HMV LEICESTER - Complete 4K shelves
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- The great HMV Leicester store has been trading for 33 years as of 2023. It was previously set over three floors but the upper floor is now closed off leaving the upper ground floor and lower ground floor. It is still a very impressive store and bigger than most. The upper ground is primarily for music CD's and vinyl records and the lower ground is home video with a few other items such as record decks, posters, tee-shirts, books and other collectibles. The video disc aisles are long and impressive so I tried to capture the 4K shelves and aisle in full for this video.
Also shown in this video is the video shot by Jbird1004 of the HMV Belfast store in Northern Ireland. The full video can be seen on JBird's channel here: • HMV BELFAST GROUND FLO...
Absolutely incredible... Slip covers, selections... I am so happy this still exists somewhere.
And the original HMV on Oxford Street in the West End of London is going to re-open soon too so this revival of the great name keeps getting better and better. John.
Nothing like that here in Australia anymore. Did have HMV and Virgin Megastores here a long time ago. Beautiful store, thanks for filming. Just a bit jealous! But gladder that people get to enjoy such stores. We have stores that still sell physical, but their range is nothing like this. Love shopping in an actual store over Amazon or the like. A great experience to see the titles and buy them off the shelves.
I've certainly learned to appreciate HMV (and their offshoot stores known as FOPP) since starting this channel and that's because so many people started telling me they purchase everything from Amazon. I hope I've succeeded in changing that a little over here during the past few years. I never buy anything from Amazon as they do not have physical stores in our shopping centres and high streets. If that ever changes then they may see some of my custom but not until that day comes. I think the over population here in Britain crammed into such a tiny area does mean shops such as HMV have enough of a market left to sell to so the uncontrolled, mass-immigration here hasn't been all bad.
John.
Thoroughly enjoyed the tour, thank you. You are so lucky to live close to such a unique brick and mortar business catering to physical media fans.
They're all over England Pete and dotted around England and Wales but only one apiece in Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. I think we're the only major nation in the world to still have a chain like HMV. John.
Thanks John another great video, this is required to keep open and promote these stores very important, keep up the good work, cheers
Thank you Dave. The comments about this store tell us everything we need to know because people from around the world are astounded such a huge media store can still exist. We need to look after them and that means shopping with them even if the dreaded Amazon may save a few pounds at times.
John.
Thank you John.
Cor blimey, first again!
@@moviecollector5920 😊
HMV has consistently been one of the few stores I always visit in my local town centre for 20+ years. These days I almost always buy something on 4K, often from the ongoing 2 for £30 deal
Well done. What you are doing will help to keep the dreaded Amazon at bay and as your trips to HMV get you into your local town centre it probably also helps to keep your town centre alive. John.
Love these videoes. They back the smile on my face but also a tear to my eye. Sad that streaming has destroyed most of them. Here in Norway you cant find them anymore, just two physical stores is left. Great to see shops like these actually is still there. Hopefully there will be more stores once more.
I think they only survive here due to the overcrowding Morten and the fact we're a nation of music and movie lovers. Even America can't sustain stores on this scale like we do so it's not all bad here in Britain. John.
Oh there's plans to expand to the rest of eroupe.
Great store to go through. Plenty of merchandise. Thanks John for tour. 😊
Who would have thought a store on this scale would still be around in the modern world? Amazing really. John.
Hi John. What a great store this is keep you happy for hours
And clear your bank account too Mike! John.
Wow the 4k section looks very tempting and this video is in 4k it seems. Good job john.
Yes, I compiled this one in 4K Ben but not quite the usual high resolution 4K I normally upload a 4K in because I simply couldn't afford the extra time it would take. It looks okay though, I think. John.
@@moviecollector5920 looks fine.
wow, incredible!
hmv all but closed in Canada but we do have sunrise records, and I go in there few times a month to buy from the very limited collection of 4k
they have a buy 3, get 15% off deal all the time so I make sure to triple up. prices are above average, compared to amazon, but I like to talk to manager and browse.
thanks John!
Sunrise Records own HMV so I can see the great HMV name coming to the fore over with you sometime in the future. If that happens it just might result in a resurgence of home video and record sales across Canada. John.
