Walmart chases Best Buy to Blu-ray domination

Just the other day I told you that Walmart was the number two Blu-ray seller in the United States behind Best Buy. The two big-box retailers have had a long rivalry believe it or not. Despite being aimed at the early adopter crowd, Best Buy has been hounded by the mainstream Walmart with Blu-ray, the iPhone and soon, the Palm Pre. Mainstream mega-retailers can appeal to early adopters too.

I suppose that's why Walmart has upped the ante and announced it would be selling two more Blu-ray players priced below $200 in the next couple of weeks. Walmart already sells a Magnavox player for $168 and while I know one of the new players will be Philips-branded, the other is an unknown. The key thing to remember though is that Magnavox, Philips and Sylvania are all, in reality, manufactured by Funai so none of the players will be much different in features. In fact, if prices are below $200 we can pretty much expect the new duo to be Profile 1.1 players meaning no interactive internet content.

Walmart is currently in the process of revamping 3500 of its electronics departments after the demise of Circuit City, in order to throw the hammer at Best Buy.

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