wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (06/22/84)
Just read, in a dealer magazine called "Sight & Sound Marketing", some rather unspecific suppositions that RCA's CED videodisk system will not die when RCA drops production, but that some Japanese company will pick it up and continue it. The idea was that RCA could only continue it if the sales were at a higher level than the market is supporting, but a smaller company could turn a profit on the product line at the actual sales level that the product has been experiencing. Sounds a bit farfetched to me, but maybe so... According to the article, the price cuts for closing-out the RCA line will be coming along soon, but sales seem to be continuing at a respectable level at the current price structure. That seems surprising to me; I wouldn't buy one of these things unless it was VERY cheap, after hearing the news of it being discontinued. However, the marketplace is a funny thing... Will