Hewlett-Packard Pulling Out Of Retail CD+RW Market
Posted on 12/10/01 06:48 by                              
Hewlett-Packard Pulling Out Of Retail CD+RW Market
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The largest vendor of CD rewriteable drives, Hewlett-Packard Co., will phase out its entire retail CD+RW product line by the end of the year in favor of rewriteable DVDs.
The news caught analysts by surprise, since the rewriteable CD market is still booming. But stronger competition in the rewriteable CD market is forcing HP out, they said. HP executives, meanwhile, claimed the move was driven by customer demand.

HP will introduce one more revision of its CD-writer product line this fall, and then leave retailers to clear out the remaining inventory over the next few months. "Shortly into 2002, the CD-writer will disappear from store shelves," said a spokeswoman for HP, Palo Alto, Calif.


Yeah yeah, whatever... "the move was driven by customer demand"... Remember the trial HP was standing for because of his copy-machines? Well, it SURELY has nothing to do with this so-called move .

Perhaps it is that they FINALLY have seen they can't beat the real players on that market (including, but not limited to, LiteOn, Plextor, Teac, ...).

Well, I won't cry a tear for them. Perhaps will you?

Source: ExtremeTech

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By Guest, Fri 12 Oct 2001 07:14
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Maybe this can be a good thing. Hopefully the DVD-RW wars can finally begin and the prices can start going down.
By Nila, Fri 12 Oct 2001 11:05
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LOL. This is great! HP burners SUCK. Or last least they used to. I had the 7200i and it made more coasters than working CD's and then stopped working after like 8 months. I got a replacement off of them, it was faulty too, and so was the replacement for that unit. Got my Plextor 124Tsi now and mmmmmmmm, does it do nice burning. Gotta love the old plex.
By NightHawk, Fri 12 Oct 2001 12:56
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No big deal really since HP burners are just rebadged Sony ones (well internal ones are, unsure about external burners), and here in Australia at least, they cost more than the equivilant Sony drive.
By Guest, Fri 12 Oct 2001 13:33
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yep NighthawK is right. HP are just a virtual brand who change the GRP moulding on the drive, add an LED and charge your a quarter again and don't bother supporting it with future drivers. I had the 7100i and had to use a hacked firmware update to get it to burn 80min CD's. No problems ie. breakage or coasters but changed it quickly afterwards!! Frown
By Guest, Fri 12 Oct 2001 14:15
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Well, I won't cry a tear for them. Perhaps will you?
No I won't Wink I'll stick to my Plexie Stick Out Tongue
By Guest, Fri 12 Oct 2001 21:24
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i have a creative CDRW 6x4x24. it's old but it's great. it's slow and has no coaster protection but i've only made 1 coaster and that was entirely my fualt. HPs cost more than teac/creative drives here in canada, and i hear they are crappier.
By dannyuk1982, Sat 13 Oct 2001 00:26
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no HP drives are PHILLIPS in disguise, i had one of there peices of junk for a bit over a year, i forget the model, it did as apparently all the burners of that model did. When i took it to bits it has phillips components everywhere, at a fancy price Frown

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