Current Events > Best Buy to stop seeking physical movies in 2024

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Those steelbooks bout to be rarer

Shoot i really need to scoop up the few dvds on my wishlist before i cant get them anymore

The younger gens are ushering in the all digital-only future a lot faster than i anticipated

black friday is about to be lit

Lordgold666 posted...

Shoot i really need to scoop up the few dvds on my wishlist before i cant get them anymore

The younger gens are ushering in the all digital-only future a lot faster than i anticipated

How quickly they'll learn why we collected and dismissed digital only...

Bearer seek seek lest

You reap what you sow. Digital is the Future. You will own nothing.

Meanwhile, Amazon still sells Betamax tapes.

Weird choice to just drive people to shop at competitors

Welp, there goes the last possible reason I'd ever shop at a Best Buy.

masterpug53 posted...

Welp, there goes the last possible reason I'd ever shop at a Best Buy.

They have clearance Legos sometimes.

I'm shock that my local Best Buy is still open.

That place is a ghost town whenever I go in there.

Best Buy isn't a bad place to get a washing machine. They prices are decent, and they'll deliver and install it quickly.

Bought one on a Wednesday or Thursday, and doing laundry on Saturday.

>4K

imagine, and I do mean imagine telling the entire PS5/Series X/4K player base that you don't want any of that money and you are that fucking clueless about business. gg loser but that said...

Corbenik posted...

black friday is about to be lit

Questionmarktarius posted...

Best Buy isn't a bad place to get a washing machine. They prices are decent, and they'll deliver and install it quickly.

Bought one on a Wednesday or Thursday, and doing laundry on Saturday.

Costco still the best since their prices include take away on the old appliance. Most dont iirc.

Questionmarktarius posted...

They have clearance Legos sometimes.

When did they start selling Lego?

Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...

When did they start selling Lego?

When Bestbuy decided to follow Fry's into oblivion, I guess...

Well that's dumb of them.

I stopped shopping there, they can do whatever they want.

Crazy how were going all digital and the internet somehow supports it. Same with games. No cool goodies, no actual copy of it, no artwork. Something you can return, trade, collect, or sell back. So weird

Noname13 posted...

Crazy how were going all digital and the internet somehow supports it. Same with games. No cool goodies, no actual copy of it, no artwork. Something you can return, trade, collect, or sell back. So weird

Digital gaming is great because of subscription services.

Rise_Makaveli posted...

Digital gaming is great because of subscription services.

Until one day the licenses are "suddenly" turned off for all subscribers.

Jagr_68 posted...

Until one day the licenses are "suddenly" turned off for all subscribers.

Still worth it. Id rather 15/month for temporary ownership then paying 50-70 bucks for everything Im actually interested in. Some of us play games and move on, not all of us are looking to dedicate an entire shelf or more in our house just for games.

Rise_Makaveli posted...

Some of us play games and move on, not all of us are looking to dedicate an entire shelf or more in our house just for games.

The day physical games cease to be, is the day my backlog finally starts shrinking.

Noname13 posted...

Crazy how were going all digital and the internet somehow supports it. Same with games. No cool goodies, no actual copy of it, no artwork. Something you can return, trade, collect, or sell back. So weird

It's not so much that I prefer to go digital everything but it seems like that is what the future wants and that's what it it is going to be. I bought Monark for 20 dollars (like new, it really was, still smelled new hah) off eBay. Apparently you can call a PS4 game that comes with a small booklet about the music with some interviews & a code to download the soundtrack a "Deluxe Edition." Bow howdy am I lucky to be so honored. Most games do just give you the disc and some small advertisement. A lot of times the game from the disc just installs onto your system anyways too.

I wish my Best Buy was a Micro Center.

The one I have near me barely has any as it is. They used to have 3 aisles of DVD's and Blu-ray's, now they have 1 small rack and a few random displays.

That sucks, only reason I still go into a physical Best Buy is cause like the OP said, the Steelbooks. Each time I order them online they always get dinged up and damaged from shipping.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Meanwhile, Amazon still sells Betamax tapes.

New?

The end of physical media begins.

First it will be Best Buy. And then Walmart and Amazon will be next. Mark my words.

