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From: mjs@cmu-cs-g.ARPA (Mark Stehlik)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Programmability cost
Message-ID: <259@cmu-cs-g.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 21-Apr-85 10:14:44 EST
Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-g.259
Posted: Sun Apr 21 10:14:44 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Apr-85 00:50:29 EST
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I have been meaning to ask this one for a while now:  why is it that there
is a $100 difference between two seemingly identical CD players which differ
only in their respective degree of programmability?  A recent post about
the Sony 102/302 convinced me to post this query.  I would think that the
'parts' necessary to introduce even a high degree of programmability to a 
CD player should cost no more than $10.  So why the $100 difference in the
retail price.  Are there other 'design' or 'performance' improvements as we
move up the product line?

				Mark
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