Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

DVD Player Maker's Margins just $1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the buyer's-market dept.

callipygian-showsyst writes "This news.com story tells how Chinese DVD player manufacturers are only making $1 margins per player! The story says that 'Commoditization is hitting China's DVD player manufacturers hard, according to researcher iSuppli, Between January and May, the average selling price of a DVD player exported out of the Guangdong province came to $40.80, leaving just about $1 in profit margins for the manufacturers.' You wonder if other business, like low-end PCs hardware, are in similar trouble."

12 of 397 comments (clear)

  1. Wonderful by awaspaas · · Score: 5, Funny

    And all so that some trailer trash lady can get trampled for an Apex DVD player the day after Thanksgiving...

  2. blast! by true_majik · · Score: 5, Funny

    i knew i should have waited 10 years instead of getting that $300 dvd player!

  3. Re:Cell phone makers would be jealous... by trifakir · · Score: 5, Funny
    It won't be long before hardware is essentially free, and the software/services you buy are where the money is generated.

    Wrong, comrade. Not only hardware will be free, but software will be GNU. Toothbrushes and women will be public property and we will be living in the communism!

  4. Re:Cell phone makers would be jealous... by aelbric · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mao is that you?

    --
    nos laetus epulor qui would domito nos
  5. Re:Profit margin is irrelevant by Kenshin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Already, you're strating to see Chinese brands marketed under their own names in the US, like Konka and Haier.

    You mean I won't be able to buy a TV from Magnetbox, Panaphonic, or Sorny anymore?

    --

    Does it make you happy you're so strange?

  6. Re:Cell phone makers would be jealous... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    As someone who pirates most of his software, I like microsofts ideas best!

  7. Re:Cell phone makers would be jealous... by Fnkmaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Howbout I take the hardware from Sun, the software from Apple and the services from you, all for free, and make them work together? Sounds like a perfectly reasonable deal to me.

  8. Re:Cell phone makers would be jealous... by mAineAc · · Score: 2, Funny
    and women will be public property

    If this is the case I for one can not wait for our Communist overlords :)

  9. Re:Cell phone makers would be jealous... by selderrr · · Score: 4, Funny

    what are these "women" and "Toothbrushes" you speak of ?

    --
    When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
  10. Re:Whats the pricerange for commoditization? by tabacco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Martin: "How much is your penny candy?"
    Apu: "Surprisingly expensive." :)

  11. Re:And that, my friends... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your dollar isn't going any farther.

    Taiwan is a lot farther than southern California...

  12. Re:Cell phone makers would be jealous... by Exitthree · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, you should charge for that!