Posted by Mr Bigun on 08/07/06 02:49

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:56:22 GMT, Lord Hatred
<lordhatred@stopthespamminggmail.com> wrote:

>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.


..10 cents a cd.. a long long way from the 20.00 pricetag

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