Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Can’t Buy What They Won’t Sell”.
Yeah Best Buy nx’s physical media. Meanwhile, this is hilarious. Netflix is planning to open physical locations. Wait. What I didn’t see that part the Best Buy nixing physical media is interesting.
When I used to work at the best of buys back in the day, it was like, probably a close to a quarter of the store. It was huge, got them CDs. It was massive pick up that Sarah mlin yeah and you could tell over Alis Moret that section of the store was shrinking, and I guess now it’s just shrinked to zero. They will no longer sell DVDs or Blu-ray discs starting in 2024.
This is only 5 years. After they dropped selling music CDs, according to John fairhurst, CEO of limited run, games, Walmart may also be dropping. Sales of physical games in the near future and limited run is awesome. Just a weird little shout out.
I I’ve gotten a few things from them. Everything I’ve gotten from them has been very good quality, um, very cool group of people, doing very cool things. We’Ve talked about this a fair bit um, I think more more recently when Australia was not going to get physical Media or something like that.
Oh yeah yeah. Some of the movie studios weren’t, going to do physical blu-ray releases in Australia, um High qual, the highest quality version of a movie May simply no longer be available to Consumers very soon, like almost now, starting in 2024, like you’ll, still probably be able to buy them Online for quite some time, but this is kind of wild um – I I don’t really have a ton to add here other than that there are still advantages to physical media and there are still problems with abandoning physical media um, but that doesn’t change the fact that This this tide cannot be stopped. Now, it’s very clear um.
Meanwhile, Netflix has announced that they will be opening two Netflix houses, and this please tell me that this is a play on Columbia House that they’re going to call it Netflix house. Please please tell me that um these Netflix houses will have merch food and fan experiences. Experience location is what they’re calling it based on whatever happens to be the hotness on Netflix at the time they have previously dabbled in popup retail stores and experimented with immersive experience.
Based on the hit show squid game can I just say this actually makes a ton of sense to me. I I see there’s a bit more skepticism in our discussion prompting here, but I thought it was like go rent a physical cop. I was like what are you doing Netflix land yeah I mean, would would you go to a stranger things? Themed.
You know land inside a Netflix theme park. I think some people would. I mean Netflix has a serious collection of first party IP. Now I feel like I would go to what what’s that, what’s that the the game show one that everyone is freaking out about that, Mr Beast remade, you just said it.
I think yeah squid game yeah. I feel like I’d. Go to one of those that’d be interesting. Yeah like you, could totally have squid game experiences so here here we go so squid game, stranger things Wednesday.
I don’t know that they would necessarily own enough of Adam’s family’s IP rights to do anything with that. But who knows Bridgerton, though Bridgerton is huge, um, stranger things which I already? Oh no sorry I just. I already mentioned that Lucifer um Ivon really liked that one yeah, The Witcher, that’s not their IP, but if they put some effort into it, I definitely see the opportunity in the long term for them to build out a theme park. Experience here – and I mean Disney – has certainly shown the way in terms of integrating theme parks into a successful media business.
Oh boy, yeah people are uh, people are talking about the the Bridgerton. People have some ideas for what the Bridgerton Zone might be like: okay, okay, okay, this is not an adults. Only Park get your mind out of it. I’Ve never watched Bridgerton, but I’ve seen some ideas in chat and okay yeah brion’s, pretty uh, pretty sweaty got it.
Yeah yeah yeah in a different form, yep um not like, tries really hard at video games, no kind of the opposite. I think yeah. No, it’s busy trying hard at other things. .