Where will you go when physical media dies?

[SHOCKWAVE6464]

My apologies for the bleak thread, but I felt like this is something that needs to be discussed. All of the shelves in my local Blu-Ray stores are getting smaller and smaller, some releases aren't getting Blu-Rays at all, and all of that is slowly concerning me and making me think about the future of film media.

[Rzzzz]

I will make my own physical media.....

[thecooldud]

It's not going anywhere. If stores are getting less, that's because people are buying more online. 2 +2 equals 4, not 56426.

[mrveggieman]

I will keep hitting up the pawn shops, thrift stores and eBay. Hopefully I'll be long gone by the time physical media ever completely goes away.

[hatchet man]

I will just keep watching what I have and give streaming the middle finger lol

[Steedeel]

Heaven.

[steel_breeze]

They can have my shiny discs when they pry them from my cold dead hands.

[rikraq]

As someone who has been processing an endless stream of dvds day after day for my local libraries, I can tell you physical media ain't going anywhere.

[Member-496106]

I’ll hang out on forums like this with collectors.

[slimdude]

DVDs are still on the market, and they're selling because, everybody doesn't have a blu-ray player, and they have no plans on upgrading to Blu-ray either. So if DVDs and blu-rays are surviving, then physical media is not going anywhere.

[AmishParadise]

There are a multitude of items you used to be able to purchase from brick and mortar stores which are now only available online and continue to be available online. This doesn't equate to the supposed death of the particular item. This has been the case longer than some here have walked the planet. Yes, this was even the case before the Internet.

Before brick and mortar stores had websites they had store catalogs. Many items have never been available at brick and mortar stores. You'd have to order them in-store, over the phone or by mail. Other items available in-store might offer limited options, a broader selection of the given item being available through the store's catalog. Not much has changed really.

A brick and mortar store only has so much square footage available to display products. A brick and mortar store like Best Buy maximizes square footage placing a priority on products that customers want to experience in some way prior to making a purchase. Physical media draws the short straw in this regard. Physical media could be selling twice as much as it does now and it still wouldn't make sense for Best Buy to have large media sections like they used to.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Probably outside more.

I will always outright refuse to spend a single penny on anything that isn’t physical media or a movie theatre.

[Mr.Terry]

well I'll never get this 5 minutes back.

[Thomas Irwin]

I'll subsist on what I have. Should anything happen to that, probably into the woods to lead a much more quiet life.

[CV19]

Originally Posted by Thomas Irwin

I'll subsist on what I have.

Yes, me too. I have more than enough titles to last me the remainder of my life.

Having said that, I'm a firm believer that physical media will be around for a long, long time yet.....perhaps not so much in a high street store, but definitely online.

[CV19]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Heaven.

I take it you mean we'll all be long gone before that happens?

[Forestt]

It may bring me to a bay for pirates. Unless digital is at that point vey well organised, without much distributionproblems and films are available for download so you can store them yourself.

[JustinB13]

Where will I go? Well, where am I now?

[movieeddie]

Been collecting since tape,laserdisc,dvd and now blu-ray.Physical media will never die.Too much money for the studios to make.They may make less of it and prices may go up but it will never die.Just my opinion.

[Thomas Irwin]

Originally Posted by JustinB13

Where will I go? Well, where am I now?