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07Nov2009

Online Retailers Offer New DVD Releases for $10

DateSaturday, November 7, 2009 at 3:59PM
It will be a better than usual holiday season for DVD deals. Variety says that three of the leading online retailers, Wal-Mart, Target, and Amazon, are dropping prices on new releases through the floor to try to increase fourth-quarter stales...I mean sales.

Walmart.com will offer its top ten pre-order DVD titles for ten bucks each, as well as Terminator: Salvation, Angels & Demons, Julie & Julia, and others. As for the pre-order DVDs, once they hit the streets, the priced goes back up to the normal retail rate.

That move started a price war, and hors later, Target made the exact same deal, while Amazon waited a day and slashed the prices on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Star Trek, which you can order for just $10, as well.

The Blu-ray of Up has been dropped from $46 to $20, and The Hangover Blu-ray is only $18. A couple $20 Blu-rays you might be interested in at Amazon are the brand new 50th anniversary North by Northwest collection and Inglourious Basterds, which will be released in December.

Wal-Mart is offering free shipping, too, and Amazon has a few deals in that regard, too, depending on how much you order. Of course, the impulse is to order a lot and cash in on the savings. What I find interesting in all of this is the push to push all of this business online. We wrote at the beginning of October about Wal-Mart getting rid of the aisle displays for new releases in their stores, with the obvious implication being that they aren't traffic drivers the way they were three or four years ago.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

Man, this just makes Christmas shopping a whole lot easier.
I already have the "Basterds" and "The Hangover" Blu-rays pre-ordered on Amazon, plus I could get "Julie & Julia" on the cheap for my lady friend.

I could talk and cry about how the physical media format might be dying a slow death...but looking at these savings, I honestly couldn't care less.

Sunday, November 8, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterVince

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