Please... what, V?

Are you serious? Strange you'd make the statement "Not when you compare it to any other form of entertainment or personal technology" then go on to only list personal technologies. What "other form of entertainment" died so quickly? And don't list BETA or Laserdisc, DIVX, or HD-DVD, because they are special cases.

Movie and music collections are not something people generally consider disposable, many people take great pride in their movies collections. People don't aquire such collections with the intent of replacing them a few years later. Pagers and cell phone however, are intended to be disposable. Nobody expects to keep the same pager for years and years to come. A pager is something that served a specific function and provided a service, a service that was paid for month by month, and when better technology came out providing a more useful function, there was no reason not to change. They are items of practicality, not entertainment. It is practical to change, and cost very little. Most cell phone companies will give you a phone when you sign their contract, either way you still have to pay the monthly fees, so why not switch to a smaller, sleeker, more practical device when given the chance. Replacing a movie collection on the other hand is not a practical thing to do. If somebody wants to upgrade their movie collection for prettier viewing on their big screen HDTV, that is all well and good. But the average viewer and their average sized non HDTV have nothing to gain from the upgrade. There is no reason for anyone to see it as unreasonable for people to not want to adopt. Especially when most of them have only been on the new system for a little over five years.