The end of physical media is neigh

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. 

I can’t deny the convenience of streaming. The problem I have is that we are at the mercy of whatever the streaming companies want to have in their library at the time, which is not a cultural or artistic decision, it’s based on negotiations which have nothing to do with anything but money.

And that’s fine, streaming companies have a right to optimize their offerings. My concern is rather, being able to share beloved movies with friends and younger generations when the powers that be have decided they are not lucrative or no longer available in your market region.

Related, but a tangent, is the way AI is taking over our listening.

Driving in my car it is impossible to ask for U2. Google keeps hearing it as Youtube and damned if I can specify "Play the irish band U2"

Alexa for instance can’t hear "Halie Loren" but plays some random artist with a name that sounds like Lauren.

And the number of times I wanted to hear a specific song from a specific artist and couldn't is often. 

Could the world's first trillionaire (or lower) just buy up all the rights to music and hold them, preventing streaming from continuing as it is? Doubt it would happen, but it might be theoretically possible. 

A total absence of physical media is concerning to me.