Why CD players so expensive when the fomat is dead

CD format dead? . . . That means I am now officially a perverted and obsessive necrophiliac? Oh my goodness. . . and my Mom thought she raised me to be a good boy!

"When things get near death, the price goes way up"

Really? Is there a positive correlation?

G.

Thank you MRT, very good point! . . what I was slowly trying to get at, is that I see no particular correlation between the steady shrinking of the 32M CD pressing per annum with the admittedly high cost of the high CD playback equipment. The reason there appears to be no correlation, is that the price of playback equipment for our friendly yet diminutive Lazarus 1.5M pressings per annum format--that is that very vinyl sacred cow which every 'self respecting' audiophile is sworn to revere--appears to suffer of the same, if not superior--pricing extravaganzas, ranging from under $1K to galactic-sized figures. .

Hence, if we convert the above to logical propositions, we would quickly discover that they yield cute contraddictions. G.