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HMV Reopening?

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  • #52
    Prettyblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Prettyblack


    YoungKhalifa wrote: »
    I always found HMV to be relatively inexpensive. They always had great deals and offers, waaay better than Towers

    Tower has a better selection - more niche stuff, and they also have loads of offers - those "5 albums in one" slipcases that are often the price of one normal album. OK, that's not really a Tower thing but they sell them!

    Interesting books, posters, vinyl, loads of t shirts (and not just ones of the cookie monster and all that), magazines, and then of course the DVDs upstairs. And the jazz and classical sections, they are always good to have too. And since they opened the cafe its turned into a destination, where you can while away an hour or so, instead of just popping in.

    In fairness I always wanted to leave HMV as soon as I was done buying whatever it is I was buying, with its sticky floor, too-loud chart music blaring, too hard to find anything (all the CDs were plonked downstairs), neon lights, and not much focus on MUSIC. That was their failing.

    Tower every time.


  • #53
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Boots is next door to the HMV store in Blanch it used to be a clothes shop.

    yep. And I had a peek through the shutters last month. The stock was still on shelves. I think the staff were just sent home and it was empty since. I don't know if it's still like that though.


  • #54
    The_Gatsby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭The_Gatsby


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    The argument the other guy was making was in regards to not buying extra gear to listen with.

    But sure you have to have some sort of device to play your CDs on. I'd rather buy some speakers than a whole separate hi-fi system. The other guy was making a stupid and pointless argument to be fair.


  • #55
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    I still prefer CDs. You can rip music from them to your MP3 player anyway, but listening to music on a laptop is utter sh!te, there's no bass and the general quality is just rubbish. Give me any kind of hi-fi over a laptop speaker any day.
    Dravokivich wrote: »
    The argument the other guy was making was in regards to not buying extra gear to listen with.

    If the guy had only a laptop to listen to music, it would be the same sound from cd and mp3 music I'm sure.

    If he had a Hi Fi, well most will play mp3 also. The original argument is a bit lame.


  • #56
    stevek93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭stevek93


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Boots is next door to the HMV store in Blanch it used to be a clothes shop.

    My bad been a while since I was in the shopping centre. :o


  • #57
    Dublinfan
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭Dublinfan


    any update or could this be a long wait, im wondering weather this was an initial pllan to keep some stores on standby by henry street dundrum ect


  • #58
    jjbrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    Well i for one am happy to see HMV reopening here. The jobs that will be brought back will be a good thing and god knows those people deserve them. I was in grafton street 3 weeks ago running a bit early for a show in the gaiety and I would usually always stop into HMV when i am in the area was sad to see it shut same with the one on henry street.

    Another poster asked about HMV in Canada I have been in there and they do sell DVD'S pretty cheaply almost at amazon prices so it it goes the same way here we are in for a treat.


  • #59
    PickledLime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭PickledLime


    Kolido wrote: »
    If the guy had only a laptop to listen to music, it would be the same sound from cd and mp3 music I'm sure.

    If he had a Hi Fi, well most will play mp3 also. The original argument is a bit lame.

    Wrong.

    MP3 is a lossy format, if you want to rip audio files that have the same sound quality as CD you need to use a lossless format like FLAC or WAV.

    Don't get me wrong, I've got a 320kb/s mp3 playing back right now, (via the laptop's line out through a set of dedicated speakers), but if the stuff gets played through my main source (I've an old school beastly hifi and decent headphones for proper listening sessions) you can tell it's of a lower quality.



    On topic, I think if HMV were to be competitive (music-wise, at least) again, they need to ditch the over abundance of 'Best Of' compilations and get proper albums onto their shelves. Plenty of times I've been in there and spotted an artist I might enjoy (so I'd start with their seminal albums) or one that I have a few albums by and want to explore more and found myself thinking 'meh, it's just a best of, i have half of it already'' and put it back. Or why not stock a band's classic album when they release a new one?

    Oh, and if my jazz collection is bigger than your entire jazz section when jazz isn't even my favourite genre, you really are failing as a music 'specialist'.

    Edit - was the bit in bold intended as a pun? I can't stop laughing at it! (is it a subtle reference to the LAME encoder is what I'm thinking?)


  • #60
    bitburger
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭bitburger


    well considering that CD's are digitally recorded and locked at 128kbps the whole argument is invalid, maybe theres one there for vinyl but not cd's


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  • #61
    PickledLime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭PickledLime


    bitburger wrote: »
    well considering that CD's are digitally recorded and locked at 128kbps the whole argument is invalid, maybe theres one there for vinyl but not cd's

    This isn't the thread for it and I shant derail, but that statement couldn't be any more misinformed if it tried.


  • #62
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    bitburger wrote: »
    well considering that CD's are digitally recorded and locked at 128kbps the whole argument is invalid, maybe theres one there for vinyl but not cd's

    It's a wee bit more, like 1,411 kbps -ish


  • #63
    srm23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭srm23


    i wonder if that gang of workers sitting in the pavillion branch waiting for wages are still there...


  • #64
    Dublinfan
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭Dublinfan


    any update on this happening


  • #65
    PWEI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,593 ✭✭✭PWEI


    Anybody know when Henry Street is re-opening?


  • #66
    Dublinfan
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭Dublinfan


    PWEI wrote: »
    Anybody know when Henry Street is re-opening?

    i heard late august but no signs yet


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  • #67
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    Seems to be opening pretty soon according to there Twitter:

    https://twitter.com/HMVIreland/status/368369547260088320


  • #68
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Is there any realistic hope for the physical copy in this day and age though? I'm only 24 but I still do vinyl and CD's, my father has an extensive collection of both. The music industry has changed greatly in the last decade. The arts of songwriting and musicianship have died a death in popular chart music. These days you've got silly women and boys sprouting processed pop.
    I actually think the quality has improved (though still is lacklustre) the mid/late 1990s - early 2000s was a staggeringly awful period for mainstream music quality.

    Am I the only one who preferred the Henry Street shop to the Grafton Street one, by the way? It was smaller, but had a better layout and more of an 'intimate' feel (for want of a better word) - Grafton Street always felt cold to me, like Tesco for CDs, DVDs, games and posters.


  • #69
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    The former shop in tallaght has reopened as Play limited stock not a great selection of dvds games ,music being honest
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  • #70
    Slime Princess
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭Slime Princess


    Fingers crossed they re-open soon, sourcing last minute birthday presents has been a right bugger since they closed.


  • #71
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Slime Princess wrote: »
    Fingers crossed they re-open soon, sourcing last minute birthday presents has been a right bugger since they closed.

    Make sure you get in there quickly and get some nice HMV gift vouchers when they open, they make a great present :pac:


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