33 years it’s been there. Wow! that stores doing something right . 👍🏻 that is one beautiful HMV. ❤
The scale of it is unusual today but Leicester city centre did look to be thriving so that's got to be a contributing factor. I'll be back over there in a few months and on a Saturday too so that should give me a better idea. John.
@@moviecollector5920 thank you John for bringing all these stores to our attention. Really appreciate this one as it looks like one of the best stocked HMV stores that I've seen (please do tell me if you have seen better). Definitely grander than my home store in Manchester. I may pay this one a visit soon thanks to you. ❤ from an avid physical content collector 😊
Great to see ! I remember buying Slap Shot with Paul Newman on Vhs in that basement. Gotta go back to see Leicester soon. Thanks John for the lovely video 😊
I got Slap Shot from Portland Films on Shaftesbury Avenue 40 years ago. That was Super 8 though but VHS was around then, just. I don't think Slap Shot had appeared on VHS at the time though. The Super 8 is a cut down but tremendous fun and I've watched it so many times. John.
@@moviecollector5920 that's brilliant John, glad you enjoy it too! Here's hoping for a 4k one day.
Best,
Andy
@@andypickeringmusic The language was a bit shocking back when it was made but fortunately it was all laugh out loud funny so it didn't seem to matter. It probably wouldn't even notice today but at the time... phew! Don't show mother!
Hi John! so good. No words that havnt been said so gonna go on a limb for this one and borrow from Cheekster and just say... thanks John!! Cheers D!
Ah, but Cheekster got his comment in after about 30 seconds of the video going live... as he always does. Thanks though Dave. John.
This is amazing!!! I wish there were physical media stores like this still in the U.S. Best Buy, Target, and Walmart barely carry any 4K, Blu-ray or DVDs anymore...
I'm still hoping that HMV will take over Amazon... well, we can all dream. But it's amazing they're thriving today given the onslaught. John.
They sure don't we after order stuff online.
Wow! Fantastic video store. How I wish we still have video stores here in my country.
Morning Pinoy. I hope all is well with you in the Philippines and you're not spending all your money on LaserDiscs. HMV are doing well over here now. I'm hoping for world domination in the coming years... but I am a bit of a dreamer!
John.
Superb video as always John. It’s always nice to look inside the various HMV stores across the country and thank you for the shout out for my channel! I’m glad you enjoyed my tour of the HMV Belfast. I’m heading to Dublin this Saturday for a 70mm screening of Oppenheimer so I’ll be on the lookout for the Dublin HMV store.
Have a great time enjoying OPPENHEIMER which should look fabulous in 70mm. And if you happen to stumble across the Dublin HMV it might be handy if you just happen to have a video camera with you cos' I'd really like to see it and I'm sure others would too.
John.
Unfortunately for whatever idiotic reason they will only stock CDs and vinyl and some merch, not even dvd or blu ray
@@rutgersplague4595 i suppose it's supply and demand and most people can't tell the difference between a stream and a DVD let alone a 4K. And why buy something special when you can see the same thing in sub-standard form for nothing? John.
This is video Nirvana. Since the demise of video stores here in the States, I have had to depend on Amazon (US and UK) and Barnes & Noble for my physical media. It is nice to see that stores like this still exist somewhere in the world.
And they are apparently doing well again here in the UK which is even better news. We were in FOPP in the West End of London on Thursday afternoon and it was heaving. Never seen it so busy. Put that store on your list for when/if you ever fly into Heathrow to come to London.
John.
HMV long gone in Montreal , we had a big store like it. Impressive thats there so much 4k disk on display . We had 3 mega stores. Last victim Archambault store close on 30 June 2023. It opened in 1930.
Great video.
That's heartbreaking Robert. I think HMV have managed to survive over here (despite a couple of bankruptcies) because we've over crowded but a nation of film and music lovers. This means we're tightly packed enough for stores to still be viable because most big towns and cities have big populations on their doorsteps meaning there are still enough people to buy the products. In the Americas, it is so huge and disparate that operating anything other than an internet store can be a risky business. With Amazon seemingly taking over the world I think we're going through a bit of a worrying time. We'll all miss shops and shopping centres if they're all killed off. John.
Love a visit to HMV, I'll be going to oxford or reading this weekend. They always have a big choice of film and music.
The Reading store has drained my wallet a number of times over the years. Be careful! John.
