Slow Death of Physical Media | Best Buy Exiting the Physical Media Business for Good
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Physical Media's Slow Death | Best Buy Exiting the Physical Media Business for Good
On today's episode of Gaming Off The Grid, we discuss Best Buy reporting the end of physical media. As early as Quarter 1 of 2024 they will exit the Blu Ray, 4k Ultra HD and DVD business. What does all of this mean???!!! Stay Tuned!
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I'm so glad that I kept all of my DVDs and blu rays when everyone was telling me to sell or trash them. "They take up too much space!"
Who cares! I'd rather look at a wall of stuff I OWN then scroll through an endless digital library. I'm glad I kept most of my stuff too
@@GamingOffTheGridExactly!
Dang skippy. 👏💯
I remember when I worked at Circuit City and we stopped selling CDs as everyone was pirating or streaming music. Great video boys, excellent content.
They do take up a lot of space, especially if you keep them in their cases.
My guess is you a) haven’t moved around a lot or b) haven’t lived in a major city.
Damn, these are sad times. Physical is dying out a lot sooner than I expected. Take me back to the early 2000's dammit.
It's starting to snowball! Not good signs at all
Good thing is...............there are tons of games on PS2, XBOX, PS3, Wii, XBOX360 that are dirt cheap
@@GamingOffTheGrid Facts I'm gonna start making a list of all the physical games I want. Before it's too late and prices start to rise cause it'll happen without a doubt. 😭
It;s not dying. We just have to adjust how we buy. The amount of movies being produced on DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K UHD is astonishing! I agree that it's becoming more of a niche market, but there is a demand for it.
For 9/11?
Going to Best Buy now is just depressing.
Totally!!! Zombie apocalypse type of shit
Circuit City 2.0
I think best buy will be going out of business next. They shut down Frys Electronics in California and few other states as well. I read an online article recently that toys r us might return but I don't believe that.
Well....... when a woman Is CEO and woke..... run
It’s not just Best Buy, it’s target, Walmart, and GameStop is doing away with physical in most ways.
There will ALWAYS be a collector's market.
CDs and vinyl refuse to die, and those formats have had the longest battle against streaming. In terms of vinyl it's been about 17 years of continued growth.
For movies, while the mainstream consumer has moved on, for now... the dedicated collector is still out there and will be catered to by smaller labels who don't expect to make billions.
That's how vinyl survived and eventually saw a healthy revival. And it's how physical movie formats will likely continue.
Fingers crossed you are right. We love physical media and still collect vinyl in 2023. It's just a slippery slope when we get to modern releases
HD DVD 4 Life!
I'm pretty sure that's what limited run exists for
Yeah have fun paying $100 for Home Alone 2
@@alyx4436 Don't be silly.
Removing consumer power is what this is all about,they mask it as "convenience". Im thankful i have a used store where i live that is pretty nice. I would say physical media is going into a more underground direction as vinyl did in 90's. I can see physical movies making a come back in a similar way
That's what they are trying to do, remove all consumer power and make us rely on just "one thing." Physical will never die with people like us :)
"You'll own nothing and be happy" they weren't kidding. 😢
Subscription services are how they get their talons into you.
What power?
People will continue to rip the stuff from the sites ans upload it.
I can even watch that new Willow if I want to despite it being taken off streaming. Plenty of sites have it still to watch.
You lose nothing.
You have to get over your "oh it is illegal" mentality and not give a single shit.
@@LUCKO2022true, but for the best quality, pirating can be hard.
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It is easy. Doesn't take much effort.
Very sad seeing Best Buy slowly die off. I worked at that particular Best Buy in the 90's, and our CD, Movie and Game section was unrivaled here in the Midwest. It was glorious!
Yeah it use to be hands down the best place to go for physical media! 🍻
Best Buy in the 90s and early 2000s was AMAZING.
They used to have shrines to Lara Croft or whatever character was the big new release. Used to have really fun video game sections that felt like an arcade, back in the N64 days. Now it's depressing.
The great reset begins, and ends, with an oblivious generation. we had it so good guys, media freedom that is. Cheers to all that remember.
We definitely lived through a great time in the gaming world. Hell everything else too. Cheers!
"You'll own nothing and be happy" wasn't just an empty threat. 😢 The world as we know it is ending and everyone is too ADHD-ified to care.
“You will own nothing & be happy…”
What better way then with a generation of youth that is behind at least 3 years in proper education and social skills due to the pandemic. They will be at the ripe age of young adulthood by the time 2030 and the Great Reset happens. At that point the brain washings and propaganda spewed throughout their teenhood will be ingrained in their minds so that they will be able to lead the world in how the elites wanted them to. They want destruction of the world.
Exactly Best Buy didn’t do this willingly they were made to by their digital masters that want to force everyone to stream so people don’t own anything and have to come to them for everything. If Best Buy didn’t comply these guys would have bankrupted them.
At this point I'm shocked Best Buy is still in business. Every time I go in my local store it looks like its on the verge of collapse. Empty shelves, few employees, few people, etc.... I would not be surprised at all if they file for bankruptcy in the next few years.
