Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Monday, February 28, 2005 7:02 PM -0300 Pedro Fernandes Macedo
<webmaster(a)margo.bijoux.nom.br> wrote:
> One example to answer the question: I'm a computer science student in
> the
> biggest university in my city (the 3rd
> biggest capital of brazil). And guess what? Until recently (at least 1
> year ago), I was the only one with a DVD burner (the Digital Image
> Processing
> Lab bought a dvd burner 4 months after me and my best friend just bought
> one). 3 burners in an universe of 1500+ people gives an idea on
> how hard would it be to burn that media ....
The prices dropped fast recently, at least in the US. I bought an
external USB2 burner maybe two years ago, for $400, and now an
internal drive can be had for about $70, and a USB2 enclosure for
maybe another $50. Has Brazil seen any of that drop?
Only now they're starting to drop.. When I bought my burner , it was
around R$500,00 (which is around US$180,00). Currently , the cheapest
dvd burner is R$292,00 , while a cd burner can be found for R$79,00 (or
R$98,00 if you want a better brand)... And there's also the media
availability/price issue. A generic no name 4x media (or anything worse
than that) is around R$4,00. A CDR is around R$1,00 (even for good
brands). And the DVD-+RWs are worse... When I bought my burner , I had
to order online some Samsung DVD-RW , since the noname ones were so good
that my burner considered them as DVD-R ... And they were around R$15,00
each...
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Pedro Macedo