Thread: Bluray Titles LONG WAIT and NOT AVAILABLE in Store ???

Before Dish took over BB I had real good service. Now I'm seeing so many more people coming into the stores doing exchanges. This is great news for Dish/BB, but now all the movies I want are always checked out. Too much demand, not enough stock. And to make things worse, I've got 10 titles in my queu right now that are Long Wait and some of them are not even available for rent (Bluray) at any of my local stores:

"Don't be afraid of the dark" Guillermo del Toro & Katie Holmes
"Contagion" Matt Damon & Jude Law
"Midnight in paris" Owen Wilson & Rachel MCaddams

These are major titles and the stores are not even carrying them on Bluray??? And they don't stock enough of them for shipment either.... Seems like they are trying to force us to $$ VOD them to squeeze even more money out of us...

Originally Posted by hammerdown

Before Dish took over BB I had real good service. Now I'm seeing so many more people coming into the stores doing exchanges. This is great news for Dish/BB, but now all the movies I want are always checked out. Too much demand, not enough stock. And to make things worse, I've got 10 titles in my queu right now that are Long Wait and some of them are not even available for rent (Bluray) at any of my local stores:

"Don't be afraid of the dark" Guillermo del Toro & Katie Holmes
"Contagion" Matt Damon & Jude Law
"Midnight in paris" Owen Wilson & Rachel MCaddams

These are major titles and the stores are not even carrying them on Bluray??? And they don't stock enough of them for shipment either.... Seems like they are trying to force us to $$ VOD them to squeeze even more money out of us...

Contagion is a Warner title and might be affected by the new 56 day delay before being available to rent.

These titles are available on DVD in stores & online. It's the Blurays that are short and/or not even carried.

I also noticed that "Midnight in Paris" was not available in Blu-ray at my local Blockbuster store. Someone at Blockbuster is deciding which movies are "worthy" for stocking in Blu-ray as well as DVD and Woody Allen's film was rejected, for some reason.

I have 24 blu-ray items in queue and 14 are long wait, unavailable, etc. There's a Blockbuster nearby and I can often find them there and exchange, but wonder why this is. Sometimes I get a blu-ray from the Redbox right outside the Blockbuster for $1.60; oftentimes the movies are available there but not in Blockbuster or the queue. This may be just growing pains, but I hope more blu-rays come available over time. I think a lot of blu-ray players were sold over Christmas. I'm a fan of Chinese films, like Wong Kar Wai, etc., but I notice that foreign films aren't commonly blu-ray. I'm pretty spoiled on the quality, especially the arty films. Mostly I've been catching up on films I've missed over the years. Thanks Dish for all this.... I hope it continues to get better.

I wish everything was available on Bluray. However, my BR player does such a good job with output that it seems DVDs are near Bluray quality anyway. If there's a movie I really want to watch, I'll take the DVD. It's not going to affect my enjoyment of it that much. I feel confident that BB has experienced the growing pains of a rapidly expanding subscriber base plus more people adopting the Bluray technology as well.

Originally Posted by Coach Knight

I wish everything was available on Bluray. However, my BR player does such a good job with output that it seems DVDs are near Bluray quality anyway. If there's a movie I really want to watch, I'll take the DVD. It's not going to affect my enjoyment of it that much. I feel confident that BB has experienced the growing pains of a rapidly expanding subscriber base plus more people adopting the Bluray technology as well.

I have DVD in my queue and the new movies are not "now" but wait ??

Originally Posted by flody1

I have DVD in my queue and the new movies are not "now" but wait ??

Yes, on popular new titles you'll see that. As a long-time Netflix subscriber I can say I saw that with them as well at times. BB has the additional challenge of all the new influx of customers. I think they'll get it fine-tuned as good as they can (at least I sure hope so).

As I always say, if I haven't seen a movie it IS is "new release" for me even if it was made many years ago. I may have a preference as to the order I watch movies in my queue, but if it is in my queue no matter how far down that means I do want to watch it so I won't complain if I don't a specific one right away. Plus, I've had great luck with new release (including Bluray) for my in-store exchanges. I've pretty much gotten anything I've wanted anytime I've gone in for an exchange.

I've had Paranormal Activity 3 & Real Steel Blurays in my queue for a while, always said availability 1/24. I returned my store disc Monday and it cleared my queue quickly. Just checked this morning and both movies are now "Unavailable". Not wait, long wait, very long wait..... Unavailable!

Checked my two local stores and neither are carrying these blurays (says 20+ dvd copies)... Is this for real?