at bottom :- On 8/11/14, Thomas Weber <twe...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:20:49AM +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote: >> Would the people who are claiming that blank cdr are cheaper than dvdr, >> especially in third world countries, please cite sources (shops, price >> checkers etc) of the price of say 5 pack or 10 pack, even up to 50pack of >> CD's, vs the same amount of DVD's, from those third world countries. Is >> the >> price of a small pack of DVD's really worth making the decision on a DE >> for >> debian? > > Not sure why you'd want to go for third world countries, but let's look > at Germany (Aldi is one of the two biggest discounters here): > http://www.presseportal.de/pm/112096/2653870/aldi-senkt-preise-fuer-fischprodukte-oel-und-smoothies > CD-R Rohlinge (80 Minuten, je 50er Spindel) 5,99 Euro > DVD+R Rohlinge (je 20er Spindel) 3,99 Euro > That is 0.12 EUR per CDR and 0.20 EUR per DVD. > >> DVD readers/writers are cheaper now than CD readers/writers ever were. > I don't think it makes sense to ask for the price of one media (which is > in Cents), but then assume that the extra cost for a new DVD reader is > negligible. > > Thomas
Hi all, As an interested user I come from India and at least here there isn't a difference at all in terms of a CD or DVD media. A single of both costs Rs. 20/- (with the plastic case and all) and going to some of the wholesalers we can get it for Rs. 7/- or Rs. 8/- (in a spindle or a box) . The price might differ between the two by a Rupee or two (it's been quite some time since I went to buy blank DVD's) but the space equation is such that I never buy a CD. I do remember a distinct conversation where I asked him if he ever got orders for CD with the vendor replying that mostly he gets order CD's from villages rather than from city/town itself. Still the ratio was 80 > 20 in favor of DVD's. I know it's not at all scientific and is probably a strawman argument but that's the way I see it here. Almost nobody I know within my circle talks about CD and I do not just work with the elite in the city. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cadddzrny5y33zbc+majhavcdckup9jrdmwadvaaufg7d-zd...@mail.gmail.com