It's a strange store. When I went in today it was fully stocked with employees but very few costumers. Most of their product was appliances and cell phones
Yea the few best buys in Westchester NY look like they are on the edge of collapse,empty shelves & the employees always suck at Best Buy ,why I miss circuit city so much.
I miss when they had PC games and kiosks . I remember they had super Mario sunshine kiosk and it blewy mind . Media shelves glore . Take me back to the mid 00s . Or hell even 10 yrs ago .
The Best Buy near me in Arizona is always busy and has stocked shelves
Exactly remind them what happened to circuit city FYE and Fry’s. They’re next!
Corporate greed is coming in strong, and they'll most likely get their way. I'm happy I've started to collect my favorite movies/shows early on, and have ownership forever.
It is brotha! It's wild people comment that we are making this shit up. It's happening
Greed isn't the word. It's capitalism. Sucks but it is what is. Targets video game and non-essential electronic section makes 0 money. It's constantly in the red. It only exists to sell you other things in the store, so expect target to be next. Making money and finding an egregious way to make more is greed. Losing money and finding a way to stop isn't. It does suck to see.
@@GamingOffTheGriduntil the companies start losing money on the dwindling sales potential of placing movies solely on streaming services
@@grizzlybearking1878I’d argue CONSUMER greed killed physical. People felt they were entitled to tens of thousands of movies and music albums for $10-$15 a month because hey piracy is free, so either take our paltry money or else we keep stealing. Most of these streaming companies are actually struggling right now financially because consumer expectations is just too high.
@@grizzlybearking1878 Well, *_capitalism = greed_* no matter how you figuratively slice it - *_enough said by me!_*
Best to hold on to physical copies of media. If you thought physical copies of records, cds, dvds, video games, players, etc. are getting pricey now, wait till they're fully phased out, and watch the after-market get nuts.
Yeah....once physically is gone it's going to become crazy price wise. Glad I'm a collector now
Here is the rub, physical is going down but so is streaming. The days of access to thousands of movies for the price of a t-shirt is coming to a close, these services will be pairing down their libraries immensely over the next few years. Westworld being removed from Max was the first major test case.
@@mikeg2491People flocked to Netflix a decade ago because they had all the cult classics, but now that library was phased out from other distributors creating their own streaming platform and it’s all just a bunch of cultish freakshow dramas when scrolling around
@@mikeg2491I can see it eventually being a loss of money for most of the companies that do online streaming. Many of these original movies and TV series have a massive budget where even hundreds of millions of subscriptions to Netflix or Disney Plus just won’t cover that cost.
Glad I stocked up on blu rays and 4ks I couldn’t live without the past few years.
Same! I always buy anything I love on physical whether it be movies, music or video games!
Glad I didn't sell my Twight Zone blu rays.
Whenever they show the episodes on the Sci Fi channel they are heavily butchered and too many commercials.
Ironically, Barnes & Noble doubled down and said they'll still have Blu-rays, DVDs, and 4K. That's where I've been getting my physical media lately of all places.
Great place to go for sure! 🍻
I completely forgot abt that store... imma have to check them out and see what they have
Depressing. I hate streaming services and all digital media…so eventually, I’m just going to stop watching new movies and playing new video games. Just going to watch the movies I own, play the games I own, and that’s it. I was dreading the day this would happen. I already did it with music, I only listen to what’s in my ipod and the cds I own. I don’t listen to anything new because I hate Spotify and all the music options. I sound like an old man but I’m only 36…the digital era is just the absolute worst thing ever for me, it’s just another sign of how our society is collapsing. People are so lazy and stupid, it’s only going to get worse. Food sucks, everything is expensive. I’m glad I had a great childhood, because life is only going to get worse from here.
All of this, totally 👍
Only 31 myself and I feel like a man out of time. I can't even reference something from 10 years ago let alone decades past in a friendly convo without blank faces. It really is a decline in culture and the younger generation only seem to live in right now, and then yesterday is never reflected on. Nothing is looked back to by them unless they wanna destroy it
I'm getting there too. I hate digital and I'm just a 24 year old.
Luckily they don't really make good movies anymore. Saves a lot of time and money. I'd rather go for a walk than watch most anything made nowadays.
Well the good news is; you're not missing anything. I haven't been to the movies in years because I don't care about super hero movies and remakes/reboots.
The ONLY reason I even go into a Best Buy anymore is for games. I basically have no reason to go there anymore now. It's really going to be bad if our only option is online sales as I hate worrying about my shipment being stolen/damaged/late.
Yeah, only realiying on online sales sucks. Plus once it's all online they have full control of price. No more days of walking into a Best Buy and finding something badass on sale (like I did today :))
Most best buys dont even have floor space for games...lately ive been purchasing online and doing storepickup...inventory stays in the back or warehouse
DVDs are totally worth having. Mel Brooks directors commentary on Young Frankenstein is worth the price of admission alone. The Criterion release of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas had a separate commentary track by the late Hunter S. Thompson.
