Walmart Sales!

So, last Friday was the "secret" Walmart sale - - an impressive effort that gained many more HD DVD supporters and getting rid of inventory for the new HD-A3 series. I'll admit, I woke up at 6:30AM to drive to the closest Walmart and picked up an HD-A2 for my home, so I won't have to bring my Xbox 360 each time I want to watch movies. It was well worth the $100 I spent.

But I think some other people had a better time that day.

Spent 3 hours at Wal-Mart today. I stoped 11 out of 12 people from getting HD-DVD players. I will be spending a lot of time down thier the rest of this year. It is the best I can do to help the less tech savy not get screwed on this half-step format. One couple I talked too went straight over to the games section and picked up a 40GB PS3. The wife said about HD-DVD "We have purchased Toshiba products for over 10 years and we have never been disipointed in them. I can not believe that they would sell a product that is not of the upmost quality." Two other's went ahead and picked up the 80GB which really shocked me , because that is a lot more than they came in expecting to spend. One of these people was an older man about mid 50's he said "It would really be nice if they posted the differances between these products more. Seeing 30 of those GB things compared to 50 really gives you more of a idea about these products than price and names." The only one I could not stop from buying it was this 27 year old guy that said he already had the 360 HD-DVD drive for his 360 in the living room, and he wanted to get this one for his bedroom.

Overall I think the day went well. I was surprised to see so much traffic towards HDM. It seems this year will see a lot of sales in this spectrum of the market. I am going to do my best to try and make sure that these Walmart shoppers in my area make an informed decision before purchaseing into HDM. Hopefully it will help Blu win and put us on track to a medium that will last for a solid 15 to 20 years.

I have also got my wife doing the same thing at the Walmart in the next city over. If anyone else has time to dedicate to helping the consumers find their way I encourage it. I have seen plenty of threads of illigal things like unplugging HD-DVD and cases. This is a perfectly legal way to support Blu-ray, and it is probably the most effective. If you do this at all this year I would suggest Walmarts 99 HD-DVD day and black friday at any store. It is going way out of our way to do this, but both me and my wife know that in 5 years from now when we are watching movies on 200GB BD's it will all be worth it.

- PS3LikeNoOther on Blu-ray.com forums

Sounds like something Siyu would do. Haha.