HMV Reopening in July

Great news. It looks to be the current GameStop location on the street.

How is the business model suppose to work when most people download their music for free ?

I am happy to see them back. Not a fan of golden discs

With Gamestop going and, as you say, people beginning to realise that Streaming (Video and audio) isn't permanent and is fracturing again, and the resurgence in expensive vinyl on the rise, it's probably a good time to come back. I think their whole issue last time was their immediate cash flow problems as opposed to dying. The idea of having a small stage for bands is a good idea. Especially for brand new acts. They have to start somewhere. I'm sure most will be terrible but it great to get the opportunity

Not related to HMV but may be of interest - Golden Discs are doing 2 for €25 on a range of 4k discs atm, there’s a selection of 2 for €35 also.

So apparently there are no movies in this new store. No 4K, Blu ray or dvd's for sale. Bah.

Looks more like a toy shop judging from the pictures I've seen of it.

Agreed.

They have stated that they are working on an Irish online store and hope to open it in the autumn.

Having been in their Edinburgh shop recently, it's exactly like a toy and t-shirt shop. A floor full of Marvel and those pop toys.

My 16 year old has revived the old turntable and loves a vinyl now, and I found it very hard to browse for anything tbh.

Buy a few cd's, it'll be great.

Do they sell games?

Sounds like they're going the GameStop route.

Is vinyl’s renewed popularity attributable to the quality of the user experience? I understand a lot of the modern releases are just digital transfers. The CD provides an excellent user experience but will soon disappear. I still remember the first time I heard one; it was such a dramatic improvement over the cassettes I was used to.

Hope it does well, harder/more expensive to get specilest releases now like stuff from Anime Ltd. now that brexit and new vat rules have made a hames of things.

Thanks for posting that. I actually popped into the store yesterday and was disappointed to see there were no blus whatsoever. Happy to wait a while if they end up stocking their "exclusive" range that aren't available via any other retailer.

Thanks for that, for a lot of their films's buying the blu ray is often the only way to watch them so it'd be great if they were able to implemnt the IOSS thing you mentioned.

They might be doing things very slowly this time. HMV still haven't relaunched their Irish website yet. However the Henry St store in Dublin does come up as a HMV Live venue on their website for the UK stores.

I don't know if HMV would have plans to relaunch the Irish website along with opening more stores again here in Ireland after the new year. Has anyone here gone into HMV's Henry St store before Christmas or the new year to ask them about these upcoming plans yet.

With more and more streamers pulling content I wonder will BD make a bit of a comeback/ I mean physical media will never hit the heights that DVD did but there is something to be said for having physical copies that are not reliant upon subscription fees and licensing arrangements. I had hundreds of DVDs back in the day but then work were doing a charity drive and I brought them all in and flogged them off for Aware. I now have a select few discs: Extended Lord of The Rings on 4K (F*ck The Hobbit :) ), a couple of imports I paid a lot of money for way back when (Infernal Affairs trilogy, Until The End Of The World trilogy, some anime etc).

So I am a LOT more selective about what I buy but I DO buy...

Yeah, just saw that shortly after I posted. Pity

The shops were all ditching records back in the late 90s too! Plenty of shops today selling those...