re: Best Buy to stop selling DVD's in 2024

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There are a few others who have taken over his role though

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Very true.

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Holy smokes man. I know you have streaming services as well, if a movie you want to watch is streaming and you have it on DVD, which do you watch? My post wasn't to knock anyone collecting DVDs btw. My point has always been at this point with so much streaming options, I think it's a better move to spend $15 on Netflix and have 1,000s of shows and movies instead of $15 on one new DVD, or 3, or however many DVDs $15 will get you.

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The vast majority of my collection came before streaming got big. I don't buy DVDs too much anymore (but I still will occasionally for certain movies that I just want in my collection), but it used to be a weekly thing for me more or less. If it is available to stream, I'll generally watch it that way. But there have been lots of times where it wasn't available to stream (or not for free) and I'll just pull out the DVD and watch it.

shite, I bought The Wizard (1989) a couple weeks ago because it wasn't available for free to stream. So I picked it up for like 6 bucks (shipping included) as opposed to paying around $4 to rent it for a couple of days, and now my four year old loves it and wants to watch it every day.

And I get your point about having "1,000s of shows and movies" on streamers. But how many of those thousands do you actually consume? I'd bet it's a VERY low number. So your focus is actually pretty pointed when it comes to things you actually want to watch. And for the most part I'd rather own those things than have them taken away at any given time due to infighting between the entertainment industry. Not to mention with as many streaming services that are offered now, I wouldn't be surprised if the cable format came back into play, only with streaming services (and you already are seeing that with bundles).


ETA: In that OML thread linked on the previous page, my collection stood at 1,679. And that was late September of 2021. So I've bought about 30-ish movies in the last two years. In the past I would've gotten 30 in a fraction of that time.

The Best Buy near me essentially stopped selling them for a while now. Here is a pic of their BluRay/DVD "section" that I took in May.

I am a big fan of physical media, blurays, 4k,dvds.

You never know when some movie will be censored, scenes removed, dialog changed, etc in the future. And I don't have to see any warnings about the movie I am about to watch.

I also love to look through them and pick one out....similar to a trip to Blockbuster in the old days except it's at my house. Best picture and sound . And you can read the back cover for details, run time, actors, director, etc

I buy almost all of mine on Amazon and Ebay

CDs and DVDs were things I was often given for Christmas or purchased for myself with fun money. My life has become a good bit less fun with things like these going by the wayside.

UHF is one of those titles that was worth a lot because of distribution issues.

Orion went tits-up a few years after UHF came out so it was out of print for years, at least until the DVD version came out in the 2000s.

and estate sales

Speaking of DVDs, I'm getting alerts about a TON of movies dropping to their lowest prices (based on info provided in camelcamelcamel) on Amazon:
Happy Death Day 4K
Happy Death Day 2U 4K
Dead Silence 4K
Black Christmas 4K
The Haunting 4K
Twin Peaks: A Limited Series Blu-ray
The Legend of Hell House Blu-ray

etc.....