@@moviecollector5920 mine too John, it's a very addictive store to visit. 😃
Great show as always John. I've got Jaws 2 sat here for a showing this Saturday evening, really looking forward to it.
I need to get that one so if I can just catch up on all the films awaiting me for a first watch then I'll get on the case. John.
What a great HMV. Huge selection, i would enjoy it in there.
Fortunately I had to get to a meeting so that saved my wallet from mortal injury! John.
Wish I found your channel sooner brilliant content and commentary
Kind of you to say so Sith Lord. John.
Wuaooooo, If I had a store like this around here.... thank you for a very nice video.
We're very lucky to still have so many of them here in Britain. John.
People go on about the convenience of online shopping but the seller sent the wrong order took 2 weeks to get a replacement. Found my local HMV to be excellent I have had refunds exchanges and replacements without any quibbles plus the staff have been knowledgeable and helpful which is why we should support this chain. I use the HMV in Leeds Hull and York being equidistant from them. I am very lucky in that regard.
Three of them nearby would be fatal for me Mike but I managed to resist in Leicester. Well, I didn't have time to do too much shopping is more the truth otherwise I'd have left with another £100 basket full. Only the one disc this time, The Truman Show. John.
Great to see...
One of the best I've seen in recent years. Quite amazing in today's world really.
John.
Decent store. Went in there the other day. Good deals going for it.
And really friendly, courteous staff too James. John.
This is so great to see, India has nothing like these physical stores, there used to be stores like planet m, Music World etc.. nowadays nothing :( ...as a kid, weekends i used to spend lot of time in these stores with audio cassettes and cds.....sad state of affairs
Morning Rahul. I think the UK being so overcrowded has worked in our favour given we're full of music and movie lovers which has meant that the HMV chain has been able to survive against the Amazon onslaught. They seem to be appreciated increasingly so hopefully they'll be with us for a long time yet... even if my bank manager might wish otherwise!
John.
Yesss....my local HMV, I call it my local Alladins Cave, spent a lot of money in there and due another trip this weekend, love the place😍
it's a dangerous store. It was just as well I had to be somewhere else otherwise that could have been a bank balance draining occasion yet again. A great HMV. John.
@@moviecollector5920 I will be getting Predator and Home Alone both on 4k!!
I live in Leicester John and this is a great score. Wish I’d known you were in town, I would have come over to say hi 👋
I was there for a meeting at the Phoenix. I expect you know that venue rather well so keep the 29th October in your diary and I'll see you there. John.
Great video 👍
Thank you Jay. John.
I've walked past that flagship store on Oxford Street a bunch of times over the past year, it will be good to finally step inside on my next visit to the Capital. Used to visit it fairly regularly back in the day.
We tended to use the HMV and Virgin Megastore on the east end of Oxford Circus but wifey used to get my Christmas pressies and birthday pressies in that original store. What a history it has and it will be a day to celebrate when it's back again. John.
@@moviecollector5920 - I would walk the length of Oxford Street and pop into every HMV, Our Price and then the Virgin Megastore searching for items on my wish list.
Hey John. As you know HMV reopened in Dublin which is 40 minutes from where I live and I was going to take a trip down sometime in the next week or two. But then I got an email off a friend of mine telling me that apparently they don't sell a single movie. It's either vinyl or merchandise and that's it. So unfortunately My Hope of actually buying movies physically has been completely destroyed. Absolutely devastated
Roy Murphy may be heading there soon so I guess we'll find out for sure then Keith. Don't believe everything until then. However, you might be the only movie collector in Ireland so that might explain things.
Why don't you get over here for OPPENHEIMER on the 11th?
@@moviecollector5920 I've had it confirmed by a couple of people. For some strange reason they're not selling any movies. I would love to get over John but unfortunately I am a very busy man at the moment and I don't have any free time. I just found out there is a cinema very close to me that has IMAX so I think I'll be going there to check it out
That was my local HMV back in the early 1990s, it's a big ass store!
And fairly unique in the world in 2023. We're so lucky to still have shops like this given the Amazon world domination plan... tongue firmly in cheek there. John.
@@moviecollector5920 we certainly are lucky! Don't bother ever visiting the one in Bath, it's the size of a living room.
@@roguetrooper5288 But at least it's there. I have actually featured that store a couple of times because it's important to support them. High streets and shopping centres would be a much more boring place without HMV in them. John.
