Re: I want more CDs in the distribution

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Monday, February 28, 2005 7:02 PM -0300 Pedro Fernandes Macedo 
> <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > One example to answer the question: I'm a computer science student in 
> > the
> > biggest university in my city (the 3rd
> > biggest capital of brazil). And guess what? Until recently (at least 1
> > year ago), I was the only one with a DVD burner (the Digital Image
> > Processing
> > Lab bought a dvd burner 4 months after me and my best friend just bought
> > one). 3 burners in an universe of 1500+ people gives an idea on
> > how hard would it be to burn that media ....
>
>
> The prices dropped fast recently, at least in the US. I bought an 
> external USB2 burner maybe two years ago, for $400, and now an 
> internal drive can be had for about $70, and a USB2 enclosure for 
> maybe another $50. Has Brazil seen any of that drop?
Only now they're starting to drop.. When I bought my burner , it was 
around R$500,00 (which is around US$180,00). Currently , the cheapest 
dvd burner is R$292,00 , while a cd burner can be found for R$79,00 (or 
R$98,00 if you want a better brand)...  And there's also the media 
availability/price issue. A generic no name 4x media (or anything worse 
than that) is around R$4,00. A CDR is around R$1,00 (even for good 
brands).  And the DVD-+RWs are worse... When I bought my burner , I had 
to order online some Samsung DVD-RW , since the noname ones were so good 
that my burner considered them as DVD-R ... And they were around R$15,00 
each...

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Pedro Macedo