Home Media Magazine - Hollywood Goes High-Def - June 2008 - (Page 6) retail insider BACKING BLU R become the “Blu-ray headquarters for rental and retail product.” “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,” boasts David Podeschi, SVP of merchandising at Blockbuster. When asked about their approach to Blu-ray, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart said, “We were actually the first to announce that we would go exclusively Blu-ray in our stores this year,” and forwarded a media release dated Feb. 15 to back it up. When asked the same question, Netflix takes credit for igniting the spark that caused Toshiba to raise the white HOLLYWOOD goes HIGH-DEF June 2008 RETAILERS HAVE JOINED THE BLUBy Scott Hettrick etailers are feeling like it’s a pretty smart thing — and even kind of trendy — to promote Blu-ray Disc. In fact, retailers that only six months ago were rather ambivalent about high-def discs are now spinning stories to show how they were the first to fully embrace it this year. Why not? Heck, Blu-ray has become so fashionable that Cargo recently introduced a cosmetics line called “Blu-ray High-Definition Make-Up.” Blockbuster recently said it was positioning itself to 6
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