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Is Blu-Ray Just More Planned Obsolescence
By C R Ellsworth

Planned obsolescence, or built-in obsolescence if you are in the UK, is the decision by a manufacturer to purposely design, manufacture and distribute a consumer product to become obsolete or non-functional specifically to force the customer to buy the next generation of the product. This plan will be implemented before the ‘Next Generation’ is even off the drawing board. Planned obsolescence is of course, very beneficial for a manufacturer because it means a customer can’t just buy a product once and have it last for many years thereby never having to buy again - the life of the product’s usefulness or functionality is fixed, so that at regular intervals the customer must pay money again and again, and yet again to either the original manufacturer for newer junk, or buy from the competition who probably also uses planned obsolescence.

I can’t believe we are still using motors and movable parts that wear out. The technological advances of the last few years have led to media that can hold Giga bytes of data in volatile and non volatile storage with no moving parts.

So, does BluRay fit into this scenario? That remains to be seen because the new technology is so fresh.

The most intense competition in the next-gen optical video disc format wars is between HD-DVDs and Blu-ray. Blu-ray is backed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, of which Sony is a member.

Is this just a case of ‘The Newest Toy’ or ‘Grass is Greener’? …

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