Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in audiovisual and computing fields, the 2000s saw this metric seemingly rendered obs… ...

Over the course of more than a decade, physical media has gradually vanished from public view. Once computers had an optical drive except for ultrabooks, but these days computer cases that even sup… ...

DeFoster paraphrased a quote by Ben Bagdikian, a media scholar, that resonated with me on the book side of physical media. “There’s something in the human DNA that really favors words on a page,” ...

In our newsroom, physical media are few and far between and our videos are compiled, edited and distributed digitally for efficiency and speed. This reflects a broader trend in the media industry: ...

Streaming is dominant for movies and TV shows. But some fans still insist on physical media. By Marc Tracy Last month, a young man walked into Night Owl, a store in the Williamsburg neighborhood ...

In this article Physical film U.S. sales fell under $1 billion in 2024, per Digital Entertainment Group’s annual industry report SVOD, meanwhile, brought in $52 billion last year, making up some ...

Minnesota shop owner is a jukebox hero: ‘My whole world is the physical media’ Dan Coulter, of Vintage Gameroom in Newport, keeps the machines going that can spin a real record.

Being the custodian As Guillermo del Toro once tweeted, “Physical media is almost a Fahrenheit 451 [where people memorized entire books and thus became the book they loved] level of responsibility.

I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital Holiday season 2024 solidified it: we really need to stop going along with the lie that streaming is better ...

Physical video games media has been in rapid decline, and it seems possible that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo could eventually go all digital.