Why are portable DVD players so cheap now? (1 Viewer)

[DanielKellmii]

I was just wondering why and how protable DVD players got so cheap. I just saw an ad for a 7in portable DVD player from Kmart for $98. I swear that two years ago the cheapest 7 in screen was over $500. So, what happened?

 

[Jack Briggs]

It's called "economy of scale." Enough people started buying them, the manufacturers end up making more of the things, and, ergo, the price plummets.

 

[GordonL]

Also manufacturing has shifted to China where manufacturing costs are quite a bit lower.

 

[LanceJ]

This is due in part to environmental laws that are barely enforced by their *Communist* government, so manufacturers can dump insidious waste products pretty much wherever they want to, helping many manufacturers' bottom lines.

 

[Jesse Skeen]

I want $1200 VCRs to come back