DVD Player Maker's Margins just $1

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."

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[callipygian-showsyst]

leaving us with motherboards with leaking capacitors,

I'm having a big problem with that! In fact, I had to place a drip-pan under my capacitors to catch all the leaking!

Of course, that's nothing comparied to the floods that people get when their new 2.5 GHz G5sstart to leak.

That $1 is about

[HermanAB]

one hundred million Chinese Dollars - that's why they can live with it...