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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Things like Blu-Ray and the latest CPU aren't a marketing ploy doled out a little at a time to keep people buying
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No, they are planned obsolescence. Sony and Toshiba have acknowledged they were working on the replacement technologies for Blu-ray before BR machines even went on the market.
There's ongoing development and technological breakthroughs, but part of the model is also to sell products based on each interim stage of development, knowing that the products will be superseded fairly rapidly and the majority of the customers will be squeezed into repurchasing seats to that ongoing bullfight.