Best Buy to reportedly discontinue all physical media in 2024 both in stores & online

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I mean the real funny thing is when some uninformed proponent of the "dream of no-physical-media" goes on about how you can "Just go to streaming" and find whatever you want.

RIiiiiiigghhhhtttttt.....

Go. Right now. To Netflix right now. And find what you want instead of what they feed you and really quickly it becomes apparent that very little of what anyone would try to dig up is actually "readily available". On any of the streamers.

See this is what I loved about Netflix. Yes,there was the average 4 day wait,but you could rent practically any movie or television show you wanted no matter how recent or obscure so long as it's a distributed DVD. Now with streaming it's so splintered and you never know what will be pulled from or onto what streaming service. It could easily make a streaming service of no use if one or two things are removed. It's why I like physical copies of film and television because I don't have to he dependent on various streaming services to keep up with it all.

[CyberCubed]

Or you could just not pay for any streaming service like me and just watch whatever you want online anyway. I feel bad for people paying money for Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount, Hulu, Amazon, or Crunchyroll all at once.

What a waste of money. I would not spend 1 red cent on a streaming service when I have everything available at my fingertips with a 10 second Google search.

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Or you could just not pay for any streaming service like me and just watch whatever you want online anyway. I feel bad for people paying money for Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount, Hulu, Amazon, or Crunchyroll all at once.

What a waste of money. I would not spend 1 red cent on a streaming service when I have everything available at my fingertips with a 10 second Google search.

you really are the textbook definition of a Cheap Bastard. I wouldn't be surprised if you steal your neighbor's Cable and Internet too.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

See this is what I loved about Netflix. Yes,there was the average 4 day wait,but you could rent practically any movie or television show you wanted no matter how recent or obscure so long as it's a distributed DVD. Now with streaming it's so splintered and you never know what will be pulled from or onto what streaming service. It could easily make a streaming service of no use if one or two things are removed. It's why I like physical copies of film and television because I don't have to he dependent on various streaming services to keep up with it all.

Yeah. And in the beginning it was even better. In the beginning Netflix was a lot like when the Cartoon Network began. It was this cool repository of syndicated cartoons that you couldn't find anywhere else (at the time). When Netflix was new I remember ordering "Night of the Comet" - terrible cult-classic flick but you could see it if you wanted to.

Then Netflix, like Cartoon Network, went to it's own original programming for better or worse here or there. But at the end of the day the business evolution does not allow for truth in the phony narrative of "see what you want when you want". It's a lie. More like, "see what we force feed you when you decide to watch it - as long as it's still there when you decide".

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

you really are the textbook definition of a Cheap Bastard. I wouldn't be surprised if you steal your neighbor's Cable and Internet too.

It's a character he plays online, man. The weirdness isn't in the behaviors of the character he plays - instead, the weirdness is in that he does it at all in the first place.

[CyberCubed]

I honestly forget cable TV is still a thing. Reminds me of that old Simpsons episode where Homer got that guy to install an illegal cable box in his house and the whole town came over to watch because none of them had cable.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

you really are the textbook definition of a Cheap Bastard. I wouldn't be surprised if you steal your neighbor's Cable and Internet too.

Lmao I love it

[Zulithe]

I just bought a ton of 4K blu-rays this week when a lot were marked down to 7.99 or 9.99. From amazon.

Though a lot of times their sales are just price matching places like Best Buy, so even once BB gives up on physical media, it will likely cause an impact across the industry.

I have an external region-free 4K blu-ray player for my PC, with a hacked firmware so it can play/rip anything from any region, from all formats (4K, 1080p blu-ray, dvd, etc.) so I'm taken care of for a long time.