Prices for write-once DVD-R blanks are falling quickly—perhaps...
Prices for write-once DVD-R blanks are falling quickly -- perhaps more quickly than anticipated, and with side-effect of pirate DVD burnings of movies. Pioneer Tues. announced price reduction for 4.7 GB DVD-R and rewritable DVD-RW to $5.99 and $9.99…
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MSRP respectively. But we've found lower prices from Taiwanese and U.S. suppliers on Web. DVD-R from Taiwan’s Ritek go for $4.15 each in lots of 100 with jewel boxes, $3.95 without box (www.ioproducts.com). Danbury, Conn.-based Recordable Media Corp. (www.cd-recordable.com) take prize though -- as low as $1.59 per DVD-R in lots of 100 with jewel box. Company offers 9.4 GB dual sided DVD-R for $3.99. It claims to be only American-owned blank media maker in U.S., and sells only direct from factory. Within past week, first signs of pirates using DVD burners to copy movies have cropped up in U.S. and U.K. MPAA and N.Y.P.D. busted pirate operation in Bronx, N.Y., on March 22, seizing 15 DVD burners and 1,208 counterfeit movies. Next day, police and Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) in U.K. raided Glasgow market and found 301 counterfeits of first-run movies burned on DVD-Rs from Taiwanese Princo brand. FACT said it found only about 30 counterfeits that were imports from rogue replicators -- first time home-burned pirated discs outnumbered professionally made ones.