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Best Buy to Recommend Blu-ray as the Customer's Digital Format Choice |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,911 |
| Posted: | | | | February 11, 2008 3:31 PM EST MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is taking a step forward in addressing consumer confusion about high-definition formats. Beginning in early March, the leading consumer electronics retailer will prominently showcase Blu-ray hardware and software products in its Best Buy retail and online channels in the United States. "Consumers have told us that they want us to help lead the way. We've listened to our customers, and we are responding. Best Buy will recommend Blu-ray as the preferred format," said Brian Dunn, Best Buy's president and chief operating officer. "Our decision to shine a spotlight on Blu-ray Disc players and other Blu-ray products is a strong signal to our customers that we believe Blu-ray is the right format choice for them." Dunn continued, "Best Buy has always believed that the customer will benefit from a widely-accepted single format that would offer advantages such as product compatibility and expanded content choices. Because we believe that Blu-ray is fast emerging as that single format, we have decided to focus on Blu-ray products." "With the explosion of HDTVs, customers are hungry for quality, high definition content. We believe our move to feature Blu-ray should help consumers feel confident in their hi-def content choices," said Mike Vitelli, Best Buy's senior vice president, Home Solutions. "Best Buy is excited by the next generation of digital products and we know our customers are too. We are excited about helping customers find the right mix of products and services to make the next generation of high definition entertainment technology come alive for them. We believe that Blu-ray is the right solution for consumers." Best Buy currently carries a wide array of Blu-ray hardware and software products. The company noted that it will continue to carry an assortment of HD-DVD products for customers who desire to purchase these products. About Best Buy Co., Inc. Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) operates a global portfolio of brands with a commitment to growth and innovation. Our employees strive to provide customers around the world with superior experiences by responding to their unique needs and aspirations. We sell consumer electronics, home-office products, entertainment software, appliances and related services through nearly 1,300 retail stores across the United States, throughout Canada and in China. Our multi-channel operations include: Best Buy (BestBuy.com, BestBuy.ca and BestBuy.com.cn), Future Shop (FutureShop.ca), Geek Squad (GeekSquad.com and GeekSquad.ca), Pacific Sales Kitchen and Bath Centers (PacificSales.com), Magnolia Audio Video (Magnoliaav.com), Jiangsu Five Star Appliance Co. (Five-Star.cn) and Speakeasy (Speakeasy.net). Best Buy supports the communities in which its employees work and live through volunteerism and grants that benefit children and education. Source: Best Buy Co., Inc. Link | | | Signature banned: Reason out of date... |
| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,917 |
| Posted: | | | | I've been noticing for awhile now that the Blu-Ray shelf space has been increasing while the HD-DVD space has been decreasing. |
| Registered: March 24, 2007 | Posts: 240 |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 315 |
| Posted: | | | | Now that was funny! | | | With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. |
| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 1,339 |
| Posted: | | | | not much to add here, as the stuff says it all, but as a best buy employee who got the internal memo... i can obviously state this is no cowpie... and with my long standing experience with the company I would say that the significance of this announcement will translate into a noticeable differance in stores, particularly with the merchandising and promotions. | | | -JoN |
| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 585 |
| Posted: | | | | This is new for Best Buy? The ones around me have been giving Blu-ray loads of shelf space while shunning HD DVD to a lonely little shelf since October/November or so. All the Blu-ray movies were displayed full front cover over 3-4 shelves while HD DVD was given a single rack of shelves with all the movies turned so their spines were shown and as many movies could be crammed onto the shelf as possible. Prior to that both BD and HD had equal space with all the movies showing full fronts. Not sure what changed but I assumed BD paid some money for the change to happen (not to start any rumors, just my own assumption since it happened suddenly over one weekend.. and this is 3 different stores). Best Buy: Quote: ...single format that would offer advantages such as product compatibility... Hah.. maybe 6 months from now. But "product compatibility" and Blu-ray do not mix. There's too many movies that will not play on too many players for them to be serious about that. I'm still waiting on a firmware update so I can watch Sunshine on my player and it was released over a month ago (though I guess it doesn't help there's a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer ). | | | "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" - Douglas Bader "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams |
| Registered: December 10, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 3,004 |
| Posted: | | | | Lack of product compatibility is Samsung's fault, nto the BDAs. All the other brands work fine. |
| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 585 |
| Posted: | | | | If you think that you haven't been keeping up with owners of the other players. You'd be hard pressed to find any of them that have not released firmware updates to fix disc compatibility issues. Samsung is just being sued because they've been slower to fix them than the other brands. Panny owners are also waiting on firmware to fix issues with Sunshine and RE: Extinction. Sony players had issues with Die Hard 4 and released firmware to fix it. And I think just about all players display random freezes during playback (though to be fair I had the same issues with my HD DVD player). The main compatibility issues are between the profile 1.0, profile 1.1, and the upcoming profile 2.0 players and the discs being made in a way to play on all of them. The profile 1.1 discs that are coming out are causing problems on 1.0 players. That sounds like a compatibility issue to me. | | | "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" - Douglas Bader "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams |
| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,917 |
| Posted: | | | | No problems what-so-ever using a PS3 to watch Blu-Ray. |
| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 585 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote: No problems what-so-ever using a PS3 to watch Blu-Ray. Of course not, the PS3 is the most powerful Blu-ray player out there and routinely gets firmware updates so Sony ensures it's always working. It can also be upgraded to profile 2.0, so I would definitely recommend it over any other Blu-ray player out there. Though, it can be a bit loud compared to the standalone players, but it's still the best player on the market (and probably will be for quite a while). | | | "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" - Douglas Bader "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,911 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Vega: Quote: Quoting Dr. Killpatient:
Quote: No problems what-so-ever using a PS3 to watch Blu-Ray.
