#I guess I need to tag this as cantankerous old lady shit

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Best Buy will stop selling DVDs in 2024. Fewer movies/TV shows are being released for sale and home viewing already (for awhile now). The availability of content continues to narrow down and narrow down until being able to enjoy cinematic entertainment, a person needs to subscribe to multiple streaming services, have WiFi, have access to a smart TV, smart phone, laptop, etc.

If I were far more eloquent and versed in all things Roget, I would scribble out a diatribe or TED talk about the sheer wrongness of technology advancing but corporations (and thus society) forcing people into one method of doing a thing, one manner through which to partake of the world, that inevitably disenfranchises a majority of the population, but manages to yield a hefty profit for a small percentage.

Once upon a time, we were able to own art and enjoy it.