As vinyl and CD sales tick up, hipsters seemingly left Blu-rays out in the cold this Christmas season. Devotees of physical media, take note. Your options for watching your collection of movies and TV series are about to shrivel again. Major manufacturers of Blu-ray players were already sparse in 2024 – dominated by Sony, Panasonic, and LG. In a move that is less shocking the more you study the numbers, LG has publicly stated that it will abandon the production of its line of Blu-ray players, according to CNET. Bad news for collectors… good news for speculators?