@@moviecollector5920 so true. It's sad that they moved and downsized the Bath one, it's more of a t-shirt, toy and comic shop now. They have a pretty impressive vinyl collection in there tho. Luckily the Swindon store is still intact!
Hi John some pictures of HMV Dublin forwarded to you now. Looking forward to my great reviews.
Got 'em and saved them. Thank you Darren. I'll get back into the original comment to remove my email now. Thank you for sending them through. John.
Hey John. Just been to the new HMV in dublin today. I wasn’t able to record but took some photos and can report it’s over 3 floors and stocks merch vinyl cds but no dvd/blu ray/4k yet. Can forward pics to you. Keep going with the reviews I always enjoy them.
What a terrible shame that it's not a video store Darren but thank you for going and taking the snaps. Please email me and let's get this sorted. John.
Great job John 👍....Il be on Dublin on the 2nd of August....and will try and get a some footage or a few snaps.... unfortunately Keith over at euphoria pictures will be on hols at that time so can't meet up☹️
Well fancy him not booking a holiday to Dublin now the new store is open. I'll have to have words with him!
John.
I feel like a kid in a candy store watching this.
I was that kid in the candy store but fortunately I was there for a meeting regarding Film Is Fabulous! which we were planning at the time at the Phoenix Cinema & Art Centre which is coming up on 29th October 2023. If you happen to be over here then I'll see you there!
John.
Wow what a beautiful sight all those movies, for a quick second I seen Fifth Element your box art is way nicer then USA Version. Im in NYC I miss stores like that I mostly buy my movies from Best Buy‘s now. Thank you for sharing this amazing video!!!
New York to London Michael. Cor, you could do it in a day and you'll be able to shop in FOPP and the original HMV store which is re-opening on Oxford Street soon. Book a couple of night in a Travelodge (cheap!) and you could also take in a screening of OPPENHEIMER at the IMAX is it's still showing and whatever else is showing on film at the Prince Charles just off Leicester Square. An amazing adventure awaits. One day maybe. Well done for using Best Buy. It all helps to keep physical stores in business because we don't want just Amazon left. What an absolute bore that would be. John.
Looks great! I would spend many hours browsing there. Great soundtrack for this video. It kind of sounds like Eric Serras score for ’Léon the Professional’.
It's all RUclips creator music for us to use. I actually found these two tracks for my IMAX videos but didn't use them both and they seemed to suit this HMV upload so I gave them a go. John.
Nice video John ❤
Thank you Raymond. John.
Hello John, great video, certainly reminds me of times when there were stores like this all over the country.
My local HMV closed down, but a group of entrepreneurs opened the site up again, the store name being ‘Head’ (pronounced Heeeeead), with wall to wall Blu-ray, DVD and CD (4K was not mainstream yet). The staff were friendly and helpful, and it was usually packed. Apparently HMV got to know of the new success and repossessed the site and reopened again as HMV. As far as I know, none of the Head staff were retained. Unfortunately, the ‘new’ HMV has slowly moved over a lot of floor area to other merchandise (pop art stuff, etc), now there is only a very small 4k selection on one shelf near the pay counter…pitiful…
Good news that the Oxford Street store will be re-opening… great to visit again. Of course, I remember many a visit to the old HMV Mega-store (towards the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street), think it used to have 4 or 5 floors of physical media? Used to visit Stereo Regent Street and many of the Hi-Fi/AV shops on Tottenham Court Road regularly too. Bought my Eumig S940 in one of the London shops… Cheers.
Your history is similar to mine Stephen but I lived right in the centre of London so I was around all the time. There was nowhere else like London for shopping back in the 1990's and early 2000's but then the congestion tax came in and quickly wiped out most of the specialist shops. Remember Tottenham Court Road being flooded with hifi shops at the southern end. Congestion tax and then web shopping some years later killed the lot. Nothing there at all now. Oxford Street is more or less the same as every other town centre so little point to make the effort now... but HMV re-opening will change that. I spent a lot of money in Stereo Regent Street and got to know them quite well when they moved to the smaller premises on Shaftesbury Avenue where I spent thousands on THX equipment, NTSC laser discs and region 1 DVD's. We'll never again see the variety of shops like there was then. John.
