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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Programmability cost
Message-ID: <1285@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 10:31:07 EST
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1285
Posted: Mon Apr 22 10:31:07 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Apr-85 06:09:29 EST
References: <259@cmu-cs-g.ARPA>
Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

In article <259@cmu-cs-g.ARPA> mjs@cmu-cs-g.ARPA (Mark Stehlik) writes:
>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?
>
>				Mark

most programmable CD players of the same manufacturer close in price
and features to a nonprogrammable one do have the programming hardware
(digital control) inside.  the buttons and other parts may cost only
$10, but after adding in profit margins by the various handlers, and
the real or imagined valued of programmability, $100 is about right.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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