of that in the stores I've been in recently.
 

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Mike,
Just for the record, my Wal-Mart still has a $5.00 bin (At least it did as of Friday of last week) ... but I haven't seen anything new in it since the week following Valentine's day. (A bunch of "rom-coms" that didn't sell at $7.50 went to the $5 bin at that time.) The last DVD that I purchased from the $5 bin was "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" about four weeks ago.
I should make it to my local Wal-Mart tomorrow at some point. I'll make a point of rummaging through the bin to see if there's anything new in there that's worth our time.
With a lot of us now moving to BD it just could be that the allure of even a $5 DVD just isn't there anymore ...
 

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Though it wasn't 5 bucks, I noticed that the second release (or Collector's Edition) of Casino Royale on BD was just $15 when I was at Wally World the other night, which is 5 bucks less than I paid for it at BB when Quantum of Solace was released.

My WalMart still has a $5 bin, but most of the titles are Spanish language flicks.

I'd settle for a $10 Blu-ray bin.
 

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Mine has the bin and a shelf with some of the choice titles (like Short Circuit, hee hee).
I picked up Panic in the Year Zero/Last Man on Earth MGM set last week for a fiver. That was the only one they had and just that one copy that I picked up. If there are more they are underneath all the spanish titles on top. So many of those MGM doubles I still need to get. Last Man on Earth looked real good, much better than the other 2 copies I have of that PD DVD version and recorded off TV.
I also bought (but later returned) BUG. Hard to buy $5 stuff when Big Lots has more than I can watch at $3 per.
 

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OK ... I checked-out two Wal-Mart Superstores in my area, and both still had $5 DVD bins (actually, they were called "2 for $10" bins).
Some of the titles I spotted included:
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
All the Matrix movies
Lots of Adam Sandler movies including "Big Daddy" and "50 First Dates"
Speaking of $10 BDs, both Wal-Marts had them!
They were up on the shelves, though (no bin!)
I spotted "Stargate" (The feature movie)
and the first T2 release. (They also had The Skynet Edition for $19.95.)
 

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Not exactly $5.50, but my location had a new display up today.
About 20 titles for $7.50 + tax.
Theme seemed to be romance titles.
Check it out if you're looking for chick-flicks.
I hate tax
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Yes, on a regular basis. There's a mega thread over at the DVD Talk forum in the DVD Bargains section that's keeping track of all the titles found to date. Sort of turns a trip to Big Lots into a scavenger hunt.
 

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I was at my local Wal-Mart again last night. Still no bin...but the endcap I found (of $5 titles) the last time had been expanded to wrap around the edge of the two aisles it "capped."
 

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I was in a local Wal-Mart twice this weekend and there was a $3 DVD display set up just inside one of it's main entrances (near where the "greeter" stands.

Typical assortment of titles.
 

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I picked up several from that $3 bin: We're No Angels, Stepford Wives, and There will be blood.

Btw, watched Master & Commander not long ago and was floored by it. Excellent film. I just bought a new sound system for my PC, a z-5500. I'm thinking overkill, but I'll try some things out on it.
 

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Because blu ray is still, even if its only been out for a short time, a new format. Prices have yet to drop on the format and you're asking for bargain bin boxes? Thats won't happen for several more years yet.
 

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Originally Posted by Mark Talmadge /forum/thread/152921/the-ongoing-wal-mart-4-88-5-50-5-88-bargain-bin-thread/1140#post_3591283
Because blu ray is still, even if its only been out for a short time, a new format. Prices have yet to drop on the format and you're asking for bargain bin boxes? Thats won't happen for several more years yet.
Prices have started to drop. Wal-Mart's already selling $10-13 cheapies (that double-dip of "Casino Royale" is a good example), they just haven't put them in a bin yet.
And why is it so unreasonable to "ask" for a bargain bin box? Are you really vexed at the suggestion? /img/vbsmilies/htf/confused.gif"> C'mon, lighten up a little, Mark. Let us BD nuts dream a little.
That's an awesome name, by the way.
 

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