I’ve visited hmv in london, it was an amazing store,
i’ll be back
I'll see you there! John.
@@moviecollector5920 I would like, but i live un belgium
@@illiwe There's a tunnel though! I hope you can get back over here one day.
@@moviecollector5920 for sure 🖖🏽
Great video
Thank you Ethan. John.
salut beau magasin et belle vidèo comme toujour
Merci Alain. John.
Amazing! I wonder if there's anything that good in NYC. If there is that would absolutely justify a day trip!
I don't think so Jack but there might be smaller, independent outlets around. John.
Last time I was at HMV was in the one I frequented since the early 80ms: HMV Oxford Street in London. That was in the Fall of 2017 @Movie Collector . Since then it moved to a smaller yet nicer location near Covent Garden and it got a new name: Fop or something? I learned most HMV’s had changed to that but I obviously was wrong.
The video ends on a high note though that HMV Oxford Street re-opens soon though. What a surprise, John so now I gotta get back to London!😊😉
There were two on Oxford st. The reopening is the smaller original one near bond Street.
That store near Covent Garden was originally mainly a classical music retailer. It was taken over a while ago and became FOPP. I don't know if that was always a subsidiary name of HMV or whether they bought the small chain of FOPP stores out years ago but it was there at Cambridge Circus for many years while the two HMV megastores were on Oxford Street. And it's wonderful that HMV is about to return to the original location. Time for a celebration when that one re-opens. There will be a reason to shop on Oxford Street again.
John.
@@moviecollector5920 the only one I am afraid. As the only reason I visit Oxfors Street is to take a turn left (or right, depending from which side you are coming😄) to go for a pie, fish and chips and a white wine or a beer at Nicholson’s Pie House!
@@pieterbalk-ht7kq The decline in London started when the congestion tax was first introduced. This was years before web shopping would inflict a similar blow and has resulted in empty and derelict shops across the whole nation. I'm surprised ULEZ hasn't completely finished off Oxford Street but perhaps there's been enough tourism to just keep it going. John.
@@moviecollector5920lp me please, checked Google but what was the congestion tax (for)? And why did it influence shopping and high streets in general?
To me since the mid 2000’s and the globalization going faster and faster things went down hill fast and our European cities start to lose their identity.
The high streets in for instance Amsterdam, Cologne, Antwerp etc. here are identical and virtually indistinguishable with their worldwide brands and no local or national retailers anymore.
And buying physical films in a store with an expert behind the counter becomes a thing of the past and maybe in general.
With the stupendous switch to all digital (like streaming services over physical product) we lose our heritage. 100 - 200 years from now we can’t tell what was typical for 2023 as there won’t be much left that defined this decade. But maybe for the better. As there is ‘t much worth preserving of these bleak times where BBC made Doctor Who black and gay (nothing against both, far from actually as my son is gay, but even he says “c’mon, wtf is this?”) and we are stuck with poorly scripted CGI crapfests instead of authetic film making.
Yet there is a glance of hope in 23 with the new Mission Impossible where Tom Cruise shows what true film making and adventures are like and ofcourse with, different genre, Oppenheimer!
Like going back in time to the 90's! I loved browsing the CD section of my old HMV store. Sadly gone like many HMV's. Get your IMAX ticket booked for Oppenheimer John! It's getting excellent reviews sir. Cheers.
Got 'em Lborg and meeting up with quite a few of my extended family who I've managed to get intrigued with the thought of seeing the best film format presentation man has ever invented. Should be fabulous. We're going on the 11th. John.
Nice store u have there! We don't have any in Finland anymore.
There's nothing much left around the rest of the world Jukka. I think home movie disc collectors do appreciate the value of having HMV on so many high streets in Britain today but I think it's mainly record sales on vinyl that have brought about the HMV renaissance. John.
Thats a big ole store. Haven't been up to Leicester in many a year.
Well if you're ever in the vicinity you know where to head for Simon. John.
i have sicario 1&2 on blu ray but i've been tempted to buy the double pack on 4K as they are very hard to find here in sweden. i usually don't like buying box sets or those double packs but this might be one of those cases where i need to. i saw it in the video and i had forgotten about it until now so thanx for reminding me haha.
I only spotted it in the video too and it made me think that it's time I saw those movies. So many movies, so little time! Good spot.
