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Old 12-03-2007, 03:21 PM   #195
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
There were very valid reasons for customers to replace LPs with CDs and video tapes with DVDs; there was a massive improvement in quality in both cases. It certainly wasn't simply a case of the provider wanting to make money.
No of course it wasn't! But they did make a bunch of money off the switchover. If they liked the taste of it, and didn't want to go back to only making money on plain, old-fashioned, first-time purchases ... well, can't really blame them for the sentiment.

But the fact that they didn't set out to make a bunch of money on the cassette to CD switch-over doesn't make it "okay" to try to force their customer base to constantly re-purchase everything. I think that's what Lemurion was trying to get at.
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