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Yamaha To Withdraw From CD-R/RW Business

Posted by timothy on from the when-giants-reconsider dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What's going on. When I first heard this I thought it was a bad joke. They make great burners! 'Tokyo, February 5, 2003 - Yamaha Corp. decided at a board meeting to cease sales of CD-R/RWs for personal computers and to withdraw completely from the business by the end of March 2003.'" Does any other company make burners that can burn an image on the CD?

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  1. This does not surprise me by cdn-programmer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is no money in it. Other companies like Fujitsu also pulled out of part of the industry - IE. IDE hard drives.

    If you look at the HP line of laser printers I think you'll see they cheapened and cheapened them from the Laserjet III to the present models.

    Then look at your consumer PC's and we see the same thing... cheaper and cheaper - but a few years ago they had 5 or more PCI slots - now we see 3 slots - but in a mini tower. haha.

    Power supplies also are compromised.

    How about warrenties on hard drives? The drives we bought 10 years ago would run for 150,000 hours MTBF = 17 years. I have hard drives that have been in use for 17 years. Seriously! I got a pair of maxtor 350 MB ESDI drives that started out in a VAX. They are still running.

    Does anyone think that the drive they buy next year with a 1 year warrenty is going to still be functioning past 2015?

    How about 2010?

    If people want cheap I guess they get cheap. If they want quality I don't know where they need to go. Personally I'd rather pay more and get better quality.