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Old November 7th 03, 04:28 AM
Mutley
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Wonder if the quality will improve..??

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Fuji to Boost Recordable CD Prices 10 - 15 Pct
By REUTERS

Published: November 6, 2003

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. unit of Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.
(4901.T) said it plans to raise prices on its recordable compact discs
by 10-15 percent, citing supply shortages because of an increased
demand for DVD discs.

The price rise in CD-R and CD-RW media by Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., best
known for its camera film, follows similar announcements in recent
months from rivals Memorex Products Inc. and Maxell Corp. of America.

Consumers typically buy blank CDs to record or ``burn'' personalized
music or video discs or to store private data using a computer. On
average, they can buy 50 blank disks at electronics chain stores for
less than $15, or about 33 cents a piece. Prices on certain retail Web
sites can be much lower.

A Fuji representative declined to detail the price levels at which
Fuji sells its CDs. The Valhalla, New York-based company said that
over the past year, production costs for petroleum-based plastics used
to make CDs, as well as transportation costs, have risen.

``In addition, escalating demand of DVD media has shifted
manufacturing production from CD-R (CD recordable) to DVD production,
causing a leveling-off of supply,'' Fuji said in a statement.

Growth in sales of computers and standalone devices with built-in DVD
burners have spurred a boom in demand for blank DVD discs. Moreover,
the popularity of CDs have slipped for those music lovers who
increasingly store tunes on hard drive-based devices such as Apple
Computer Corp.'s popular (AAPL.O) iPod portable player.

The new prices will take effect in January 2004, Fuji said.


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Old November 7th 03, 05:36 AM
Theo
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Mutley wrote in
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Wonder if the quality will improve..??


well if they go back to TY I will start buying them again. So far the
Taiwan product retains data ok, but it tends to slow down often when
reading.
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Old November 7th 03, 12:24 PM
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"They" have been saying that for several years now, John. I remember a few
years back here someone saying he took out a loan from the bank to buy
$?,??? to "buy up while prices are cheap". Hasn't happened yet as mgf'ing
techinques improve and sales are high and competitive.

Don

" wrote:

Fuji to Boost Recordable CD Prices 10 - 15 Pct
By REUTERS

Published: November 6, 2003

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. unit of Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.
(4901.T) said it plans to raise prices on its recordable compact discs
by 10-15 percent, citing supply shortages because of an increased
demand for DVD discs.

The price rise in CD-R and CD-RW media by Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., best
known for its camera film, follows similar announcements in recent
months from rivals Memorex Products Inc. and Maxell Corp. of America.

Consumers typically buy blank CDs to record or ``burn'' personalized
music or video discs or to store private data using a computer. On
average, they can buy 50 blank disks at electronics chain stores for
less than $15, or about 33 cents a piece. Prices on certain retail Web
sites can be much lower.

A Fuji representative declined to detail the price levels at which
Fuji sells its CDs. The Valhalla, New York-based company said that
over the past year, production costs for petroleum-based plastics used
to make CDs, as well as transportation costs, have risen.

``In addition, escalating demand of DVD media has shifted
manufacturing production from CD-R (CD recordable) to DVD production,
causing a leveling-off of supply,'' Fuji said in a statement.

Growth in sales of computers and standalone devices with built-in DVD
burners have spurred a boom in demand for blank DVD discs. Moreover,
the popularity of CDs have slipped for those music lovers who
increasingly store tunes on hard drive-based devices such as Apple
Computer Corp.'s popular (AAPL.O) iPod portable player.

The new prices will take effect in January 2004, Fuji said.


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Old November 7th 03, 08:16 PM
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....and they kicked it off with a Hundred spindle special and
rebate...g

Tim K

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Fuji to Boost Recordable CD Prices 10 - 15 Pct
By REUTERS

Published: November 6, 2003

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. unit of Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.
(4901.T) said it plans to raise prices on its recordable compact discs
by 10-15 percent, citing supply shortages because of an increased
demand for DVD discs.

