I still buy the odds and ends blurays thru Best Buy.
The final Evangelion movie and Terrence Malicks' A Hidden Life for example.
Im not jumping thru the hoops of shifting streaming services to watch my favorite movies. Its on one one day and gone the next.
Its been free shipping for any dollar amount for a while now thru Best Buy.
Ill miss it greatly for that aspect.
Like someone said - its the way of Circuit City for BB - and physical media in general.
Im not seeing the vinyl resurgence equivalent anytime soon, if ever again.
For gaming in general, I went digital a long time ago for modern stuff. All the modern day patching makes most physical games useless anyways.
You jnow... this post basically exemplifies my issue with the death and rise of physical and digital media respectively. And the adoption of new trends in tech in general.
Every new tech trend or adoption is usually met with very bitter and stubborn resistance. Being collectively fought by the masses of people that insist on holding onto whatever (now) old tech or platform they have been using. Av the while being conveniently blind and ignorant of the inevitability of what is to come.
This always happens, DVD replacing VHS, cassette replacing Vinyl, CD replacing cassette, CD replacing carts, DVD replacing VHS, digital repacing physical, electric replacing ICE....etc. Always.
Wouldn't it be great if instead of fighting it and being dragged kicking and screaming into what ends up being a wild west of a nonstandardized future, because the designers are all busy trying to create `the` standard that takes over the market, that consumers instead demand certain standards be adhered to by everyone?
Eg... instead of wasting out time bitching about digital game sales representing the death of the used game market, why don't we instead push for the right to resell our digital license of content as `2nd hand` at whatever price we want to and systems be put in place to all that be possible.
Or the fact that we should have a centralized digital market for movies and shows that doesn't just mean you have to get only one digital license for t your content, but that said content i in a format that lets you pay it on anything you want or allows you redownload it whenever you want. Eg... if I buy a movie on the pay store, when I sign into the Apple store or PlayStation store, that movie should show up as owned.