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Production studios still regularly release their latest, greatest films and series on DVD and Blu-ray. But over the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that physical media just isn’t as much of a priority as it used to be for Hollywood’s biggest players. You could see it in the way that Barbarian — … Read more
Getty Images/Justin Sullivan/Staff Being able to walk through the Best Buy DVD aisles will soon be a thing of the past. Starting in 2024, Best Buy will be ditching the sale of physical DVDs both in-store and online, as streaming services have rendered physical media more and more obsolete. The new sales strategy was first … Read more
Collectively, separately, Netflix’s film nerds mourn. On X/Twitter, and in think pieces, and in private moments, they let out a collective sigh knowing that they’ll never see a red-wrapped DVD in their mailboxes again. For some 25 years, the period after Netflix all but obliterated Blockbuster and most mom-and-pop video rental stores, it was the … Read more
David Gewirtz/ZDNET I am going to allow you to in on somewhat secret concerning the inside workings of the David Gewirtz machine. I like time-travel motion pictures and TV exhibits. It is a sub-genre of science fiction the place there’s at all times a little bit of a paradox, and for no matter motive, that … Read more