Hi Joerg,

You are right, and I've been thinking the same thing many times before. However, you're talking about a perfect controllable situation, which is not the reality.

Basically, in my opinion, all the problems with DVD writers are due to the fact that this technology is still new and the speed of introduction of products + media is higher than ever before, and higher than any other business in the world ! Even though DVD writers might seem similar to CD writers, the technology behind it is still new. You can compare the situation to when CD writers just came out. At the time there were also a lot of incompatibility problems. Afterwards, the move from 4X all the way up to 52X wasn't so difficult anymore, but it took a couple of years. This time, the move from 4X up till (max.) 16X will probably take a little bit over a year or so (!!!), which is incredibly fast. End of this year will see 8X drives, Q2 of next year we'll probably see the first 12X drives becoming available, and 16X drives will probably see the light of day by the end of Q4 already. The biggest problem will be the media, which will probably not be able to keep up with the drive speed (as usual).

By the way, BTC headquarters is in Taipei, Taiwan. The factories are in Taiwan, China (Dongguan) and Korea. Branch offices are in France (near Paris), Netherlands (near Rotterdam) and USA (California).

I'm located in the branch office in the Netherlands.

Marco
BTC Europe Support