Best Buy adventure (1 Viewer)

But I do get a sick pleasure messing with the guys there, asking them why there's black bars and can I relocate the black bars to the sides?

Considering that the current mood of the major movie studios is to consider doing away with or limiting widescreen DVD releases, I don't know that this is the right time to be going into major influential retail chains complaining about the black bars.

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I think we should take the opportunity to educate the ill-informed sales staffs . Since they come in contact with a lot of consumers, they can help us spread the goodness of anamorphic DVDs.

I stood one day with Jim Long as Mike Knapp Tried to educate one of these Best Buy Blue Shirts and he told Mike at least 3 times that Mike was wrong about something, while Jim and I snickered wondering if Mike's Head was going to explode before he hit the guy.
We finally convince Mike the guy was pretty clueless and did not want any clues dumped in his lap and managed to get him out of Best Buy before he suffered a stroke or something.
It is very frustrating when a pimpley faced kid seems to spout falsehoods and trash and then tells someone who knows more about HT then him how they are wrong and doesn't know what he is talking about.
Max
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We just got a Best Buy a couple of weeks ago, and I loved the place.

Jeff, I'm also in Mobile and the new Best Buy here is just plain sad. My first visit made me pretty much never want to go back there again, for several reasons:
1. They don't have much of a DVD selection. Sure, they have a lot of product on the shelf. The problem is that it's all 40 copies of the same movie. They didn't have either of the two movies I went there for.
2. A sales guy got mad at me for talking a woman out of buying Willy Wonka in fullscreen so she could wait for the widescreen release, since her husband had just bought a 16:9 set. He actually had the nerve to say "Sir, if you're going to harass the customers, you're going to have to leave." I just laughed in his face. Heh...
3. I was walking around the speaker section, and a sales guy tried to tell me that the Bose cubes were their top-of-the-line. We got into a discussion about the subwoofer and crossover points, and by the end I had him so confused that he finally admitted that he didn't know much about it. So I said "Well maybe you shouldn't be trying to push the Bose line when those JBL's over there outclass them in every way possible."
4. Yet another sales guy tried to tell me, and I quote... "Flatscreen plasma televisions last years longer than tubes." Not being a dick... but HOW DO YA' KNOW? So I said "I've had CRT-based sets that lasted eight years or more. And since no one has had a flatscreen set for that long yet, how can you say they last longer?" Of course, he had no answer.
5. The same sales guy as above told me that the image on the 4:3 sets was the original Bruce Springsteen broadcast and that the 16:9 sets were able to stretch the picture correctly... when it was quite obvious that it was anamorphic. When I tried to explain the concept, he actually told me that I was "misinformed." It was at this point that I had to leave... before I strangled someone.

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