[Skybird]

I have a collection of roughly 240 VHs cassettes (that may qualify me as a collector, I guess) and around 200 CDs, half of them classical recordings. How could anyone in the industry guess he has easy play to convince me to adapt to a new technical standard soon???and llok at that crappy highteczh we have. digital cameras, for example. They become more and more chepaer, and become more and more potent and offer more and more gimmicks - and the return rates and failure rates have rocketed into the sky during the last 2 years. More and more less quality is displayed by integrated components, cheaper more often means worse, and often it is even bad design and unmatchging specifics (Sony had huge provblems with a whole generation of poicture processors during the last two years).HDTV, bleu ray, more problems deriving from more technical incompatabilities, and I even cannot record a program that easily anymore than I am used to (and pay for with my fees to the TV and radio braodcasters, that enclude finacial compensations for such practices - as long as it is not professionally and for money-raising - that is considered legal since decades). It is all madness broken loose, and I have no intention to make my life a race for new technical gimmicks and turn it worse by following every twist and turn of their rollercoaster just becaue some freak in a laboratory raises the head and says: "Look, I found something NEW!" Our complete economical thinking is completely messed up.