The price rise in CD-R and CD-RW media by Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., best
known for its camera film, follows similar announcements in recent
months from rivals Memorex Products Inc. and Maxell Corp. of America.

Consumers typically buy blank CDs to record or ``burn'' personalized
music or video discs or to store private data using a computer. On
average, they can buy 50 blank disks at electronics chain stores for
less than $15, or about 33 cents a piece. Prices on certain retail Web
sites can be much lower.

A Fuji representative declined to detail the price levels at which
Fuji sells its CDs. The Valhalla, New York-based company said that
over the past year, production costs for petroleum-based plastics used
to make CDs, as well as transportation costs, have risen.

``In addition, escalating demand of DVD media has shifted
manufacturing production from CD-R (CD recordable) to DVD production,
causing a leveling-off of supply,'' Fuji said in a statement.

Growth in sales of computers and standalone devices with built-in DVD
burners have spurred a boom in demand for blank DVD discs. Moreover,
the popularity of CDs have slipped for those music lovers who
increasingly store tunes on hard drive-based devices such as Apple
Computer Corp.'s popular (AAPL.O) iPod portable player.

The new prices will take effect in January 2004, Fuji said.



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Old November 8th 03, 04:52 AM
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" ) writes:
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.

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Old November 8th 03, 07:07 AM
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Fuji to Boost Recordable CD Prices 10 - 15 Pct
By REUTERS

Published: November 6, 2003

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. unit of Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.
(4901.T) said it plans to raise prices on its recordable compact discs
by 10-15 percent, citing supply shortages because of an increased
demand for DVD discs.



Hmmm...could this justify buying a DVD-R/W? I'll tell my wife I'm actually
SAVING money!


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Old November 8th 03, 01:39 PM
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" wrote in message
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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 .


They never have had production as they don't make any of the media with
their name on it.


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Old November 9th 03, 11:04 AM
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Okay, I'm too buzzed to follow this thread all the way. But if you
want the cheapest, yet good quality CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW
discs, then check out www.yesbuy.net

I have written nearly 1000(yes, one thousand) Ritek brand 650mb CD-R's
and have not had one fail due to manufacturing error. Get them at
www.yesbuy.net.
DVD-R andr DVD-RW for less than or very close to $1 each.
CD-R and CD-RW for less than $.30 each

Shipping is very reasonable too.

Robert

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 03:24:48 -0800, Don Nickell
wrote:

"They" have been saying that for several years now, John. I remember a few
years back here someone saying he took out a loan from the bank to buy
$?,??? to "buy up while prices are cheap". Hasn't happened yet as mgf'ing
techinques improve and sales are high and competitive.

Don

" wrote:

Fuji to Boost Recordable CD Prices 10 - 15 Pct
By REUTERS

Published: November 6, 2003

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. unit of Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.
(4901.T) said it plans to raise prices on its recordable compact discs
by 10-15 percent, citing supply shortages because of an increased
demand for DVD discs.

The price rise in CD-R and CD-RW media by Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., best
known for its camera film, follows similar announcements in recent
months from rivals Memorex Products Inc. and Maxell Corp. of America.

Consumers typically buy blank CDs to record or ``burn'' personalized
music or video discs or to store private data using a computer. On
average, they can buy 50 blank disks at electronics chain stores for
less than $15, or about 33 cents a piece. Prices on certain retail Web
sites can be much lower.

A Fuji representative declined to detail the price levels at which
Fuji sells its CDs. The Valhalla, New York-based company said that
over the past year, production costs for petroleum-based plastics used
to make CDs, as well as transportation costs, have risen.

``In addition, escalating demand of DVD media has shifted
manufacturing production from CD-R (CD recordable) to DVD production,
causing a leveling-off of supply,'' Fuji said in a statement.

Growth in sales of computers and standalone devices with built-in DVD
burners have spurred a boom in demand for blank DVD discs. Moreover,
the popularity of CDs have slipped for those music lovers who
increasingly store tunes on hard drive-based devices such as Apple
Computer Corp.'s popular (AAPL.O) iPod portable player.

The new prices will take effect in January 2004, Fuji said.


 




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