I haven't checked out the Mel Brooks commentary yet!! Young Frankenstein is one of my favorite movies! Good thing I OWN IT PHYSICALLY!!!!
Speaking of commentary, THE THING blu ray has an awesome com with John Carpenter and Kurt Russel .
oooooo You got me intrigued! The Thing is such a badass movie. Another reason why streaming movies isn't as good!!
@@GamingOffTheGrid funny story, when my wife and I moved into together years ago and merged our video collection we BOTH had a copy of Young Frankenstein!
(Deep cut joke: count the number of times the clock chimes midnight in the 1st scene)
I never listened to any commentary. It is just garbage content. I never watched the special features or anything. I don't give a shit about that stuff. I never did never will.
A few things that have happened recently that make this even more sad. First, I actually just bought Avatar Way of Water on Blu-ray for my girlfriend around a month ago from Best Buy after we couldn't find it literally anywhere else. Now Best Buy won't have ANY movies or games to buy next year? Wow... I better start buying more movies on Blu-ray or even DVD if nothing better is available for both her and I because we both love watching movies together. She collects them physically more than I do, but I'm starting to follow right behind her as much as I collect video games for myself because of this AND for the next points of interest...
Second, Target has also confirmed they will no longer be selling or stocking Blu-rays, DVDs or CDs in the near future. With an announcement like this, I'm fairly certain that games as a whole will be next if not go away at the same time at Target as the rest of the discs they claim to no longer support later.
Third, Sony has stopped producing Blu-ray players as of 2020. Sony are the ones that hold the rights to Blu-ray and even they won't make anymore standalone players? That's a HUGE red flag not just for movie-goers, but for gamers to. All modern games on disc are printed on Blu-ray. The PS5 slim already chopped the disc drive as a standard and relegated it to just an add-on device. Even Microsoft has yet to confirm whether or not the refreshed Series X will even have a disc option at all! Sony may not even want to produce anymore Blu-ray discs in the future if this keeps going, making it pretty much another UMD situation where no one produces them simply due to manufacturers no longer existing for them...
Finally, and this can be controversial since this company is in so much hot water all the time, Disney themselves have claimed that they will stop producing their movies and shows on physical media pretty soon. Nothing about games (yet), but I'm pretty sure the gaming industry is already providing them less of a reason to do that to. I'm far from a fan of modern Disney, but their old stuff is still something many out there like myself do like to watch and having it on disc is really important. With a big company like Disney not wanting to print physical movies it only encourages Sony to stop making discs like I mentioned earlier.
It's not just physical games that are disappearing, ALL physical media on the big screen is starting to be purged out of circulation. This is an EXTERMELY alarming trend and the problem is that I feel like none of us have any power to stop it no matter how hard we try. The only thing we can do is keep scooping up whatever physical media is still out there for however much time we have left to do so. Either that or be spoon-fed digital garbage we don't own for "X" amount of dollars per month or year with no other options available. The next generation of gaming is almost certain to be digital only at this point, and it will be the first gaming generation that I'll refuse to take part in. I refuse to spend my money on something I won't own. Period.
Dude it sucks. And people think we are over reacting and chasing clicks. NO!!! We know wtf is happening. Crazy times we live in
@@GamingOffTheGridIt really does suck. What makes it more frustrating is that people call US crazy for paying a premium to buy stuff physically. The thing is that paying a huge premium for a second-hand product may be the only option for collectors in the near future. It may even be the only option for EVERYONE when they realize that movie or game they want to watch/play that came out ten years ago is not available on the digital front because **"fuck you, we don't get enough money for it anymore! Sincerely, [insert greedy company name here]"**. Even worse is that prices are only going to keep getting higher and more ridiculous as time goes on so better to spend $100 for that rare game you want now than to spend $300+ a few years later for the same damn game... :(
Well said.
90% of Americana bought digitally
It's all part of the plan. "You will own nothing and be happy"
I saw this coming long ago. As a music nerd, I used to love shopping for CDs and finding obscure artists and bands I've never heard of. You could even scan the cd with little kiosk and listen to the album before you bought it. I Discovered countless albums this way. The new generations will never know how wonderous this was as a kid.
Best Buy used to be one of the spots to go for physical media; music CDs, games, movies, etc. They even had the Banjo & Kazooie soundtrack at one point! I bought my Game Gear there back in 1994.
I remember that Banjo & Kazooie exclusive.
The day Nintendo goes all digital is the day I stop playing video games completely. End of an era # 90s kid
It’s sad to see where physical media is going. I’m glad that I have a decent sized collection of movies and games but it’s still sad to see this happening. Some of my favorite memories were going to the store to pick up a music CD, movie or game. The drive to and back from the store was so exciting. Now all we have to do is click. No excitement there. No buildup.
The preservation of physical media matters now more than ever! Awesome video. Unfortunately the masses won't care and will continue to consume streaming, physical media will be a very niche thing in the future. But I believe there will always be a strong second-hand market for it, if only just for consumer rights and feeling ownership over things. I'll always be a huge advocate of that.
