Digitimes reports that Taiwanese DVD recorder manufacturers could get into a price
war. This due an increasing supply of key
components such as pick-up heads (PUHs) and chipsets, volume production of DVD
loaders by Japanese and Taiwanese makers and possibly new competitors from
China.
 DVD
recorder vendors, including Sanyo Electric, Pioneer and Ricoh of Japan and
BenQ, Lite-On IT, Quanta Storage and Behavior Tech Computer (BTC) of
Taiwan, have been stepping up production of DVD loaders this quarter to
boost sales. Each vendor could ramp up its monthly loader production to
over 100,000 units, or even to 200,000-300,000 units, in the first quarter
of next year, the sources said.
The increasing supply of loaders
will reduce the technological entry barrier for manufacturing DVD
recorders and attract Chinese makers to jump on the bandwagon, the sources
said. In line with declining contract prices, retail prices for DVD
recorders are expected to fall from the current level of US$349-399 to
US$299 and below in the world markets next year, the sources
said. |
While prices have already been dropping the last
months it seems DVD technology related projects become cheaper and cheaper and
seem to go the same way as CD products and become very common and
inexpensive.
Source: Digitimes.com
