Why CD players so expensive when the fomat is dead


Please explain to me why CD players are still so expensive, considering even the giant Wal-mart has announced they will stop CD sales due to lack of $$ support..It cant be supply and demand!
missioncoonery
Linn has produced their last CD player in 2009. They had many SOTA players over the years so for them to be exiting the market says something.

"The obvious" that their sales have declined 40% and it no longer makes sense to build these machines or that they were a one hit wonder in the CD player market and are looking for the first door out?

Think hard about this one...