Best Buy Is Getting Rid Of Physical Media

[@joeycondomony8098]

It's been very sad to see this business just shoot itself in the foot over and over.

[@dionysisnance4204]

I hate when they take the Option always from you to decide wherever you want physical copy or digital

[@thequestionable1413]

Yeah options are horrible for these companies cause they give up a percentage of control. This is so sad.

[@Iam123-i5j]

This is literally all i came to best buy for. Now i no longer have a reason to set foot in that place

[@DegenerateJay]

Taking away options is almost always bad for consumers but great for business. It's just unfortunate.

[@thequestionable1413]

The best buy subreddit and the seperarate one for workers is just sad too. They define themselves by a declining store.

[@xKawaiiKittenx]

Yeah they were really butthurt about that last video too lmao

[@danglin-wang7633]

bunch of loser if you ask me

[@BigBlackBarret]

I would probably be mean to if I worked at a dying job

[@andyowski1515]

They really just seem like entitled jerks. I remember when they posted a whole thread about the original video and they were all just crying about it.

[@jangofett1172]

I never understood why Best Buy exists now. You could go literary anywhere else now for movies, games, etc.

[@CultureCriticCentral]

Best Buy isn’t a movie store, it’s an electronics store that sells movies as well. Best Buy sells phones TVs, laptops, and consoles

[@thequestionable1413]

​@@CultureCriticCentralhow often does one person need each of these things? Once every handful of years? You'd think you'd want to cater a little bit to variety. They used to be a tech store in terms of movies, gaming, music, all of it. They also did what you said. Now they're narrowing down to just that. The locations by me are half empty stores now and it's kind of sad. It's like a graveyard.

[@Bugmultiverse]

Off topic but I saw a 2011 Arkham city green lantern Blu-ray a few years ago, I doubt the code even works anymore

[@zachlance6301]

Where else can you go? Please enlighten me cuz only thing i can think of is the damn grocery store

[@ScottCoffinRepublicanFan]

@@zachlance6301 It must depend where you live cause there's tons of stores around me and malls as well.

[@ShadyPlatinum777]

Getting rid of physical media makes no sense for a number of reasons. Firstly not all movies including older one are available to stream. Secondly some people are collectors and like to own the disc. Lastly you have those people with a home theatre setup who want the best quality and experience and will buy the 4K BluRay.

[@andyowski5021]

Well I have no reason to shop there now since I can find all my games easier elsewhere anyways. The only thing they still have is a decent distribution of the Limited Run copies of games but if they're getting rid of movies I bet games will follow in a handful of years.

[@joeycondomony8098]

Yeah when 2023 ends I won't be bothering. I guess if Walmart gets more I'll go there but I already have shows and movies people have a hard time finding on streaming services. When physical media goes away people like us will have what we want and everyone else won't.

[@Crota0100]

Weird, BestBuy always had a decent BluRay section and they often had exclusive Steelbooks too.

[@joeycondomony8098]

It was the one thing that I still went in there for and I'd occasionally go find a game I didn't have too because I went for a movie.

[@shinecomics]

I wonder how long it will be until Walmart, and Target starts doing this.

[@RobertQuant]

Target already did i😊t but Walmart is taking over for physical media they won’t get rid of it there’s money to be made on movies 🍿

[@Bugmultiverse]

No more directors, cast and crew commentaries. One My favorite part of physical media, plus the old bonus disks that had minigames lol

[@DegenerateJay]

Yeah, I was recently watching through some James Bond movies and it was really interesting to see some of the behind the scenes of how the movies were made. I'm really interested in the craft of movie making, even though I'm not out there doing it, and if that is lost it would be a real shame. It is possible they will still do digital bonus features but there is a certain point at which they will have no incentive to do so because there won't be any other competition as to buying the movie.

[@ci7210]

I know I remember how awesome the Shrek 2 DVD was with that American Idol parody

[@Bugmultiverse]

@@DegenerateJay yeah same, but I was watching the original spider-man movie commentaries, really brought some insight and context to the scenes. I’m the person who always watches behind the scenes after I’m done watching movies.

[@Bugmultiverse]

⁠@@ci7210i remember the simpsons movie had a similar parody aswell, British Idol

[@Rorschach97]

Now it's worst buy

[@xKawaiiKittenx]

@@sethdavis459Blast this is why I hate flying!

