Re: When Is The Price Of DVD Media Coming Down??!! ARGH!!

Tarkus wrote:

>> Gillette came up with a similar scheme for making money.  They pretty
>> much gave their razors away because they made their money on the
>> blades.
>> They scammed you into buying a DVD recorder at a low price.  Now you
>> have to pay for the blades.

> Gillette makes DVD recorders?
> Are they any good?  I'll bet they use cutting edge technology.

Gilette is lucky they weren't sued by the early Saturday Night Live
writers, who came up with the idea for the Mach 3 razor (adding a
third blade) 20+ years beforehand, albeit as a joke (when the first
two-blade razors came out).

But pardon me for going back to the original question: DVD media
prices will come down slowly, as more and more people get DVD
recorders.  (Then again, "blue laser" technology will be around by
then, with much more capacity per disc, needed for HDTVs.) I remember
when 3 1/2" floppy discs cost something like $3.50 each (more like $7
in today's money), but they dropped to about $1 within a year and
slowly lower and lower after that.  Weren't DVD+RW discs something
like $12 each back in 2001?

-- Don