Best Buy to End DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales
variety.com
Best Buy plans to phase out sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs both in-store and online by early 2024, the company said.

Best Buy to end DVD & Blu-ray disc sales::Best Buy plans to phase out sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs both in-store and online by early 2024, the company said.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
    352·
    11 months ago

    I haven’t used a DVD in 10-15 years and never used a BluRay but this is still a little surprising to me. Old non-tech-savvy people need movies too.

    • transmatrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      681·
      11 months ago

      Physical media is still the best quality for those of us that care. I rip it to watch digitally, but I like having the physical backup and option to watch with minimal compression.

      • Telstarado@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Same. I love my Plex server - I rip all of my physical media audio and video to it and can watch/listen on all of my devices. Music is especially fun on Plex, as it pulls in great bio info for most of the artists, which makes organizing my decent sized music library a fun bit of zen…

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      221·
      11 months ago

      Blu Ray is still the best quality you can get. Streaming services will compress the shit out of everything (even when they pretend you give you “4k”) and pirate rips are all over the place. Buying a Blu Ray (and ripping out yourself if you do please) is a great investment because you own it, the quality is great, the discs have been designed to last 100 years or more, and they have capacity that will be able to deal with 8k and probably what comes after that too.

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        100% this. People jizz themselves over resolution and dynamic range all while having no idea that their image quality is shit due to compression destroying the bitrate of the video they are viewing.

    • KelsonV@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      11 months ago

      I’ve gone back to Blu-Ray for some things because I no longer trust streaming sites to keep them available.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I am young, tech-savvy and I started to use discs recently because I finally have money to buy movies and not pirate. Honestly I don’t want to pirate movies I really like, but if they don’t want to give options, then…