John.
@@moviecollector5920 i know, there's just too many movies and impossible to see them all haha. but the first sicario is such a great film and the second one is very good,maybe not as good but worth buying at least for me. cheers!
what a great place. I'd love to go a video store. When I was little I used to go with my father, they had dvds and vcds but no vhs, and blu ray wasn't even invented back then. Now, there's no such store in my city that i know of, none of the recent movies of my country has been released on physical media now. I guess streaming has wiped out their necessity
Streaming has taken a toll but so has Amazon. Calling the DVD replacement 'Blu-ray' wasn't the best move either as even today most people don't know what it is and think it's something that only younger people would be able to make work. Streaming is also killing cinema though so I suppose we can blame it for mainly causing the death of music and video retailers. Fortunately, HMV have managed to survive and are now thriving again under the ownership of Sunrise Records. John.
Used to love visiting hmv Oxford Street in the 90s along with the virgin megastore. Time marches on and we now have far better visual media to entertain us but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss them
The HMV on Oxford Street is going to be back soon though so you'll be able to relive those days all over again... and with the better visual media to purchase too. John.
Great video John....did you notice Peter Rabbit next to Pet Cemetery 😅
They put Peter Rabbit there after he died. He was last seen hopping out of the store! John.
It's been decades since I've been in a hmv. If I was there I would be so broke, just picking up everything. 😂 That's the thing with buying online, you don't really browse. You actually have to type in what your looking for. While in a actual shop you impulse buy on demand. I saw a lot of titles there I have bought on various formats over the years. Not visiting an actual store has probably saved me a vast fortune.
I know what you mean because these HMV stores around the country have cost me a lot of money. John.
Thanks for Sharing this video John,there sure is plenty of Choice in that HMV.
I noticed the movie called Prince of Darkness would that be a Dracula film,I’m a big Fan of The Hammer movies.
That's the John Car;penter film Paul. I think it's a great horror movie but it wasn't very highly regarded when new. It needs to be seen in a dark room with the sound up loud to get the full impact. The pounding score is relentless and that adds to the atmosphere and the tension. John.
@@moviecollector5920 Thanks for the info John,I love a film with superb sound,I can’t say I’ve seen that film,I seen another John Carpenter film several years ago with a crossbow in it can’t remember the name though I think James Woods was in it.
@@paulallenMacca That was Vampires Paul. Maybe try another of his films that's not quite so intense next.... how about THE THING?!?
Hi John,
Great Reviews & your I max videos were extremely interesting, I understand that The Abyss, , True Lies & Titanic are due for a 4k release this year, should the rumours be true, there some worrying news that a Msjor film company will stop releasing blue rays and only release them on their streaming channel in Australia, let's hope this is untrue. Keep up the Great Reviews, will you review empire of light, Kind Regards, David , Broadstairs Kent
If home movie disc sales are not good enough then some distributors/studios may close their home video departments but still licence their product for independent labels to issue them. After all, that's good business and while there is enough of a market for labels such as Arrow and Second Sight there will surely be major titles appearing from the studios who have thrown the towel in. It makes no sense not to generate income by selling discs while it's profitable. I have The Abyss on Super 8 and it's a very good print so that should indicate any 4K would be very good too. John.
big fan of hmv
That's two of us then Konsker. Sadly there is a minority of people who will not support them because they are sometimes more expensive than on-line retailers. Just as well we're not all of the same mind there otherwise there wouldn't be any shopping centres left, let alone HMV.
John.
@@moviecollector5920 ok
That place is amazing. We have nothing like that around Pennsylvania , Best Buy keeps shrinking their movie section , it’s a shame I would love to go through that Hmv very nice 👍👍
HMV is owned by Sunrise Records now and I believe they do have one of the chains in America so you never know, HMV may return to the USA. John.
Looks well busy, discs were flying off the shelves
Not at opening time on a Monday morning they weren't but the store gets very busy at other times throughout the week, most importantly on a Saturday. John.
Would use to have 2 stores in Peterborough not any more ones a Nando’s
I've heard that Nando's are going to start selling records and videos.
Okay, I made that up!
John.
