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Best Buy Announces End of Blu-ray Disc, DVD Sales

This is only true if you're not counting unofficial methods for some reason. It's pretty much impossible to have lost media in this day and age. You can watch the original "banned" episode 1 of Osomatsu-san right now if you want, despite it being pulled from every streaming service and never being released on home video in either Japan or overseas. Once something is put out there it's out there forever in this day and age.

Even in the heyday of DVDs and Blu-Rays, Best Buys never had more than a random smattering of a few dozen anime titles, mostly popular releases. Only a tiny fraction of my sizable BR/DVD collection was purchased there (though Best Buy has, for a long time, my go-to tech store for other things).

Do i think physical media will die?

No, there will always be a demand for it.

Will we suffer a few lost media during this era? Most definitely

Say what you want, but having everything digital only can only be benefical in the short term, eventually when the companies/streamers either go bankrupt, lose streaming license or lose original data, they will get lose and overall no way to preserve them, or you might even lose the original vers and stuck with the edited vers, case in point of the star wars old movies.

People who say stuff like this have no idea what they're talking about. If you want to pirate anime sure, you can probably find any full length anime released after 2010. But pirating western childrens cartoons is incredibly difficult. I'm still looking for a copy of the cgi television series based on The Little Prince, it streamed on abc iview in 2019, its piss easy to just copy and paste an iview link into yt-dlp, but I can't find it any where.

If you want to pirate anime sure, you can probably find any full length anime released after 2010. BUT--

I know the big conversation here is the whole digital v. Physical thin here, but my only real reaction is simply, "Who the hell buys movies from BestBuy?" For my entire life BestBuy has always had -- by an enormous margin -- the worst prices for DVDs/BRDs. They'd consistently be priced at 50% over (or double) the prices at most other retailers. They sucked.

It's such a modern thing, this concern about lost media. It really comes down to whether you feel that all art is worth preserving, there are plenty of articles about how 75% of silent movies have been lost due to fires or improper storage.

Creating, and maintaining, any kind of complete archive would be a monumental task, and the more I think about it, the more it doesn't feel worth it. We're talking about pop culture, things that are both inherently formative yet disposable, products of their time that inspire the next generation of artists.

I definitely see the value in a Criterion Collection, any archive that preserves what are deemed the classics, but an archive of every TV show that had one mediocre season would be pointless, it'd be like a making a museum of "meh" art.

PseudoFiction wrote:

It's such a modern thing, this concern about lost media. It really comes down to whether you feel that all art is worth preserving, there are plenty of articles about how 75% of silent movies have been lost due to fires or improper storage. Creating, and maintaining, any kind of complete archive would be a monumental task, and the more I think about it, the more it doesn't feel worth it. We're talking about pop culture, things that are both inherently formative yet disposable, products of their time that inspire the next generation of artists. I definitely see the value in a Criterion Collection, any archive that preserves what are deemed the classics, but an archive of every TV show that had one mediocre season would be pointless, it'd be like a making a museum of "meh" art.

I don't really agree. Plenty of things which are classics or cult classics are hard to find anyway. I don't really like the idea that critics should be able to decide which series are worth saving. Would a team of critics decide Petopetosan is worth saving or Zettai Shounen? what about the Jarinko Chie tv series, how about the western cartoon Pablo the Little Red Fox or Skyland, or say nelvana's Tintin?

Sure I'm not proposing we go through the effort of making an archive, but I'm not going to rest easy thinking to myself, "sure humanity might end in 5 decades, but at least there's an archive of the IMDB top 500 films"

It's such a modern thing, this concern about lost media. It really comes down to whether you feel that all art is worth preserving, there are plenty of articles about how 75% of silent movies have been lost due to fires or improper storage.