Best Buy Says Bye-Bye to DVDs

@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.

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.

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. 

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.

Better get a hold of a high fidelity bluray player before they all get discontinued. Sony's Playstation 5 was the single biggest disruptor of the market for bluray player manufacturers.

Bluray audio (when an artist chooses to also offer his album in this format) continues to be the highest fidelity audio format a hifi enthusiast can get a hold of...