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  1. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    If I were 20 or 30 years younger, I'm sure I'd be streaming all my music and not caring. But I grew up in a time when the music experience was something much different than it is today. Pop songs aren't really written or performed anymore... they're produced, often by a computer program that...
  2. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    Yeah, I have a similar experience... I've already bought so much of the video and music I want that the stuff I still need tends to get more and more obscure, and places of the Best Buy/Wally World type don't even come close to having it. I'm more likely to find stuff at flea markets and yard...
  3. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    Went into Best Buy today. This store had been holding out pretty well in terms of physical media... last week they finally eliminated all CD's, except for the clearance bin up front. (They apparently consider $5.99 to be a good clearance price...) This week, they cut their DVD space roughly in...
  4. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    Thing is, if you're my age (grew up in the 70s and 80s), you DID grow up watching the same shows your parents watched. Thanks to daytime syndication I watched probably more shows from the 50s, 60s and early 70's than shows from my own time.
  5. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    That was my experience growing up as a Gen-Xer in the 70's and 80's too. I also grew up within the NYC media sphere, so we got the three "superstations" from there as well. I saw so much local NYC programming and commercials growing up that I almost felt like I lived there. We had "cable" since...
  6. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    I'm sure many Baby Boomers were interested in their parents' pop culture, but it was also the generation that put aside big band jazz in favor of rock & roll, and black-and-white film noir in favor of "new wave" cinema, and the family-friendly, often rural TV shows of the 50's and 60's in favor...
  7. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we Gen X'ers and Baby Boomers grew up with open syndication on television. A huge proportion of what we watched on daytime TV was stuff made before we were born, or when we were infants. Since they restricted the syndication rules in the 90's that...
  8. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    Well, I just got back from Best Buy and for some reason they have really loaded up with TV-on-DVD titles, including many vintage series. I don't think I've ever seen them stock such a big selection... maybe my purchases are influencing their buying decisions. :-) They also had something close...
  9. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    I notice that Best Buy usually matches Amazon's prices on CD's and DVD's, which is probably how they've been able to keep them in stock this long, but also probably why they're no longer generating a profit for them. They are expanding their 4K UHD video section, so people buying those fancy...
  10. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    Oy, don't even get me started. My local mall used to have two bookstores, two record stores, one cassette store, and one video store. (Not counting the GameStop videogame store.) Now all that's left is the GameStop and an FYE with about one aisle of DVD's left. I used to get lost for hours in...
  11. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    One rare bright spot recently for Best Buy's CD selection has been their Christmas CD's. They've always had a whole rack of them. Last year I bought 3... Cheap Trick's new Christmas album, one by the Temptations, and IIRC another Motown collection. Guess I'll have to look elsewhere next Christmas.
  12. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    I'm not sure because I haven't actually opened it yet... it's the version that's currently widely available. Best Buy had it on sale for some ridiculously low price when the WW movie came out. As far as my shopping... I've been buying a lot less stuff from Amazon lately, mostly because I've...
  13. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    I have the same problem with the fact that my musical tastes are too obscure for places like Best Buy... and also the fact that in 35 years of intensive collecting I've bought most of the music I want. (And I haven't been much interested in new music since the millennium or thereabouts.) I do...
  14. AndrewCrossett

    Physical Media might not be dead, but Physical Media in Retail Stores are accelerating the death

    When the local Best Buy here opened in 2009, the entire center section of the store was given over to CD's and DVD's. Maybe 8 or 10 aisles. That's now been reduced to 3 aisles with two additional one-sided half-aisles. Only about one-quarter aisle still has CD's, and they're almost always...
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