[@hughmunguss5338]

I would go in to look at movies/TV shows and video games. Often I would buy 1 of either each or both. Now I can just go somewhere else for my gaming instead.

[@TheCondimonyKing-jo2xc]

Guess that's one less store to shop at. I'm not exactly in the market for a new phone, appliance or TV every week lol

[@caraverderosa6519]

I walked into Best Buy last week and I walked right into to gaming media isle and they were reconstructing the whole place

[@brandongovreau9218]

imagine a alien gets bitten by a radioactive white guy and the alien becomes a superhero and calls himself hue-man

[@thequestionable1413]

I don't know where this came from but it made me laugh

[@xKawaiiKittenx]

HUE MAN LMAO😂

[@wisconsinking323]

I'm surprised people don't realize there's lots of DVDs (or even VHS tapes) of movies you can only buy online, like certain workout videos. Hearing that Best Buy will stop selling physically media always makes me think of how gaming companies don't make handhelds anymore, there's LOTS of people who still play/post stuff online about still playing games on a Gameboy or PSP or even people who still play/post online about playing GameCube or PS2 or Xbox.

[@GamerBoy870]

Dude I still own a PS2 and it's the FAT one.

[@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl]

Great video Jay and I enjoy listening to you guys talk about this and this is sad to hear that bestbuy is getting rid of their physical movies because I being going there a lot lately and I do think they will lose a lot of customers over this

[@Slyarno2795]

Here in canada we have best buy and lately we have physical media, while in Us dam im sorry of what you guys are through and seeing best us in america shoot themselves in the foot.

[@DegenerateJay]

Yeah it's interesting because I was looking at global sales and America doesn't sell as many physical movies as a lot of other countries do now which surprised me. But there's still billions of dollars to be made worldwide on physical media. Even now. And going into 2024/2025 there will be too, even if America was to drop off from it. It seems like they could have reinvented the physical media format to make it more affordable and easier to distribute, instead of just ditching it. Something I didn't get into very much is that I also think movie studio greed really hurt physical media because of the prices they were asking.

[@michaeljordan9664]

Best Buy employees have a worse work ethic than when I was on the Washington Wizards and they wouldn’t listen to my commands. 🏀💫

[@s1ne281]

The walking dead, on streaming services cuts out cussing while, if you watch the series through DVD you see how much censorship they did 😅

[@cathylickpriest7775]

And my last reason for still shopping there over anywhere else is now gone!

[@ScottCoffinRepublicanFan]

Never shopping there again I guess

[@coreymckee4844]

Physical media isnt dying. Well it is.. but only cause corporations are putting more focus on digital media. I guarantee that if tomorrow digital media went away completely, Physical media would immediately be on the rise again. They WANT you to own nothing and be happy. Its not dying naturally as i thought it would over time. Digital media is being pushed on us at incredible rates. Far faster than i ever thought it would be. Typically i thought Physical media would die maybe in the next 10 to 15 years. But they want it dead sooner and so this is happening. Its why i guarantee that ps6 and the next xbox will be solely digital only and just glorified rental services. When this happens im finding another hobby.

[@RyanRedbird]

You're right about everything, and if the next Xbox and the ps6 don't have a disc drive, then that will be the beginning of the end of the gaming industry entirely. If an all-digital future is as inevitable as everyone says it is, then a second video game the crash is just as inevitable as well.

[@oriongear2499]

If Best Buy really isn't interested in selling physical media for Movies, TV Shows, Video Games etc. anymore, they could easily make a branch dedicated to selling physical media. Edit: This move by Best Buy (and possibly by other retailers) will also encourage illegal activities like bootleg media production and piracy.

[@Blaxative601]

Hey man lil off topic But I was wondering if you can make a video about your thoughts on the MCU right now and why a lot of people believe that they lost their magic and maybe how to fix it. Keep up the good work!

[@ChristianFrates1997]

Lobo: Frag this! This is crap!

[@xKawaiiKittenx]

Lobo is 100 percent right. Such a ridiculous situation.

