And remember, folks, just because you bought a digital copy from Amazon, doesn't mean that you'll always be able to access it, as they can still lose the rights to it.
If you've been in a Best Buy in the last year, I had already thought they stopped selling physical media. I'll miss some of the retailer exclusives, but otherwise they were one of the more expensive places to buy media.
I don't think I've bought a DVD there since they dropped their anime section TBH. Once I went there and saw that 1982 movie "Used Cars" for nearly $40 and shook my head. Like....bruh
I’m a physical media person, I don’t want my movies to be subject to the whims of streaming services. Same with music. I like my collections.
Same for me for the most part, especially with music. I can't remember buying any physical media at a Best Buy since at least when my daughters were still in high school. The youngest one graduated in 2014 and I think I switched to Amazon long before that.
I go there every once in a while because there’s a music shop next door so I go get guitar strings and stop in Best Buy to see if there’s any movies I want.
I think the last time I was in one was at the beginning of the pandemic when I was buying up all the ring lights I could find so reporters could work from home and do live shots on their phones. I cleaned out the inventory of at least five Best Buys here and ended up buying the rest of the lights from B&H. Before that, though? Maybe to get some speakers installed that my wife had gotten me for Christmas around 2009/2010.
oh SNAP!! I didn't get through the entire thing, but I didn't see a mention of movies... but it can't be far behind. If the industry wants to eliminate physical media, I think this is still a little premature. People still don't have the infrastructure to stream everything everywhere quite yet.
Plus, streaming services remove films from their service all the time. And any digital copy of media you own (movies, music, books) can be deleted at any time by the copyright owner. So fuck that. Physical media FTW!
Let’s be clear. Walking into Best Buy to be met with a sea of CDs and DVDs was the best feeling ever.
For Walmart this has the added benefit of hastening the demise of competitors like GameStop, who make their biggest profits from selling used games.
I convert all my music to .mp3 for portability but with the exception of a handful of albums and EPs that the artists didn't release on physical media, there are actual CDs at my house.
Same, but I haven't bought an LP in close to 40 years and don't currently own a turntable. My younger daughter went through a vinyl phase in college and dug out my old albums, but she ended up selling her turntable when she lost interest.
After my brother disappeared all my CDs for reasons I still do not know 20 years later, I've been downloading music files anyway
I've decided I prefer digital media to physical media. It's generally more convenient. What used to take up several cubic meters of space spread across multiple pieces of furniture now all fits on a chip the size of one of my finger nails. Yes, even books. It took me longer to come around on digital books than other forms of media, but I did, and it opened up a whole world of new possibilities that weren't possible with paper books. I can poop in the dark now. I can poop in the dark! However, if I pay for a specific piece of media, I want to be able to continue using that piece of media.
I am cool with digital copies. I am not really sure how someone is going to take them away from me since I encode them myself, or I get a nice digital copy from someone else when I have the physical media. DVDs fuck up and skip. I was not going to replace everything with blue ray. I paid for some of the shit twice. I went from analog tape to digital DVD. I am not paying for more digital. I will buy the physical media for stuff I keep a digital copy of, and if my streaming service stops offering a title I do not figure that is cause to pirate it. I will find out where it is offered and subscibe or purchase it. There are a few grey areas. Fuck you Crunchyroll, I downloaded dubbed Guren Lagan because it is only offered subbed in america and there is a dub out there. That is stupid because I live in america you won't stream me the dub because some stupid rights issue. Pirate away to watch the dub since I pay for a licensed copy subbed, and you own the dub. Also, if it is fifty years old I am downloading it. I will try to watch it on a subscription service first so whoever gets a view gets their click, but FU you are done at this point. Now that digital storage is so fucking cheap I have my own library of digital shit that I back up and do not need to rely on connection to view.
