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From: matt@warwick.UUCP (Matt Harrison)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD-ROMs
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 13:14:04 EDT
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    One of the key points in this discussion is the production capacity    
of the manufacturing plants.  To illustrate: in Europe, Thorn-Emi were 
not that certain that CD would take off when it was launched and held back
on the start up of their disc manufacturing plant.  Now that CD is a success 
- sales wise at least- there is a significant shortage of production capacity,
which causes, at least indirectly, a rise in the price of the finished
product as discs have to be restricted to short production runs, with delays
in getting them produced.  Additionally this gives the owners of the current
plants a degree of monopoly in the area.  In the near future this should
improve as the slumbering giants get their act sorted out and increase the
production capacity.  I think a similar problem may be a partial cause of the
prices in America, but then again, maybe not.

	Another factor has to be the relative cost of the players.  The
cheapest CD players are rather more expensive than the average record deck
and this leads to an assumed acceptance by the consumer of higher software 
prices.

			Matt Harrison.
			
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