But lots of things are like that take for instance VHS upgrade to DVD, tube TV upgrade to flat screen HD TV, DVD to blu-ray blu-ray to 3D blu-ray,LCD & Plasma TV's to LED TV's, I think if the one you got first was good enough then why isn't it good enough a year later? though I do like DVD over VHS we did that switch but none of the others. We actually have a 1080p tube TV so we could go to blu-ray..........except they changed the plug in on the back of the TV to HDMI cable so were out of luck on that and DVR as well!