Nope, I had to go to specialist stores to buy LaserDiscs while blu-ray is available everywhere. They were also always a lot more expensive than the VHS version if available at all. Blu-rays aren't much of a mark up from dvds anymore, and can be found pretty cheap as well. Blu-ray also routinely reaches over 50% market share with popular releases.
People have turned away from buying movies though, streaming is more popular.
For now physical is still the far larger market for owning movies.
http://www.tubefilter.com/2015/01/06/digital-movie-download-revenue-climbs-to-1-5-billion-in-2014/
1.5 billion digital movies sales vs 6.9 billion physical movie sales, of which about 2.7 billion is blu-ray (sits around 40% market share)
Digital rental services are huge though, predicted for 2015:
Online rental: 49%
Kiosk: 18% (I guess that's physical rental?)
VOD: 15%
Store: 6%
Netflix Mail: 6%
Online transactional: 5%
http://www.statista.com/statistics/258447/distribution-of-movie-and-tv-rental-market-revenue-in-the-us-by-source/
So it seems 'owning movies' will be down to just 11% of the total market in 2015. (in the US)
4K blu-ray might be next Laserdisc. Sitting there next to blu-ray until 8K video will replace both.
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