Re: daguin's Penultimate Sale
daguin said:
[quote author=Kenom link=1235351656/32#35 date=1235574547]Yay! A KRyton SOLD!!! wHOOOHOO.
They will ALL sell. This is just quite a bit of money for many people. After they figure out that these 6X's are still very hard to come by (and the Kryton Smooths are almost impossible to find), they will sell.
People see all of the threads about "group buys" and "stores" having the 6X sled in their inventory and think that more will be here "tomorrow." However, have you noticed the distinct lack of successful GB's and the number of 6X sleds actually in stock in the "stores"? They think that the 6X's will go the way of the PHR and that in a few months we will be getting these for $12. Most people don't realize that the PHR's are from a defunct technology (HD DVD). The sleds are "extras" because no one has a use for them any more. The sleds are all "damaged" because they were stripped from HD DVD units that were headed for the scrap heap. The 6X sleds we got were ALL QC rejects, NOT "extra" first-run sleds.
I would LOVE for the 6X to get less expensive. However, I do not believe that is going to happen. When the next diode comes online, these will be used until they are gone. Drive makers don't order 50,000 units if they are only planning on building 35,000 units. Diode manufacturers don't initiate production runs without orders from manufacturers. Drive sellers don't recall a viable drive just because a better one came out. They just discount the existing drives until they are gone. Their manufacture has probably already been stopped. Industries know how to use up stock at the end of a technology. HD DVD's demise ran a different course, complete with promised support for a year. That won't happen with the 6X.
Peace,
dave
@ c0ld -- Having the word "serplus" (misspelled intentionally) turned into "spammer" is a bit much. I had to substitute the word "extra" just to make the post readable
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Very informative and interesting post sir! But blu-ray is taking over DVD as the leading format, and sooner or later it will be commonplace. Don't you think that eventually blu-ray will be as affordable as DVD is now? Or perhaps you were only talking about the 6X diodes specifically? I want to point out that I'm not at all arguing, I'm just asking.