Weekly RoundUp 7-14-2009

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7/11/09 at 9:07pm

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The Features

– Sienna Miller & Keira Knightley (The Edge of Love – 2008)

– Steve McQueen (The Towering Inferno – 1974)

– Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut – 2009)

– For All Mankind – 1989

– Cast (American Gladiators - Original Series – 1989)

The Prices

SD-DVD TITLE	Amazon	BestBuy	Target	Costco

12	$22.99	$22.99
Amer. Gladiators: Orig. Series - Battle Begins	$26.99	$24.99
Beach Kings	$24.49
Bewitched: Season 8 (Final Season)	$27.99	$29.99
The Color of Magic	$11.99	$12.99
The Edge of Love	$19.49	$24.99
ER: Season 11	$30.49	$32.99
For All Mankind (CC)	$19.99	$24.99
Grey Gardens	$16.49	$24.99	$16.99	$17.49
The Guns of Will Sonnett: Seasons 1 & 2	$53.99
The Haunting in Connecticut (1-disc)	$16.99	$16.99	$16.99
The Haunting in Connecticut SE (2-disc)	$22.99	$22.99	$22.99
The Horsemen	$19.99	$19.99
Leverage: Season 1	$22.99	$29.99	$27.99
Mad Men: Season 2	$24.49	$29.99	$32.99	$31.99
Nat'l. Lampoon's Van WIlder Freshman Year	$16.99	$14.99
Peyton Place: Part 2	$27.99	$34.99
[Rec]	$17.49	$19.99
The State: Complete Series	$38.99	$44.99
Tracey Takes On...: Seasons 3 & 4	$24.99	$24.99
Wild Pacific	$19.99
Wire in the Blood: Season 6	$49.99	$49.99

BLU-RAY TITLE	Amazon	BestBuy	Target	Costco

Crouching Tiger/Curse Golden Flower/House Flying Dragon	$52.99	$89.99
The Edge of Love	$24.49	$34.99
IExplicit Ills	$22.99	$29.99
For All Mankind (CC)	$19.99
The Haunting in Connecticut	$24.99	$24.99	$26.99
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer	$19.99	$24.99
Mad Men: Season 2	$30.99	$29.99	$32.99
The Towering Inferno	$21.99	$29.99
Wild Pacific	$25.99

(CC) after a title = New release in the Criterion Collection.

The Disclaimer

Standard disclaimer: All prices are taken from the websites of each chain, or from their printed Sunday advertisements. All prices are subject to change by each chain. Prices and inventory in-store may or may not match the website price.

I, obviously, cannot include EVERY title released in a given week in the RoundUp. The titles included are those that I am interested in...as well as those which I consider will be of interest to a majority of consumers (and sometimes I’ll miss one!). I don't get paid for this, and I don't have the time to list every DVD. So, please don't complain! If there is a title not included in the RoundUp that you want to see, PLEASE just look it up yourself, and be nice enough to post and share the results with everyone!

Note that I cannot include Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club prices in the RoundUp. They set prices at individual stores based on nearby competition, so there is no way I can say here what price you'll find at YOUR local Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club location. And, Circuit City is still out of business...even in Hawaii (where they NEVER guaranteed their prices anyway).

The Specials

--Best Buy, this week, has an EXCLUSIVE TIE CLIP on it's DVD copies of Mad Men: Season 2. Minimum of 6 per store. No rainchecks.

--Best Buy is also advertising $5 in concession cash on specially-marked packages of Harry Potter 1-5 Blu-ray discs ($19.99 apiece). Redeem it at showings of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Valid 7-1-09 thru 8-2-09. Value = $5. In theaters 7-15-09. So even though the concession cash is valid 7-1 @ HP&tH-BP, the movie doesn't open until two weeks later!

--Best Buy, this week, has the following Blu-ray titles on sale:

$14.99: Dogma, Donnie Brasco, Hollow Man, In the Line of Fire, Into the Blue, A Knight's Tale, Resident Evil, Run Lola Run.

$19.99 ($14.99 on DVD): The Changeling, The International, Milk, Role Models, The Tale of Despereaux, The Uninvited.

$23.99: 12 Rounds, Bolt, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Friday the 13th (2009), Gran Torino, Marley & Me, The Pink Panther 2, Pinocchio, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire, Taken, The Wrestler.

--Best Buy Odds and Ends: Title for $9.99.

--Target, this week, is advertising Discovery Channel's Shark Week for $16.99 on DVD and $19.99 on Blu-ray.

--Target also has some $13 fitness DVDs.

--Target Odds and Ends: Titles for $10.

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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7/11/09 at 9:16pm

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How odd. Amazon wants the same price for either the regular DVD or the Blu-Ray of For All Mankind. Guess which one I'm going to get.