Don’t be a regular person in the masses. Be better
@@WyvernsAreDragons I don’t hoard. I’m organized. Hoarding is a disorder that not everyone has. Considering there’s a collection where only the best of my priorities make the cut for being collected. If you can or cannot organize, that’s your personal deal. I can organize everything I have from books to movies, so personally it’s not an issue to me.
@@WyvernsAreDragons I have what I allocate actual space for. We all have different houses. We all have our own situations. Keep that in mind.
@@WyvernsAreDragons No, because I use them. That’s the problem with plenty of people regardless of their media is that they do not use most of what they have. I also
Get use out of what I own as well. It’s amusing listening to someone try to pretend that they know me when they don’t. Have a nice day.
I work at Walmart and we recently remodeled our electronics section, cutting movies down by an aisle and each console losing a case and a half of shelving. People just aren't buying like they used to. Of course I do see people fishing in the $5 movie bin daily, they just don't really buy the newer releases or series collections.
For sure! if the demand was there this wouldn't be an issue
what is walmart doing with all the older games that they remove? How come they don't update the bargain bin? Its literally the same thing all year in the bargain bin and now movies take up more space than games did. And i don't see bargain bins full of games like they used to have.
Do you think this is because of Amazon? I'm a movie collector, but I find myself making most disc purchases from Amazon because they have the best prices. A lot of times, lower than Walmart.
@@f-luva-luvai would think so as amazon does very good in physical sales.
@@f-luva-luva i think its because of corporate greed and laziness but amazon may have a part in it but that goes both ways.
Best prices are used from thrift stores and garage sales though technically. But someone has to buy it and eventually donate it for that to happen.
The VHS/DVD section of Best Buy used to be massive. It brought customers into the store just to browse including myself and typically I left with something. Best Buy is now a ghost town. I can get anything I want somewhere else including TVs.
Two years ago I went into Game in the UK which is like GameStop in the us and bought all their 360/PS3 games when they were being discontinued at 49p which is 59 cents per game.
I bought over 200 games, the guy in the store said that’s the most they had ever sold, I’m so glad I had the foresight to do that.
I wanted to show my daughter one of my favorite Disney movies from when I was a kid. It is called “The Flight of the Navigator”. We logged into Disney + and it is not available on the service. Luckily I own the DVD. I think companies are going start re-implement the vault system to keep subscriber counts up once we go digital only.
this generation is getting more difficult not only is being a gamer difficult but you're forced to have subscription for everything
For me the biggest downside to it all is that we won’t have ways to get the highest bit rate anymore because even 4K downloads are usually capped to a couple GB compared to the massive file sizes UHDs are capable of
I’m with you guys on this topic!!!! I have kept all my physical dvds and cds and games!!!! I believe the digital gaming industry is destroying things - not a fan of streaming services - Netflix wasn’t working for a day - couldn’t watch anything and yet still paying for it - so dumb!
GREAT VIDEO🎉🎉🎉
WILD!!! Bro, check your email :) LOL
Me too I have 1000 DVDs and 450 Xbox and Xbox 360 games
I think once streaming gets expensive in the future there will be a demand for physical media and it could make a small comeback to a degree but not what it was before
I worked for Best Buy in 2011. They said “physical media is going away” almost every meeting. Last time I was in Best Buy a month ago, they were still selling physical media. I’ll believe it when I see it. It will hurt their own sales of players if there is no media for them to buy to play in their players. I think they said this to get the deal-hunters to come see what they have.
If it really is happening, there’s going to be a huge clearance sale where they will sell off their stock for dirt cheap
I think this will give birth to more retro stores in the long run , and maybe those retro stores will just start to stock old dvds, vhs and blu rays … like the cd exchange stores .. idk … we are getting ready for this new zoomer generation that has everything at their finger tips , i teach and coach middle school and HS kids as well as having four kids of my own and that’s all they want , these companies are just adjusting to the times … it’s just sad for us old heads …
Just wait until their nostalgia bites and there is nothing to be had. Zoom that zoomers lol! Yes bro, we are getting old as hell LOL
@@GamingOffTheGridyea buddy ! U guys rock keep it going !
Stores in general are emptier than before. Anyone else remember how packed stores used to be just 10-15 years ago?
Best Buy has been struggling for a long time. I personally stopped shopping there years ago, at least for the most part anyway. When they basically stopped selling cd's and cut the floor space for movies by literally 75% and stuck them back in the corner of the store. I was basically done.
Physical media going away hurts though. It's gonna suuuuck. I get older and realize the importance of physical so much more. I hate doing the "dance" of jumping between streaming services to find something to watch.
I've even gotten a bit nostalgic for vhs, and bought a vcr, but a decent quality vcr is getting expensive too.
Microsoft just announced their next big console release won't even have a disk drive. So am I going to have to stock pile and extra bluray player just in case?
I miss the internet of the 90's and 2000's where everything was fresh and we were still hopeful for the future. Now, it's gotten so big, and become such a big part of everyone's life that we've become too lazy to fight it. Corporations have a death grip on us all.
4:11 "game sections aren't looking healthy" while showing a fully stocked switch library...
