yes, it would be true but in Portugal i almost didn´t had no increase in what i earn monthly since 97(i´m a civil servant for the department of agriculture), but the cost of everything increased like for the double or more ,so dvd´s were half cheaper than today´s bluerays it depends on the country you live, as an example i always bought older cars around 20 years or more but good ones i used to pay for a E-class or S-class with 20 years or more around what today is without add the economy decline in the € zone around 1.000€ and in more than 20 years i receive only more 150€ since 1993 and the cars i refer to with the same years cost 20.000€ or a bit less so this is even worse when talking about bread, milk or anything else ,like a coffe when it costed 20 cents. we found it very high a increase of 5 cents. this taking in acount what we receive from working ,when the € came it changed to 50 cents but people in general didn´t had time to think in the converstion from our old national coin to the € in the 1 of january of 2001 but after one year the cofee that most of the working people drink 2 to 4 cofees a day start paying 1€, ,this to show how people were numb ,from 20 cents. to 25 cents then 50 cents, in a month , in a entire year 20cents. to 1€ ,so we shouldn´t join the € but politicians wanted to stay in history as the one who signed the change of national coin to european coin , this made enterprises lost their competivitie with a more valuable coin ,most of litle companies ,enterprises ,etc. had to close destroying thousands of families way of living . Then what we call entertainment even increased more, i could had bought easy a blueray but the discs were expensive and i wouldn´t change to a hd tv just because the adverts on tv says i kept using my high-end sony CRT t.v and only when it starts to give problems i had to buy a ultraHD t.v. but all of my dvd´s and even had a playstation that was ofered and when my friends went to my home ofice as i call it they were always asking for the football game today it´s sad to see all of those dvd´s with a bad quality because of HD evolution and as i only had interest in computer games when the 48K zx spectrum was released because i studied electronic engeniering but in the 3rd year changed to informatic 5 years degree on university because i had the feeling that computers were going to evolve much in the future but never thought that would be as it is today ,it even makes one relate it with "1984" from George Orwell . To return to the matter of home entertainment, in your country you find it correct as you explained earlier but in countries such as mine it´s the reverse allthough our politicians say it´s all running great and numbers couldn´t be more wrong, but it´s not our fault or to blame because we were played , only a litle % of the population had notion of what was to come ,others just didn´t think about it . Inflation is so high but most of the people don´t have notion of what is inflation. I personally stoped buying home entertainment as movies , concerts or others but have a paid t.v. contract with several aplications and nice channels , i´m still having my regular life but i see others that even had to call their sons studying in university because they couldn´t aford it anymore. Sorry if i went too far but i couldn´t explain it in less words ,my main language is portuguese i was just trying to explain why the bluerays are in reality much more expensive taking in acount inflation but from another european country point of view, regards
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