Global demand for DVD recorders may reach 20-25 million this year - Wal Mart puts pressure on the retail prices
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Posted on Wednesday 5th of January, 2005 at 10:16 by DiViDeZeRo
Source: Digitimes
Digitimes posted about the US retail giant Wal-mart having conversations with leading optical disk drive manufacturers such as Lite-On IT, BenQ, Quanta Storage, Mustek Systems and Protop Innotech. Their aim is to lower the prices for the DVD recorder units to US$75-80, making it possible for Wal-mart to sell them at the so-called magical price, US$99. Japan-based Techno Systems Research.
Japan-based Techno Systems Research recently downgraded its estimate of global sales of DVD recorders in 2004 to 10 million units. If retail prices fall to US$99, DVD recorders will increasingly replace DVD players, and global demand may reach 20-25 million DVD recorders this year, said the makers.
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