Citations:tangible media object

any non-digital tactile object employed as a means of communication

• 2006, Media bridge method and apparatus, D Weiss, US Patent 7,065,559, 2006

  A client computer system includes a bridge control program and an input device adapted to receive a bridge code associated with a tangible media object.

• 2012, Pelle Snickars, Patrick Vonderau, Moving Data: The Iphone and the Future of Media‎^[1], page 133:

  Although this menu-driven approach to storing and accessing TV shows persists, the role of the DVD as a “tangible media object” (to use Kompare's phrase) has been destabilized by the mobility of streaming video.