Comments on: From Luxury Item to Disposable Good: The Amazing $29 DVD Player http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Thu, 24 May 2012 19:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Walter E. Wallis http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/comment-page-1/#comment-47821 Walter E. Wallis Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:17:23 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/#comment-47821 <p>Within a year or so, schoolbook laden backpacks will be replaced with a $100 laptop, ubiquiteouser [?] than cellular phones. Textbook printers will have to convert to an honest living and chiropractors will lose a steady stream of cusstomers.</p> Within a year or so, schoolbook laden backpacks will be replaced with a $100 laptop, ubiquiteouser [?] than cellular phones. Textbook printers will have to convert to an honest living and chiropractors will lose a steady stream of cusstomers.

]]> By: Walter E. Wallis http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/comment-page-1/#comment-31026 Walter E. Wallis Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:17:23 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/#comment-31026 <p>Within a year or so, schoolbook laden backpacks will be replaced with a $100 laptop, ubiquiteouser [?] than cellular phones. Textbook printers will have to convert to an honest living and chiropractors will lose a steady stream of cusstomers.</p> Within a year or so, schoolbook laden backpacks will be replaced with a $100 laptop, ubiquiteouser [?] than cellular phones. Textbook printers will have to convert to an honest living and chiropractors will lose a steady stream of cusstomers.

]]> By: dal_timgar http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/comment-page-1/#comment-47820 dal_timgar Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:18:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/#comment-47820 <p>You have some kind of problem alright. I am typing this on a 1.3 GHz Gateway computer, 256 Meg, 30 Gig and DVD burner. I just bought it last month used, $300. I waited too long to buy it. They ran out of the $325 machines with 512 Meg. I would have to pay $100 to upgrade that old style memory. I'm too cheap to do it.<br><br>I'm running Linux on it that I got with a book that cost me $30.<br><br>If you bought used electronics and bought oriental rugs at estate auctions with the money you saved their value would accumulate over the years instead of depreciate like that hi-tech electronics. Carpet technology doesn't seem to be advancing very fast.<br><br>Dal Timgar</p> You have some kind of problem alright. I am typing this on a 1.3 GHz Gateway computer, 256 Meg, 30 Gig and DVD burner. I just bought it last month used, $300. I waited too long to buy it. They ran out of the $325 machines with 512 Meg. I would have to pay $100 to upgrade that old style memory. I’m too cheap to do it.

I’m running Linux on it that I got with a book that cost me $30.

If you bought used electronics and bought oriental rugs at estate auctions with the money you saved their value would accumulate over the years instead of depreciate like that hi-tech electronics. Carpet technology doesn’t seem to be advancing very fast.

Dal Timgar

]]> By: triticale http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/comment-page-1/#comment-47819 triticale Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:32:10 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/#comment-47819 <p>Actually, DVDs can be a whole lot cheaper than that. I just bought one with "The Giant Gila Monster" (which I love because the heroes are kids with hotrods) plus another horror movie for $1.00 at Target. Wal-Mart has a similar selection at the same price, stuff like a version of "White Fang" with a brown German Shepherd miscast in the title role.<br><br>It isn't only the "digital divide" which is made irrelevant by these price decreases. When a commodity like a DVD player drops from $69 to $29, that counts against inflation, but because it wasn't a commodity at $1000, the real drop isn't counted.</p> Actually, DVDs can be a whole lot cheaper than that. I just bought one with “The Giant Gila Monster” (which I love because the heroes are kids with hotrods) plus another horror movie for $1.00 at Target. Wal-Mart has a similar selection at the same price, stuff like a version of “White Fang” with a brown German Shepherd miscast in the title role.

It isn’t only the “digital divide” which is made irrelevant by these price decreases. When a commodity like a DVD player drops from $69 to $29, that counts against inflation, but because it wasn’t a commodity at $1000, the real drop isn’t counted.

]]> By: dal_timgar http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/comment-page-1/#comment-31025 dal_timgar Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:18:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/#comment-31025 <p>You have some kind of problem alright. I am typing this on a 1.3 GHz Gateway computer, 256 Meg, 30 Gig and DVD burner. I just bought it last month used, $300. I waited too long to buy it. They ran out of the $325 machines with 512 Meg. I would have to pay $100 to upgrade that old style memory. I'm too cheap to do it.</p> <p>I'm running Linux on it that I got with a book that cost me $30.</p> <p>If you bought used electronics and bought oriental rugs at estate auctions with the money you saved their value would accumulate over the years instead of depreciate like that hi-tech electronics. Carpet technology doesn't seem to be advancing very fast.</p> <p>Dal Timgar</p> You have some kind of problem alright. I am typing this on a 1.3 GHz Gateway computer, 256 Meg, 30 Gig and DVD burner. I just bought it last month used, $300. I waited too long to buy it. They ran out of the $325 machines with 512 Meg. I would have to pay $100 to upgrade that old style memory. I’m too cheap to do it.

I’m running Linux on it that I got with a book that cost me $30.

If you bought used electronics and bought oriental rugs at estate auctions with the money you saved their value would accumulate over the years instead of depreciate like that hi-tech electronics. Carpet technology doesn’t seem to be advancing very fast.

Dal Timgar

]]> By: triticale http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/comment-page-1/#comment-31024 triticale Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:32:10 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/04/16/from-luxury-item-to-disposable-good-the-amazing-29-dvd-player/#comment-31024 <p>Actually, DVDs can be a whole lot cheaper than that. I just bought one with "The Giant Gila Monster" (which I love because the heroes are kids with hotrods) plus another horror movie for $1.00 at Target. Wal-Mart has a similar selection at the same price, stuff like a version of "White Fang" with a brown German Shepherd miscast in the title role.</p> <p>It isn't only the "digital divide" which is made irrelevant by these price decreases. When a commodity like a DVD player drops from $69 to $29, that counts against inflation, but because it wasn't a commodity at $1000, the real drop isn't counted.</p> Actually, DVDs can be a whole lot cheaper than that. I just bought one with “The Giant Gila Monster” (which I love because the heroes are kids with hotrods) plus another horror movie for $1.00 at Target. Wal-Mart has a similar selection at the same price, stuff like a version of “White Fang” with a brown German Shepherd miscast in the title role.

It isn’t only the “digital divide” which is made irrelevant by these price decreases. When a commodity like a DVD player drops from $69 to $29, that counts against inflation, but because it wasn’t a commodity at $1000, the real drop isn’t counted.

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