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Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays after the 2023 holiday season

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Re: Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays after the 2023 holiday season

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hellotheretoday wrote: post #7
SirMaster wrote: post #5

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It seems music escaped this fate. You can easily buy most music digitally and DRM free. Will video not be able to escape this fate?

Music also had a somewhat huge resurgence of physical media thanks to collector culture. It’s almost standard now for any semi notable new release to have at least a vinyl run of a few thousand units. Huge names get pressings in the tens of thousands or more and cds and cassettes are increasingly common. It’s crazy to me that it’s still going strong. I used to collect vinyl. I still collect used stuff sometimes but p…

What’s the best way to assess pressing quality? I have always been a big lover of vinyl and I have somewhere from 50-80 of them, and I don’t even know if the 180g means anything. Any tips would be appreciated - maybe there are some studios that do it better than others?

Re: Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays after the 2023 holiday season

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pixelatedindex wrote: post #11
hellotheretoday wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Music also had a somewhat huge resurgence of physical media thanks to collector culture. It’s almost standard now for any semi notable new release to have at least a vinyl run of a few thousand units. Huge names get pressings in the tens of thousands or more and cds and cassettes are increasingly common. It’s crazy to me that it’s still going strong. I used to collect vinyl. I still collect used stuff sometimes but p…

What’s the best way to assess pressing quality? I have always been a big lover of vinyl and I have somewhere from 50-80 of them, and I don’t even know if the 180g means anything. Any tips would be appreciated - maybe there are some studios that do it better than others?

180g means nothing really, yes. Often lighter weight records sound better but I don’t know if that’s because of the weight or because of effort placed in other areas.

Knowing if a record will sound good is tough these days. You can read discogs reviews but those are a crapshoot because 90% of them are people who are listening on $50 turntables with built in 2” speakers. They either complain about everything being shit while ignorant of their garbage equipment or paradoxically just think everything is 5 stars because “vinyl just sounds better”

That said the steve Hoffman forums music forums (stevehoffman.tv), gearspace.com, vinylengine.com, certain subreddits (forget which, don’t really go on Reddit anymore but r/vinyl is probably a good start) are at least places with more nuanced discussion where you can generally see the rationale for why someone thinks a pressing is good instead of just “omg it sounds so good 5 stars”. You often get great info on their signal chain as well. But they aren’t nearly as comprehensive so don’t expect to find everything

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