Nearly ten months ago, Blockbuster announced that they were going to drop HD DVD from their retail stores across the nation. Now that the format war has been officially over for almost two months, Blu-ray.com is reporting that the movie/videogame rental giant is going to go big with Blu-ray this week. Until now, you could only find Blu-ray Discs at about 1,700 of Blockbuster’s brick-and-mortar locations, but now every single Blockbuster in the US and Canada — almost 5,000 total — will rent and sell Blu-ray Disc movies.
In addition, Blockbuster will be bringing the PS3 and Blu-ray to the forefront of their marketing. Each of the North American Blockbuster stores will soon have a PS3 hooked up to a 42-inch HDTV to show off Blu-ray Disc movies. I don’t know about you guys, but this will be a huge technological jump for my local Blockbuster, which currently has around five small CRT TVs hanging from the ceiling, playing endless loops of movie trailers. Isn’t that standard?
[via Blu-ray.com — Thanks, Jonathan!]
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1:34 PM on 04.10.2008
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and they have alot of blu-ray movies for rent
I stopped hitting up BB after I rented 2 Xbox games for $19.84, I nearly puked when they told me the price. I can rent 2 games at Rogers for around $10, screw BB!
I loved how their sign was blacked out behind the register instead of changed "AVAILABLE IN ********AND DVD $3.99" or whatever their price is per rental.
Even without an hd display i'd be willing to rent the blu-ray version just for the extra features on bd-roms
Come to think of it, I worked at one of the bigger stores, so they'll probably get one. Time to visit my old chums...
My store also finally started getting Nintendo DS games. We've been told that the company is trying to put more focus on games, since the movie rental business is changing so dramatically. So if your local store starts asking you to pre-order Mario Kart, GTA4, or MGS4, you know why.
I had 1 customer tell me he "wanted to see if it would work anyway"....thanks asshole.
Yes, as it turns out, 90% of humanity is fucking retarded.
I mean, aside from raising fees past ridiculous and into ludicrous?