

The supermarkets currently sell the bulk of physical discs at retail in the UK, and tend to concentrate their ranges on DVDs. Of course, there are still Actual Real Shops (TM) that sell discs, but you probably know about most of them. There’s also a selection of discs to choose from too at the site.

You pay a little more, but you support independent outlets as you do so. Hive is best known as a high street-supporting online retailer, best known mainly for its books.

You’ll also find a lot of British movies, and a few sojourns into the mainstream too. For arthouse and world cinema, it’s an excellent resource. BFIĪs well as selling copies of our magazine, the BFI’s online store also has a sizeable, impressive selection of DVDs and Blu-rays.
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With free shipping when you spend over £50, the range of terrific Second Sight releases is available to buy direct. The excellent disc label 88 Films sells you its range of discs on its own website. With early bird pricing on preorders, occasional unmissable special offers and the huge range of Arrow’s impressive DVD and Blu-rays, the firm’s excellent online store is very much worth checking out.
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There’s a lot of Game Of Thrones stuff on there, and occasional movie offers too. Last year, Warner Bros revamped its online store and started directly selling its discs to the likes of you and us. I’d put the weblink in, but suspect you already know it. Music Magpie, for one, lists approximately 64 trillion old DVDs and Blu-rays. eBayĪppreciating choosing to go from Amazon to eBay is a bit like jumping off of one of The Rock’s biceps and straight onto another, there are lots of independent retailers who do their business through the firm.

It’s why Zoom – at the moment – doesn’t sell, for instance, Warner Bros discs, but that will change when the Universal/Warner Bros physical media merger takes place next year. This is, on the quiet, an enterprise formed by Sony Pictures and Universal, to offer a different retail outlet for their discs. In some cases, it’s the only UK outlet that has access to such releases, so check out the exclusives section ( Blinded By The Light Blu is one such exclusive, for instance). But of particular note there are the exclusives it has on certain Blu-ray releases. Rebuilding its online presence following the business changing hands at the start of last year, HMV’s webshop is now back up and running. Especially so for Steelbooks, which is has an enviable supply of. With regular deals, and stocking discs from pretty much everyone, it’s a popular choice. Through The Hut group, that underpins it, Zavvi is one of the longest-running disc etailers out there. I’ll keep adding to the list if you want to recommend further outlets in the comments… Zavvi It got me wondering how easy would that be for those of us who want to buy DVDs, Blu-rays and Ultra HD 4K Blu-rays. Recently, then, a former colleague of mine shared the story of her attempts to have an Amazon-free Christmas, so concerned was she about the erosion of choice, and the dominance of one retailer. Finding what you want – ironically, given that it always used to be such an Amazon strength – is being obfuscated as Amazon chooses to eat more money instead. But still: we’re now at a point where you search for something on the site and get a host of ‘sponsored’ results distracting you from what you actually wanted to search for. Deserved to a point: as better people than me have pointed out, it’s hard to ever argue that you want to pay more and wait longer for your deliveries. If you’re looking to buy your physical from somewhere other than Amazon, there are options – these ones, in fact.Īppreciating that this site uses Amazon links to help pay the bills, consider this our latest effort to burn a boat that we’re reliant on sitting in.īut still: it’s little secret that one of the reasons we have fewer disc retailers on the high street, or even online, is that Amazon has gobbled up the market.
