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One peculiar thing in the last few years of the VHS era, was that they were really cheap. They were so much more mechanically complex than DVD players, but sti
by kpil 10y ago
One peculiar thing in the last few years of the VHS era, was that they were really cheap.
They were so much more mechanically complex than DVD players, but still as cheap as the cheap no name DVD players - although they must have been much more expensive to manufacture.
The margins must have been infinitesimal.
- ams6110 10y agoThe engineering was initially more complex. But once the production tooling was done, it probably didn't cost a lot to churn them out. The quality of the components in a cheap VCR is also shocking. Compare a early Sony Betamax deck to one of the $49 VCRs you could buy at the end of their era.