Best Buy To Stop DVD Sales And What That Means For Physical Media
The post Best Buy To Stop DVD Sales And What That Means For Physical Media appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. SAN FRANCISCO – FEBRUARY 19: Blu-ray discs are displayed at a Best Buy store February 19, 2008 in … [+] San Francisco, California. Toshiba Corp. announced today that it is discontinuing production of its HD DVD players and recorders effective immediately after longtime partner Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. decided to move to Sony’s Blu-ray format. Sony and Toshiba have been in a longtime battle for market share of high-definition DVDs. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images In September, Netflix NFLX ended its DVD service, and Best Buy BBY announced it will stop selling DVDs and Blu-ray discs at the end of the 2023 holiday season. “To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today than it was decades ago,” Best Buy said in a statement. “Making this change gives us more space and opportunity to bring customers new and innovative tech for them to explore, discover and enjoy.” While other retailers, such as Target TGT and Walmart WMT , still sell DVDs and Blu-ray, the market has been shrinking in recent years due to streaming. In many ways, this seems like natural progress. However, many still cling to physical media. Over the years, many have defended the need for DVDs in the streaming era. In 2016, Vox published an article that called DVDs “essential in the age of streaming.” While writer Peter Suderman discusses picture quality differences, he also calls out access, an issue still present today. Streaming services offer a rotating library, and through that rotation, certain titles are not always available. Maybe more notably, many films are not on any streaming services and are unavailable to buy streaming versions through companies like Amazon AMZN . These films become entirely unavailable to stream. Films currently unavailable for streaming include James…
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SAN FRANCISCO – FEBRUARY 19: Blu-ray discs are displayed at a Best Buy store February 19, 2008 in … [+] San Francisco, California. Toshiba Corp. announced today that it is discontinuing production of its HD DVD players and recorders effective immediately after longtime partner Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. decided to move to Sony’s Blu-ray format. Sony and Toshiba have been in a longtime battle for market share of high-definition DVDs. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images In September, Netflix NFLX ended its DVD service, and Best Buy BBY announced it will stop selling DVDs and Blu-ray discs at the end of the 2023 holiday season. “To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today than it was decades ago,” Best Buy said in a statement. “Making this change gives us more space and opportunity to bring customers new and innovative tech for them to explore, discover and enjoy.” While other retailers, such as Target TGT and Walmart WMT , still sell DVDs and Blu-ray, the market has been shrinking in recent years due to streaming. In many ways, this seems like natural progress. However, many still cling to physical media. Over the years, many have defended the need for DVDs in the streaming era. In 2016, Vox published an article that called DVDs “essential in the age of streaming.” While writer Peter Suderman discusses picture quality differences, he also calls out access, an issue still present today. Streaming services offer a rotating library, and through that rotation, certain titles are not always available. Maybe more notably, many films are not on any streaming services and are unavailable to buy streaming versions through companies like Amazon AMZN . These films become entirely unavailable to stream. Films currently unavailable for streaming include James…
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