Disklavier

>The market is smaller.

True, but simple economics will tell you that that's irrelevant.  Say you have one hundred potential customers interested in a title.  If you sell the disk for $30, and only 5 of those people are willing to pay that ridiculous price, you made $150 per 100 customers.  But if you price it at $12 and sell 15, you made $180.  More people are willing to buy at a reasonable price.  Myself and many others would actually purchase two or three disks at $12 a piece, meaning youd make even more.

Think of it this way... if I spend $500 at $30 a disk, I have about 16 disks.  If I spend $500 at $12 a disk, I have about 41 disks.  There's no way Id pay $500 for 16 titles!  But 41?  Definitely.

>The cost is much higher to produce these disks. The 
>editing and musician cost is higher. The market is smaller.

How do you figure that?  Sound engineers are very expensive, and they work with real acoustic data.  MIDI is a very simple digital format, and is comparatively easy to edit.  I'm also not sure why you would think the musician cost is higher.

>These disks are not audio disks produced by the 1000
>The cost is much higher to produce these disks.

The cost of a floppy disk in bulk is around 15-25 cents.  The cost of bulk CDs is approximately 2-4 times that cost.  You can duplicate magnetic floppy disks at a higher rate than you can stamp CDs.  The capacity of a floppy disk is ~1.4MB versus a ~640MB CD.  The printed sticker labels on floppy disks are also cheaper than the printed top of a CD.

> I do not see drastic price drops in the music so
>your investment may sit idol

I certainly didnt buy a disklavier for playback of commercial software, or else I would have bought one many years ago.  I bought mine so I could record and use the silent feature of my MPX1Z in my apartment without bothering the neighbors.  No loss for me, just Yamaha.


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>On 8/21/2001 at 10:03 AM Donald Dusenbury wrote:
>These disks are not audio disks produced by the 1000
>The cost is much higher to produce these disks. The 
>editing and musician cost is higher. The market is smaller.
>The disks for these machines are edited midi info that is for
>these machines. The companies selling these disks are
>not realizing large profits. The old pump players cost per song
>is much higher. I do not see drastic price drops in the music so
>your investment may sit idol
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: Kenneth Stumpf 
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:04 PM
>Subject: Re: [disklavier] Anyone want to trade or sell some discs?
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>Yes, WAY too expensive.  What's funny is I would readily buy 3 disks for
>$40 (price of a CD) before I will ever buy one disk for $30.  Too bad
>Yamaha doesnt realize that, as I won't be buying a single one.  Instead of
>making $40 they lose $90 in this scenario.
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>On 8/20/2001 at 2:02 AM iamleet@... wrote:
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>>The pianosoft discs are way too expensive in my opinion. Because of 
>>that I pretty much only have the discs that came with the piano.  I 
>>would like to trade the extra ones I have or buy some from others so 
>>I can listen to some other types of music.  My wife says I am driving 
>>her crazy with the few discs we have.  I am interested in Elton John, 
>>Billy Joel, etc, mostly pop stuff.  
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>>Please email me at iamleet@... and I will get right back to you.
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>>Lee
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