Collectors react to Best Buy pulling physical media from shelves
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2023
- Best Buy will no longer sell hard copies of movies in its stores by early next year. It's disheartening to collectors, but as our Beret Leone explains, it won't stop them.
Physical media will forever reign supreme!
My sentiments exactly my king! 🫡
I agree too! Long live physical media!
physical media has deleted scenes/bloopers that are always hilarious to watch. physical is so much better than digital
@@RideRedRacer I agree too!
I Agree, For Both Films, TV Shows, AND Video Games!
Hell, We Don't Have The Complete Series Of Regular Show Yet!
I'm a physical media #1 Fan 4 life
Congratulations. I got physical media of male xxx ones😂
Me too!
Same here!
Me too
Literally the only reason I shop at BestBuy
The loss of physical media in box stores really makes me sad. I miss the many isles of movies and music to spend hours browsing.
My local Walmart has reduced their movie section to barely seven feet. Why bother having it all? And what’s ever on the rack is brand new and current. No older titles, which I understand, but if you’re a collector looking for a specific title that’s 5-7 years or older you won’t find it. But in the end PM will never go away. Too many people want it and love it.
Me too. Especially when, I went to target, Walmart, and Best Buy.
Best Buy is a dying company anyway. They are just putting themselves in the grave quicker with this move.
I agree!
Hahaha 😆
yeah I'm finding less and less reasons to go to the store
The only reason why I go to Best buys for thermal paste
they sell gardening tools at BestBuy now LMFAO. i have no reason to go there now
I still remember when Best Buy had aisles and aisles of music and movies, now its just 2 rows of shelves in the store near where I live
Yes Best Buy is executing Circuit City’s business shutdown plan to a T.
In my store it's only one row!
Yea my store used to have rows after rows and then out of the blue it was down to 2 rows and right now its down to one row of both side and bestbuy will have a hard time to get someone to come in there and spent $1,000 of dollars on there products which no one will ever doing that other then just browsing around and looking at stuff.
damn...
ill miss it.
Stores around my area only have one short isle, and Walmart got small too.
Many places in the US and around the world do not have internet access or people can't afford internet service or unlimited cell phone service. So DVDs, Blu Rays, VHS, etc is the main media these places still use.
This is a bad move by Best Buy. Just like taking out the CDs.
Im not considered a collector, but... i do have about 30 dvd movies under my belt, and i do catch myself watching a movie that's never on any streaming platform. So they are definitely useful.
and they have deleted scenes/bloopers that are fun to watch too
I seen an article a few months ago, that said that vinyl record albums were outselling CDs. People invested a lot of money in vinyl album presses, and are still making them.
Vinyl overpriced and overhyped and still wears out. Give me Cds anyday.
@@williamhopper6602 I agree that they're overpriced, but a lot of people collect them, because there's some nice art, on the 1 ft. square album cover.
@@williamhopper6602 Yup, and vinyl still has a vastly inferior quality of sound. There is music that is tailored to vinyl, but the vinyl effect can still be captured on a CD.
Best Buy never had competitive prices on DVDs and Blu Rays.
Only if you got them on release week. They were low priced to get foot traffic in the stores. Said as a former best buy employee.
Just go to garage sales and thrift stores. Tons of physical media there. Best Buy wasn’t the only store that sold it
FACTS or just stream😂
Streaming sucks. #BoycottStreaming #DemandPhysicalMedia
Not forever give it a couple of years it will be slim Pickens.
@@Attmayespecially they keep raising prices, It going high so bad that I rather buy physical over streaming
Ah yes, rent from some company who can change content on a whim and allow them to always store and harvest your up-to-date data for the pleasure... @@I-speak-U-shut-it
I go to Walmart and target for the newer movies, but for older movies I go to thrift stores and bookstores
The problem is that most newer movies are not worth watching, and you can only resell the same movies so many times before people simply settle for the copies they already have.
And older coies are often better anyway. DVDs from the 90s and 2000s are often way more packed with bonus features than current day re-releases. I've even noticed a lot of older DVDs from that period that have much better picture quality than modern DVDs, too. @@Attmay
I can’t remember the last time I bought any movies from big box stores. I’ve been buying movies from thrift stores, mom and pop collectibles stores, secondhand bookstores, places like that. A few years from release date, those movies will end up at those stores anyway, for much cheaper. I’m cool playing the wait game. Patience is a virtue.
Me too. However, book off sells 📀
Best buy is still in business? I stopped going there years ago.
