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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: why there's not a big supply of CDs
Message-ID: <4344@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 10:57:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 10:57:17 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:45:59 EDT
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> Why in the world aren't more CD manufacturing plants
> springing up considering the incredible and unforecast high demand?  Surely
> it doesn't take a year to bring up a new plant, and cost isn't a real concern
> for the large music companies - after all, Nimbus, a small British concern,
> opened up its own plant for its own CDs (and to be fair, others to fill up
> the line - but mostly for its own catalog).

I have heard that it does indeed take a year or more to set up
a CD plant.  For instance, the one in the USA was apparently
plagued by vibration problems that took months to find.


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