Best Buy WILL NO LONGER SELL PHYSICAL MEDIA

[Vandelay]

Physical media been going the way of the dodo for 10 years. Not going to pretend I'm some kind of purist, but I still keep favorites, rare and important media. I have a sick record collection.

 

[YouMadd?]

People still buying disks....for movies/tv shows?

Only physical media I buy are video games

Most streaming services do not provide the highest quality picture. So visual and audiophiles 100% still buy disc

 

[YouMadd?]

I keep a few cult classics on deck, so I’ll be looking to see what kind of deals they have

 

[Blessings]

Even with Apple Music, I still try to download the 24-bit Flac that I plug to my AVR via USB

Also still purchase vinyls, CDs, and PS5 physicals

 

[Tribal Outkast]

The Goodwill is one of the best places to find good cds/dvds lowkey. I found a sealed copy of Atliens in a goodwill and I’m still surprised

 

[Solomon Lurke]

The Goodwill is one of the best places to find good cds/dvds lowkey. I found a sealed copy of Atliens in a goodwill and I’m still surprised

This for sure. Been snatching up my favorites movies/tv shows. Don’t find as many of my favorite CDs there but did recently get a sealed copy of Tribe’s first album.

 

[Consigliere]

Physical media is dead in my house. I don’t have any devices with a disc drive.

 

[Luke Cage]

Physical media is dead in my house. I don’t have any devices with a disc drive.

same,
haven't used physical media since at least 2019

 

[Deltron]

Man yall better buy up every dvd and blu ray you can find. With digital media especially streaming you do not control how long you can access your favorite movies they can switch off your service and demand a monthly charge for a movie you already supposedly own digitally. Plus the pay per stream movies lack all the special extras and bonus footage from some of the DVD/Blu Ray releases. On top of that they can change the version of the movie they stream to you at will they can censor "controversial" scenes or remove the film you like from their platform.

Anybody that holds on to a large dvd/bluray collection will eat like a king when all those physical copies become rare. Limited edition dvd and bluray prices will skyrocket. get your ebay account ready.

yep.

they did this w/ the digital/stream version of Toy Story 2 and the physical re-release. They removed this:




and on D+ they've edited some movies already like splash (ass shot) or adventures in babysitting, they censor the word fukk

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

What's this mean, just as a customer who doesn't even buy dvd's this is kinda disappointing

You seem slow so I’ll entertain you this morning
Stocking CDs, Movies and Games sucked ass
Not only that, the amount of cases you found in the restroom sliced open
shyt was comical
Then you had customers that come in asking for shyt with the most obscure references then get mad at you when you didn’t know what they were talking about
Then they ask the cac media genius and it’s all smiles/no worries
Best Buy was my top 5 of shytty jobs ever
Sure the discount and some of the one night stands I had with customers was great
But fukk Best Buy as a staff, company and record label

 

[Vandelay]

The Goodwill is one of the best places to find good cds/dvds lowkey. I found a sealed copy of Atliens in a goodwill and I’m still surprised

I gave away 120 dvds last year to goodwill. Some good shyt too. Didn't have space in my condo. Been on my minimalist shyt; getting rid of stuff I don't use...for years.

 

[Supa]

Streaming services have destroyed music and art

I feel horrible for a generation that will never know what it felt like when your favorite artist dropped their album on Tuesday, getting to a store and buying your favorite artist work for support, getting in the car ripping the plastic off the disc, listening to an entire album of work for the next hour or so, then getting home and reading the booklet from the cd case.

Those 14-18 tracks was a creative journey designed to allow the consumer to connect to the artist personally.

Now music is just move from single to single and the most you will connect with an artist is the weirdo clout chasing bs they post on social media. Streaming has just killed feelings of anticipation for a artist to drop.

I'm hoping somehow we turn this around. Where talent means something, a body of work we can judge from 1 to 5 mics, a catalog we can access etc. Truth is, nobody even loves music anymore

All those Cd's are gonna end up in a landfill. It's environmentally better to move away from physical media

Last CD I bought was Speakerboxxx/The Love Below and I had basically stopped once Napster and Soulseek came around. Never collected DVD's once torrents came around. What music I did have was ripped to mp3 and I threw the discs away. Having boxes of music and movies didn't make sense at that point. Digital media was going to make it obsolete. Walkmans, VCR's, etc all died so Cd's and DVD's were obviously on their way out. I'm not into holding on to relics.

Yall need to adapt. Having a CD/DVD stand in 2023

 

[Buzzed Lightyear]

What about disc rot?

I got burned cds from 2002 that play perfectly fine. Plus it's nothing to make a copy of them for backup purposes.

 

[Diunx]

Man yall better buy up every dvd and blu ray you can find. With digital media especially streaming you do not control how long you can access your favorite movies they can switch off your service and demand a monthly charge for a movie you already supposedly own digitally. Plus the pay per stream movies lack all the special extras and bonus footage from some of the DVD/Blu Ray releases. On top of that they can change the version of the movie they stream to you at will they can censor "controversial" scenes or remove the film you like from their platform.

Anybody that holds on to a large dvd/bluray collection will eat like a king when all those physical copies become rare. Limited edition dvd and bluray prices will skyrocket. get your ebay account ready.

Thats what piracy is for, I'm not gonna fill my house with disks I'm never gonna watch, if I wanna watch something that is not in the services I have I just download it.

 

[Dynamite James]

Physical media is dead in my house. I don’t have any devices with a disc drive.

That’s on you You want corporations to determine what they feed you.