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

[apollo828]

Originally Posted by scififan73

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.

Huh? If customers throw a fit, that's one thing, but I swear some people here seem to be completely incapable of understanding that not everybody wants a Maserati. Some are fine with a used Ford. The cultural zeitgeist centers around streaming and the odd theatrical release. Optical players simply aren't that high a priority for a lot of people. Amazon Video removed some movie? Who cares. They added a bunch more, and they're actively shoved in your face via algorithms. That's plenty for many people. Maybe not for people here, which is fine, but pretending that Grandma's irrational because she hasn't bought a new optical player in 25 years and hasn't watched anything on it in the last 5-10 years is seriously elitist. (Growing up, my grandparents had an 8-track player. They were content with the tapes they had. Believe me, it wasn't because they were savoring every last detail of the audio on some fancy system.)