So I was thinking today....

[Titan]

... as I just bought my first dvd burner I was now looking at the prices of media at bestbuy during lunch. Roughly 5 bucks per blank RW disc (+ or -), and it occured to me that 5 bucks is rather high, compared to cds, although the price per mb is lower, I think it's a conspiracy to curb piracy. This is where my thinking comes in: a recordable dvd is 5 bucks, a rental at blockbuster is 5 bucks, so pirating a disc for any kind of profit is going to be 10 bucks plus effort, and 10 bucks fro just personal use. You could of course use netflix and that new blockbuster flat fee thing, but I'm talking about the perspecive of sales people. I don't think recordable DVD media are priced to sell, but priced to curb piracy.

I'm just talking out of my a$$, but do I have a point?

 

[minendo]

Back when CDRW's were still gaining popularity, media was expensive.

 

[samgau]

buy them at sams club.... closer to $1 a dvdr +/- not rw though

 

[zimu]

don't really agree with your theory there, prices will drop, its a new technology. I really think its as simple as that. already prices are going down like mad, you can get dvdrs after rebate now for <<$1 per dvd.

 

[MPankau]

But why would you use RW's to copy DVD's? Use plain old R's that run abou a buck apiece. Yikes...

MP

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

Hell I remember when I would see 50 cd-r's for like $100 and more at times. Now you could get 100 cd-r's for free through mail in rebates. Which I got 300 at OM about a month back. The more popular the technology gets the cheaper it gets.

Why buy one DVD-RW for $5 when you could get 5 DVDR +/- for $5? :/

 

[JoeKing]

check out the hot deals forum, there always seems to be a few deals on dvd media going on

Heres one