Do you still buy DVDs/Blu-rays?

I buy anything that I want to keep.

I know that physical media will eventually go away, but as long as I can create my own digital copy when that happens I will be happy.

It's sad because not as many movies get physical releases these days, but like music, I don't trust that they will be available. Even if you buy a digital copy, you don't own it. It can disappear at any time.

For certain TV shows and movies where I'm determined to have the best possible quality, I do. That's assuming I can't find 1:1 DVD or BD rips online anywhere. I usually can't, because most people re-encode DVD and BD rips before posting them online in order to reduce the file size, which also reduces quality as an inevitable side effect of using lossy video codecs (which are the only kind that will reduce the file size of a 1:1 DVD or BD rip; lossless codecs would drastically increase the file size compared to the 1:1 DVD or BD rip, which would be counterproductive of course).

Absolutely, I don't do streaming, so it's all about the physical media for me...I still buy CDs and vinyl too! As for convenience, what could be possibly be simpler than ordering from Amazon and having them show up in your mailbox in a few days?

Sure, but it's gotta be rare. I don't buy retail price, prefer to browse markets and see if there's any goodies. You can be surprised by the stuff that's out there. And by paying cash, it's in your hands straight away.

Sure.

I don't like to be dependent on some "service" to watch movies when I feel like it.

And I imagine we're not that far away from a day when some movies will fall to the bottom of the stream because of this or that reason.

Yes.

Most recently picked up the entire The Office (US) on a discount BluRay😎

(& now, for the obligatory......)

"THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!"

I own around 450 DVD & Blu Ray movies and TV Shows and generally purchase them at a place called "V-STOCK" where they'll sell DVD & Blu Ray along with videogames, PS5 etc. Physical Media will always be the way to go if Streaming is down or nothing worth watching on Streaming

Streaming allows a viewer to be lazy, and let the algorithm decide what he'll watch, pulled from a tiny pool of available films. Those films will often be incomplete, edited, or damaged, and he'll take what he gets. Over time, films will be pulled from circulation, edited, censored, deleted, or lost, so he can only watch what those in charge deem appropriate.

That all sounds bad, but in truth, it's what most people seem to want. To most, it's not really film, it's "content." It's mindless entertainment to pass the time. There's no need to seek anything out, or spend much time, or money, on it. If the film one wants to watch has been deemed problematic and deleted from circulation, no worries. Instead, watch whatever the algorithm suggests in replacement and not think twice about it. The less effort the better.

As ever, it's the minority who suffer, as fans of film have fewer and fewer opportunities to explore the more arcane and obscure niches of cinema.