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About Those Prices You Quote

the prices you quote are simply not realistic for computer usage of an optical drive. they'll have to compete with small, removable hard drives such as this $95, 50-gb device:

http://www.buy.com/prod/LaCie_50GB_USB_2_5_Hard_Drive_Design_by_F_A_Porsche_301020/q/loc/223/201647081.html

and i seriously doubt that any movie studio will put their products out in blue-ray format if they can't stay at least reasonably close in price to that of a conventional dvd (surely no more than a 15-25% premium). think about it: a four-disc special edition set would have materials costs in excess of $400 (okay, give them a 50% cost break and call it $200 just for media)!

back in my engineering days (before retirement), we'd have said that fails the sanity check.

mark d.

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