We're witnessing the end of physical media. You will own nothing and you will be happy.
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We're witnessing the end of physical media. You will own nothing and you will be happy.
I guess this is referring to their videogames, because they did this to their movies over a year ago. What pisses me off is that they aren't getting dumped anywhere obvious, there's not some influx of cheap-ass blu rays, so clearly whoever took them is still banking on their ability to sell them.
They did it in some stores. But now they're getting rid of it in all stores and even online. You literally will not be able to buy movies even online anymore.
>buy movies
>buy
>movies
lol
>I want physical media
>BUYING MOVIES?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
really mixing messages here
I get them off Amazon or an actual store like vinegar syndrome, or ebay.
>I guess this is referring to their videogames,
Awwwww is a little b***h really stupid? How sad 🙁
But I'm glad I'm not really dumb like you. Your life is trash.
What the frick is your problem
Prisons buy them and then resell them at an ultra markup to inmates since they can’t have internet. Best part is if they misbehave the guards can take the movies back and resell them. Its the same reason they still make typewriters too.
>We're witnessing
disney already stopped releasing fox movies on blu-ray a year ago
and NOBODY cared.
>releasing fox movies on blu-ray
probably because nobody wants to watch them.
i wish i could believe this is just a typical moronic failing BestBuy move but it's probably not looking good, bros
We hanging around our nearest best buy dumpster for free kino?
im there. picking up all the boxed sets, brother
They'll probably sell them in lots to bargain outlets at loss, they're definitely not scrapping all that merchandise for null
It's because of Amazon you fricking ape. Best Buy has slowly been getting rid of their physical media section for years. You might be too young to remember aisle and aisles of movies at their locations. They carried everything. But Amazon has been eating their lunch for a decade and a half. How god damn stupid are you? You really think because BEST BUY is getting rid of it it means the death of physical media? Dumb Black person.
I'm glad I saw the writing on the wall and starting building a collection of physical kino from used dvd stores years ago.
I hope you don't mean actual DVD, as in the 480i video format from 25 years ago. How can anyone even watch a movie at that resolution on a modern 4K 70+ inch tv?
>4k tv
no thanks, I'll stick with my tv that isn't a shitty computer
How poor do you even have to be? You're going to have a hard time finding a non-smart tv the longer you wait. You can probably still find them now in 4k, but you could definitely find them just about anywhere years ago when 4k started to become mainstream. Literally no reason to have not upgraded to 4k at some point unless you're on welfare.
Nta but there's still not enough content worth an upgrade when 1080p blurays at high bit rate look great. The only poor people at morons falling for the old and her meme and streaming low quality 4k off netflix.
>The only poor people at morons falling for the old and her meme
Say what now? Also there's fricktons of 4k content, more than I'd ever watch in my lifetime. You can get good 4k panels for cheaper than what you paid for the 1080p panel you're clinging to. Literally no reason not to upgrade unless you're living on a welfare budget.
Sorry, new Samsung tablet has awful text correction. Most of the greatest films still are not on 4k and the bluray version is usually superior because HDR ruins some movies.
>t. 4k projector with silky smooth 24p mode
480p exists for dvd. The quality looks great through a good 4k player (stop using your game console, idiot).
>t. 1080p LED TV and 4k projector chad
Everything isn't on bluray. And if it is on bluray it might not have the same features or it might have weird color filters.
Top is oversaturated to make up for the lack of detail, bottom is what the movie actually looks like
Based
>dude just get the blu ray it’s the same as the dv-
I still don't understand how this happened. So many BluRays from this era have a terrible blue filter thrown on them like the person in charge of the conversions literally thought that you needed to make the movie look blue because it was being formatted onto BluRays.
There's differences in color grading but here's what the actual images look like, not intentionally blurred to make them look equal
Thanks for better comparison, I didn’t have my original DVD anymore so the top pic came from one of those 700MB avi rips from 10 years ago
Who gives a frick about Tigaynic? Lmao oh no Shitgaynic 's colour grading is off NOIOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I do. I give a frick about the movie "Tigaynic."
