Best Buy closing stores

bombsnizzle

We are talking about Best Buy - you see the thread title RIGHT? And Best Buy sells tablets, RIGHT? And the tablet category was SPECIFICALLY mentioned in previous posts, RIGHT? Do you even read the thread before commenting?
"The home office revenue category includes notebook and desktop computers, tablets"

Do you see how tablets became part of the discussion now??????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????

Tablets were already discussed in posts before mine. READ THE THREAD.

HD DVD lost. Get over it.

AND YET STILL we have Best Buy store closures.

Pretty clear tablets have done nothing to prevent Best Buy from having to close stores.

ack_bak

I actually read a Forbes article where the analyst was discussing how products being sold in Best Buy is actually hurting them. The reason:
- Apple products have very tight margins for retailers (unless it is an Apple Store). Apple has larger margins on other brands, but in the case of tablets (and smart phones and music players) Apple dominates or is at the top of these markets.
- Once the Apple device is sold, Best Buy has little chance of making money on the content. People buy their apps, music, movies, etc at either the iTunes store or places like Amazon. Not Best Buy. In the past, for example, if Best Buy sold a low margin product like a DVD player, CD player, or HDTV, they would typically make their money back on CD or DVD sales. Not with tablets or smartphones, which are the hot devices right now.

mikemorel

Zero. At the moment CinemaNow is a placeholder, with only a few dozen titles available for sale or rent. I doubt they are selling (or even renting) anything at all presently.

Perhaps, but I don't think they are done experimenting.

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Warner Bros, on Ultraviolet - "We recognize that the product is not perfect today,” Mr. Tsujihara said. “We don’t have the luxury of waiting a year until we have everything perfect.”

h0mi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaNow

Simply going to their web site:

http://www.cinemanow.com/Movies/1007,1,5,,1,2,0/

yields this tidbit at the top left:

and that's just movies. It's not merely a "placeholder site", it's an active site akin to blockbuster, vudu, etc. I would say that Cinemanow is probably where Vudu was a year or 2 ago, except Vudu had a bit more promise to it- higher quality videos and stronger promotion by Walmart. Cinemanow doesn't really have much going for it- it duplicates Vudu and Itunes but doesn't really offer anyone anything that can be called an improvement over either of those services. They're in better shape than blockbuster though, whose apps on many devices no longer works because their arrangement with Roxio (IIRC) expired as of 3/31/2012 and that rendered many clients useless.

(clarified sentence that I ended a bit abruptly.)

bombsnizzle

Clearly more than "a few dozen" movies. It's funny to see how people dismiss or mischaracterize things to avoid admitting something they dont want to admit about what they support.

You just hit on the obstacle facing digital movies. There are so many redundant services with redundant pricing and content that users have no clue which one to get behind. Some have better HD quality and better audio quality, some are $1 cheaper than others for certain movies, some have movies that others don't have.

There is no consistency or standardization.

UV was/is supposed to fix this...

Malanthius

No. UV is suppose to save your precious...

mikemorel

So I go to Cinemanow through the Best Buy web site (where it is barely even advertised) and get this...

I see 43 titles. What is up with that?





And trying to browse movies by going through CinemaNow.com is an excersize in futility.

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Warner Bros, on Ultraviolet - "We recognize that the product is not perfect today,” Mr. Tsujihara said. “We don’t have the luxury of waiting a year until we have everything perfect.”

Malanthius

That makes perfect sense. Apple used BB to sell thier products. Apples products are a runaway hit. BB doesn't make much money on apple products. Apple is part of the demise of DVD and why Bluray sales are poor. Movie aisles go empty. BB goes bye bye.

h0mi

It must be the best buy site. The cinemanow.com site is much more functional. I just "bought" a copy of some new pilot- "don't trust the b in apt 23" (it was free) and it was pretty easy. Plenty of stuff is available for purchase on cinemanow.... not so much the best buy site.

bombsnizzle

Likewise for their portals on connected bluray players and PS3s and such.

I would hazard a guess more people are exposed to the service via their connected devices as opposed to going directly to Best Buy's website.

Most normal people wouldn't even know Best Buy owned the service. They would merely see the CinemaNow logo next to the other VOD logos on their connected device.

bombsnizzle

Is that why WB includes UV with DVD too?

Is that why Paramount sells UV on it's own, with no disc?

bombsnizzle

Don't worry UV will fix all of this. Just you wait.

GizmoDVD

Optical media is dying. Just ask Best Buy.

1stSilverado

Which is why Mike said that it is a placeholder for BB.

bombsnizzle

Does that make you happy? You're the guy that only buys discs right?

You sound absolutely giddy sometimes referring to optical media as dead/dying. We all know only HD DVD is truly dead. I wonder if you would be so quick to talk about disc media dying if HD DVD weren't already dead? Because we all know when you talk about disc media dying you really would just like for bluray to die, so you could get a good laugh out of it, you know, paybacks, misery loves company, sour grapes, etc.

It's going to be hilarious when the next xbox comes with a bluray drive and all of those new games in Best Buy are on bluray discs. Your head might explode.