JB Hifi in Australia Not stocking ANY HDDVD

It blows big time. I spend hundreds of dollars on DVD at that chain each year, they will no longer be receiving any of my money. It will be going straight to their main competitors.

It sounds like Sony has slipped some moula under the table.

JB is a pretty big DVD dealer too.

ezydvd and harvey norman ?

Their loss if you ask me.

Doesn't worry me.

JB will no longer get any of my money for any of my DVD/software purchases.

I will continue to import from the US until HD DVD becomes available locally at a competitive price (I live for the day that Kmart and Target stock HD DVD).

Andrew.

the really funny thing is that JB have confirmed that they will be selling the 360 HD DVD addon.

So I can just see the conversation when someone buys a drive and then asks 'where are the movies to go with it ?'

Andrew.

It's not surprising that a local bricks and mortar shop would favour region-coded BluRay over region-free HD-DVD. And, although it should be surprising that they think they can, C'nut-like, tell consumers what they want, that has been a recurring feature of Australian retailing for decades.

I get almost all of my CDs either at gigs (jazz) or online from the US. I have been told Sanity actually have a good jazz range, but have never been in. Readings is the standard place for classical recordings in Melbourne. The ABC [our national broadcaster] is actually the leading local record label for jazz and classical, and of course their shops stock their releases.

For DVD, I import most from the US and UK. Borders actually has a good range.

One good reason to stay away from JB is the sticky price labels they place on the CD and DVD cases. It is usually impossible to get them off without destroying the case. Add in the cost of a new case, and the trouble, and it suddenly doesn't seem that cheap.

Oh, I would like to add there is nothing new about any of this. Back in the 1960s, no-one much bought classical records retail. It was all mail order from the then "World Record Club".

Showing your age now

cheers laurie

JB are a turd of a store staffed by know nothing sales guys who happily assume the customer is an idiot.

I am over the patronising attitude there. They are the worse Best Buy clone we have in Australia.

And to think I was around when it started. In the back of a guys house in 1973. he was John Barbuto (JB). I used to go there with my dad to buy import records.

He sold it in the mid 80's when he had 1 shop in east Keilor.

This is a text book example of how to grow a company despite the worst marketing and customer attitude possible.

This must sound so familiar to our US cousins and their Best Buy experiences. We see the same thing here.

hmm feeling luck that we have Best Denki and SenQ