Feline videophiles Susie and Dukie.

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7/11/09 at 9:22pm

Mike Frezon
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Yeah. Criterion's got a stated policy (which they don't always follow) that their SD & BD releases are going to be the same price.

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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7/11/09 at 9:40pm

Patrick Sun
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Best Buy on sale DVD items:

$9.99 each: (More in store & Online)
The Pineapple Express
Step Brothers
SuperBad
The House Bunny
X-Men: The Last Stand
Underworld/Underworld: Evolution 2-Pack

$14.99 each:
The International
The Uninvited
Role Models (Unrated)
The Changeling
Milk
The Tale of Despereaux

Blu-ray:

$14.99 each:
Donnie Brasco: Extended Cut
Resident Evil
Dogma
Into the Blue
Run Lola Run
In the Line of Fire
Hollow Man
A Knight's Tale

$19.99 each:
The International
The Uninvited
Role Models (Unrated)
The Changeling
Milk
The Tale of Despereaux

$23.99 each:
Gran Torino
Taken: 2-Disc Extended Cut
Friday the 13th 2009: Killer Cut
Slumdog Millionaire
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
12 Rounds: Extreme Cut
The Wrestler
Revolutionary Road
Pinocchio
Marley & Me
The Pink Panther 2
Bolt

$19.99 each:
Harry Potter 1-5 (comes with $5 movie cash for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, valid from 7/1/09-8/2/09)

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Target on sale DVD items:

$10 each:
Mamma Mia
I Am Legend
The Notebook
Tropic Thunder

$13 each (Select fitness DVDs):
Jillian Michaels: 30-Day Shred
Leslie Sansone: Walk Away the Pounds

Edited by Patrick Sun - 7/12/2009 at 05:20 am GMT

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7/12/09 at 6:28am

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I'll be picking up Mad Men: Season Two on Blu-ray this week.

Thanks for the prices, guys!

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7/12/09 at 6:35am

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Thanks guys!

Mad Men: Season 2 on Blu-ray for me too.

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7/12/09 at 7:35am

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Quick question about the viewing here.....in the table I can only see Amazon and Best B and then it ends because of all the white space to the right. Any way to get rid of that white space and see what is actually posted in the table? This new format is frustrating.

Please release The Goodies on Region 1 DVD
My DVDs

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7/12/09 at 8:05am

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Target has G.I. Joe Season 1.1 in their ad for $16.99

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7/12/09 at 9:06am

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Mad Men: Season 2 on Blu-ray!

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7/12/09 at 3:02pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tommy G

Quick question about the viewing here.....in the table I can only see Amazon and Best B and then it ends because of all the white space to the right. Any way to get rid of that white space and see what is actually posted in the table? This new format is frustrating.

Tommy:

Here's what my tables are looking like. Can you access the rest of the table by scrolling?

What's your resolution set at and what OS are you using (and browser)? We'll see what we can do about getting you fixed up.

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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7/13/09 at 9:08pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tommy G

Quick question about the viewing here.....in the table I can only see Amazon and Best B and then it ends because of all the white space to the right. Any way to get rid of that white space and see what is actually posted in the table? This new format is frustrating.

Are you using IE7 w/ browser width that's much less than 1280px (like 1024px)? I noticed your problem for IE7 last week:

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/289962/weekly-roundup-7-7-2009/30#post_3581509

If you're using IE7 (or even most other similarly recent browsers), try making your browser wider, preferably to ~1280px wide.

If you cannot go that wide, then for a temp workaround, maybe you can scroll the post display sideways by dragging the cursor across the post body (like the way you'd highlight it) to see if that forces it to scroll for you.

_Man_

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7/14/09 at 12:10am

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Amazon has now changed their price, for gi joe season 1.1 to 16.99 !!!!!!!!!

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7/14/09 at 4:07pm

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Looks very good for our old Circuit City building being purchased & turned into a Best Buy. Until now I've always had to go through bb.com to get any of the good deals (with BB exclusives) & since CC closed I've only had Wal Mart, Target & K Mart locally to shop at. This'll make the Roundup especially important to me once again if & when BB comes to town. I hope they get the permits at the end of the month and open up in time for the '09 Holiday shopping season (with all those Summer movie dvds).

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7/14/09 at 4:48pm

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Even setting my monitor for 1680x1050 I still have the scrollbar problems. I hate this new platform.

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7/14/09 at 5:25pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Man-Fai Wong

Are you using IE7 w/ browser width that's much less than 1280px (like 1024px)? I noticed your problem for IE7 last week:

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/289962/weekly-roundup-7-7-2009/30#post_3581509

If you're using IE7 (or even most other similarly recent browsers), try making your browser wider, preferably to ~1280px wide.

