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Best Buy to End DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales

variety.com Best Buy to End DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales

Best Buy plans to phase out sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs both in-store and online by early 2024, the company said.

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UHD Blu-rays still have value and relevance. This is unfortunate.

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- I love commentary and streaming services almost never have it. That's the biggest loss.
  
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  Does any streaming service, besides Disney, have commentary tracks?
  
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- Value for sure, but relevance? I challenge you to find one of your non tech obsessed friends (most of the population) that is still actively buying physical media or even still owns a disc player. I don't even think I've heard my friends say the word blu ray in years.
  
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  Depends on age I think. All my 40+ year old friends have large DVD collections, as well as some in their 30s. I could see people younger than 30 not giving a shit about physical media. Personally I would go physical over digital.
  
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I wonder if they sell fax machines.

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- Yup, about a dozen unique results in their app.
  
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  Their analytics staff: HOLY SHIT WE GOT A HIT ON 'FAX MACHINES' WE ARE GOING TO FINALLY UNLOAD THESE THINGS
  
  an hour later
  
  Analytics: they didn't actually purchase any
  
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  A lot of them are printer/scanner combo machines that have fax functionality, rather than a dedicated fax machine.
  
  Which makes sense, I assume it's not that much more expensive to produce it with the required parts (if any). Rest is software
  
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- Fax machines are still very much used in the health industry (unfortunately)
  
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  I'm pretty sure Japan loves them too
  
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  And banking. I send at least ten faxes a day.
  
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- They do, many business still use and need them.
  
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  Zero businesses need them.
  
  A few pretend to though.
  
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Who can blame them. I just hope that the film makers keep making DVDs though. Library rip forever.

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I was in the used video game store today and they had a huge bin of Blu-ray’s, including really good movies, for $3 each.

It’s dead

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Boutique media distributors still exist for the limited audience still wanting physical media. For that I am grateful. Best Buy is cutting their losses, we live in a digital age, sad as it is for those who love collecting.

I'll be really bummed when the next gen game consoles are 100% digital and that be that for game collecting. Alas, nothing lasts forever.

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They've been implementing this for the past 2 years. So stupid

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Meh 🤷

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Huh. Figured this happened years ago

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Really wish they created a new format based on nand technology like an nvme drive. Make it read only and just give us 1tb movies woth extremely high bit rates. I'd pay $50 a movie for that maybe even mote for certain movies.

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- At that point why not just sell the file as-is. The drive would come this ungodly amounts of DRM anyway.
  
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  You'd still want to make it easier for end users to use.
  
  I'm thinking something the size of a fire TV box that accepts something the size of the Xbox series nvme cart. That way they cam still have art work and make it easy to switch the movies. For large file sizes like that it's still better fir a lot of people to just buy the completed cart.
  
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I feel like this is a bad sign of things to come - like sooner rather than later, it’s going to be impossible to own physical copies of our media, and companies no longer want us to buy copies of things, just sign up for never-ending streaming services.

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