Noooo John... made me longing bad. Good video, maybe the the music is just right (for me anyways) as I'm sad I cant be there! :D
Thank you Viktor. The music was for the IMAX videos of a few months ago but one of them I didn't use and it seemed to work for this so in it went, albeit cut around and extended to match the imagery. We're very lucky to still have HMV, particularly stores on this scale. Quite incredible in today's world. John.
I live in Leicester! I know the store well 👍
I expect that store drains your wallet on a regular basis! It would be dangerous if I lived near to it. John.
Wow....I'M INSANELY JEALOUS....
The original store on Oxford Street in the West End of London is re-opening soon and that one is about as cavernous as this Leicester branch. But there are branches all over Britain so we are a little spoiled. The great news is that people seem to be increasingly appreciative that HMV have survived to date and are supporting them whenever they can.
John.
Our HMV in Southampton used to be over 3 floors but sadly when it closed they reopened in a cheaper unit on 1 floor
A lot of the stores were saved that way William but at least they're still there. Blu-ray Baz got some shots of the Southampton store for us a while ago but the team wouldn't let him shoot video inside if I remember correctly. I had something similar in Plymouth but I somehow managed to accidentally get a shot to include that store. Leicester is the biggest I've seen in a long time and it's like going back in time as a result.
John.
In Liverpool we have an HMV store which is great but it has dwindled in size in recent years. The dvd, blu-ray and 4k section is sadly so small now and is uninspiring. I used to love my weakly visit to HMV and was always so excited to go there! 😢 Perhaps there may be a resurgence one day!
HMV are doing well around the country David so perhaps Liverpool is one area that isn't enjoyed the music and home movie renaissance. Leicester is an exceptional store though. I've been into quite a few in the last 18 months or so and it's the biggest I've seen since the original store closed down some years ago. It might still be bigger than that one when it re-opens shortly. John.
@@moviecollector5920 yes, I agree. I think perhaps many people in Liverpool have chosen to go the route of streaming...but not me! I love my physical media collection, particularly 4k. HMV in Liverpool have really reduced the amount of movies on display in favour of the vinyl section. Its all due to lack of sales. 😥
@@davidarmstrong7549 I haven't been to Liverpool HMV in over a year. There used to be a large section of DVD, Bluray, etc, at the back of the shop. How much smaller is it now? I believe they had a refit.
Quite an impressive collection they've got there! Nice video too, although it's a shame there seems to be quite a lot of video judder when panning (maybe it's just me).
It's so important to support stores like hmv with physical locations instead of the massive retailers like Amazon in my opinion, I just picked up the 4K BluRay for Season 1 of The Last of Us from hmv online with what looks like a very nice slipcover from online videos. It's always nice to see TV shows being released in 4K instead of streaming only. Anyway, that's enough rambling for me :)
The judder is when I'm scanning across too quickly but I had quite a load with me and wasn't expecting to be shooting anything. Much of the time I panned slowly enough for the video camera to be able to cope with all the information. Well done for supporting HMV ahead of the dreaded Amazon. I expect Amazon will be the only business left one day and therefore everything will be delivered to homes and no one will go out anywhere, if they'll even be allowed to go out with what's happening with 15 minute cities. Right, that's enough of that, time for bed!
John.
@@moviecollector5920 Ah, I see, you're right most of the time the video is fine, I was just curious what caused that. Haha, indeed; it still baffles me people voluntarily pay Amazon to have door locks and central heating installed in their home that depends on their cloud services!!
@@ShadowHolder748 We're living through concerning times right now Roland but at least cinema is getting a boost with the release of a real film on the biggest format that might actually finally encourage all age groups to get away from their sofas and phones and back into theatres. I just hope the genuine IMAX screenings are the biggest success of all with 70mm and then 35mm after. Film could rejuvenate the industry... which is exactly what the industry doesn't want!
John.
What a palace John I guess you have no shop lifters like we have in my country.
We do have them I'm afraid Robert. I don't know how much it costs HMV but maybe security is much improved of late. I don't understand how anyone could ever steal but that was how I was brought up I suppose. John.
Excuse me, I have to go get a Napkin, I am drooling.
Just don't get any of it on the discs! John.
Honestly the pricing is very fair as well.
I never buy anything from Amazon but even if HMV were badly beaten on price I'd still use them simply because they support our high streets and shopping centres. Amazon do not. John.
@@moviecollector5920 That is a very wise opinion. Thanks John we all really appreciate you.
