BestBuy to drop movie / music physical media products

[Marzipan]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/best-buy-dvd-blu-ray-1.6995380

I bet they'll switch to some form of card with a barcode you scan with your mobile device.

 

[moocow]

So going the way of GameStop. With streaming, who really buy media except collector edition or box set?

 

[wade7575]

I wonder when it will get to the point you can't buy a DVD Player or even a Drive for your PC.

This reminds me of back in the day when we had VHS machines and we didn't watch a lot VHS's at my place when I was younger and my mom knew enough to that you had to rewind them before you took them back or they would nail you with a charge,when I got a DVD player and she went into town to rent a movie that she had been wanting to see I told her to make sure to rewind the dvd or else she would get nailed with a charge and I went away for the weekend and she phoned my cousin and told him she couldn't figure where the rewind button was on the dvd player and she wanted to rewind it before taking back to the movie store lol,my mom isn't very tech savvy at all.

 

[Bond007]

No surprise on them cutting physical copies…free up the floor space for something that still sells

 

[Prickly007]

So going the way of GameStop. With streaming, who really buy media except collector edition or box set?

What is this streaming you speak of? I thought everyone sails the high seas, arrgh!

 

[moocow]

For a lot of people, it is certainly back to the high seas with colorful birds with all those streaming services that's even more restrictive than before. I logged into Amazon Prime and it's a joke. Even with my Prime membership there are still stuff that I have to sub to.

 

[Cannon Fodder]

For a lot of people, it is certainly back to the high seas with colorful birds with all those streaming services that's even more restrictive than before. I logged into Amazon Prime and it's a joke. Even with my Prime membership there are still stuff that I have to sub to.

Yup, blows me away that they have that stuff on there, but I guess there's probably a significant number of people that will simply sign up for those things while they're there. To me, if it ain't included in your Prime membership, it SHOULDN'T be there.

 

[wade7575]

I'm not saying I'm the biggest fan of Prime because I'm not for many reason's,first they use Intelcom for their Prime membership deliveries at least to where I live because they deliver on weekends,the problem with Intelcom is the drivers are so stupid multiple drivers can't find my apartment and there are only 3 doors on my whole building and nothing is hidden with my building,I live upstairs and downstairs is a business that use the other 2 doors and Intelcom is so stupid that I had to complain 12 times before they finally stopped screwing up my deliveries and taking them back to the hub.

When it comes to Prime Video I understand why you have to subscribe to the channels live Discovery or Hayu or Stacktv,when amazon is only charging 9.99 for Prime that doesn't leave much money to spread around to the different channel suppliers.

The one I don't like is that if you buy a show off iTunes you can loose it over time if let's say Discovery say's screw iTunes were taking away all are stuff from there and then you loose stuff you have paid for and by the I don't mean rented either,that's why I download everything from iTunes and Prime so I can go back and watch it whenever I want to.