Thomas Bell <> wrote in message news:...
> Jim Lawson wrote:
> > Looks like DVD Planet will soon be gone..
> >
> > http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=319394
>
> I wonder if the store near me in Huntington Beach will soon close.
Probably.
There is very little that differentiates them from the competition today,
whereas, as a laserdisc vendor, they were in the top echelon.
> They just moved to the new location from Westminster about a year ago
> and the store anyway seems to do decent business.
I'm not surprised they moved. Laserdiscs take up a lot more room
than DVDs, so their DVD stock would look lost in the same space.
Did they consolidate their DVD salesroom with their TV salesroom?
>
> I bought my first laserdisc (King Kong Criterion silver box) back in '85
> or so when it was Ken Cranes in a small store in the Westminster Mall
> and have remained a loyal if increasingly dissatisfied customer for
> close to two decades.
I didn't know that they used to be in the mall. I bought my first player from them
when they were in the small stripmall store down-and-across the street from
the larger store that they moved to (next to Pep Boys).
That CLD-980 is still going strong, although it now balks at playing the outer
chapter on CAV discs. As I now have a stable of 7 players, including a
CLD-D704, which I had wanted ever since I read the original reviews,
that isn't a serious issue.
> Clearly, as indicated in the messages on the board
> linked above, the store and business as a whole took a steep slide when
> it was bought out by Image. No more imports, selectively *not* carrying
> certain titles (notably music dvds) high turnover and a lack of a
> personal rapport with loyal customers.
Smacks of censorship, doesn't it. When they were a Laserdisc shop,
they always had a tremendous selection. I routinely saw and bought
discs there that I rarely if ever saw anywhere else.
> I also understand the Tower Records chain is also in financial jeopardy
> and while they don't have as nice prices as DVD Planet, they do carry a
> decent selection and even some rare titles.
Borders and Frys would be my first stop if looking for a rarish title
in a B&M. Wal*Mart, Best Buy, Target and Circuit City
tend not to deal in those titles.
I haven't heard anything about Tower having problems, other than
the general malaise of the last few years, which was forecast a year
before it happened anyway, and also the sales downturn due to
the popularity of "file sharing", brought on to some extent
by the price gouging practiced by the record and film industries.
Example: How much did Adam Sandler make for just 2 movies?
Answer: One quarter of a BILLION US dollars.
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