Vetteman94 on 25 February 2010
| Kasz216 said: Except it wasn't more expensive than VHS. Even in the early days it cost about 70 cents to replicate a DVD vs $.250 to replicate a VHS tape. The profit motivation behind DVD for companies was that once it became the mean DVD would be cheaper then VHS. http://www.proactionmedia.com/dvd_media_production.htm DVDs were always cheaper then VHS tapes. It was the extra fixed costs that made early DVDs cost more... the kind of thing you'd want to get rid of fast by aggressivly pushing the format. Blu-ray does not have this luxuary. |
Those numbers for DVD are from 2003, which was 7 years after DVD was released.
