Best Buy to End Blu-ray & DVD Disc Sales

Best Buy is exiting the DVD business.

According to industry sources familiar with the company's plans, the consumer electronics retailer will phase out sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs both in-store and online in early 2024. According to one source, Best Buy made the initial decision to discontinue DVD sales nine months ago.

Requests for comment were not returned by Best Buy. Best Buy may discontinue physical-media sales as early as the end of the first quarter of next year, according to home-entertainment blog The Digital Bits. Best Buy had 1,129 store locations as of mid-2023, with 969 of those in the United States.

The move comes as Netflix, 25 years after launching its groundbreaking DVD-by-mail service, shipped out its final DVDs to customers on September 29 (and allowed them to keep their final discs if they so desired). With Best Buy's expected exit from the market, Walmart, Amazon, and Target will be the top three retailers in the United States stocking DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Redbox, now owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, is also still in the physical-disc game, with a network of about 29,000 DVD rental kiosks nationwide.