Walmart will kill HD-DVD? - Page 2

Aaron Silverman · 12-26-2007, 04:18 PM

Unless one or both HD formats become real mass-market items (don't hold your breath), they won't be important enough for Walmart to really care one way or the other.

TonyD · 12-26-2007, 05:02 PM

is this conversation based on ONE Walmart?

isnt this a ridiculous over reaction.

when sd dvd first started moving from just CC and BB to walmart and Kmart and even sears, there were discussions exactly like this one.

"my walmart/kmart doesnt carry any dvds, or they are all locked up on their side so i cant even see them."
or they are all locked up in the display case with the cameras.

Ric Easton · 12-26-2007, 07:24 PM

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is this conversation based on ONE Walmart?

Yes it is. I really didn't think that it would go on this long and I should have picked another thread title. I just wanted to share my experience at one Walmart and how it seemed they were doing everything possible to hide the fact that they sold HD-DVDs. I guess my point was... why bother, if you're going to hide them. I mean most of the employees in the electronics dept. didn't know where they were.

Anyway, feel free to go back to your regularly scheduled program.

TonyD · 12-26-2007, 07:33 PM

Dave Moritz · 12-26-2007, 07:45 PM

The sad truth is Ric that Wal-Mart does not seem to have a serious attitude about selling HDM. It seems to be up to the local sales manager how strongly they seem to push any particualar HD platform. My local Walmart has both HD-DVD and Blu-ray but might actually start dumping HD-DVD all together. The department manager want to just stock Blu-ray, so we shall see what happens at my Wal-Mart. So do not count on anything being properly supported equally at every Wal-Mart until one of the HD formats becomes more than a nitch market product. Then that HD format will not only get Wal-Mart attention but Wal-Mart will make it a point to properly market and sell the HDM.

temproh · 12-31-2007, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by bigluigi

On the contrary...I think Walmart will be one of the major reasons for the eventual successful domination of the HD-DVD format.

Same here.

1inxs · 01-01-2008, 01:36 PM

My first thought when I shopped for HD DVDs at Walmart, was why is the HD section so small and hard to find with few HD DVDs to purchase. I agree Walmart isn't currently doing an adequate job at providing HD DVD selection. When I further searched the HD DVD rack I noticed the UPC tags, but the DVDs were sold out. My second thought is this could be a good thing. Walmart started with a conservative order and the DVDs are all selling out. I think it only a matter of aa short time before Walmart realizes this and increases their HD DVD orders. I also notice that there were more Blu-ray titles available then the HD titles, but it seems as if they are selling more HD from what I could see from the bar codes. Now this isn't a scientific study, I'm just trying to see a positive side to Blu ray and HD DVD supply.

Bryan^H · 01-01-2008, 03:49 PM

I'm pretty sure Walmart will stop selling them at some point. At my Walmart anyway the endcap does not change. There are the same titles week after week at the same high prices($29.77). How can you carry a product that doesn't sell. Let me rephrase that, the casual Walmart shopper doesn't seem to be interested in purchasing Hd titles. I know I don't buy my discs from there!

Mike Frezon · 01-20-2008, 04:02 PM

Just an update:

As I reported early-on in this thread...my Wal-Marts had adopted high-profile endcaps at their entrance to theie media-areas split evenly between both Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs.

FWIW, I saw, today, that the endcap at my closest W-M is now gone. All HD media is back to being locked behind glass in an end-cap buried in the media department. AND...

...all HD-DVD discs were gone! BD only.

I sure would be interested to hear if this is an isolated incident. Unfortunately, I did not have time to scope out their hardware situation.

Ric: This was in E.G.

Shane Martin · 01-20-2008, 04:40 PM

Mike,
Here in little Tulsa. We have endcaps which are more dominated by BR mainly because of the deluge of new titles that came out. I'd say WM here is 65/35 in terms of shelf space. Target is 80/20.

Travis Brashear · 01-20-2008, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Shane Martin

Mike,
Here in little Tulsa. We have endcaps which are more dominated by BR mainly because of the deluge of new titles that came out. I'd say WM here is 65/35 in terms of shelf space. Target is 80/20.

Although, at least in neighboring Broken Arrow, OK, the Wal-Marts all have shelf space devoted to all five HARRY POTTER films on HD-DVD, whereas they only carry 1, 4 and 5 on Blu-ray. My pissed-off self had to go home after picking up 1 and 4 and order 2 and 3 from Amazon (hopefully, I'll be able to pony up for ORDER OF THE PHOENIX a week or so from now).