Fred Meyer Expands Blu-ray Section, Now Bigger Than Wal-Mart’s
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Filed Under: Blu-ray, Format War, Retailers
During a trip to our local Fred Meyer, we noticed they had greatly expanded their Blu-ray movie section. Previously they had about the same space as the smaller Target stores. Now the section is 18 discs X 5 discs (some duplicates), and is larger than all the Wal-Mart stores in the area. They do still have a few HD DVD titles left in stock (mostly recent new releases).
The prices are on par with Target/Best Buy/Circuit City, i.e. not the best deal to be had. We are glad to see retailers are expanding their Blu-ray sections, as we want J6P to see Blu-ray wherever DVDs are sold.
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You guys should change your site name to:
“Nothingmoretoseehere.com”
“Elvishasleftthebuilding.com”
“ThefatladyhassungjustlikeBillHuntsaid.com”
or something similar. I guess I’m being a bit snarky, but let’s face it…it’s over, and over as in done. Toshiba didn’t even bother with a last hurrah.
Yeah, Blu now has to contend with SD, but that’s not even an argument, let alone a war…it’s an ironic conundrum. The same companies that support Blu HD must also continue to support SD.
It’s kinda like reporting on a boxing match with only one participant hitting himself over and over, but only so hard that he never gets hurt…
then dont come to the site…i enjoy hearing this kind of stuff and dont need snub comments from people like you hating. i am an hd dvd supporter and still like this news…so go somewhere else
Back on topic, this is absolutely nothing to cheer about given the fact that anyone with at least 25 titles on Blu-Ray has a bigger selection than Wal-Mart. So it really doesn’t mean much.
Well… it IS kind of FUNNY that since Toshiba has pulled out of HD-DVD… that they say “ah screw it – nobody needs HD anyway, just awsome SD upconversion!”
er… then why even bother with HD-DVD to begin with IF SD-UP was always just as good?
The amount of picture data between DVD and HD(blu or Red) is severe. (350,000 pixels vs 2,000,000+ pixels) Cannot create what is not there… so Toshiba manta is the same as the rest of RED… naaa… don’t need it.
@BigDmelt
Go ahead and tell me what I’m “hating.” I admitted to being snarky about the state of the so-called Format War.
Don’t you think you are doing the hating by telling me to leave?