HD formats have dramatically increased color depth, couple with the high definition they will absolutely look different, you mongoloids. Matter of fact, these films often look different in their original form, DVDs are very limited in tons of ways. In Titanic’s case, there’s might be some added revisions since Cameron does it to all his movies, but even if the color bothers you, the dramatic increase in resolution and sound quality would be still be a fine trade-off. I swear you morons behave like complete luddites just so you can feel like special snowflakes.
sound quality is often worse on bluray
https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/
Bluray more like Teal-ray
Many such cases
blu ray version looks like shit. the patina color is supposed to give it the early 1900s vibe.
Hear me out:
ReShade but for movies.
Can input amateur color grading filters to fix whatever release you have.
I’m all for it
jimbo what the hell
DVDs are overpriced as frick in 2023 anyway
All the other stores will probably do the same now they see normies dont really care
I don't like it, but I can't pretend I've ever bought a Blu-ray from there or anywhere else. Still tho
>own tons of physical vidya and movies
>in 20 years I will be a millionaire once digital censorship takes off and people want the original experience.
See you in the funny pages.
>knock, knock
>police don McDonald's logo
Do Americans REALLY?
There is no McDonalds in Bolivia, America
"You're gonna eat this cheeseburger from my company and LIKE IT!"
For me, it was watching my digital copy of Goodfellas and seeing the airline ticket censored because American Airlines didn't want their logo in a mob movie.
WHAT
Coca-Cola ads were removed from the Grease bluray.
WHAT
Reminder this happens even to 4K discs
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HE SAID THAT COCA-COLA ADS WERE REMOVED FROM THE GREASE BLURAY!
Ok I heard you now…
*double-take*
Whaaat??
NANI THE FRICK?
It had it on the dvd and every home release of the movie.
...because they need the shelf space for what, exactly?
For more stuff that Black folk want to steal.
It’s gonna go the same way as VHS. One day it was just phased out.
This sucks though because with DVDs worrying about episodes being removed for being “offensive or racist” is non-existent
Physical media is cringe and stupid.
You must be poor.
It's not the end of physical media, it's just the end of slop. Retailers like Best Buy sell every shitty straight-to-video, no-audience Hallmark shit that gets released, and they sit on it forever until they're forced to do clearance sales where they do 5-for-$5 deals of 3.7/10 rom-coms (2023) that nobody's interested in.
Boutique labels that curate their movie releases and sell from their own websites are just getting started.
>Boutique labels that curate their movie releases and sell from their own websites are just getting started.
I hope you like paying $100 for movies, because that's what's going to happen when mainstream retailers stop selling them and studios see no incentive for mass production anymore.
Wrong. You'll just get them off wb.com or universal.com, etc. Target and Walmart only carry recent releases. Best Buy hasn't carried a variety of movies since 15 years ago and nobody wants to play $40 for a UHD when the bluray is $20 and the dvd is $5 (seeing how dvd still outsells all formats).
Why would anyone want to buy anything but the highest quality format available? For me anything less than 4K is worth $0.
Because only autists like you and me care about quality while Joe Walmart doesn't give a frick. He will watch the new transformers on dvd or Netflix.
What is Joe Walmart doing buying physical media when he can just open his Netflix app and watch it there? Is there actually a market for physical media for moronic normies?
All movies are not on Netflix. Some people rather own a movie than pay a monthly subscription.
Joe Walmart lives in a rural area with data caps or slow speeds since American internet is a joke.
Elon Musk is bringing the Web to Joe Walmarts all over the world
Streaming sometimes looks worse.
Color grading is shit, but her nubile form comes out better
Here's your stream with a new movie ad.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-ads-products-insert-old-movies-content-mirriad-2021-5
Yeah there's gonna be more of this. Editting old content to insert a recent ad. Like you'll watch it's a wonderful life or someshit and you'll see an ad for grubhub shoved in there faintly in the background
A bit hard to use a computer without owning it.
>he doesn't know
Jesus Christ how horrifying
this explains why jeets are shitting up every corner of the internet. a celebratory dance before they've won anything.