@@Onibabayaga Thank you M J. Maybe see you in an HMV one day... or a genuine IMAX cinema. Two of my favourite things left in today's world now. John.
Hello John how are you been a while since you made a video.
I am working on a video Robert so don't worry, all is well. Our home cinema is almost done so that's what I've been shooting. John.
@@moviecollector5920 OH I see well good luck to you cheers Bob.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) gets released on 4K Blu-Ray next month. I wonder if you have seen it? Its a great theatrically released animated movie with Mark Hamill as Joker.
I haven't ever seen it, no. Might finally give it a punt. Thank you for telling me Ankka. John.
I'm not sure i wanted to know that there's a HMV store in Leicester, going there in late october for and visiting HMV is a must (we don't have ANY stores like that here in Sweden, none).
Might be an idea to leave your wallet at home! If you don't though, don't spend too much in there... spend a lot, just not too much. John.
There's probably more 4k's alone in that store then all the Best Buy's combined here in the US.
Leicester is the biggest I've been into in a long time. Very lucky to still have stores like it around the country. It seems we're the last in the world. John.
Sorry, John, wanted to ask, did you video this at closing time, or permission to video after closing time? Reason I ask, is… there doesn’t seem to be any customers browsing…
They'd just opened on Monday morning. Perfect timing. John.
Physical media stores are almost extinct this side of the world. It's good to see stores like these again. I can't wait for Oppenheimer. Is there a difference in quality between digital IMAX and film IMAX? we only have digital this side
There's no comparison between the faux IMAX video projections and the real McCoy but it's still going to be exceptional because it was filmed genuine IMAX and that always shrinks down to a superior looking video. Have a great time Rhu. John.
Shot on a Sunday morning? It looks sadly empty 😔
Great store tho 👍🏻
Opening time on Monday morning which was a coincidence as I wasn't there for this purpose. Best time to shoot in a shop though. John.
did you pick anything up : )
Only the 4K of The Truman Show. I was actually in a bit of a hurry as I was supposed to be at a meeting elsewhere but film collecting always seems to come first! John.
@@moviecollector5920 I was pleasantly surprised how crisp and bright, but not over saturated it was - I hope you find time for a full review after your own viewing
@@branscombe_ I have the trailer on 35mm and that's kept the film in my mind all these years. I didn't see it at the cinema but it looked interesting when I saw it on a telly broadcast but that's no way to judge a movie so this will be like seeing it for the first time. John.
Did you pick up Poltergeist?
No, I've had that for about 30 years now Gary so no need for a home video copy. Great film, but I will always prefer to see it on film. John.
How are these stores still making money?!
The resurgence of vinyl seems to have been a big driver but we are a nation of music and movie lovers and we're tightly packed into a small land mass. It's getting tighter all the time too. John.
There's nothing like this in the States anymore. And it's infuriating. Best we have is Newbury Comics and the one near me just stopped selling movies. We used to have places like Tower Records and Virgin Megastore but they all dried up.
HMV is now owned by Sunrise Records who I think own one of the chains in the USA so there is hope yet. I think we're lucky enough to still have these stores across the country because we're so over populated for our tiny land mass but perhaps major city centres in the US might see HMV expand into them if their growth here continues along the same successful path of recent years. John.
@@moviecollector5920 Let's hope. Actually going into a real building to browse physical media in general has become a pretty depressing situation here in the last 10 years. There's nothing dedicated anymore. The only options are places like Newbury comics for music (which is a relatively small chain found in malls in the New England area) or the music and movie sections of the big box places like Best Buy, Wal-Mart or Target. Which in most scenarios is pretty pitiful now and unkempt most times. And you're only going to find major releases at places like those -- nothing in the boutique release space for sure. Which means that I keep my purchases online most times -- Amazon, DeepDiscount and the like. Sad. If I ever get out to the UK again, HMV will be one of my priorities.
My wallet surrenders, trembling!
My own often collapses completely! John.
@@moviecollector5920 That’s a lovely store, John. We have nothing like it in my rural area of Tennessee.
@@ryanbaker7404 HMV is still growing again over here now so it's a great time to be able to shop in stores like this and imagine you're back in the 1990's. John.
@@moviecollector5920 Awesome! I love seeing good retailers do well and provide jobs and good service!