Be honest when was the last time you went to Best Buy for a physical disc? Best Buy is barely used for electronic devices, its essentially a glorified showroom because people will get the appliances cheaper at Amazon. Thats said profit margins are higher on those big appliances and physical media collectors have been buying from the boutique label websites anyway, the only ones who lose here are the people who were impulse buyers. We're in the golden age of physical media with release after release, we've never had it better.
Then I won’t buy appliances there either.
I actually go quite often to buy movies there. I love going to BB, this move sucks
The last time I went to Best buy to get something was for a blue ray disc
Most of the stuff at BestBuy aren't cheap..Which is why I hardly go there unless it's Black Friday..
Literally a week ago to buy new 4k releases.
I collect Blu-rays and DVD, but I never shop at Best Buy. I haven't been in a Best Buy in about 20 yrs, not since one of their idiot drones tried to sell me one of those stupid $50 HDMI cables. He kept trying to tell me "the colors are brighter." HAHAHAHA.
1:09 AND some films have been edited or censored for whatever reasons the studio has chosen. No thanks. I don’t care for streaming. I like my shelves filled with uncut tangible media on laserdiscs, DVDs, and Blu rays.
The only thing I'm gonna miss is buying Anime from best buy I always prefer a physical anime collection over a digital one
I prefer to actually own the movie on dvd or music on cds,since I control when I watch or hear it.Plus,streaming services edit movies for so called objectionable content,especially older movies.Everything today is throwaway,and temporary. I have enjoyed searching and collecting the media I own.That's part of the fun.
Screw you Best Buy. I used to shop there all the time until you stopped selling CD's. That was what made you unique.
Youre getting rid of everything that was fun about going to your store. Like someone said with this move Best Buy is digging themselves a quicker grave.
By 2025 they'll probably be done.
CDs didn't bother me at all. That makes much more sense consuming through streaming. I like buying vinyl for artists I really love though. That said, the only thing that has brought me into Best Buy was the fun I had browsing the movie section. Once that's gone I won't have any reason to go into their store.
Yes the market has contracted but if studios weren’t making some money they’d quit releasing movies on 4K Blu, Blu-Ray and DVD.
The biggest movie of the year Barbie was just released on disc today. Universal announced today that Oppenheimer is coming out next month. Paramount announced James Cameron’s 90s blockbuster Titanic is being released on 4K Blu-ray in December yesterday. This isn’t even counting all the boutique labels like Shout/Scream Factory, Arrow Video, Criterion and others continuing to announce new releases monthly.
I get Best Buy not carrying them in stores but to drop online sales as well is extremely shortsighted. I think this has more to do with Walmart in talks of taking a larger role of disc distribution. Best Buy probably doesn’t want to deal with a competitor to get product.
Yes physical media is shrinking but it’s still profitable enough to justify releases from the major studios.
Barbie sucks and is one of the worst movies of all time. If this is the best Hollywood can do, no wonder they don’t wanna stock degenerate garbage on their shelves anymore when nobody wants it.
Yeah, but look at what the studios have been putting out over the last decade. Nearly everything is a beaten to death superhero franchise, a reboot or an adaptation from another media. Nothing original or creative gets made anymore, or if it does people don't find it until five years after it's debut and you can't buy or rent a physical copy.
@@scarpfish i agree I’m tired of the superhero stuff too except for Batman 😂 but there’s plenty of classic cinema to be discovered on physical media which very little of is actually streaming.
Just like vinyl records there’s a lot to be discovered out there and part of the fun is the hunt.
"Video Games Are Not Impactred By This Move"
That Didn't Age Well...
To state the obvious, Best Buy is executing Circuit City’s business exit strategy spot on. Less revolving stock means less traffic into the stores weekly. Dropping from online sales is short sighted as well.
Just this past week Disney released highly sought after James Cameron titles on 4K for the first time… sold out everywhere that carries physical media. Just like Oppenheimer 4K last December.
I have no reason to shop at Best Buy any longer. You’re not the only place to buy a 4K OLED or piece of stereo equipment or home appliances. I give Best Buy 36-months tops before they close shop.
What about video game discs?
They said on the report they arent affected
@@ct0760which makes no sense since the video game industry is going digital distribution even harder than the movie and TV industry. It’s just a matter of time.
@@wolfman210 damn, when does that happen ? Thanks for the info tho
Yes they are doing the same thing with video games too even same as for online too they will remove them movies and video games
@@reed28 so we won’t be able to buy physical disc copies online from Best Buy? Is that what you’re saying?
Best Buy will lose money on Black Fridays
We can still find them in AMAZON!
Amazon is part of the problem.
Target is getting rid of physical media too and Walmart may tok
Agreed. This hyper online/digital media is too scary for being someone born in the early 90s. I am all for technology, but I believe my generation is pretty good with balancing both technology and real life lol.