[@RickyDaKitsune]

The main issue im gonna have now is i have to buy my stuff online and I hate online shopping, plus if you go anywhere else like Barnes and Nobles, a brand new 4k movie would cost $50 and streaming is becoming worse for one main reason and that is even if Netflix or Disney+ have original movies or shows exclusive to them, they can remove them and you have no where else to watch them, and i know some shows and movies have gotten physical releases, but that’s not enough for the amount of content these platforms make. Im not looking forward towards the future

[@pcharl01]

I assume Amazon provides the (Ultra 4K Blu-Ray/DVD combo needs for many comsumers. The shelf space is not optimized for them. Shit in my local BB it appears like most of the games are in the back.

[@andyowski1515]

That's unfortunate cause most of the time when I've ordered movies from amazon they just send them in a crappy envelope mailer and they get smashed.

[@rubeng370]

I can't tell you the amount of times i go to Best Buy every tuesday for new movies and half the time i don't buy no new movies and will find old movies from the 70s or 80s that secretly release steelbooks or 4K transfers and would be really happy to find one. Like i found Ran (1985 Kurosawa) on a very beautiful steelbook and never seen the movie. But i wouldn't have bought or know about this release of the movie had it not been for Best Buy. So now as they don't have video games on shelfs (probably for looting reasons), i don't buy video games unless it's something I'm hyped about like this year, Jedi Survivor and Spiderman 2. Now that Best Buy gets rid of their new movies and games... i honestly wouldn't go to Best Buy anymore. Unless i need to upgrade headphones or buy a new macbook every 7 years

[@AlexTheKiller1297]

own nothing and be happy

[@michaelbertoline6190]

The only reason I go to Best Buy is to look at dvds

[@nathantaylor8643]

Of course physical media sales are shrinking when you keep removing them from store shelves. Also the fact that Hollywood refuses to make very many good movies the last few years isn't helping either.

[@lordzedd343]

Streaming is more like Blockbuster, but with extra steps and competition.

[@TheSauceYouGetLostin]

Best buy is very much turning into strictly an "I need" store, not an "I want" store. Will add that physical media is getting harder to find overall FYE has gone through the same thing regarding physical media- store near me used to be wall to wall CDs, games and movies, now it has half a shelf of CDs and about 2.5 shelves of movies, and the other 95% is just memorabilia. I mean Companies are still making physical media, movies are still coming out on Blu-ray and DVD and 4k, people are still buying them, just sellers are refusing to sell and then those same sellers say "huh nobody is buying this thing I don't sell, I guess that means nobody is buying them period"

[@lahuk1194]

If the physical media sales have declined from $1B to $750M in 1 year, combined with your prior mentions of the DVDs being damaged in transit, maybe they are losing money on lost stock and declining sales, and don't see an improvement, so are cutting thier losses. Still, its also rubbish to see physical media decline and disappear, this is just another nail in the coffin. I don't think physical media will disappear completely, there are the limited run companies making games and DVDs, but its going to be a niche interest in a digital-dominated world. At least there's always the 2nd hand market.

[@RuinNationGaming]

many best buys have gone down hill they dont have blue shirts mostly they have vendors from sony Samsung lg verizon. they didnt reinvent themselves and the store it self is bland no soul any more. id love to see micro center pc open a few more stores up.

[@xKawaiiKittenx]

I heard that circuit city has some locations now but none are near me

[@RuinNationGaming]

@@xKawaiiKittenx i know they have a site and maybe a store within another store they may sell a few products but i highly doubt in this time frame they could come back. unless they went full into hardware pc/electronic sells. like micro center pc its the only way a physical store can stay now I think.

[@RyanRedbird]

I just heard news of Walmart phasing out physical Xbox games, this pisses me of so fucking much, I got an Xbox One S for my birthday back in 2022 and seeing Microsoft sabotage physical media honestly makes my fucking blood boil so much. This is my FIRST mainstream console I've ever had, I've always wanted to have a huge physical game collection to have for my own, but no, fuck that. Microsoft and Walmart need to realize that certain parts of the world exist, and not everyone has lightning fucking fast internet to support cloud gaming and digital downloads, I'm so tired of people thinking that digital downloads are "So MuCH MoRe CoNvEnIeNt." Downloading digital games from the internet goes just as fast as download a game from a disc, and as games get bigger downloads when will get slower. At this point I don't get into anything mainstream anymore because every time I do, everything goes to shit. this honestly sickens me.

