Physical copies sit on a shelf
I've developed a smallish collection of blu-ray discs even though I don't really like them. The experience of watching a blu-ray is a little cumbersome compared to streaming a video from a server. What is nice is the higher quality video and having a copy of a show or movie that wont just disappear randomly someday.
What I've been doing with them is ripping them and watching them with Plex or Jellyfin then the copy sits on a shelf as a pretty backup. With music I don't buy CDs, I buy drm-free flac files, but that isn't an option with the vast majority of movies and shows.
There's been an increase in people getting into physical copies of media because of streaming services getting worse and tech companies making tech worse and people want to feel like they own something instead of just renting everything in their life. I get that and there is some satisfaction in holding a thing but I wish there was more of a push towards selling stuff without copy protection like there was for music. If I could just buy an mkv file instead of a disc I would do that and probably buy way more stuff since I wont need a bunch of plastic boxes taking up space in my home.
Of course the rise in prices of hard drives recently makes it so no one will be able to download anything but I feel like the focus should be on offering legal ways of getting media without copy protection instead of just physical copies. Piracy sites already have that stuff anyway, let me give you money to skip the step of ripping the disc myself. Why is downloading an "illegal" copy easier?