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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
I also do not like the planned-obsolescence treadmill
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It isn't "planned obsolescence" when the products involve technology that hadn't been invented at the time. On the introduction of DVD, there were no blue diode lasers like are used in Blu-Ray players. It was many years of long, hard work to figure out how to make them, and the blue diode laser was long the Holy Grail in the laser field. And even if they had one, there wasn't a processor on the planet that could handle real-time decoding of 1080p MPEG4 video. Things like Blu-Ray and the latest CPU aren't a marketing ploy doled out a little at a time to keep people buying-- they are technologies that mankind was literally incapable of producing only a few years ago.