Peter Overduin
Supporting Actor
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- Jun 30, 1997
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Actually; I have found this thread interesting and entertaining. I bought MI3 HD today as my first HD disk, pending arrival of my player which I will get next week when I can also get the three freebies.
My local Future Shop manager in my city of 60K conceded they had sold only 1 BD player and are being paid to maintain the highly visible display. He admitted as well that more people inquire about HD than BD and interest in the XBox add on is strong. In anticipation of this post, I asked if any customers or sales staff report discussions about 50GB disks and their potential. He actually walked with me to talk to each of his staff, and not ONE report ever having anyone ask/talk/discuss this issue.
I made a point of going with the store manager to talk to his gaming department manager, who likewise says that not one inquiry he gets - from the many every day - have to do with BD movies at all....it is 100% about gaming, online gaming, graphics, etc., etc., etc.
It is a utterly MOOT issue; excpet to a minority of those on this and a few forums and will continue to be moot for so many reasons to the general buying public. The disk size issue is a dead horse and will NOT affect this war in any way, shape or form in the trenches of Best Buy, Future Shop, etc., etc., for the simple reasons that bigger will NOT be shown or heard to be better to the vast majority of people out there. It really, really is that simple.
I dare say that any one else who repeats my little experiement in their area will have similar results.