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End of an era. Who’d have thought Redbox would be last man standing in terms of physical media rentals?
Yeah and there's still a lot of stuff that's just on DVD and isn't streaming.Maybe they should keep the envelopes in stock.
This is one of the reasons I love collecting Blu Ray-there are several films that are available in physical form but not streaming. Besides, if something isn't on Blu yet, it usually will somewhere down the line.Yeah and there's still a lot of stuff that's just on DVD and isn't streaming.
Ironic I learned about this after watching something on streaming. Also, I don't even remember the last time I heard about Best Buy. They used to have a pretty great selection of movies and CD's (back when I bought CDs.)And the hits keep on coming for physical media loyalists.BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE on The Bits: Best Buy is exiting the physical media business for good in 2024 [UPDATED]
BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE on The Digital Bits: Best Buy is exiting the physical media business for good in 2024thedigitalbits.com
I think the $$ factor is simply too good to pass up on physical media, at least as it pertains to shows where you can get $25+ usually per season. Especially the bigger shows for Netflix, Amazon, etc.Netflix, Hulu, et al spent a not insignificant amount of time trying to get people to switch over from physical media. I don't see they would be incentivized to say "Hey. Remember when we said because of you don't need your DVD/Blu Ray player anymore? Well..."
It's interesting that box office was rising into 2018/2019 even with Netflix around and starting to stream more. Per The-Numbers, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom cracked 1 Million Blu-Ray sales in just 4 weeks. Black Panther cracked 2 Million in 2 weeks. Even Solo: A Star Wars Story cracked 1 Million sales in 3 weeks. Even in 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home cracked 1 Million sales in 4 weeks. In 2022, Top Gun: Maverick took 7 Weeks but a lot of the other movies are flagging behind depending on the title.Streaming was around in 2009 but it wasn’t quite the dominant option for home media. I don’t think that happened till the early 2010s.
This was also that weird era as physical media was in decline but streaming hadn’t really broken through, where DVR and On Demand seemed like it was going to be a thing.
Not for nothing, but Criterion have released a few auteur directed Netflix films ("The Irishman, "Beasts of No Nation" and "Marriage Story" for example), Fox gave "Prey" a physical release and while the studio had no interest in releasing it on their own, they're letting Criterion release All of Us Strangers. Also, Amazon and MGM letting Kino Lorber release Bottoms.Netflix, Hulu, et al spent a not insignificant amount of time trying to get people to switch over from physical media. I don't see they would be incentivized to say "Hey. Remember when we said because of you don't need your DVD/Blu Ray player anymore? Well..."
Good video. I do think a lot of movies being released with Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs gives a bit of "best of both worlds" scenario. The real question is the 4K/Blu-Ray combo packs where the 4K may not be a significant enough upgrade to sacrifice the special features (at best they are usually just included as is with the Blu-Ray release while the 4K is just the feature film and omit the DVD entirely).
I reccomend watching this video. Blu Ray was great in getting us pictures in amazing quality but a lot of other things were sacrificed.