Blockbuster Goes Blu-ray at All Locations

Blockbuster, the popular video rental chain, has announced that starting this week, they will offer Blu-ray rentals and sales in all of their corporate locations, in both the US and Canada. Previously, Blockbuster only offered Blu-ray in about 1,700 stores nationwide, but with this new announcement, that number will increase to nearly 5,000 retail outlets. At each of the locations, Blockbuster will install a Blu-ray kiosks that feature a 42 inch high definition TV displaying Blu-ray movies via a Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3). This will help drive the fact that if a consumer owns a PS3, they also own a very capable (in some instance, the most capable) Blu-ray player. David Podeschi, Blockbuster Senior Vice President, Merchandising, Distribution and Logistics commented, "Blockbuster was the first national retailer to accurately recognize and react to consumers' preference for this format when we added Blu-ray discs to a large percentage of our stores last summer. Now, with this national rollout, we believe Blockbuster is perfectly positioned to drive consumer adoption of this next generation DVD format and to become the customer's headquarters when it comes to renting or buying Blu-ray movies, whether in-store or online." Blockbuster will also support their local franchises by offering up support for adding Blu-ray to their locations.
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CptGreedle  » Apr 10, 2008
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

The Big Blue  » Apr 10, 2008
Awesome.

leftykt  » Apr 10, 2008
Cool!!!

TOOLhead08  » Apr 10, 2008
Cool! Just signed up for the free trial. Traded a movie earlier this week. Now I don't have to travel too far.

King03  » Apr 10, 2008

About a year ago I got the riot-act from a very ill-informed blockbuster employee, who told me that blu-ray would die and all PS3's were being recalled (turned out that he bit on a major april fools day joke, see link below: http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13148/Sony-Announces-PlayStation-3-Global-Recall/ Anyway, I wonder if he still works there, 'cause now he'll have blu-rays AND a PS3 in his store. Ha!

TruBlu2  » Apr 10, 2008
Finally!!!! Damn that took awhile

johnnymech  » Apr 10, 2008	Show comment Hide comment
The headline should be, "Blockbuster Goes Blu-ray at Its Still-Standing Locations".

haushausman  » Apr 10, 2008
Very nice. But they charge around 7 bucks at the B&M Blockbusters... part of the reason I decided to start buying more movies. Average BD Movie is around $18 - $7 Rental Charge = $11. Any used BD goes for $14 average on Ebay. So you make money ($3) by not renting and get to keep it as long as you want.

DerrickDS  » Apr 10, 2008
Its about time Blockbuster. None of the stores here rented Blu-Ray movies, so it will be a nice treat once they finally arrive.

Sonny  » Apr 10, 2008
Its about time !!!!

blueforte  » Apr 10, 2008
Nice treat for us.

DarthVibbert  » Apr 10, 2008

I work at a blockbuster and we've had blu-rays in out store since last summer, I usually use my 5 free rentals all on blu-rays as well if I can, at one point we were selling a ps3 bundle that came with an hdmi cable, surf's up on blu-ray and the bundle pack of the ps3 with motorsotrm, plus it came with a 20 week rental card for a free blu-ray rental or ps3 rental a week for 20 weeks, so that's when i bought my ps3/blu-ray player

sardaukar1977  » Apr 10, 2008
most excellent.

shankmanmonster  » Apr 10, 2008
sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

savage1984  » Apr 10, 2008
PERFECT! I can't wait for my local blockbuster to carry Blu-rays!!!!!!

jlawc  » Apr 10, 2008
We have had BD at the Local Blockbuster for a while know, and HDDUD , hopefully they will get more copies of BD movies because I am having trouble renting them, especially new releases

RayEdwards  » Apr 10, 2008
Very cool...I was in my local Block Buster the other day and their BD selection has grown and I even saw some for sale.

Rainman208  » Apr 10, 2008
Nice. Hope they also increase their stockpile numbers for online rentals to cut down on wait times. Great news.

TauHeel05  » Apr 10, 2008
The rentals will definitely go for $9.99. I guess we'll see.

natedog543  » Apr 10, 2008
im at Blockbuster RITE NOW in front of their Blu selection and was checking the new Blu Movies on my iPhone and I get this news for both BLOCKBUSTER AND IPHONE!!! this is the best day of my LIFE!!!

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