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Memory card rip off
Why are memory cards so expensive compared to DVD's?
Memory Card 4Gb costs £14.99 in Tescos and Argos. DVD/R 4GB costs 25p ie 25 for £5.95 |
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Memory cards are much more expensive to manufacture! It's as simple as that.
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No I don't own this company , just used them for computer supplies
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Stora...roductId=40631 Bit cheaper than the one you mention ! |
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Why are memory cards so expensive compared to DVD's?
Memory Card 4Gb costs £14.99 in Tescos and Argos. DVD/R 4GB costs 25p ie 25 for £5.95 You buy your memory cards in the wrong place as well, assuming SD 4GB cards. A simple example http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000MX48V...hvptwo=&hvqmt= |
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Why are memory cards so expensive compared to DVD's?
Memory Card 4Gb costs £14.99 in Tescos and Argos. DVD/R 4GB costs 25p ie 25 for £5.95
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I suppose your next question will be why are SSD hard drives so much more expensive than normal ones?
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Why are memory cards so expensive compared to DVD's?
Memory Card 4Gb costs £14.99 in Tescos and Argos. DVD/R 4GB costs 25p ie 25 for £5.95 |
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err no.
Supermarkets insist on 50% + profits for these type of items. It is also why they tend to stock lower end laptops. |
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Or why cars cost more than bicycles.
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£14.99 for a standard 4Gb memory card?.
You've been done. |
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You need to shop around a bit more.
My last 4GB memory card was £3. My last tub of blank media was £10 for 100. |
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Whilst it's understandable that a lot of people won't realise why a memory drive costs a lot more than a DVD/R to make what is surprising is that despite their understandable ignorance they feel they know enough to claim it is a rip-off.
It seems to be a general malaise nowadays that so many people pontificate on subjects about which they know nothing but expect their views to be as valid as those with knowledge. A perfect example of this would be the climate change debate with all sorts of self styled experts unified only in their ignorance and opinions based upon what they want to be true. |
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err no.
Supermarkets insist on 50% + profits for these type of items. It is also why they tend to stock lower end laptops. As for comparing memory card to DVD-R, as several people have pointed out two completely different technologies. |
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Why are memory cards so expensive compared to DVD's?
Memory Card 4Gb costs £14.99 in Tescos and Argos. DVD/R 4GB costs 25p ie 25 for £5.95 The last memory card I purchased was a 16GB Memory Card and that cost @ £15.50!!! SanDisk Secure Digital High Capacity Card Extreme Video HD 16GB |
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Maybe for £14.99 he got a Tesco Finest memory card, which was matured in a warehouse for 21 days
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The two things are not the same, the DVD blank disc is a sheet of plastic with some dye coated on it, the memory stick contains a memory chip(s) and circuit, chips are fabricated and no doubt more costly, require more materials and time to make and so there's more to it than making a blank disc.
Obviously that's a very simplistic comparison but the two things are very different despite essentially doing the same job. I'd also argue that all memory is cheap as chips compared to a few years ago.smart arses feel free to eleborate. |
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The two things are not the same, the DVD blank disc is a sheet of plastic with some dye coated on it, the memory stick contains a memory chip(s) and circuit, chips are fabricated and no doubt more costly, require more materials and time to make and so there's more to it than making a blank disc.
Obviously that's a very simplistic comparison but the two things are very different despite essentially doing the same job. I'd also argue that all memory is cheap as chips compared to a few years ago.smart arses feel free to eleborate. That's 62500 smaller than 1GB. so the same memory would have cost £6,250,000 thats without inflation :eek today. : Hard Discs are the same. Look at the cost of a CD writer when they first came out (again around a £100.00). Now may be £10.00 - £15.00 pounds for the same performance. |
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I remember expanding a 16K TRS80 to a fantastic 32K which involved soldering on an extra 16K dynamic RAM chip which costs around £100.00. In modern terms I can't imagine what that relates to.
That's 62500 smaller than 1GB. so the same memory would have cost £6,250,000 thats without inflation :eek today. : Hard Discs are the same. Look at the cost of a CD writer when they first came out (again around a £100.00). Now may be £10.00 - £15.00 pounds for the same performance. |
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My first computer with a cd drive was in 1995 just before windows 95 was released. The cd drive was £200. Some plugged into the sound card not the motherboard. Sound cards had a variety of interfaces to suit the various types of cd drive available at the time. Then cd drives with standard ata interfaces arrived. 8MB of ram was also £200. You needed 16MB or more to run Quake if I remember corrredctly. I added a 1GB hard drive later that year which also cost £200.
I have a photography mag from 1999 where 1GB compact flash cards are over £1,000. |
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Yes, my first PC CDrom drive read discs at a maximum x2 speed and was read only..... and the drive cost about £130 in 1995
We don't know how lucky we are to get such powerful devices for such little money these days! |
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Goodness me with have some right smart arses on here who seem to take delight in mocking people for asking a simple question.
Most people who buy sd memory cards and DVDs are not geeks like a lot sem to be on here and buy their electronic goods from the nearest stores. |
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Every forum online has smart arses, anyway hopefully some of the replies might have been of use to make it clearer why a blank disc costs a lot less than a memory card.
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Goodness me with have some right smart arses on here who seem to take delight in mocking people for asking a simple question.
Most people who buy sd memory cards and DVDs are not geeks like a lot sem to be on here and buy their electronic goods from the nearest stores. |
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It may have seemed like a simple question to you, but the fact is there is a huge difference between a memory card and a blank disc even if they have the same amount of memory. A memory card contains electronic components and a circuit board. A blank disc is a piece of plastic coated with a thin layer of dye. We are not trying to be smart arses but we know what we're talking about. That is why you post questions in a forum - to get replies from people who know more than you do.
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Goodness me with have some right smart arses on here who seem to take delight in mocking people for asking a simple question.
Most people who buy sd memory cards and DVDs are not geeks like a lot sem to be on here and buy their electronic goods from the nearest stores. Being ignorant is not wrong however claiming something (the rip off) based upon ignorance is, this attitude is a major problem in our society. If they had just said "why are memory cards so expensive compared to DVDs" there would have been no problems. |
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