This is why I got over 5800 movies and 500 games all physical. Also have lots of tv box sets
That's what we like to hear!!!
Cheers to that!
The Great Reset. " you will own nothing but be happy"
The last time I went into a Best Buy was around last December, and it was pretty much a ghost town. I'm old enough to remember when they had rows lined with, CDs, DVDs and video games.
But I wonder, if they're leaving the physical media space altogether, then where does that leave their business?
Our targets over here really do not have any movies. It’s pretty much just books and video games but their video game section has been dying down. They had three rolls of video game sections one for each system. Now they only have one role and all the systems are on that aisle.
Own nothing and enjoy it
That's what they all want us to go to. I hate it
Well if your a minimalist 🤷🏼♂️
@@GamingOffTheGridTwin Seeds and MonKing are coming to the Rescue!!!!
The downside with streaming is the bitrate will down sample during times where the connection is at peak times. Imagine watch a 4K movie but it loss performance and went down to 1080p because of connection issues.
Great discussion, as always, guys. I went to some yard sales yesterday. This family had several bins full of dvds/blurays for 50 cents each. Some of them were basically brand new. I got the 9 disc Alien quadrilogy set. Can't believe people are just tossing this stuff out because of streaming 🤷♂️
The sad harsh truth is that in video games, owning a physical copy doesn’t mean anything anymore. More and more single player games are going online only. And when those servers get shut off, it makes the physical copy of that game worthless. I have a few games physically that are like this. And also, they don’t even fully put the games on the disk anymore.
This has been the film, tv, and game industry's long-term dream, get rid of physical media. Burning disks, recording on cassettes, rentals, re-sales of used products, all of the above, means no money back to the IP owners. With streaming they have 100% control, as you said, and 100% control of who can access what.
So long as streaming is easier, even if it isn't cheaper, we'll keep sliding down. I hope one day (for movies/tv) that becomes as popular as vinyl and now cassette. Vinyl is a great example because everything new comes out on vinyl nowadays, even if its pricey, I'm happy to shell out more to have it forever. I see companies like Criterion doing this exact thing, pushing out high quality releases worthy of a collection for those of us who care about that.
For games, tho... yeah, in 10 years will Sony/MS/Nintendo have physical versions of their consoles? Will it be 100% subscription/streaming services for games?
Just one problem... streaming isn't profitable.
It does freakin' suck! I wouldn't be shocked if everything became streaming eventually. It's way easier for companies and then they can charge whatever they want
I have noticed all the streaming services are offering plans with ads for a slightly lower cost. When cable tv first came out there were NO commercials and they slowly trickled in. How long before all plans have ads????
This really does suck guys. I am noticing the same in my area. Best Buy is going down unfortunately. I don't like to be "forced" into anything, and that's what it feels like. It's up to our community now to preserve physical media, and now for sure would be the best time to collect whatever physical media sparks your interest. The day it becomes "all digital" the prices will sky rocket. Great video per usual fellas.
I hate digital media, my target and best buy are practically empty. I shop for physical media on Amazon now. I'm watching a show called Edens Zero on Netflix, now I need a different streaming service to watch season 2 cause Netflix lost the rights. I chose not to get the other streaming service to watch it. Digital future is stupid. Physical media for life.
Edens of Zero is a great example of zero consumer control. It's pretty wild
As consumers we brought this on ourselves by not complaining loud enough to manufacturers that we want physical media and we also want a full game on a disc or cartridge. As it sucks this is where we're at and the road we're headed on isn't any better. Far as I'm concerned the first time a game publisher released a game not completely on a disc we should've gotten a class action lawsuit for fraud going to send a clear message of our expectations as consumers.
Coming soon: Limited Run movies. Order one in March '24, receive it around Feb '25...
I wouldn't be shocked if they got into the movie business. But like you said, wait a year to get it
Cheers to the companies that are trying to keep it alive. Yes they need to get quicker but atleast someone cares enough to try
this is why downloading media>streaming services. even if something gets pulled, I have my copy
Very true! They will push all Streaming services in the future! 🍻
I started a small collection of video games and movies in 2018.
I collected before but not so serious, in 2018 was when I said everything I buy stays with me.
This seems like it's going to get worse, both new and used physical formats are disappearing.
2023 to 2025 will be the last chance to make a decent collection of movies.
Ps5 still has a disc reader so it could be the last generation of physical video games.
The main reason why all the media is going digital is because the quality of the mainstream media today has taken a sharp drop.
There are no more classics being made so nobody feels its worth their time to handle physical content.
People used to create great content and everyone loved them for it but now everyone is expendable.
Even when physical media was widely available, I still rented most of what I watched. I owned what I either treasured most. There was always the library to check out videos on VHS or DVD, or rent them.
There is no reason to go to best buy anymore.
Unless you need a washer????
