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Physical media has been trending towards poorly. But in a changed world where streaming media costs for consumers are doubling, at the same time content on the

Physical media has been trending towards poorly. But in a changed world where streaming media costs for consumers are doubling, at the same time content on the services are shrinking, it's not clear that this trend will continue. Why wouldn't consumers want own more media as the relative value of streaming options plummets? I mean, sure, Best Buy evidently thinks this is the right time to exit physical media. They might be right. But "never coming back" seems like an a possibly overly confident prediction at a time when the major substitute causing the decline is on fire?

fullshark 3y ago
It's never going to be what it once was. Like physical music, which has a healthy niche vinyl audience so it's not completely dead, I think there's going to be physical media for the diehard fanatics (who want to be able to watch again and again and like collecting). The previous physical media world existed without ad-supported and subscription based streaming / social media competition for eyeballs and vast majority of people are going to choose that v. buy physical media.