Comprar, tirar, comprar (planned obsolescence) printer related movie.

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New film I found related to PRINTERS, you can watch the original film here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzp_oO8Alw

You can watch how there is an electric lamp that works for over 100 YEARS !

Also there was version with english subtitles but youtube removed it due to "copyright infringement" - youtube = evil anyway.
Hope someone can get english subtitle version.

 

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Yes, it's a very interesting documentary. It's also easy to understand as most of the reports and the interviews are in English.

I would see some use in planned obsolescence in pushing a quicker adoption of innovative technologies, IF the companies were willing to take the responsibility of recycling upon themselves (instead of just shipping junk to poor countries). But when planned obsolescence is used to phase out a product for the sake of another product that works the same (or worse as the latest Canon printers do) then even with recycling I can't justify it.

Oh, and this amazing lamp is now apparently 110 years old! http://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm

 

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But when planned obsolescence is used to phase out a product for the sake of another product that works the same (or worse as the latest Canon printers do) then even with recycling I can't justify it.

Yes the newer canon printer use a bent sheet metal not metal rod type print head carriage guides. This makes manufacturing cheap and makes sure your printer will fail after 400 A4 sheets, my printer failed after that amount (pixma IP1600).

Oh, and this amazing lamp is now apparently 110 years old! http://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm

What is amazing that people fail to notice that the filament is red, not white. My regular 100W bulb with diode last for 10 years, and its as bright as 50w bulb, the only downside is flickering.

If anyone is interested in saving electricity I have found that recently sharp made 25W Mega Zenigata - High CRI LEDS 25W 2050lumens (the same as 150W halogen bulb), furthermore is is the only led known to have 92CRI.