Best Buy is saying goodbye to movie-watching with physical discs.
The consumer electronics retailer plans to phase out its DVD and Blu-ray sales by early 2024 — with physical movies set to be sold in-stores and online as they are today through the holidays, Best Buy confirmed to The Associated Press Friday. Video games will not be impacted.
“To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today than it was decades ago,” the company said in an emailed statement. “Making this change gives us more space and opportunity to bring customers new and innovative tech for them to explore, discover and enjoy.”
It didn’t help that the Xbox refresh did include that ability. I was annoyed it didn’t play CDs. I really don’t want extra devices for a function I don’t use all the time.
Yeah, buying the external player and the discs was largely a waste of money because I watched them like once and then pirated copies of UHD movies with HDR became easy to find.