[Arny Krueger]

"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Stuart Krivis wrote:

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:56:51 +0100, Eeyore wrote:

I just don't get why "decent" DVD players are now $100, and they want
$300 for a CD player! And, no, the DAC ain't no better, or at least
not THAT much better.

Seems like there would be a LARGE market for decent-quality,
inexpensive, old-fashioned CD PLAYERS.

Probably not large enough to justify. I went round a Chinese factory (
Oritron )
where they churn out 5 shipping containers of DVD players daily.

The products people are buying have changed. Most people are buying
some kind of HT system and get CD playing ability as part of that.
There also seems to be a reasonable market for portable CD players.
The rest of it is probably taken care of by personal computers, and
much of that is simply ripping a CD to use with an iPod.

Hang on to your old CD player if only for use as a transport.

A lot of reasonably-priced DVD players serve well as a transport too.

Don't they all have this really slow response time though ? I'm unclear
why that
should be though.

I've noticed response time problems mostly when loading the disc. This is no
doubt due to the many options that the player has to test for while
identifying the disc.

There is one ready source of CD-only players that remains on the market -
portables.