{"id":420,"date":"2011-07-12T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/?p=420"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:58:24","slug":"good-demand-increased-prices-make-cd-dvd-recordable-discs-a-sellers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/good-demand-increased-prices-make-cd-dvd-recordable-discs-a-sellers-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Demand, Increased Prices Make  CD \/ DVD Recordable Discs a Sellers Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Thanks to higher demand, profit margins for optical disc makers have increased so far in 2011. CD-R and DVD-r disc prices are expected to rise by 20% in the second half of this year, according to CMC Magnetics chairman Robert Wong, quoted in CENS.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ritek, another major optical disc maker in Taiwan, also says that disc prices have been rising this year due to rising material prices.\u00a0CD-r and DVD-r disc\u00a0prices are expected to rise further in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Wong said that many\u00a0Chinese and Taiwanese\u00a0optical disc makers have been withdrawing from the business, while some Japanese (JVC \/ Taiyo Yuden) disc makers also stopped production after the massive earthquake in March.<\/p>\n<p>CMC has raised all its disc prices by an average 30%\u00a0since March.<\/p>\n<p>The supply shortage of CD-R discs has pushed up prices by about 40% since early this year, the first since 2009, Wong said, pointing out that the optical-disc sector has turned into a sellers\u2019 market, a move that will benefit CMC\u2019s future operation. \u201cFlooding orders are filling production lines throughout the year-end. Fourth quarter operations will turn profitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is big news for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\">CD-r and DVD-r disc<\/a> manufacturers like CMC which have posted losses the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to higher demand, profit margins for optical disc makers have increased so far in 2011. CD-R and DVD-r disc prices are expected to rise by 20% in the second half of this year, according to CMC Magnetics chairman Robert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/good-demand-increased-prices-make-cd-dvd-recordable-discs-a-sellers-market\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}