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Old 11-16-2007, 07:47 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ganthc View Post
What this tells me is that highdef standalone players should be dropping even further. If LG can make this dual player for $299 and make a profit, they shoudl be able to get a dual standalone player for $500 and make a profit.
Not necessarily, as there may be licensing fees in the decoding process that LG did not have to pay. Remember, all this drive does is read the respective disc and output the entire disc stream for decoding to the computer. It does not handle any codecs, menus, interactivity or anything like that - that is all done by PowerDVD ($99 value).
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