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On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:28:42 +1300, Mutley
wrote:

Wonder if the quality will improve..??

Probably means what everyones been saying - they are switching to
Taiwanese made disks and moving production into DVD disks .

Probably means CDRs will be left more and more to generics and a few
high quality makers like TY if they choose to remain, which may get
more and more expensive as overall competition in higher quality disks
disappears .

Probably overall lower quality will be left but prices may raise if
supply really does shrink. Or maybe quality would get even worse but
supply will rebound as it becomes a throwaway, generic mkt , for
cheapo companies kind of like floppy disks. Nobody cares about them
anymore.




Two factors will keep CDs of reasonable quality on the market: word gets
around about crap (and/or reputable companies won't want to kill their
reputations by putting their name on such--think of PNY, who's gotten out
of their CDR line, which was clearly intended to keep their name in front
of the computer public) and manufacturing does get better.

Brendan
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