Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site hpfcms.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!hpfcdc!hpfcla!mpm From: mpm@hpfcla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD-ROMs Message-ID: <14700026@hpfcms.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 11:45:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfcms.14700026 Posted: Sat Sep 28 11:45:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 06:11:05 EDT References: <830@homxb.UUCP> Organization: 28 Sep 85 09:45:00 MDT Lines: 37 (Sorry about the preceding "blank" response, I screwed up while trying to delete a previously-begun response. By the way, are "hpfcla" and brethren still causing orphaned responses?) SUBJECT: Cost of CDs The following comes from an article in the August 1985 issue of Digital Audio: "Right now it costs the record companies about $2.50 for each CD at the factory door, vs. about 60 cents for a vinyl LP. ... CDs cost the record companies four times as much as a regular LP, but they don't sell for four times as much." -- p. 89 Please read the article on the cost of manufacturing CDs "with current processes" before making (possibly) unfounded accusations about how the record companies are bleeding us dry. I would love to see CDs costing $7 or $8 a shot. And it may happen in the next couple of years, but meantime there indeed is a rough balance of supply and demand - the higher cost artificially limits the "demand" (actually the number of CDs that consumers pur- chase). Remember: demand is what you actually purchase, NOT what you would LIKE to purchase. Having read how current CD manufacturing processes work, I am somewhat surprised that I can get most of what I want for $10-$12. (It pays to shop around.) -- Mike McCarthy (ihnp4 | hplabs)!hpfcla!hpfcms!mpm Now if only the record companies would release MORE of the good old stuff! Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com