@@GamingOffTheGrid just got one at lowes
Our Best Buy still has a huge movie selection it’s still about seven isles it used to be 12 but they sell a ton of movies. I mean a ton every single day and that’s why I don’t understand this at all like I don’t know if it’s just our Best Buy, but a lot of people go in there to buy physical Movies and video games all the time and my friend works there and he says yeah they sell like crazy and it’s not going to make any sense because there’s already customers send they’re not going to be going into Best Buy at all anymore after they do this and most of the time you know they go into Best Buy and they buy a movie, but they end up finding something elseand that’s gonna stop but they’re reworking everything for their whole entire store and it’s all going to be crap
Yeah, Best Buy used to be amazing I bought literally everything there from CDs to movies to video games everything there and now I don’t really buy anything there anymore and it’s pretty sad. There is CD selection was insane and literally I would go in there every single week by a new movie and buy new CDs.
I’ve been sick the last month and I’ve been watching a bunch of shows I grew up with on dvd. At this point if I love a show I’m buying it physically. Thankfully I have a lot of used media stores near me. A lot of people get these streaming services for one show, it’s most cost effective overall to just buy the complete series.
Sorry to hear you've been sick but awesome you are going back to the old stuff! That's exactly how I am. If I like ANYTHING (music, movies, video games, etc) I'm going to get it physically
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Physical media will continue to be availlable. Just not through mortal retail stores. Gruv, amazon, walmart, all the sites mentioned in the above video plus directly. 😅
@@jonathanrivera8585 I know but I hate buying movies online. I just ordered all Quiet on the western front from Amazon and it arrived damaged. There are a lot of places like vinegar syndrome releasing great collectors editions so it’s not all bad. I just like physical stores is all.
This video hits home to me as well. I like physical media alot even with my sub services i pay for but i dont like the fact even in my city up in Canada the stores shelves in walmart and best buy are looking Barren.
First off thanks for the dono! Yeah its sad to see physical media disappearing! 🍻
They want to monetize movies per view to squeeze as much money as they possibly can out of them... It's basically the same as software going to rent-to-use... It's all money-grubbing greed... 💥
It’s the declining stage of the goose laying golden eggs, possibly.
Just look at what Disney has done with the digital version of the French connection. I am so glad I have my unedited Blu-ray.
We dont know what they did but now we will find out! 🍻
This is what i keep saying to everyone who thinks im crazy for having 2000+vinyl records😅
Great, I love when companies can take back and/or modify things I've already paid for.
I have been making it a point to add my favorite TV series to my dvd/Blu Ray collection so as not to have my choices limited arbitrarily by some corporate entity. Dvds are an amazing resource too, because if you're not hung up on bleeding edge visuals, they look good enough, and they are cheap! My local pawn shop has thousands of movies on the format for $1, and Blu Rays for $2! I have built a large library of films and shows for peanuts! Physical media will always be a part of my life.
Read the news at work. Came home told the wife hey on my Vacation we’re going to Best Buy time to Hoard Up!!!
I think this is the industry’s long play to stomp out emulation of video games.
Could be! They are just on the money trail. Cheers brotha!
This feels like the perpetual story that BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS ARE GOING EXTINCT
In reality, it’s just scumbags in these companies, seeking to reap the highest profit margin for the smallest input. They don’t wanna have to pay for physical inventory that might not sell, they don’t have to lose from theft
Demand for newspapers and books is still high
I always handed the MP3 format. It sounded like trash, and I was always weirded out by the fact that vinyl records disappeared, despite it having the highest quality sound
But of course, some enterprising people realized there are still a market for that was big enough and now you see them back again for like the last 10 years
These sorts of conversations make me wonder about the future of my physical game collections that require an internet connection to download updates before playing. I way value my old cartridges that I own the full, complete and final game over games that require downloads to play - what's the possible outcome if those required downloads are no longer available? Would that make physical collections like the Xbox360 obsolete?
Dude I don't know much............but I have a feeling 360 & PS3 stuff is fixin to pop off big time.
Lots of people will be sailing the high seas. 🏴☠️
I learned early on that digital media is a bad choice. In the mid 2000's I had an 8 gigabyte Ipod full of music, that went missing, and so ALL that music is gone forever! Streaming media is stupid because you don't own any of it and it can be gone instantly.
Mom was getting rid of the movies we collected growing up in a yard sale and just bought them off her. So many Disney special editions from the mail in Disney service she was signed up to for years. Still have the digital account for the digital download codes I made as a teen, now almost 30 and still have access to them as well!
That's awesome to hear!!
That’s sound sad
Thank you so much for this - I only discovered your channel last night but this is a great video, and enough for me to subscribe to your channel. This is something I’ve been woken up to earlier this year via music and then DVDs, and now video games. By the grace of God I still have most of my games collection from over 30 years ago, but I’m currently buying stuff cheap for XBox 360 and Wii, having seen the price increases for GameCube etc - I think we’re going to see prices of physical media increase as people realise what you’re saying about not really owning digital content. I see it as trying to preserve physical media for future generations, starting with my own son. It’s scary to think that one day soon people will be so reliant on streaming etc and they’ll have no idea that things have been changed, like edits to movies, music etc. This stuff is historical and we need to save it.
Hell ya! Glad you found us and appreciate the support. Cheers!
