Ron Stodden wrote:
> It's a difficult situation, but optical technology, while having
> enormous potential, is far from stable and mature - and we have another
> generstion of incompatibilities (ie more expense on drives) among
> optical devices ahead of us as DVDs and DVD writers emerge and CDs
> become entirely obsolete (very soon now, I think). So you have to
> kind-of wait - there is always something better around the corner.
> Prices have been dropping, but even so, the drive makers must be really
> raking in the dough.
not just optical technology, but any technology must be paid for.
technology is always out dated when it reaches public, because, before it is
ever released to public, marketing drags butt trying to figure out how much
can be made above and way beyond cost of development and manufacturing.
while marketing is delaying, research is continuing, so that when production
finally gets a produce to public, research has developed something better.
to recover expenses, new is held back until manufacturing uses up current
material. then what was new is released to manufacturing, by which time
research has already come up with a newer new. then, all is repeated.
never buy first of anything. too many bugs need to be worked out for production
of second. then wait for a 5th release, as 3rd and 4th are still recovering.
7th and 8th are best, as by that time, competition is to a point where product
is finally down to cost of where it should have been to start with. but, by
then, there will be something newer and greater released.
cdrom is a prime example of this. if you read history, you will find that dvd
was developed well before cdrom was halfway thru it's development and speeds.
problems what that too much was continued to be spent develop cdrom just to
recover initial cost. dvd is going to be slow to drop in price compared to
cdrom, simply because dvd is actually cheaper than cdrom.
peace out.
tc,hago.
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