A little off topic, but, I was at a BB yesterday, to get another A30 for 50 bucks (open box, minus the 2 HD dvds, of course) and noticed they had at least 100 BD I Am Legend piled up on a special cardboard stand in the center isle for that movie. I kind of doubt that they are going to sell through that inventory at retail price in the next few MONTHS, yet I bet the studio will report some insane record sales for that title in the next few days.
The only customers I saw buying I Am Legend were buying SD DVDs. Meanwhile, they purposefully delayed the release of I Am Legend on HD. I guess they didn't want the HD version outselling BD again when released on the same day. The studios and the retailers are obviously playing marketing games with HD and BD still.
Also, this BB just had BD titles recently restocked all over the store, filling up the display space, but the customers in the store wanting HD movies were looking at HD titles, not BD ones. So tell me again how BD is AMAZINGLY outselling HD titles again? However, one teenager was in there looking at BD titles with his mom, while she complained about the high prices, while he saw me with 4 HD titles in my hand, and a big grin on my face. Who's the sucker? I guess it depends on the point of view.
But Toshiba also wanted some new manufacturing technology rights from SONY, and just like the whory studios before them chomped at the bit to get what they wanted cheap and also dumped HD.
Toshiba screws the loyal HD consumers as hard as Sony does. Too bad another reputable company not sleeping with and infected with STDs from Sony hasn't fully stepped up to the plate to support the mature and superior HD-DVD technology. Just keep on buying new BD disks that won't work on your BD players and consoles, fanboys, and waiting for the bug fixes to play them. Pretty expensive investments there in BD coasters while you wait some day to play them. I Am Legend might make a KILLER drink coaster, and it's got a scratch proof coating! NOW YOU FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHY!
Meanwhile, on the BB website they were offering a lot of Universal titles for $10.49. Funny thing about that was, online all these stores and the warehouse would show out of stock on ALL of these movies listed. But going to multiple BB stores proved many titles were in stock with up to 5-7 titles of some "out of stock" HD movie titles. Of course the selection varied by store. By going to multiple nearby BB stores over the course of a few days, I was able to get most of the "out of stock" HD titles I wanted on the $10.49 list.
The other crazy thing was the fact these select titles were not marked as $10.49 in the stores. At the checkout you only got the 30% off retail HD deal unless you made them do a price check at the customer service desk. Pretty shady marketing practices there, huh?
Funny how that wacky "out of stock" BB inventory system is favoring BD titles, isn't it?
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