@apd09: QUOTE: "Maybe they will actually start to lower the price on (blu-rays) and people will start buying" Or the DVD industry could start a rumor that OBAMA is going to restrict/outlaw DVD'S. It did wonders for ammunition sales. When Obama was elected, the rumor that he was going to attack handgun ammo caused sales to sky-rocket. All the ammo manufacturers have had to hire more employees to try to meet the demand. All because of a RUMOR.

@Etoiles: Wal-Mart has 4 or 5 seasons of the Simpsons for $14.99. I almost bought some but got a CSI season for $14.99 instead. Wal-Mart is good to me and my wallet. Every single time I bought a DVD at Target I would see it cheaper at Wal-Mart on my next visit.

@UCLAri: I buy my auto supplies at Wal-Mart too. Our local K-Mart in Greenville Ohio just recently stopped carrying any auto filters. No air filters, no oil filters and so forth. I would buy from K-Mart when Wal-Mart was sold out which was somewhat often. So I am a little miffed.

@mrgenius: I have never laughed so hard in my life. Great site. As for elitistism? Hardly. This site shows how far down the line of lazy, incompetent American's we've become and as far as I am concerned there is no excuse for this. It's downright embarassing. If you want to witness how we used to dress in public? Travel to Europe and walk around a mall. Big difference. I think a lot of us have lost self-respect and don't care.

@apd09: I quit buying DVDs years ago. And now with Netflix, Hulu.com, why buy them?I don't want the extra funiture, DVDs scattered throughout my den, cleaning up and straightening them up everytime my friends come over and basically empty the rack just to find one movie. One more thing that I do not have to manage on my free time.

I cherish my Blu-Ray collection. I only buy the movies with a good transfer though, and only those that won't just get transferred again at a higher resolution whenever Blu-Ray's successor comes out.

Having said that, DVD's are dead to me. If something comes out on DVD and not Blu-Ray, there is a 0% chance of me buying it. What is the point?

It does make sense to me since I used to always go to walmart on payday and pick out a movie. Haven't done that in over a year since I use redbox and Torrents.

@bfwebster: Movie theater? I think it was 2005 or 2006 for the last movie I saw in a movie theater (World's Fastest Indian motorcycle movie). Car/motorcycle/speed movies should always be seen at least once on the big screen.

@mbz32190: No collection either just a couple of keepers: 2001:A Space Odessy, Mad Max and Road Warrior.

The children get used copies of dvds from the used bookstore/dvd place.

@gStein: Yep, I second mention of the DVD trough /bin I usually see people milling about around and rumaging through for that great copy of Hudson Hawk or any Steven Segall/Jan Claude Van Dam movie

@shepd: There are usually no or very few people in Sears anymore...at least not enough to pike the freakmeter.

I only actually pay money to get a movie I know has already passed the test of time. :) It holds up, and I know for a fact I will watch it again and again.

@lmarconi: It's a sacrifice I am willing to make. If I were able to control my repulsion better, I could probably handle it, but I know I couldn't help staring. And then I'd feel guilty for being an elitist snob and the cycle continues. Better to avoid Wal-Mart for me.

I think this is just Walmart saying to the studios that they need to drop prices (that they sell to Walmart at). The current situation puts DVDs and Blu Rays in the loss leader column as they are selling on new release at or under cost at retail. If everyone has the same price on the exact same merchandise there is no incentive for the consumer to follow the loss leader into any particular establishment. They are simply angling their 30 percent market share into a price break so they can sell for less and still make margin, even if it is a tiny bit on each unit sold.

Why do you always need automotive products so late? What about your days off?

Just a few ideas...

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our fathers brought forth on this continent,
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I just scored a copy of Goldeneye and Die Another Day for $3 each at Big Lots the other day. ^_^

@Pinget: I still enjoy watching those movies that I watched over and over as a kid.. and I'm 24.

I don't watch them over and over anymore, but every few months or so I pop one in for nostalgia.

@floraposte: LOL! I can only imagine... for the record, I hate Ikea too :)

Heck, until last week I hadn't made a purchase at Best Buy in years, but I found the 2nd season set of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" selling for the same price as Amazon ($44.99 on sale). If Wal-Mart had been selling the set (they weren't), it undoubtedly would have been $60 or more. Wal-Mart may be the king of cheap on most things, but not on Blu-Ray and DVDs.

I haven't bought a DVD in like 3 years, at least. I have bought around 5 Bluray movies though, but those don't count.

I don't subscribe to Netflix, but use Redbox all the time. I used to watch movies over and over, but I simply can't get interested in a movie to want to see it that many times... except for There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men.

@flyingember: Me too, I find myself buying too many of them. I just don't understand Wal-mart's thought here. I go to Target because it's not Wal-mart, their clothes are better quality, the one near me has good prices, and I also buy DVDs there.

I managed to pick up Transformers G1: Season 2, Part one for 20 bucks. I also managed to pick up the first and second Death Note movie there for 13 bucks a piece, which kind of irked me since I paid 25 bucks for 'L Change the WorLd' alone hehe.

@UCLAri: To each his/her own. I am not judging anyone who chooses to shop there or anywhere else for that matter. I just don't like being around people wearing confederate flags or shirts that say "I HATE QUEERS". Which are still not as bad as the Tweety-Bird shirts paired with teal stretch pants.

