[opendtv] Re: ATSC STBs
- From: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:50:33 -0800
John Golitsis wrote:
>On 24-Feb-06, at 2:54 PM, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>
>
>>It's really hard for me to judge whether that market is saturated yet.
>>The reason being, all I see is how these STBs, and other OTA items,
>>keep
>>selling out and not being replaced. Not just in the stores themselves,
>>but also in the web sites of these stores.
>>
>>
>
>This is simply because the item is released at $500, nobody buys it,
>then it hits the liquidator circuit at a price that seriously burns
>the original importer. For the liquidator and the retailer, there is
>profit. But without the importer, there is no product to begin with.
>
>So in the end, the product sells, but the selling price is nowhere
>near the original retail...the retail that would have made everybody
>in the distribution chain some money. Do you think the original
>importer of those Accurian boxes made a profit?
>
>
Is this not true of just about anything that is eventually successful?
Weren't the first plasma TVs lousy and expensive and poor sellers? But
manufacturers stuck with plasma TVs. They haven't stuck with STBs.
TTFN,
Mark
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