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Subject: Re: Why are prerecorded tapes so ?!$# expensive ?
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 04:32:05 EDT
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One factor is the fact that (for all practical purposes) most videotape
duplicating is done in realtime.  With discs, you just stamp them out.
With audio tapes, you can do high speed duplication.  But for helical
video, there are major problems with high speed duplication and most
(if not all) of the manufacturing is done in 1:1 realtime.  This
is a slow process, and it is reflected in the costs.

--Lauren--