Wal-Mart is right in that it should scale back its cheapo DVD bins. It's tacky, it's crappy, and who the heck wants to dig through a massive bin of DVDs? Target displays their DVDs in neat rows, whether they're $5 or $20. And they have them up front too, again, in neat rows. Wal-Mart's flaw was in dumping them into big bins to begin with, and thinking that people have the patience to go through them to get one good gem (which usually does not exist in the bin - it's like getting a cereal box that's missing a toy).

DBDs...how my 5yo says DVDs, lol! And yes, we own many DBDs because when you watch them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and....like the Thomas the Tank Engine that is going on as I speak...$9.99 for one time is a small price to pay.

Every season of the Simpsons is a good season! :) And I think I saw that back in the spring and grabbed it and hid it for Christmas...if only I can remember where I put it now...

And before I get told to go to an automotive shop, I work late, and often the only place open by the time I get off the train is Wal*Mart or Target. Necessity is as necessity does.

I still don't buy into the idea that we should all give up media for downloads. Streaming, maybe, but I'm not going to give up discs until either compression gets better or bandwidth gets wide enough.

But I sure as heck don't get them at Wal*Mart...

I used to be able to buy inexpensive jeans and t-shirts for everyday wear, but not anymore. I could, however, drive a car between the clothing racks since they're spaced so far apart now.

But they still have a couple big bulk bins of $5 and $7 DVDs in the main aisles.

Only on a rare occasion do I buy DVDs or Blu-Rays at Walmart. We stick mostly with Amazon as they are almost always less expensive.

DBD's? Digital Bideo Disks?

I have Netflix, but I still buy Blu Rays and Dvds; though I'll usually watch them from Netflix first. I like the prices at Wal Mart, but let's face it, the selection of DVDs and Blu Rays stinks. It's a store that caters to the masses and it's only going to carry the most popular films and budget titles.

Also, I would expect that Blu-ray figure to include Playstation 3 sales, which are not necessarily going to be put into service playing DVD's.

@harvey_birdman: It's not really elitism when you are using these people as the baseline.

As long as new-release DVDs keep selling, they'll keep having huge quantities of them - you'll probably just see them on an endcap instead of on a huge cardboard display.

[This could just be a transition thing, but stores I've seen with clear aisles still had the new-release displays by the store's entrance.]

I don't think I have purchased a DVD since I joined the netflix cult last September.

I see it as a collection, though. Not just "I want to watch this movie right now, so I'll rent it as opposed to buying it."

Why do people collect anything, then?

I try to avoid WalMart at all costs but recently went there to pick up a prescription for someone else. I picked up some classics for the kids...the original Parent Trap, original Charlottes Web and the Apple Dumpling Gang. I haven't bought a DVD for myself in 3 years.

apd09 was speaking of blu-ray disks, not players. yes i see the relation, but my first blu-ray player purchase was mostly for upscaling dvds. there was a huge market for that a little while back, and there probably still is.

@Etoiles: I'm the same way...I always stop by the cheap DVD areas and have a look. I normally don't buy movies when they first come out...because it's still the same movie 6 months later when it's discounted.

About a year ago, Target had the first 12 seasons of the Simpsons for $15 each, and we snagged the first 10 that we'd been wanting for a while. It actually came out to about the same that we would have paid on Amazon.

Walmart should stick to what works- selling cheap shit to welfare recipients.

When is everyone going to realize that the marketing model of factory-produced digital media (CDs and DVDs in printed boxes on the shelf) has gone the way of the dinosaurs!

There is no reason for having any stock at all (or not very much)!

I should be able to walk up to any retailers' counter (Wal-Mart, Target, even Tower Records), tell them what I want, and have them download and burn the data and print the inserts while I wait (not very long, please).

It isn't rocket science.

@Traveshamockery: That figure is including Playstation 3s, which account for 3/4 of Blu-Ray players.

If I could have played DVDs on my Super Nintendo (the fact that I couldn't, interestingly enough, led to the creation of the Playstation by Sony) the sales figures would have been different.

See you in Hell, Walmart!

Also, Wal Mart has crazy deals on random Blu Rays sometimes. Picked up SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS for $10 a piece.

@mrgenius: Elitism, nice.

@apd09: I haven't seen a new release Blu-Ray for $30 in a while. Most of them are $25 at the most.

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@shepd: I don't think I've been to a Sears since I was 12!

no one is going to pay that money they want for Blu-Ray discs

BDA President, Andy Parsons...counts 10.7 million Blu-ray players sold in the United States by the end of 2008, about two and half years since they first became available. By comparison, three years after DVD was launched, there were 5.4 million DVD players in consumers homes.

[www.afterdawn.com]

Looks just like Sears, to me.

RedBox + $5 Box at Wally World means I don't spend $15 for DBDs that I might watch once.

I might buy 2 new releases a year, otherwise, just watch from RedBox. With more RedBoxes showing up around town, I have less reason to buy DVD's or go into Blockbuster.

I can't remember the last time I bought a DVD. I love my Netflix. The idea of owning DVD's just doesn't interest me at all.

I guess as Wal Mart goes, so goes the nation!

As long as these people shop there, I'm not stepping foot in a Wal-Mart: [www.peopleofwalmart.com]

Maybe they will actually start to lower the price on them and people will start buying, but until then no one is going to pay that money they want for Blu-Ray discs. I have a player and have 5 movies and refuse to buy more until the price drops.