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Originally posted by crewsor
What I don't understand is if they can sell disposables for 5.00, why are permanent ones 20.00. How do they save money by making them self destruct? It would seem that would increase production costs.
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Because it only costs a fraction of that to actually press the disk. It's the movie production costs that they're trying to get back (well, in most cases, they're into profit by the time of the DVD). They believe that if the disks are cheap and self-destruct, they'll sell more units of them, so they'll make more profit in the long run.
This stuff is bad for the consumer. If we don't buy them, they won't keep trying to jam them down our throats.