You should do a poll on how many people own dvd players/game consoles for using BR or DVD currently.
Will do! Love it. Coming in hot. You better vote though lol
Poll is live!
Keep your physical media - because streaming services can and will remove titles that maybe through cancel culture, or the license for the artist runs out.
One good thing is that Walmart is in talks to manage SDS, they may already be in control by now. SDS is a joint venture between Universal and Warner Brothers that consolidates their physical media manufacturing and distribution, they also handle MGM, and a few other studios. If Walmart is trying to do all that, that's a good sign that they're not planning on getting rid of physical media anytime soon, it might even be able to bring it out to the masses even more.
If Disney stops making discs, that format is basically done.
Family and kids movies made up a giant bulk of VHS sales in the ‘90s. It made up the bulk of sales in the ‘00s with DVDs.
I will say, a monthly subscription is typically cheaper than starting a DVD collection. But what really gets me is that companies know this and in a lot of instances are trying to charge a lot of money for new releases. Like some are going for $25-$35 on Amazon.
I think companies want to try to treat this like vinyl sales to get even more money from the few consumers who still like having physical movies.
I've already started making my own " DVD " and " BLUE RAY " collection of my favourite movie's , because l know there is going to come a time where you can no longer own movie's you've " PAID !!! " for because you need an "ACCOUNT " to watch your movie's , which means if they terminate your account you will loose " ALL " of your movie collection you've paid for. lmagine spending thousand of dollars💵 on your movie collection then it all gets " DELETED FOREVER !!! " 😪😢😭
You own nothing you'll be happy. Yeah Screw these company's. My back-log is so big it can last me a life time.
I will find a new Hobby when everything is digital.
Same boat brotha!!!!! I'm happy to remove myself and dig through my backlog of movies, music and games. Life is good. Cheers!
When you BUY a DVD you pay once. PAY for streaming its a lifetime....
Censoring films to me is no different than burning books.
And.................This may be the comment of the month! Dude you are spot on
The thing is, people today don’t want to watch movies more than once. There’s just so much content out there and streaming services with endless things to watch. So people no longer have the desire to watch something over and over. And that’s the main reason physical media is dying. It doesn’t make sense for people to buy and store tons of movies on their shelves and have them sit there collecting dust.
Plus, people's physical living spaces are getting smaller and smaller necessitating not having a large collection.
Seeing brand new vinyl LPs in 2023 always gives Me a smile and hope for the future. Humans will ALWAYS strive to own physical property. Speak with your wallets folks.💸💸💸 Imo, this is just best buy's final gasps. Power rests on the CONSUMER at the end of the day. 😁💪💯😎🎮 #PhysicalForever
Love this comment! That is the bright spot currently. Cheers!
@@GamingOffTheGrid Damn right brothers! Cheers! 🍻🍻😎
These companies want to charge you monthly subscriptions or rent to you rather than let you own the product and still dont want to pay their writers and actors smh.
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Once everything goes digital I’ll suddenly be a ‘once it’s at 75% off’ kind a guy. I’ll never pay full price for something I can’t hold that’s media based.
This is also puzzling to me because from the outside looking in. Every time a good movie or game comes out. Whenever I go to target, Walmart or best buy. You can usually see they sold a lot of copies of stuff. At times they even sell out.
I still buy Blu-Rays, 4K Blu-Rays, and occasionally DVDs (when a BR is not available) and I really, really hope that even if physical media fades out from the mainstream, that studios continue to issue physical editions for cinephiles, where physical media occupies a space similar to how LaserDisc did back in the day.
Even Walmart is shrinking their physical media.
"You'll own nothing and be happy"
Which means everything will be subscription based services.
Yeah it sucks, we are getting to everything costing monthly to "rent"
Probably just a matter of time before they just stop printing books and magazines in any form as well.
It’s ironic that Best Buy is the only brick and mortar store that you can buy some Limited Run games in
Hopefully they hang on to the video game space but it's not looking good brotha!
My favorite show of all time is Scrubs and one of the best things about the show is the music that they chose for certain scenes. I have seen the show more than enough times to know which songs are about to play for certain episodes. For example, one of my favorite episodes, My Catalyst, involved Michael J. Fox's character getting overwhelmed in the end while Everythingss Not Lost by Coldplay starts to play in the background. This is how the original episode aired and the DVD is the same. The show ended up being on Netflix and when I checked it out, the music in the scene was different! Netflix did not want to pay the money for the copyright music that was in that episode and the same goes for many other episodes. This means people that are watching Scrubs for the first time will be watching a completely different scene with the musical changes that won't have the same impact as the originals.
We didn’t know of this example but this is exactly why this matters and we are making videos about it. Sorry your show was effected brother. Thanks for watching. Cheers 🍻
looks like best buy got promoted to "no buy".
LOL!!!
I have switched to 100% digital games since around 2017, probably the last time I can remember actually buying a physical game. My only regret is not switching to fully digital sooner. I have over 70 Nintendo Switch games, never inserted a game cart once. Both of my Switches are still virgins 😆, also over 200 Steam games. Obviously those are all digital too.
