Posted by Lord Hatred on 08/07/06 00:56

In article <44d68e0f$0$33418$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com>,
"Bob Terwilliger" <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote:

> Mr Bigun wrote:
>
> > Explain why, when cds came out the excuse for them being 15 dollars
> > was how they "cost so much to make".. yet now, as that has been shown
> > to be a lie and anyone with a burner can make one for 5 -10 cents..
>
> While I'm not trying to justify CD prices in any way, I'd like to point out
> that commercial CD's are made by a totally different process than by burning
> to CD-R. Commercial CD's are made by etching a set of pits into a piece of
> foil which gets put onto a clear piece of plastic. They're much more durable
> than CD-R's, which can degrade to uselessness in just a few years if they're
> kept in the wrong environment. (A friend of mine in Hawaii has to burn new
> backup CD's every year or so because of that.)
>
> I don't know how expensive it is to manufacture commercial CD's, so whether
> the cost is justified is unknown to me, but I can state with assurance that
> they are not the same as "burned" CD's.
>


It's not only that. You have a lot of people getting paid for their
work as well. Including the musicians who spent countless hours in the
studios.


--
Stefan:

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