Yes, Best Buy said this.

Happened upon the paragraph below on the Best Buy website.  As most people know, Best Buy soon plans to murder sales of physical DVDs/Blu-rays/4K discs both in their stores and online.

Benefits of ownership.

With streaming media increasingly available, you might wonder why you'd want to own a physical copy of movies and TV shows on your Blu-ray Discs and DVDs. Well, you might want to be entertained in a part of the world without Internet access — like when you're watching TV in a remote cabin get-away or keeping the kids entertained while they're in the car. Plus, serious fans of certain TV shows like to own libraries of their favorite movies and shows for marathon watching sessions or loaning to friends.

New Poem: MASTODON FIGHT

 get ready once more

 two mastodons enter the stadium

 for more roars and tusk-butts

 >

 the media loves rematches

 even if most of the public doesn’t 

 >

 watch Donald dance away 

 from what he stirred up on 1/6/21

 heh heh, nothing to do with me

 they got overexcited on their own

 you don’t mind if I squash civil liberties next time

 >

 see Joe bark at those who

 dare to bring up Israel and Gaza

 and his failure to distance from Bibi’s slaughter 

 he says look, I cut insulin prices

 and got both parties to agree on infrastructure 

 >

 someone asks why he doesn’t tout the accomplishments 

 instead of always shouting OOGA BOOGA TRUMP

 the crowd boos the question 

 Joe resumes the stump speech 

 this is what we get

 when we don’t have big donor money

 or super PAC clout

 to push for real change

 to keep old men with outmoded methods 

 away from oval offices and nuclear footballs 

Best Films of 2023 Second Draft

 In no specific order:

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON/ANATOMY OF A FALL/FREMONT/OPPENHEIMER/THE HOLDOVERS/PAST LIVES/FERRARI/TALK TO ME

Honorable Mention: NAPOLEON/MASTER GARDENER/BARBIE/DUMB MONEY/AIR

Flawed But Worthwhile: SALTBURN/PRISCILLA/MAY DECEMBER/THE COLOR PURPLE 2023

Watchable Underachiever: THE KILLER 

Some of the music I listened to in 2023

 In no specific order:

 Jessie Ware: THAT! FEELS GOOD!

 Pretenders: RELENTLESS 

 Peter Gabriel: I/o (Bright Side Mix)

 Son Volt: DAY OF THE DOUG (Doug Sahm tribute)

 Flatt & Scruggs: ORIGINAL THEME FROM BONNIE AND CLYDE

 Bruce Springsteen: THE LIVE SERIES: SONGS ON KEYS

 The Beatles: 1962-1966 (expanded 2023 reissue)

 The Who: WHO’S NEXT/LIFE HOUSE boxset

 Bob Dylan: THE COMPLETE BUDOKAN 1978

 Wilco: COUSIN/CRUEL COUNTRY

 Elvis Presley: ALOHA FROM HAWAII 50th Anniversary 

 Cindy Wilson: REALMS

 Billy Joel: PIANO MAN 50th Anniversary Dolby Atmos mix

 Little Richard: LITTLE RICHARD IS BACK

 Gene Vincent: I’M BACK AND I’M PROUD 

New Poem: THE TRUMP TRAIN STOPS IN COLORADO

 Captain Sedition dealt at least a temporary blow

 Now let’s see if some of the Republican Party will follow

 An off-ramp where the Never Trumpers can try to grow

 A base devoted to real issues instead of Immigrant baiting and going low low low

First draft of three: Best Films of 2023

 Will update later this month and, for the last time, in January:

 In no specific order:

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON/ANATOMY OF A FALL/FREMONT/OPPENHEIMER/THE HOLDOVERS/PAST LIVES/AIR

Honorable Mention: NAPOLEON/MASTER GARDENER/BARBIE/DUMB MONEY

Flawed But Worthwhile: SALTBURN/PRISCILLA/MAY DECEMBER

Watchable Underachiever: THE KILLER 

The Beatles and Now And Then

Now And Then may not be John Lennon’s best-ever song, but the new, orchestrated and augmented version has an undeniable poignance with the surviving Beatles in the final act of their solo careers.

At this writing, I haven’t gone on to Facebook and Reddit to experience the reactions of first and second generation Beatles fans, who are often less forward-thinking (usually spouting knee-jerk racism towards Yoko Ono) than the Fab Four were.

Kudos to Giles Martin, with the aid of Peter Jackson’s software, for a crisp, immediate remix of Love Me Do (the version with Ringo on drums).

New Poem: HERE’S TO THE PARENTS

 here’s to the parents

 you know which of them I’m talking about 

 the ones who default to discipline if humiliation doesn’t work 

 who slap and hit well into teenage years

 who throw the approval preserver

 only if the child abandons his/her/their dreams

 taking junior on long summer vacations out of town

 all the better to ward off bad influences 

 but what if the child gets hurt by others saying no

 and the parent or parents choose to end this by saying:

 don’t you know I’d pay her to go out with you

 if I could 

 here’s to the parents

 who create children 

 that become nervous adults 

 and choose not to have children 

 of their own