I don't get why windows keeps trying to copy iphone when their core audience is power users
They see their core audience the same as apple and every other big corp: Goycattle
Least for now I'm glad a few years ago I started using linux.
That's fine, people act like it's a bad thing to own nothing but owning a bunch of shit is actually worse than owning nothing. The only things you truly need to own in this life are your house and maybe your car.
They’re getting rid of cars and moving people into shitty apartments
moron. You don't even own your house since the local government owns your land.
That legit sucks. I love buying blu rays.
>buy physical media
>it has protections so I still don't own it
New art from Plague
Whats the point of best buy then? Thisbis like the end times of Radio Shack where you walked by them asking why the frick they were still a thing
Yeah they know they're dying and can't do anything to stop it. Only so much a brick and mortar retailer can offer in the age of e-commerce.
They wouldn't cut physical media if it was turning a profit.
They need to start stocking sexbots asap
Radio Shack was indispensable as the only place that sold electronic components and tools. You could just walk into your neighborhood Radio Shack and find any kind of capacitor or resistor or whatever you needed for some project you were working on. Now the only way to buy any of that stuff is online stores that charge shipping and take a week to ship to you. You want a 20 cent capacitor? That'll be $0.20 + $7 shipping plus sitting and doing nothing while you wait for it to get here. In general, online shopping killing local retail has been a huge negative for society.
Why don’t you make your own dvd store?
>Movies and videogames all go digital
>All of it is easy to pirate and there's no reason to spend actual money on it
I will buy nothing and you will seethe
The only reason why movies are so easy to pirate is because they're released on physical media with encryption that was cracked long ago. If studios completely discontinue physical media, it's going to become a lot harder for pirates to rip movies. It's possible that we could see uncrackable encryption on streaming sites at some point too.
Doesn't seem like pirates have a problem getting webrips. But I'm not going to pretend that I know how any of that shit works.
come on man. pirates get a hold of the original netflix/amazon/etc. file somewhere in east asia and crack the file. companies change the way they are encrypted thats why groups are constantly changing too. its a non win race for corpos
Just pirate moron. Why would you want to BUY a disk?
the majority of best buys selection is 4k and blu ray. There is zero dvds there.
anything that looks interesting or new is $30+.
when the majority of sales is still dvd it's no wonder they aren't making any money.
I think the ceo is moronic
moron thread.
They better fricking not, they sell the Mill Creek Ultraman steelbooks for like 9 dollars because I'm the only person that buys them.
Mill Creek has already got out everything they have the license for so just get everything they've got before Best Buy stops.
I'm not surprised, my local Best Buy moved locations a few months ago and doesn't even have a DVD section now, you have to ask a wagie to get it for you in the back. Sucks cause they usually had good deals on 4k and it's close to my house. I'm not driving 20 minutes to risk my life with the denizens of Walmart, so I guess it's Amazon from here on out.
Laser disc chads stay winning
That name is so sexy.
>We're witnessing the end of physical media. You will own nothing and you will be happy.
I own several external drives full of movies.
What's best buys most profitable merchandise?
What are they replacing the dvd shelves with?
bigger TV showrooms, or they're gonna rent space to a phone carrier
Best Buy from the late 90s until around 2010 was the coolest fricking place on earth. Everytime I go there these days it's just depressing. It's like seeing your childhood pet waste away in its final months
did you ever get to experience Media Play? That was the true patrician shopper's choice.
notOP but frick yeah do I remember Media Play!
Did yours have a “big screen” made of many smaller CRTs?
I think it did have a video wall yeah. Lots of places used to do that.
Shit was cash
Yeah. It was like Best Buy but even more magical. I got my PS2 from there. The one I used to go to is now an appliance store that integrated the triangle sign seen in
into their sign and it's still like that. Gets me with the nostalgia everytime I drive by
Media Play was excellent. Got my first electric guitar there and lots of great music that couldn't be found at places like Walmart.
for me it was fry's no cap
what the hell happened to their video game section?
Sharp increases in digital media just means easier piracy. They will get none of my money and they will be happy.