The Best Buy in my mall still has a sizable blu-ray/DVD collection I guess, but I have not seriously looked through it in a long time. The last time I did I was hoping they had BoJack Horseman Season 1 on Blu-ray because it got an official release I believe and I thought it was a popular show, but I guess not popular enough to carry in store. I've just been too lazy to order it online I guess :/

Lordgold666 posted...

Shoot i really need to scoop up the few dvds on my wishlist before i cant get them anymore

The younger gens are ushering in the all digital-only future a lot faster than i anticipated

I'm sad now

Remember when Amazon only sold books?

HylianFox posted...

Remember when Amazon only sold books?

Remember when Yahoo was the number 1 search engine? Amazon sure expanded its offerings hah

Kamil posted...

Remember when Yahoo was the number 1 search engine? Amazon sure expanded its offerings hah

I remember AskJeeves

It's sad but I look at how many Blu-rays I bought compared to a decade ago and I can't exactly complain too much without being a hypocrite. I don't even make the effort to rewatch movies anymore so why would I buy them?

Yeah I heard.

Punished_Blinx posted...

It's sad but I look at how many Blu-rays I bought compared to a decade ago and I can't exactly complain too much without being a hypocrite. I don't even make the effort to rewatch movies anymore so why would I buy them?

The principle of the matter is more than a good enough reason. Why NOT be able to own a physical copy of a movie?

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

The principle of the matter is more than a good enough reason. Why NOT be able to own a physical copy of a movie?

Maybe when we finally use up all our resources

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

The principle of the matter is more than a good enough reason. Why NOT be able to own a physical copy of a movie?

Businesses don't work for principles. They work by servicing a demand for profit.

If Best Buy loses money by selling physical media because people will only buy them on clearance (or not at all) then of course they're gonna stop selling them.

Then the media companies aren't going to manufacture them because no stores want to buy them to sell and the logistics of it no longer make it worth it.

All of this being tied to that buying physical media also is no longer seen as worth it for most people.

So yeah things aren't looking great and I can't really blame anyone specifically. The signs have all been there for a while. It sucks but if consumers aren't buying them what are they supposed to do? If anything they did it to themselves by making streaming services a much better deal.

Man. I get my games from Best buy

people bought movies at Best Buy?

Best Buy about to turn into Fry's Electronics.

Rise_Makaveli posted...

Still worth it. Id rather 15/month for temporary ownership then paying 50-70 bucks for everything Im actually interested in. Some of us play games and move on, not all of us are looking to dedicate an entire shelf or more in our house just for games.

Sounds good until, like movies, every company has their own service you are paying $15/month to.

loafy013 posted...

Sounds good until, like movies, every company has their own service you are paying $15/month to.

Say, remember when movie and video game rentals were a thing?

Seems like we should have held on to that model...

HylianFox posted...

Say, remember when movie and video game rentals were a thing?

Seems like we should have held on to that model...

You can still rent digital movies if that's what you wanna do.

best buy is really struggling right? more than gamestop?

Smallville posted...

best buy is really struggling right? more than gamestop?

GameStop sells more collectables and t-shirts than actual games these days

Physical media is becoming a niche thing. If you want it, you will have to find it in specialty stores. Look how vinyl records are still around. They have worse sound quality than any modern loseless sound file and take up a lot of physical space but you still have a small group of people who are buying them.

Businesses don't work for principles. They work by servicing a demand for profit.

If Best Buy loses money by selling physical media because people will only buy them on clearance (or not at all) then of course they're gonna stop selling them.

Then the media companies aren't going to manufacture them because no stores want to buy them to sell and the logistics of it no longer make it worth it.

All of this being tied to that buying physical media also is no longer seen as worth it for most people.

So yeah things aren't looking great and I can't really blame anyone specifically. The signs have all been there for a while. It sucks but if consumers aren't buying them what are they supposed to do? If anything they did it to themselves by making streaming services a much better deal.

A good chunk of the problem is that " Gen Z" rarely has houses or even there own apartments to themselves, pepole are getting to poor to have the room to own much and its causing many things to collapse.

thronedfire2 posted...

people bought movies at Best Buy?

In days of yore, yes. Best Buy was the place to go in the early-mid 00's when the DVD craze was in full swing, and new and classic movies / tv shows were being released en masse. Best Buy basically pulled a Wal-Mart on Sam Goody, FYE, and all the other smaller media stores that no one remembers by typically having better selection and prices.