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
If cds are dead, then why do I still want to buy them over a friggin' computer file? I'm not arguing the quality of decent files but there is something missing in the whole cd vs computer file argument...The tactile sensation...the artwork (maybe if you only like classical you wouldn't care about this so much), the plain presence of a physical product which explains in part why vinyl sales are up... Seriously...are dvds/blu-rays dead now too?? Who says that downloading movies wont kill blu-ray now? Will all the geeks(no offence) decide not to buy the special edition lenticular covers... boxsets or special editions then? That they'll too sell all their thousands of discs to have a hard drive as their collection?...I dont think so.
As to the question,why are cd players so expensive, how cheap do you want them to be?? You can get decent players for a few hundred bucks! Obviously you can spend more and get better!? Finally, if cd is dead? Why do you care how much players are? Your obviously not supporting or buying cds to support the format...
"Why CD players so expensive when the format is dead"

I think the question kind of answers itself. When things get near death, the price goes way up. U can still buy a cassette deck too, for some reason? If the op has been paying attention, red-book players have been off the market for about 4 years. (Im not talking about DVD players that do everthing.)The only CD redbook only players that remain are the high end models.