The end of physical media is neigh

Do not despair, our future guarantees the longevity of China, the dark web, flea markets, and the guy on the corner wearing a trench coat. 

The real CRIME of this is that the consumer is still charged FULL RETAIL COST to buy the digital downloads & they don’t own a damn thing as the service they paid could go belly up,server crash & wipe or be hacked with zero repercussions or recourse...

I am happy to move on. I used to have a laser disc collection, then a room dedicated to (three walls of racks) VHS tapes, then DVD , then Bluray... I only bought a couple... what was the next thing... 4K disks. I am so done with physical media. A waste of resources and fills up huge amount of space in millions of homes. I moved on to Kindle books, then Audible. We had rooms full of books. Now only a few hundred leather bound.  

I have boxes of dvds and blu ray discs.  I have a Sony blu ray player that I mostly use to play music videos in surround sound.  I have a Pioneer Elite dvd player sitting in a box as a backup, but it doesn't do blu ray.  

I might watch for a deal on a blu ray player just to have one in the event that my Sony craps out. I really don't think a lot of what I have on media is available from streaming.  At least not for free.