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Best Buy Says Bye-Bye to DVDs

Best Buy announced recently they will stop selling DVDs/Blu-Rays in early 2024, so let's all give a big ho-hum. That will be my predicted response of the majority of people, and it's one they may regret down the line. Yeah, physical discs take up storage space and require another component to play them, but once you own one, it's yours to keep or do with as you wish. And I have yet to hear a streamed version of a movie that sounds as good as an actual disc. It's possible there could be a few exceptions to that statement, but I've never encountered one. I would assume that Best Buy will also stop carrying the players at some point, so any hard-core diehards may want to think about purchasing a spare before year's end.

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lalitk
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I am with @ghdprentice on this…I have not spun a blu-ray movie for a very long time. The two OPPO’s in my home are turned off. The streaming content with right equipment is just as good as 4K Blu-rays, especially new releases. My Sony 77" BRAVIA XR A80L OLED 4K monitor + Apple 4K TV with full surround system provides a stunning audio/visual experience.

I get the sentiment of owning a physical disc but please don’t tell me that streaming quality is not as good as 4K blu-ray. Just check out new releases on Amazon, Disney and Netflix.

ghdprentice
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@lalitk 

 

Looks like we have the same monitor. I got rid of all of my DVDs… leaving about 4 or 500 blue rays. Once in a while we will pull out a disk… no difference.

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dean_palmer
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We still buy and play BluRay discs regularly, and bought a new player not too long ago. Streaming is great and can handle better quality than discs given the service and bandwidth are available to do so, so yes some may feel physical media is dead, but it's not. After owning all kinds of discs for decades, some are actually degrading and starting to have playback issues, so definitely not a solution for a permanent archive as I thought they would be. I will replace certain ones, but seems eventually the physical media will all fail given enough time.

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glennewdick
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I like Blu-Ray's,  DVD are out dated by a good margin though.

I still find a Blu-ray is better over all then the same movie streamed. And you can get the additions a disk gives you like the out takes and the making of etc.

But i can understand why they are cutting them out. to me though its not a cost thing its a movie industry thing and the poorly written and poorly made movies that seem to flood our market of late nothing worth buying IMO. 

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tony1954
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I don't have  huge BluRay library, but I do keep my eyes out for classic movies and movies I prefer to watch more than once or twice.

I also think that with some movies the disk is better, especially with movies that contain a lot of dark scenes. Movies like Gravity, Dune, Avatar or Notorious for example.

Kind of like people switching to streaming music instead of vinyl. The quality might not be as good, but it is less money and less work.

 

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