It's just so remarkable to me how PC gamers are seemingly the most satisfied out of all consumers with their platform, and yet they're the platform that has been 100% digital only for about 10 years or more now. Nobody even builds PCs with disc drives, because no one on PC uses them! All the complaints about constantly demanding physical games comes from the same place: 35+ year old guys with consoles. Literally no one else cares. The entire rest of the market has switched to digital only and is happier this way.
With over 200 games on my Steam account, I can play games in 4k 120fps on my PC, or just play them portably with my Steam Deck. I can leave the house with over 70 Nintendo Switch games at the same time thanks to an SD card. Seriously, this shit rules. I remember how much I used to hate having to switch the discs every time and fuddle through my CD book to switch the discs. I'm constantly playing different games and being able to instantaneously switch games is an enormous convenience.
Honestly and truly, at this point I am not convinced these people kicking and screaming over physical games even play games that much or are that into the hobby. I think their hobby is collecting discs and letting them collect dust on their shelf or something. Personally I have no interest in selling any of my games, I want to be able to play any of them whenever I want to, even if it's 10 years from now. With Steam you can always do that, and Nintendo seems to be clearly indicating that the new platform will likely carry over games from the Switch era through the Nintendo account. People who prefer digtial only are more likely than not not only buying more games, they're spending more time playing them too. Like I'm not even going to lie seeing some middle aged guy with a massive shelf full of games just looks pathetic as hell man. You would have to install all those games that are modern on the console to play them anyways, what's the point of taking up all this space? I completely don't understand the point of physical games anymore. It's just plain archaic and I'm glad Gamestop is dying and that Walmart and Best Buy have given up on them. Digital is the future and it rocks baby!
Glad your enjoying it! Our issue isnt with digital! Our issue is not having the choice for physical or digital in the future! Some like physical some like digital! 🍻
shooting themselves in the foot.
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I have no reason to even go to a best buy anymore. The best buy and target near me have already purged all physical media except new releases.
Amazing video. I feel exactly how you guys feel. Subscriptions and covid driving that medium have killed physical. I buy discs whenever possible for all the reasons you listed above. Very sad day.
Omg when I was younger I used to always look at the movies and the video games. This sucks with everything digital anymore
I won't buy a digital-only console. I'll stick with my old, physical games. I have enough to last me the rest of my life.
Same dude!! Our backlog is RIDICULOUS!!
We buy all of these elite tvs, then we use them for streaming and decrease the quality automatically.
No streaming service on earth can touch what a physical 4k disc, or even a Blu Ray can provide.
Agreed! To us the fancy picture isnt everything! We still watch vhs on crts. But most people it matters and some dont realize they are downgrading! 🍻
I watched the newest Transformers movie on Amazon Prime a couple of weeks ago. I was so disappointed because I knew if I had gone and gotten the movie at the store, the quality would have been 10x better.
I'm so happy I grew up in a time where digital media never really existed and I know it's getting massive and popular but I will always love my physical media until the day I die and that's facts
As someone with around 200 4k/ blu ray movies in my collection this is pretty sad to see, I have a feeling a lot of this is amazons fault, if I was to guess I’d say a lot of people are shopping for movies there now but then of course there are the streaming sites and all that. The future looks bleak for all physical media another step in the right direction for the you’ll own nothing and be happy crowd.
it sucks to see. Freaking badass you got around 200 movies in your collection! I'm approaching 200 in my vinyl collection :)
@@GamingOffTheGrid yeah man! I’ve been buying for years though but that’s awesome I might get into cds or vinyl one day. Hopefully there will always be a market for physical media somewhere and hopefully it doesn’t skyrocket in price because Of scarcity. I live in Canada (unfortunately) and I’ve seen 4ks get up to 40 dollars on average here while being harder and harder to find.
What stings for me with movies is that blu-rays give you access to uncompressed audio and visual quality. Even when a streaming service says its 4K, its compressed, it is still better at 1080p on a regular blu-ray even let alone 4k bluray. If you have a nice audio setup at home than having the full Dolby/DTS experience on your shelf is awesome too. Very sad.
Love your show guys, and I while do agree with everything you say.... something to consider is, we're not getting any younger, and we're not going to have nostalgia for a game or movie that comes out in 2030 the same way we did for things when we were kids. Kids in this new world won't know any different, its unfortunate, but they just won't know what an awesome Era they missed out on
I no more than write that, and then my cable service went out this past weekend. Thank God for my physical Disney movie collection to put something on for my Daughter....
Yep, it’s pretty much over. No more physical movies TV shows or games. Expensive Subscriptions and digital only games are here to stay.
I suggest watching cereal at midnight’s video on this topic. Physical media for movies is going to be just fine. It’s a little bit of a different ball game than video games. It’s going the way of vinyl records, where there is a dedicated niche market. This will be the death blow to the casual movie fan though
Will do! Hope he is right
@@GamingOffTheGridHeath, is a great guy and has a lot of connections on the inside. He always shoots you straight and never sells fear.