HMV

Typical records and movies type of store but it’s huge! The ground floor is focused on music. You can find all sorts of music genre… From the current top records in the front to pop, rock, small section of Rnb, and country, jazz, classic can be found on the first floor. Most of their records run from £4.99-£9.99 depending on how hot they at the moment but they have deals for £2.99 as well.
They have a huge selection of movies and shows located on the first floor for a decent price. The prices varies depending on how how it is, how old it is, and if it’s a box set or special edition.
Along with records and movies they sell books and vinyls, but of course it’s all related to movies and film.
The staff are all nice and helpful when your looking for something. They have deals so it’s always nice to check their offers. I’m not a big buyer of CDs anymore, but when there’s rare occasions, this place usually carries it. A solid place to get music and film, if you don’t mind buying it from a big chain.

This place is still going? Hmm ok then.
It hasn’t change at all since I can remember. Walking in here, my senses were flooded with those triggers that take you back to a time and place. That time and place being my angsty teenage years, when I’d hang out in the high street of my hometown, and make the weekly pilgrimage to HMV to buy the newest single… and sometimes even an album.
The smell of carpet and plastic. The sound of a heavy rock-​ish song with a double-​bass drum pedal turned up too loud to give the solid impression of youthful disdain and disgust at anything less than LOUD NOISES. Too loud to distinguish the song. The look of the rows and rows of cd racks, holding cds and dvds with the artist name of film title in white sticker with BLOCK CAPITAL BLACK LETTERS. The staff who are eternally punky, all ear tunnells and dyed hair. There’s even still the sound of the posters, as people browse through Nirvana to smiling cat posters, the clatter of the plastic frames as someone flicks through quickly. These are the memes of my teenage years.
I came back in here this weekend past for some DVDs. Sometimes you can’t beat a good DVD. It seems that the majority of the store is now dedicated to this. Gone is the top singles area, and the swathes of CDs. Not much else has changed though. In a way, I hope it stays. A final hurrah against the amazon era. But it’s really quite a soulless, packaged memory all the same.

Not sure what the deal is but they are no longer closing. Really strange.

Oh dear, even closing down, HMV can’t even get this right.
Yes, HMV has been news worthy and is being mourned by those who clearly spent their pounds and pennies elsewhere or else the business might not be in this predicament. For someone teaching business then this is a great example for class. Over a year ago, my 2^nd years predicted that HMV wouldn’t last two years — clever cookies.
The news crews were outside HMV the night of the Unilocal Hotel Chocolat sampling. The sale posters were up (huge discounts, closing down) and I was actually given the impression that HMV were literally on life support and not likely to last the weekend. Was this a ploy to draw in the crowds to see if they would ‘save’ HMV with a massive uplift in sales? Potentially a good idea but it has to be well executed. Well, they are still there, and always one for a bargain, I popped in last week to see what discounts to be had.
Ha! Don’t bother and I would say a ploy. Apart from a £5 copy of Bridesmaids on DVD, the word sale is misleading. CD’s/DVD’s are cheaper in Asda, Tesco, itunes, etc without a sale. Yes, the purists will argue this is part of the issue, whilst waiting on their Amazon delivery and not actually being able to remember the last time they shopped in HMV. HMV’s own ‘normal’ sale in the past has been better than it’s closing down sale and although the posters were drawing in the Saturday shoppers, no one was buying. Hoards of teenagers with their pocket money and not willing to spend £14 on a CD. No mad queues, staff twidling their thumbs due to boredom at the tills, not a good sign…
So it is a dying business. It might not have a Unilocal listing in a couple of months, but even now, its not worth a visit. Unless you want to pay over the odds for your goods and have plenty of disposible income. Maybe there will be a ‘proper’ and ‘real’ closing down sale, but it’s just not happened yet…

Such a shame this location is slated to close!
Bye electronics!
Bye discounted DVDs!
Bye more jobs in Ed… :-(

A HUGE store with all kinds of music, movies, games, etc. I could spend a whole afternoon browsing around for some classics and the latest music and movies. They are arranged very nicely and it’s not hard to find what you need. The guys are helpful and will give some recommendations, too. Wait for the sales — they are so worth it!

You would be forgiven for thinking that places like HMV are pretty much on the way out of the metaphorical High Street store.
Everyone downloads music and movies nowadays, and with all of this illegal palaver going on (not from my end, mind), you can’t imagine the foot fall in here would be very high at all, even in such a busy location.
I have to say that when I visited to buy the Sex and the City boxset (it’s about time) I was surprised to see how busy it actually was. The queue was massive, the shelves were being re-​stacked and there were mini crowds of punk loving teenagers crowding round the listening post, just like the old days.
It just goes to show that, much like the newspaper vs on-​line news debate, some people just like to own an album or a DVD rather than have it as a file on a laptop.

If I’m interested in buying a new album or CD, I usually head for Unknown Pleasures, Avalanche or Fopp. Their choice of music is more eclectic and the shops have a better atmosphere.
If I’m after a new DVD however, this HMV is one of my first ports of call. It has a whole floor dedicated to film with sections for everything from world cinema to thrillers, westerns and musicals. They even have a small selection of classic 50s and 60s kitchen-​sink dramas like Saturday Night, Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner. For those that prefer marathon sofa sessions, they also have a wonderful collection of British and American TV drama with box-​sets of everything from The Sopranos and The Wire to Cracker and Our Friends in The North.

