Equal representation

[Ilya]

It's been awhile since I stopped at electronics stores in the neighborhood. In the past few days I visited several stores and checked the DVD section out of curiosity. One thing surprised me: HD DVD and Blu-ray discs had equal exposure in all the stores I visited, including Best Buy, Circuit City and Target. All stores now have separate stands (of equal size and shape next to each other) for both formats. Even Circuit City that just recently was heavily shifted towards Blu-ray, now gives equal opportunity to both formats. Gone are floor-standing Blu-ray booth-displays and HD DVD discs are no longer hidden behind regular DVDs. The two formats now have their own shelves with good visibility and peacefully coexist with each other showing about equal variety of titles.

Format Peace!

 

[dfergie]

The only local place that handles them here... Hastings has equal Rental and Purchase Racks for the two formats...

 

[jgags6]

The only thing that I notice at BB is they have 3 blu-ray players set up on tvs, while they dont have either of the hd dvd players playing on anything.

 

[thowe21]

The only thing that I notice at BB is they have 3 blu-ray players set up on tvs, while they dont have either of the hd dvd players playing on anything.

Noticed the same here at my local BB. They had a nice Blu-Ray displaying on a 50" Panasonic in front of the store when you walk in. The only HD-Dvd player was on a small 17" kitchen LCD. Is someone taking sides here?

 

[Ilya]

In my BestBuy they actually had players of each type hooked up to two identical TV sets. That was very unusual to see.
However, for some reason, the HD DVD player was playing an SD DVD title, or perhaps a wrong side of a combo-disk - don't remember which one that was.