What Hi-Fi? ask "Why doesn't anyone make 4K Blu-ray players anymore?"

[scififan73]

Originally Posted by RocShemp

The VHS resurgence I'm aware of. Same for new audio cassettes. But I always chalked that up to Hipsters/Millennials (or whatever they're called these days) simply being weird for the sake of being weird.





I see your point, but it still seems weird to waste money on a lesser alternative when there are two better options (BD is quite a leap from DVD). It kinda reminds me of my cousin who would get mad when DVD purchases included a BD of the movie and would throw them away. She also got mad when I suggested she should have kept the BDs to at least future proof her collection. She then angrily told me not everyone could afford a new BD player or HDTV. To which I said she should haven then sold the BDs to reduce the cost of her DVD purchases. She was none too happy with my suggestion.

I can relate to your cousin, i experienced much the same thing when i was working at Future Shop and a customer informed me with an angry, offended battle cry there was " no way!" she would be replacing her vhs tapes.
This if course was at the onset of the dvd revolution, circa 1999 or 2000.

It's weird. Yes, i can understand not wanting to upgrade " everything", but as a collector, when a clearly superior technology emerges you wouldn't think there'd be such resistance.
It's almost like a religious thing, and someone had disproved the existence of their god or something.
Such a stubborn resistance is not rational.