DVD Prices Plummit Amid Pricing War

[Gazorgan]

Great Article on cost of DVD, Players and Disks.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5056965.html?tag=fdfeed

My favorite,

DVDs are pricier to make at 30 U.S. cents a piece compared with 10-20 cents for CDs, as producers use a higher quality chemical dye that allows more information to be packed on to a disc.

[tgpo]

CMC is #1. Don't they suck??

[mkelley]

Actually, my favorite quote is:

"But sales have been relatively slow, and market researcher iSuppli predicted DVD recorders were unlikely to become commonplace until 2007, because they cost $600-$800 each compared to just $100 for a simple DVD player. "

The analysts don't have a clue when it comes to DVD burners -- they weren't even mentioned. I think burners are by *far* the biggest change in DVD recording, and what is pushing the growth (but what do I know?)

It *was* interesting they are predicting prices of around 50 to 70 cents a piece for disks next year (that was comparing them to an average price of $1.20 this year, so they are definitely talking bulk and not necessarily the branded disks). I'm just hoping we see branded media available consistently for $1.20 or so in the coming year.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Ritek is #2?Just a month ago an article from digitimes.com stated Ritek was #1 by a huge margin.
I quess there is a moral here somewhere,maybe "don't believe everything you read".

[manosteele12]

When I was looking for some deals on the web I came across a website that said they had quit selling Ritek DVD's due to the number of failed discs and complaints. How can they be #1 or even #2?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Here's the article from digitimes.com:http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article1.asp?datePublish=2003/06/17&pages=04&seq=20

The numbers in this article are submitted by Ritek so they may not be accurate.

[altdel]

Don't see any inconsistency. If you read the articles more closely. CMC is the top player in optical disk market (including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM) while Ritek is the market leader in recordable DVD (DVD-R & DVD-RW).

[defense]

I'm just hoping we see branded media available consistently for $1.20 or so in the coming year.
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It already has gotten as low as $1.20 a piece for excellent quality media. The sale Best Buy had a few weeks ago on 4x DVD+r Memorex media brought the price per disk down to $1.20 each. Those Memorex disks are manufactured by Ricoh...the same manufacturer as the TDK DVD+R 4x disks.

Up until that point, the next best price on quality media were the TDK DVD+R 4x disks that best buy had for about $1.29 a piece. Hopefully the next sale will bring prices down on high quality media to $1.10 or less.

And hopefully that trend of sale prices on higher quality media getting lower and lower will progressively continue.

[mkelley]

Oh, I'm well familiar with sale prices -- I've bought over 300 disks over the last month or so all for $1.50 or less, and all quality media (TDK, Verbatim, etc.)

But I'm not so sure these sales will last -- I think we're seeing a lot of stores like BB and Target trying to be *your* store for media.

What I want are "normal" every day to day prices for quality media to be $1.20 or so. When that happens I'll be a happy man (hopefully by the end of this year).

[RabidDog]

I think this article is referring to supply to the big movie production houses, those that sell the original movies, I think compared to this the retail Dvd computer burner market is tiny ( unless people are burning two to three movies a day.

[Faustus]

I'm pretty sure they were talking about DVDR there man. If CMC and Ritek were mentioned.

Anyway I agree about the sale thing. Who cares if a specific type/brand of media is onsale alot, it will not always last. Its across the board price drops we need here.

Woowoo!

[Bob W]

I think the online DVD media stores must all talk to each other because they all offer the same media at almost the same price within pennies.

[lordsmurf]

I think the online DVD media stores must all talk to each other because they all offer the same media at almost the same price within pennies.

Probably not. It's just like gas stations.