Customers are slowly running out of places to buy DVDs and Blu-rays as digital and streaming services become the preferred viewing option.
Best Buy will have DVDs and Blu-rays available in its stores through the holiday shopping season but will discontinue sales in 2024.The company that pioneered DVDs-by-mail has discontinued the practice that made it the media mogul today. DVD.com, its physical delivery branch, sent out its last deliveries to customers on Sept. 29, stating that customers could keep the discs. The company announced in the spring that it was winding down the operation due to diminishing customer interest.
Netflix launched the DVD delivery service in 1998. One of the first discs mailed out was 1988's Beetlejuice, according to the company. Its final mailed disc was 2010's True Grit, Netflix confirmed.Ingram, once one of the country's most prominent physical media distributors, announced in September that it was winding down due to dwindling media sales over the last few years."Expenses are exceeding sales time to exit," chairman and CEO David Ingram told Media Play News.