Of course not, the PS3 is the most powerful Blu-ray player out there and routinely gets firmware updates so Sony ensures it's always working. It can also be upgraded to profile 2.0, so I would definitely recommend it over any other Blu-ray player out there. Though, it can be a bit loud compared to the standalone players, but it's still the best player on the market (and probably will be for quite a while). What a load of CRAP. Routine updates? BULL. We get updates maybe every 4-6 months. If that. I've had my PS3 for a year now, 2 updates. Maybe 3. The other players get more updates. Edit: That also assumes that Sony has copies of movies 6 months in advance to make sure thye work with the PS3. As far as I know, lall the CE's test the movies at the same time. The PS3 is just an awesome BR player, sans f/w updates. | | | Signature banned: Reason out of date... | | | Last edited: by NewEnglander |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,796 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Vega: Quote: Quoting Dr. Killpatient:
Quote: No problems what-so-ever using a PS3 to watch Blu-Ray.
Of course not, the PS3 is the most powerful Blu-ray player out there and routinely gets firmware updates so Sony ensures it's always working. It can also be upgraded to profile 2.0, so I would definitely recommend it over any other Blu-ray player out there. Though, it can be a bit loud compared to the standalone players, but it's still the best player on the market (and probably will be for quite a while). Having gone through this problem with CDs then DVDs, I've been waiting and searching the reviews and the majority of the reviews agree that PlayStation 3 80GB is most compatible (ir has a backward compatibility e/old PS games). It is said that are more concerned with current products then backward compatibility. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own. Ineptocracy, You got to love it. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln |
| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 585 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting pplchamp: Quote: What a load of CRAP. Routine updates? BULL. We get updates maybe every 4-6 months. If that. I've had my PS3 for a year now, 2 updates. Maybe 3. The other players get more updates.
Edit: That also assumes that Sony has copies of movies 6 months in advance to make sure thye work with the PS3. As far as I know, lall the CE's test the movies at the same time. The PS3 is just an awesome BR player, sans f/w updates. I admit I didn't go checking before saying that.. I did check just now and there were 5 firmware updates in 2007, the last one being in December (and only 2 of them specifically mention making fixes/additions regarding Blu-ray). But my main point, which it seems we both agree on, is that the PS3 is the best BR player out there as far as compatibility and future proofing. The only thing I can guess at for it not having the compatibility issues the standalone players are having is due to it's raw processing power and Sony ensuring it can handle any java thrown at it. Maybe Sony should have provided Cell processors to all the Blu-ray manfacturers... | | | "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" - Douglas Bader "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,911 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Vega: Quote: Quoting pplchamp:
Quote: What a load of CRAP. Routine updates? BULL. We get updates maybe every 4-6 months. If that. I've had my PS3 for a year now, 2 updates. Maybe 3. The other players get more updates.
Edit: That also assumes that Sony has copies of movies 6 months in advance to make sure thye work with the PS3. As far as I know, lall the CE's test the movies at the same time. The PS3 is just an awesome BR player, sans f/w updates.
I admit I didn't go checking before saying that.. I did check just now and there were 5 firmware updates in 2007, the last one being in December (and only 2 of them specifically mention making fixes/additions regarding Blu-ray). But my main point, which it seems we both agree on, is that the PS3 is the best BR player out there as far as compatibility and future proofing.
The only thing I can guess at for it not having the compatibility issues the standalone players are having is due to it's raw processing power and Sony ensuring it can handle any java thrown at it. Maybe Sony should have provided Cell processors to all the Blu-ray manfacturers... Yeah, it probably is the processing power that the PS3 has that helps it out in some areas. I gave you a green arrow for your post. | | | Signature banned: Reason out of date... |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 3,436 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting pplchamp: Quote: What a load of CRAP. Routine updates? BULL. We get updates maybe every 4-6 months. If that. I've had my PS3 for a year now, 2 updates. Maybe 3. The other players get more updates.
Edit: That also assumes that Sony has copies of movies 6 months in advance to make sure thye work with the PS3. As far as I know, lall the CE's test the movies at the same time. The PS3 is just an awesome BR player, sans f/w updates. That reminds me a bit of an old joke: "The elevator company has a very good service team! They are here every week..." I mean, I have always read that the PS3 is a good player. Apparently there have been a few updates, one of them doing the upgrade to Profile 1.1. I mean, as long as the necessary updates are coming, everything should be fine...? I'd be more concerned if the updates would be coming in weekly... | | | Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan. Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative) |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 3,321 |
| Posted: | | | | I'd also agree about the PS3 being a great player. I've not tried any other blu-ray player to compare to, but I have no complaints with my 40GB. It also runs circles around my Toshiba A2. I've not turned the Toshiba on in weeks. All my DVD watching is done on the PS3 now and the Toshiba only gets used for HD DVDs. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here. Create fake parent profiles to organize your collection. |
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