Welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of the laser disk resurgence.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am at a red box kiosk near my house outside of a

CDS.

I confess I have never done this before.

I've been watching DVDs since like I had one of those DVD VCR combo things and back

then the only DVD we had was Clueless so I watched it like 65,000 times.

And my family was a pretty early Netflix house so we had those red envelopes coming

and going all the time and then somewhere along the way I gave away my DVD collection

and just went all in on streaming.

There was a piracy phase in there too but we don't have to talk about that.

But now here I am at the red box because this kind of feels like the last bastion of

the old DVD era like I'm looking at this and I can get DVDs of Asteroid City and the

Super Mario Brothers movie and Shazam which I definitely won't do.

And Cocaine Bear which I might do and this just feels like an era that's ending DVD.com

which is the name of Netflix's old DVD delivery service is shutting down for good this week.

Oh and quick PSA on that front actually if you're still a DVD subscriber put all your favorite

movies at the top of the queue right now because you get to keep everything you have when

the service goes down so do that as fast as you can.

But with that gone and streaming still really ascended even though it's kind of a mess right

now I just wonder what's going to happen.

Is physical media just dead?

Is it going to have a huge comeback like vinyl did where everybody suddenly buying albums

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