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  1. Rick Thompson

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

    It helps if you try to bridge generations, as many of the older shows have their counterparts today. Example: I introduced both my sons to Remington Steele. A few Christmases ago, one said, "I thought you would like this because it's a lot like Remington Steele." The show was Castle, and he was...
  2. Rick Thompson

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

    Maybe this is a stupid question, but I've never seen it asked. Since HDTVs will upscale DVD to HD (not true HD, but interpolated HD), I'm assuming that 4K sets will upscale HD to UHD (again, not true UHD, but interpolated UHD). If that's the case, why bother with a 4K disk that's upscaled 2K? Is...
  3. Rick Thompson

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

    That's because pretty much everything in a mall now is either clothes, women's accessories (jewelry, perfume, etc.), or food, with the occasional phone repair stand thrown in. Not much there for those sporting XY chromosomes.
  4. Rick Thompson

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

    And as a result, they lose the sales on "cell phones (and those lucrative contracts) or other high margin items" because I know they won't have the low margin item I want. Since I'm on Amazon anyway, I buy them the rest of my shopping list there, too. It's not like the chain B&Ms hire staff who...
  5. Rick Thompson

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

    What the B&M stores don't seem to realize is that, if I know I'll have to go to Amazon to get the item that I want (could be media, but not necessarily), I'll just add the other stuff to that one-item order. Not only do they lose the "not most popular" sale, they lose even sale on the popular...
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