Physical media will always be superior. There hasn't been shit to own on DVD in years however. Frick this shit. Tired of all these companies being fine with taking any ownership we have for a movie or game
>"Welp, nobody's buying this shit anymore. Guess we'll have to stop selling it."
>1984 YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Just because every moron uses streaming services doesn't mean all physical media has to go bye bye.
That's not how capitalism works, kid. There actually has to be a market for your product to justify mass production
I still buy all movies and anime and cartoons I watch on DVD and sometimes Blu-Ray
Remember those portable DVD players? Best Buy still sells them and some even play Blu-Ray now too
It does if it's taking up space that could be used for things that sell. Or are you personally going to cover the cost for that? You should go tell the Best Buy CEO that you'll pay to keep them there.
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t. luddite
I don't own any VHS tapes either
I wish we could digiral versions of movies that are as good as the Blu Ray. Digital versions are the stream versions which often are lower quality. I hate having random shit in my room but i would pay for a GOOD digital version.
I do regret not getting that Godzilla 1998 steel book they sold last year. When I went there recently there wasn't much there, just 4k and UHD DVDs of modern movies I will probably never watch.
I would pay for really high quality video files (DRM free and all).
Godzilla 1998 is a fun and complete movie.
I worked at a Blockbuster in the early-mid 2000's and this is said a lot to the point of cliche, but we're losing something special with the digitalization of everything. Something very natural and human. Being the guy behind the counter at the video store was fun and a great icebreaker. I met a lot of people, made some friends, had interesting and funny conversations. And at the end of each shift I got to take home a few movies along with some candy and popcorn like there was a movie theatre right alongside me. There was no youtube, no torrents and no such thing as a coomer. Netflix existed, but it was by mail and was kind of a weird and novel concept. You had access to new movies before they hit shelves, so you kind of felt "ahead". It was a good time and no one had any idea of the current hellscape just around the corner.
I just like the smell of a new DVD
I've noticed that DVDs smell different depending on which part of my planet they came from. I had the Let it Be movie on DVD that came from the Czech Republic that smelled weird.
I miss walking down aisles and seeing movies you may have not seen before with interesting covers. My library actually lets you check out DVDs now, so its kind of better in that regard.
I did find some great movies and games there, like pic related which I ended up continually renting alongside Snowboard Kids and Chameleon Twist. Then my parents would let us get a candy snack if we did good with our school work. Good times.
oh no! the slop
Not looking forward to dealing with $60 blurays from boutique eBay sellers.
Five Nights at Freddy's
Gun you down, use the machete
Cut you up, ain't you ready
For the five nights at the Freddy's?
Five Nights at Freddy's
Gun you down, use the machete
Cut you up, ain't you ready
For the five nights at the Freddy's?
i get my dvds and blu rays from the bargain bin at the pharmacy
did sick people cough on them?
could be but if you ever need a copy of Click it’s there
let me think here 1 hard drive or a bookcase full of movies. decisions decisions
The bookcase, obviously.
a walk in closet, kino vault
Both if you're not poor.
I still want to own a lot of stuff but I no longer desire physical media. Maybe it's because I move a lot and you really realize how much useless shit you have when you move but each time it pisses me off more and more to pack that shit. Plus it's infinitely easier to just click a button and have it play.
Needed AC converter for driving force wheel, headphone extension, VGA->DP converter.
Went to bestbuy, $50 for any of these if they even had them. More staff than customers, the only staff that approaches you is in the high commission tv section.
Went to computer store and found the extension and converters for about $10.
They didn't have any AC adapters that weren't laptop chargers though.
Getting rid of the low priced items that actually bring people into the store is suicide. They'll be gone entirely in 5 years.
>We're witnessing the end of physical media. You will own nothing and you will be happy.
VHS is going to come back like vinyl.
vaporwave guys already release vhs tapes
an unseal vhs of Rambo already sold for 45k
If not the actual format but the video aesthetic style filter already is around. Though not the same.
I don't see VHS coming back in anyway other than for novelty/hipsterism, but I firmly believe DVDs will bury us all
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