No physical discs means that there is even less reason for me to walk into a Best buy. That goes for videos and games!
It isn't about "collecting" for most. It is about having access to something without having to be subscribed to an umpteeth number of streaming services who 1) either have a specfic (i.e. altered) version or 2) remove it wily nily 'just because' (looking at you Sony & Apple). For me, it is my copy of the unaltered OG Star Wars Trilogy. Movie Night at the Children's Hospital was memorial as some kids thought it "made sense" that Darth Vader was old at the end of Return Of The Jedi. #goFigure
Now you're going to have to pay for that movie every time you watch it and when you're done you won't get to sell your copy
I’m surprised Best Buy is still in business, they’re overpriced, and charge for bags
DVD and Blu-ray is better sold online for Best Buy and other large stores because you can have a larger collection of available discs and the shipping is inexpensive for this media. To play devil's advocate: i just don't see the point of driving to best buy to pick up a new DVD when i could just click a mouse and get the same item, possibly for a cheaper price.
physical media the rules to stand apart from everyone else as a real movie collector
buy for your self of what you like not what you think others want to buy Collecting is about your private library
its all ways be that way and on real movie forums they will show you there home movie theater but not what they have theres no show and tell
thats what its all about and not about show and tell or movie reviews everyone has all kinds of taste of what they like
movies will all ways be in places of hide aways and you want to keep it that way aka never tell any one where you shop in your
area when everyone was paying full price i was buying half of what it was new and i started in the 80s ,
I hate digital banks and credit cards💯✌🏾
It’s true we don’t own it we need to buy dvds
Better yet, why don't the companies just sell movie and TV show downloads without the DRM on them? This is what they did with music.
I do understand why people want physical DvDs or Blu rays (although I'm not a collector) but I don't get why anyone would want a VHS tape.
People want the very very original stuff. The original Star Wars trilogy is a good example. The current Disney versions offer the ones with alterations like including Having Hayden Christiansen as a ghost. The current Blu-ray release also has Christiansen. Most remasters are bad but few like the 95 VHS Star Wars and the 2006 DVD version was original with good THX remaster and they are like $100 on Ebay.
@@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623 That's fair. I know George Lucas has been tinkering with the Star Wars movies for years. Are there lots of other examples though? I can't imagine there are too many cases where a VHS is the best option.
@@patrickdoherty4527 I can't think of other titles at the moment but there were tons of video formats made for VHS like old TV shows, music videos, documentaries and cartoons and those are lost if the studio went bankrupt or lost the original films. People collect for nostalgia purposes.
@@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623 Yeah, that makes sense. I often watch things for nostalgic reasons on UA-cam. I think that if you're not a physical collector, it's hard to fully understand.
VHS Degrades overtime too.
Video games are not impacted by this move? Ahemmm.....Walmart. lol
That’s another nail in their coffin
Yeah I'm not going to stop buying physical media b/c I might not keep the streaming services if they keep going up in cost. I rather pay the one time cost of a dvd/blu ray movie/tv series over a monthly fee of a streaming service. It's a better deal than having to mess with streaming costs, internet issues, password crackdowns & etc whereas with a physical copy all I need is power and a dvd player.
I won’t be going there anymore! I am very upset I’ve spent thousands on movies…
At least RedBox is still around to rent out DVD 📀 and Blu-ray to us.
Redbox is part of what started the problem.
I know this is 2024 now and a lot of people nowadays would prefer digital and streaming media over physical copies of movies and video games since it's easier and more convenient, but I actually personally still love to collect physical media and that doesn't seem fair for Best Buy to discontinue physical media like that either, especially for people like me who still love collecting them since I'm just saying. I'm actually kind of an old-fashioned person myself since I still do things like it's 2003 almost or something being that I still do certain things a lot of people would have done 20 years or so in the past. I don't even text on phones or scan QR codes either since I'm just not in that sort of thing myself. It would be nice though if Best Buy would still continue to sell physical movies and media although at least they'll still carry physical video games from what I've heard for the time being.
Same.
Though I don’t mind streaming if it’s a Netflix exclusive movie
@@khsmediacorner0524 Yeah.
At the very least what they could have done is move all their physical formats back to the distributor and sell them online.
I am on a streaming service right now, it's called UA-cam, and it's free... but the problem with streaming is how unprofitable it really is. There isn't much money large bandwidth video at a low cost.
I need physical media. I don’t like the idea that Apple can shutdown and $1000’s of dollars gone forever
or they take music, movies and tv shows off their streaming services. so I go buy the dvd or cd lol
There is a free blockbuster in front of tacos tacos in Ludlow Vermont.its leaves a movie take a movie.
