HomeBuy to phase out physical media sales as well

Buy to phase out physical media sales as well

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Best Buy confirmed that it would stop the sale of physical DVDs and Blu-ray disc in stores.

The digital Bits reported on Thursday that the consumer electronics retailer was forced to step up physical media sales. Despite that, it was used to the fact this site wasn’t loading (still isn’at present). The company confirmed the news publicly to Variety on Friday.

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As the obvious is, our watch shows are much different today than a decade ago,” said an official in statement. “Ayant this change gives us more space and opportunities to bring new users’ first or second grade tech with their own, for them like a project.

What should Best Buy mean by “new and innovative technologies” to buy movies, television shows? According to one source familiar with the matter, it was initially agreed for the company nine months ago.

Best Buy is going to move away from physical media, but games are still safe for now. Image credit: David Paul Morris / Bros.

Amazon’s move to end sales on its physical and digital storefront comes two weeks after Netflix sent the final DVD out by mail, giving them their final disc rights. The market for best buy and Netflix disappearing into the digital world in a time of streaming services, consumers who want to buy physical copies their favourite movies can still have access at Walmart or Target. In addition to buying DVDs, you can access them from Redbox kiosk.

Best Buy, which had 1 129 stores in its mid-2023 period (including 969 more in the USA), will still sell physical media during holiday shopping season and to discontinue those sales anywhere between January-March 2024. However, it’ll continue selling videogames.

Just make sure there are actually discs in the game, not paper download codes.

Cristina Alexander is a freelance writer for IGN. A big deal for Calvin Harris is a love of the Hedgehog.

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