Say what you will, the format war doesn't even begin until wal-mart starts selling movies. The says so far aren't even a bit of what they'll be when wal-mart gets around to selling them. And at that point you'll see HD-DVD skyrocket compared to blu-ray because it's wal-mart customers that will be buying the stuff.
walmart has been skiddish about it, but they DO sell HD DVD and Blu-Ray titles as a corporate entity. it is, however, up to each electronics dept. and store manager to decide if their store should carry HD titles. of the 3 walmarts closest to me on the MS coast, one only carries HD DVD titles, on carries both HD and BRD, and the other doesn't carry any. the reasoning is the location of each one and its respective market, from my understanding of the talks with the managers. the one that only sells HD titles sees BRD titles as a waste because they only sell HD players (they count 360 drives but not PS3s because they can't sell PS3s and the 360 drive is dedicated to movie watching). the one that sells both is in a more "upscale" town where people, on average, are more likely to be early adopters of a format. the one that doesn't sell either has a very apathetic department manager that doesn't even know the difference between the two other than the colors of the boxes and has poor electronics sales in general due to its proximity to Gamestop, Circuit City, and Best Buy.
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Say what you will, the format war doesn't even begin until wal-mart starts selling movies. The says so far aren't even a bit of what they'll be when wal-mart gets around to selling them. And at that point you'll see HD-DVD skyrocket compared to blu-ray because it's wal-mart customers that will be buying the stuff.
walmart has been skiddish about it, but they DO sell HD DVD and Blu-Ray titles as a corporate entity. it is, however, up to each electronics dept. and store manager to decide if their store should carry HD titles.
of the 3 walmarts closest to me on the MS coast, one only carries HD DVD titles, on carries both HD and BRD, and the other doesn't carry any. the reasoning is the location of each one and its respective market, from my understanding of the talks with the managers.
the one that only sells HD titles sees BRD titles as a waste because they only sell HD players (they count 360 drives but not PS3s because they can't sell PS3s and the 360 drive is dedicated to movie watching).
the one that sells both is in a more "upscale" town where people, on average, are more likely to be early adopters of a format.
the one that doesn't sell either has a very apathetic department manager that doesn't even know the difference between the two other than the colors of the boxes and has poor electronics sales in general due to its proximity to Gamestop, Circuit City, and Best Buy.
My local Wal-Mart has been selling Blu-Ray and HD DVD movies for some time now, but the only player they have sold is the RCA HD DVD player.