Own nothing and be happy. Eat ze bugs
If you have absolute favorite movies, I would definitely recommend buying them on DVD. There's really no other way to guarantee you'll always have them.
Handled and stored properly a DVD lasts for many years.
DVD covers can also have cool artwork.
Please buy the blu ray and forget dvd. Blu ray is way better and has a protetive layer wich dvd lacks so blu ray last way longer. Beside this the image and sound is way better thean blu ray as well, pretty close to a 4k blu ray.
I’m very disappointed in you, Best Buy.
Walmart doing the same
This is a sad and premature move by Best Buy and it is one less thing they will have to sell ! This move may end up causing Best Buy exclusive discs to increase in value which will be good for the collector. Hearing the corporate excuse is sad and pathetic ! They say it will give them more space and opportunity to bring customers new and innovative tech. Like what? What is Best Buy going to sell and place in the space no longer utilized by physical media? I have not spent money on movies digitally for about 4 months and to me I will not spend top dollar on any movie digitally! When you take away the artwork and the physical disc that had better video and audio than streaming or downloads unless you talk about Kalidascape which the equipment is very expensive but it can directly compete quality wise to a disc and sometime be slightly better.
Another reason not to go to best buy. Yes I buy a DVD and Blu-ray here and there and I'm in there I walk to the store and look for other things I may not know they have or want now I won't do that so yeah you saved a couple dollars Best buy but you definitely lost a lot of future sales have a great day that's why they pay you CEOs the big bucks to make these really smart decisions
I will always buy physical media
agreed
It well grow with me.
Best Buy has never been the best buy because they are overpriced.
BestBuy is stupid, done with them and their bullshit.
The new movies suck. Once everything is released on 4k its dead. Soon!!
Heart broken, but in reality..Less clutters..
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All pirated content from here on in then is what I see.
I have over 6100 movies physical is best
Oh give me a break get over it, even if I still was idotic enough to collect physical media I would just hit up ebay or amazon. these days are dead folks. move on
Apparently they aren't. There are a lot of physical media stores in my metropolitan city, and they are always packed out. Especially Josie records. You live under a rock. It's 2024, get with the times. Physical media is popular and growing.
Physical for ever
"You will own nothing and you will be happy." Pete Buttigieg
He didn't say that.
@@scarpfish Could've sworn I heard him say that. It may have been someone saying it in reaction to something he said regarding public transportation.
my conspiracy theory: they are paying the creators less for streaming than for a physical copy. The move to streaming is corporate greed
I would not be surprised one bit if this were the case. Which it probably is--I definitely agree with you on this one.
There's no conspiracy. Physical media made big bucks for creators and their corporate masters alike. You the consumer decided that you didn't want to buy movies, music and video games anymore, and it shows in the bland, predictable non-physical end products that all three industries are putting out.
You will own nothing and be happy...
I can tell you one thing my generation dont like physical media lmao gen-z, gen alpha. I mean i dont mind physical media but majorirty of my demographic loves digital.
Just wait until the corporations have control of everything with streaming… you’ll love the entertainment industry draining your wallet with owning nothing in return.
I mean why own it if we can just watch it few times and then move onto the next tv show/movie@@craigwhitcher9629
@@wolfman210not every player requires a connection. You can play Blu-ray and UHD without internet connections.
That's funny because my Blu Ray player has never been online and is fine. @@wolfman210
Which is stupid because 10 year old games get sold at full price with digital, but you can find a physical copy for $5-$10.
I say to all just accept it and get over it and move on.
I remember before streaming was born people said things like "I wish we could have something that just plays on your TV when you want and not have to buy disks that gets damaged".
Ok, that time has finally arrived!! IT IS HERE!! Hey look!! For only $$.$$ a month, you can watch what YOU want, when YOU want and how many times YOU want without IT breaking!! You're welcome!!
Oh, wait? What? I thought y'all wanted whatever you want, whenever you want, how many times you want, and it doesn't break. Well, we went and spent A LOT of money on licensing fees to build a beefy library for y'all!
So, what's the problem now?
Canada is pulling books from libraries and rewriting them to be more PC. ""Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless Present in which the Party is always right."" --1984, George Orwell
there are pros and cons for both, but plenty of good reasons to still own physical media
Ikr😂
@@princeofmayonnaise In Ray Bradbury's _Fahrenheit 451_ , it was the job of the firemen to burn all books. This of course is fallible, prone to missed books, costly etc. When everything is digital and controlled by the AI, you won't even have to push a button to erase the Library of Alexandria. Or wikipedia.
Streaming is renting. Renting for life. Physical formats are way better than renting. And Streaming is going up and up on prices. And u still renting lol