Over the years, HMV (His Masters Voice) has gone through some changes.
Let me explain. When I was first discovering my love for music, HMV was the one stop shop for just about everything — they had all the bases covered. Anything from the latest releases to the most obscure and odd bands you could think of — which was perfect for my extremly eclectic taste in music.
Now however, with the advent of the DVD and music downloads, HMV seem to be dedicating far less space to actual music — what would have once been 95% music is now easily 60% DVD’s in most cases.
This HMV, however, seems to buck the trend — yes, there are still loads of DVD’s, Blu-​Rays, T-​shirts, book and even a whole floor dedicated to computer games, but still the music is the main focus here. Spread across three floors, this is easily one of the most impressive HMV’s I have ever seen — with firendly and helpful staff, and a vast range of just about everything — including the music.

I used to come to HMV all the time, but then they introduced a silly scheme instead of the student discount. T’suh!
But I can’t resist it. You can’t really fault HMV, they have everything. And if they don’t have it, they’ll order it for you. The staff in this branch are what makes it special, to me anyway. They are so friendly and lovely! Often I feel that people trying to help you in shops are just doing it for their commission or whatever, but in HMV they genuinly want to help you. I was looking in the jazz section just the other day and one of the guys working told me to check out Eilleen Hunter, an ‘upcoming and promising jazz artist’. You can’t buy that sort of service!

This is a really giant store in comparison to how many people are in there on a Tuesday afternoon. Everything is easily findable but the absence of vinyl records anymore does make the logo a bit misleading now.
It must be having a right hard time of it since the growing popularity of online shopping and itunes (which I’ve never used I’ve just realised) so there does seem to be some great boxset deals, like I got *insert awful show here* reduced from £50 down to £6, which to be honest I would never have searched google for. It’s a great place for an impulse buy.

I love HMV and I think I’m the only person out of my group of friends that still buys CDs and you can often pick up albums in here for as little as £3!
As well as loving my CD collection I also buy every DVD there is going and many of them are so cheap they cost nearly half the price of a cinema ticket and it’s not the end of the world if you end up not liking the film and a plus if it’s great!
I’m a complete Lost fanatic and on a Christmas shopping spree in Edinburgh a few years ago I got my series 3 box set. I still haven’t seen series 5 or the most recent series that currently on TV so whenever someone talks about Lost I just don’t want to know in case I find out what happens — I cannot wait for a Lostathon when the last series hits the shelves and HMV will be the first place I will go.

I always end up spending at least an hour in here milling around the DVD section. This store is pretty big allowing for a huge quantity of stock.
I don’t buy music because I steal it from my boyfriend, who is still old school and purchases all his music. But he usually manages to find what he’s looking for, with the exception of some bands earlier albums which aren’t so mainstream.
My usual experience is with the DVD’s. There is a section with all the major movies (and not so major) displayed in alphabetical order which makes hunting for Drop Dead Fred so much easier if you know the alphabet. I like the TV box set section as it has pretty much every decent TV show on DVD. I picked up The Wire here for 60 pound. Score.
The staff are generally quite helpful. A staff member heard me comment on how shite Twilight was and we had an in depth discussion on how terrible it was.

Having gotten all teary-​eyed about my vinyl collecting days in another recent review, I’ll try not to dwell too much on the formerly fantastic selection available here. What it had in quality, it gradually lost in custom sadly, and so HMV has lost one of the aspects that made it truly great.
Still an excellent entertainment store, and fairly massive. Brilliant for DVDs, ok for games, and a bit pointless for music as you’ll probably end up stealing it for free.

This is a pretty huge store so for the majority of customers, you can usually find what you’re looking for. With the increase of online sites such as
offering low price deals, I’ve noticed HMV offering a similar number of special offers on CDs, DVDs and the like and the great advantage is that you don’t have to wait for your item to be delivered — you can get your hands on it there and then. The staff are always helpful and friendly and I usually find the store to be pretty well laid out. Anytime I wander in, I usually don’t leave empty handed!

HMV situated at the West End of the Princes Street, it is a big HMV store, with a huge range of products. You will find here almost every DVD, music CD or game you are looking for. The store hae three different floors, with different sections on eahc floors, you might get slightly confused as DVDs are on two of the floors. The members of staff are friendly and helpful and will assist you if you cant find something you are looking for. You dont have to wait a long time to be served as there is a payment point on each of the floors.

It was in this store that I discovered Wolfstone and their «Not Enough Shouting» CD. I enjoyed listening to this CD so much that I came back to Scotland with my wife to see them in concert. For this selfish reason, I give this store four stars.
Assume that the karma is good here and you’ll discover music that you would not find anywhere else. I don’t know if this is true and it will be up to future reviewers to decide. All I can say is that for me, the store was magic.

what can be said about HMV. it has everything from girls aloud to pergolesi. of all the hmv in scotland, this is one of the few that is on different floors with distinct flavours to each floor — i just love the classical department. the people o the fllor know their music and are always willing to put something on the CD player for you to hear — not always possible in some shops that have a playlist of the latest Now album. the staff in HMV are also consistently young and attractive — there must be a rule somewhere that ugly folk can’t work here

If you are buying any console deal from here have a word with the manger and he is happy to help and if you very lucky might change the deal for you.
The store it’s self is HUGE 3 floors devoted to music DVD, game consoles and some book/​posters. There is a to look at and is very good to have a browse you may be inspired to pick up one of the cheaper CDs and DVD prices as low as a £.
I always pop in even when I don’t need anything I always check out the Animé.
Staff do try but don’t seem to care that much