If you cannot go that wide, then for a temp workaround, maybe you can scroll the post display sideways by dragging the cursor across the post body (like the way you'd highlight it) to see if that forces it to scroll for you.

_Man_

Well, I just tried for myself that last suggestion I made for a possible workaround for IE7 w/ less than ~1280px width, and it doesn't work. So it looks like if you're using IE7, you'll need to make sure your browser is set at least close to ~1280px wide to ensure everything is visible inside the post display.

_Man_

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7/14/09 at 5:44pm

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Originally Posted by Bill Thomann

Looks very good for our old Circuit City building being purchased & turned into a Best Buy....I hope they get the permits at the end of the month and open up in time for the '09 Holiday shopping season (with all those Summer movie dvds).

Surprisingly, Best Buy is also interested in going into the old Circuit City in Racine...except that the old Best Buy is right next door to CC! The current location is a pretty big store built 12 years ago and the old CC is about 10-15% smaller. However, the city is reluctant to have BB rework the facade of the old CC building with the same blue/yellow "tag" signing, thus having two of them on the adjacent buildings!

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7/14/09 at 9:50pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Thomann

Looks very good for our old Circuit City building being purchased & turned into a Best Buy. Until now I've always had to go through bb.com to get any of the good deals (with BB exclusives) & since CC closed I've only had Wal Mart, Target & K Mart locally to shop at. This'll make the Roundup especially important to me once again if & when BB comes to town.

What?!? It's not already important to you, Bill?!?

Quote:

Originally Posted by EricSchulz

Surprisingly, Best Buy is also interested in going into the old Circuit City in Racine...except that the old Best Buy is right next door to CC! The current location is a pretty big store built 12 years ago and the old CC is about 10-15% smaller. However, the city is reluctant to have BB rework the facade of the old CC building with the same blue/yellow "tag" signing, thus having two of them on the adjacent buildings!

Eric, They couldn't possibly want to have two stores that close to each other, would they? I'd figure they shut down the old store and go newer and smaller.

I know it seems like it would be a lot of effort...but I recently had a big FYE store in a local mall move into a much smaller space right next door to the original location.

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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7/15/09 at 4:21am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Frezon

Eric, They couldn't possibly want to have two stores that close to each other, would they? I'd figure they shut down the old store and go newer and smaller.

I know it seems like it would be a lot of effort...but I recently had a big FYE store in a local mall move into a much smaller space right next door to the original location.

Yeah, that's the plan...I guess my original post didn't really make that clear!

One of my favorite albums...

Liza Minnelli, "Results"
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7/18/09 at 7:12pm

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Quote:

Tommy:

Tommy:

Here's what my tables are looking like. Can you access the rest of the table by scrolling?

What's your resolution set at and what OS are you using (and browser)? We'll see what we can do about getting you fixed up.

I am using IE7 and I can't see to the right of Best B. Funny thing is that when I tried to copy and paste what i am seeing, the whole table comes up. I guess in order to read it, I'll have to do that. I don't know how to change resolution and it seems like 7 is so much more of a pain than 6.

Please release The Goodies on Region 1 DVD
My DVDs

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7/19/09 at 5:51am

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Yeah, did something change this week? I noticed the same thing in the new WRU---I can't see the Target column at all, and the left-right scroll bar is now gone.

One of my favorite albums...

Liza Minnelli, "Results"
(One Broadway Icon + Pet Shop Boys = a guilty pleasure dance classic!)

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7/19/09 at 7:39pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tommy G

I am using IE7 and I can't see to the right of Best B. Funny thing is that when I tried to copy and paste what i am seeing, the whole table comes up. I guess in order to read it, I'll have to do that. I don't know how to change resolution and it seems like 7 is so much more of a pain than 6.

Tommy,

If you cannot make your browser any wider than it already is, then you'll need to increase the resolution of your Windows environment/desktop. If you're using Win XP, you can do that by right clicking your Windows background and choosing Properties to bring up the Display Properties. Then go to the Settings tab for changing the screen resolution.

If you're using a CRT, you may find a need to readjust screen geometry and such after changing the screen resolution.

Also, after increasing screen res (and if you increased it by a lot), you may find a need to bump up font size (and maybe icon size also) for your environment for readability. In the same Settings tab, there's an Advance button that brings you to a dialog where the main/General tab allows you to change Windows font size -- you may or may not need to change that. There are additional adjustments to fonts for title bar, menus, etc. under the Appearance tab in the Display Properties dialog.

This new layout (in its current state) seems to work best when your browser has >=1280px horizontally to work w/ -- though you may want to go wider for the actual screen resolution depending on your own preferences.

Hope that helps...

_Man_

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