gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) (02/16/90)
Well, the actual cost for manufacturing CD's was thirty cents about two years ago. I'd guess it's gone down a bit. I got this info from The Media Lab book. It's an excellent source for various info... When you buy a CD at a music store, you're giving loads of dough to EVERYONE along the production line. Not just the musician. You're paying everyone. Kinda sick, eh? A few years from now and the prices will drop. Until then, we pay an arm and a leg for a thirty cent disc... Oh well... -Greg T.
cs225ax@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (02/16/90)
A complete packaged audio CD is about $3.00, but this depends on what
quantity they're ordered in. This figure came from a discussion in
rec.music.cd a while ago. I guess the artwork, etc. is a lot more than the
actual CD. Oh well.
Ken.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (02/17/90)
In article <0ZqqDaC00UgyM0dHYo@andrew.cmu.edu> gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes: >When you buy a CD at a music store, you're giving loads of dough to >EVERYONE along the production line. Not just the musician. You're >paying everyone. Kinda sick, eh? What IS your problem? If you weren't paying everyone in the distribution channel, what makes you think they would still work to get the CD to you?
gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) (02/18/90)
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.apple: 16-Feb-90 Re: CD's Doug > Gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (422) > What IS your problem? If you weren't paying everyone in the distribution > channel, what makes you think they would still work to get the CD to you? I certainly realize that, but my point is, it's cheaper to make a CD than a tape, but you still get charged a hell of a lot more... -Greg T.
mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) (02/19/90)
In article <AZrOY_G00Uo1M5MW4O@andrew.cmu.edu> gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes: > >> What IS your problem? If you weren't paying everyone in the distribution >> channel, what makes you think they would still work to get the CD to you? > > I certainly realize that, but my point is, it's cheaper to make a CD >than a tape, but you still get charged a hell of a lot more... > > -Greg T. Having been involved with several musical organizations that could afford to create cassette tapes and even LP records, but not CDs, I'd like to see some justification for the statement that CDs are cheaper to produce than cassettes. To me they definitely have more value, but I believe cassettes are by far cheaper to mass-produce. Let's back this stuff up with figures, if anyone can. (Do it in mail if you like to not waste any more net bandwidth on this topic.) -- ============================================================================ Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions represented here are Developer Technical Support, Apple II | not necessarily those of Apple Group. Personal mail only, please. | Computer, Inc. Remember that." ============================================================================
toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (02/20/90)
CD's are cheaper for high volume production. Their fixed costs (setup, tooling, getting the data organized, etc) are pretty high, but can be spread out over lots of CDs if many are produced. PC Boards have the same problem, because they also require "tooling up" to make the first, but after that you just crank the production line. For small scale production nothing beats cassettes in terms of cost. The reason CDs are so expensive is because people are willing to pay the price that is asked for them, because of their inherent advantages (less noise, no degradation, etc). The reason DAT's have had such trouble entering our country is because the CD producers lobby that piracy will ruin their business. (so why don't they just sell blank DAT's as well? they'd still make a killing) Here, as in the software industry, piracy would not be a problem if we fixed the distribution system so things could cost what people would happily pay and not bother pirating. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu