Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target in DVD Price War

A price war on DVDs? Bring it on! And just for the record, I think $10 is where the price of new DVDs should've been for a while now. They need to keep the prices there and sell Blu-ray for $5 more.

The world's biggest retailer said late Thursday that it would lower the online prices of new DVDs such as "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" and "Star Trek" to $10. But when Amazon reduced some of its DVD prices to $9.99, Wal-Mart shot back by lowering its DVDs to $9.98 as of Friday morning.

I'm waiting for the elusive $9.96 with free shipping.

Next thing you know, K-Mart will offer DVDs for $9.98.5

Maybe the recession is finally enough to stop people from buying 18 dollar Dvd and 30 dollar blu-rays

Originally Posted by the-one1

Next thing you know, K-Mart will offer DVDs for $9.98.5

Two...decimals...cannot...compute...self-destruction....imminent.

At $15 for a Blu-ray I'd cancel or downgrade my netflix account and go back to buying movies. As it is right now, the only movies I actually buy are Pixar releases because my son will watch them repeatedly are they are not super annoying like most kids fare.

Originally Posted by darkpaw

.............. As it is right now, the only movies I actually buy are Pixar releases because my son will watch them repeatedly are they are not super annoying like most kids fare.

Tell me about it. When my cable TV was disconnected for a couple weeks (no OTA TV antenae) my little girl watched Pixar/DreamWorks movies over and over and over and over.......etc.

I like price wars ... smells like ... consumer FTW!
or napalm?

Even 15 dollars for a blu-ray is too much. It can't be that much more to press a blu-ray dvd than it is a regular DVD. I am not talking about buying media and burning them either, i am talking about the same methodologies that these companies use to make the pressed DVDs.

People will eventually learn...

The cost of Blu-Ray discs is just another thing keeping me from going the Blu-Ray route. The Blu-Ray players aren't exactly cheap, and the discs are almost twice as much as DVD, so it isn't worth investing all the extra money for me.

Did Wal-Mart stop lowering prices? I was waiting until everything was free.

I'll just stick to renting my movies.

95% of the time I only watch a movie once so buying them is a huge waiste of money for me. Even more so when I can rent blu-ray movies for 5$ instead of buying them for $20-$30 lol

If they charge 5 dollars to rent a blu-ray movie, that's outrageous. I hope movie stars all burn to the ground if they are charging such fees. I used to think 2.50-3.00 was a bit much to rent a damn movie. Of course, I think the 8.00 they charge here to go to a movie theater that is full of talkative, whiney, noise-making school aged kids is a bit much as well. Plus the seats are uncomfortable.

Back to your regularly scheduled non-whining posts....

Originally Posted by Ragenrok

I'll just stick to renting my movies.

95% of the time I only watch a movie once so buying them is a huge waiste of money for me. Even more so when I can rent blu-ray movies for 5$ instead of buying them for $20-$30 lol

Same here, just can't seem to watch the same movie twice.

Originally Posted by darkpaw

As it is right now, the only movies I actually buy are Pixar releases because my son will watch them repeatedly are they are not super annoying like most kids fare.

Originally Posted by the-one1

Tell me about it. When my cable TV was disconnected for a couple weeks (no OTA TV antenae) my little girl watched Pixar/DreamWorks movies over and over and over and over.......etc.

I sat and watched Wall-E about 20 times so far with my little 2 year old nephew. and now anytime he sees the Disney opening he starts saying waa, waa. He is starting to try and say 2 syllable words now but for the past year it's only been 1 syllable.

With DVD's set at $10 I don't feel the need to buy Blu-ray. I am thinking about getting a Blu-ray player for Christmas too.

At $15, I'll be more likely to get the Blu-ray movies I know I want. If they were $10, they'd be an easy impulse buy. But I won't abandon DVD entirely. I can appreciate the improved quality for action, sci-fi, and horror movies, but I don't see the point in paying the BR premium for stuff like comedies and documentaries. Not to mention, some of the older stuff being released on BR is pretty much the same quality as DVD or they don't use the director's cut version.

Seeing as Wal-Mart and Target suck when it comes to finding the DVD I'm looking for, guess who will be getting my money.

$10 still overpriced, my usenet account does the same job if not better.

$10 overpriced? For me that is the price of lunch where I work.

Personally, I think you being willing to pay someone to pirate someone else's material is what is insane.