Planned Obsolescence

[Sushubh]

Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[amish]

Whoa 110MB video!! Give some warning for MB based users!! Btw what is it about?

 

[Bobbyguitarist]

52 min!!!! @.@

 

[xmen360]

Ohhh.. so there is an actual technical term to what happens around these days in product life cycle. Few days back, a friend and me were having this discussion on how things have changed. Earlier people used to buy things thinking it will last them for a lifetime and now we are seeing this use, upgrade, upgrade again mentality. If people are satisfied with a particular device, and if the device stays functioning for years on end then company ki waat lag jayegi. But where is the line drawn ? Kis had tak jaa sakti hai ye companies ?

 

[amish]

I have old Onida TV.. working from abt 18 years now.Old fully automatic washing machine working from abt 15yrs.Both costed good money but are value for money.And now a days...TV and washing machine still cost almost the same but i doubt they will last more than 5-8 yrs.So is technology going forward or backward? Actually human qualities of humans is going backward!

 

[raj2007]

Whoa 110MB video!! Give some warning for MB based users!!

Btw what is it about?
My Internet download manager says 360p - 261 MB, 240p - 120 MB.
Anyway i'm downloading it..

 

[Sushubh]

this video was posted in a thread on reddit about printers. printers today are made to last for only a couple of years. that is planned obsolescence.

 

[amish]

ohhh..such a big video to explain this?!anyway...what abt CD drive...i am yet to come across a CD drive which lasts more than a year!I must have purchased like 5 CD drives to date. They all started giving problems in 8-9 months. Although I kept using them whatever CDs they cud read.

 

[raj2007]

My 3 months old LG DVD writer struggles to read some of the 8.5 GB Dual layer dvd's whereas my friends(3-4 months old) Samsung DVD writer can read the same. It seems that i've to buy another DVD writer(samsung) as a backup. Whew.........i'm tired of buying CD/DVD writers in the past few years...waste of money.

 

[Sid]

DVD writers always get wasted after few months of use if u use them regular, same case with laptop writers. twice happened to mine and i have seen same with my frnds.