[@lordcheesus1013]

Revelations like Best Buy's latest decree really make me feel old, and I'm only in my 30's. I still use a combo dvd/VHS player for my movies. Best damned investment I've ever made.

[@GamerBoy870]

Oh man I turn 30 next year love collecting physical media but its most likely going to be more expensive.

[@burnedoils]

i could listen 2 u talk about how phsyical media or so not dying for hours its great

[@Mike76528]

I recently started collecting vhs tapes again. Pretty fun hobby.

[@-juanmartinez]

Worst buy

[@RyanRedbird]

Underrated comment.

[@KingOfCreep]

It's creepy how out of touch best buy is

[@carlstites9222]

Can we all agree best buy is one of the worst business’s out there period???

[@erniecarrillo8382]

Unpopular opinion but Hot Topic did the same when they cut back on band merch and added Anime and movie merch

[@harrisonsmovietributes1689]

Please do a blu ray and 4k collection video I and I'm sure a lot of people would love to see it no matter how long a video it is haha

[@DegenerateJay]

Honestly I'm a bit worried about being robbed at some point and that's why I haven't... A lot of people on here do not like me lol

[@zachlance6301]

Bro what i was already upset when they downsized now they gettin rid of them altogether??? Where tf am i supposed to buy movies?

[@His_Name_Was_King]

A woman doing dishes is misogynistic.... what a sad time for men at this point.

[@danglin-wang7633]

very bad company very silly

[@michaelbertoline6190]

Amazing thumbnail

[@GamerBoy870]

Hey J I still buy physical media prefer it over streaming

[@tommyfishhouse8050]

Physical media won't 'go away forever' like some people worry. But it will become more expensive to have it as a hobby. I have no doubt physical video games and DVDs will become for their respective mediums what Vinyl is for the music industry. It will still exist to cater to a hardcore group of collectors and be much more expensive. So most people, especially the younger generation who don't see the big deal with keeping physical media won't bother with it. Even as making things increasingly online makes it easier for these companies to censor 'offensive' content and rewrite history.

[@GamerBoy870]

Yep I still collect physical media of shows

[@kingdomheartgamer5787]

I love kingdom hearts I want to get kh 4 physical

[@tedmiller1376]

I love a place I can go to actually buy electronics. But when I realized that buying a game at Fry's still meant hours of downloading time, I stopped frequenting the place. A place I always loved to be around became dead to me. I would go every month or two, and suddenly it was yearly. Only when I needed electronics. Then they went under, and Best Buy was the only game in town. Now that local BB has closed. Electronics stores have basically failed me. They started doing most of their business online, so I understand and all. But now they can do what they want, and it doesn't mean jack to me. Sucks, but what can be done? The pandemic killed most of what life was left in retail. All that stuff about opening space for new tech is BS. It comes of the sales mentality of never saying no. They are trying to put a positive spin on the fact that business is dying. There is nothing positive about this, but they want it to sound like a step up. On to bigger and better things. But that's actually the opposite of what's really happening. If you're angry about this, welcome to the club. You damn well should be. They should be expanding their inventory right now to fill the demand left from the failure of other electronics outlets. Why? Because the economy is recovering. It may not be back to where it once was, but things are so much better than they were just a year ago. If they keep scaling down, they will become irrelevant. And maybe they don't care. Maybe they have found that online sales is all they need. But I think that's a potentially fatal mistake. I think that without a retail presence, buyers will turn to cheaper online sources. Just as they are deciding they don't need to stock as much, their customers will decide to go elsewhere as long as they are having to buy online anyway. So if BB doesn't want to expand, they should, at the very least, stop scaling down.

[@lasoga2125]

DVD and blu ray sales are dropping for many reasons. #1 these studios in America keep making crap movies that are mad woke. #2 they want physical to die so they can get everyone on streaming. #3 they charge way too much for these blu ray. They should be $10-$15 brand new. They make their money on theater's. The blu ray is extra.#4 they want to have control so they can edit media. I'm not a movie guy like you white boys but even I buy a good 10 movies a year.its just hard finding good movies to buy.the hunger games was $15 for all 4 movies at best buy. I didn't even know there were 4 of them trash movies.