Saw Kelly's thread late last night Rob,but kept having some unusual sharp pains all over my body. Needless to say,didn't get much sleep. Think
Pertra has something to do with these prodding like pains. <gr>
I'm not to concerned or surprised about Yamaha dropping the line. In a odd sort of way, for saw it coming.
If you think through my thought patterns for a second (minus the spelling), Yamaha has
always been a high class manufacture when it comes to hardware. Look at their electronics branch all the way back into the 50s for example. High grade amplifiers,receivers etc.
When the computer world took the front stage,Yamaha needed to get in on the action or be left behind.
So they jumped in but still stayed with higher quality hardware hoping that their other departments in this same field (cds etc) would pull up the slack for balancing incoming revue.
Didn't happen! To much competition. Prices dropping from no-name outfits.
Thus quality dropped like a rock.
As Kellys link stated,they (yamaha) bit the bullet and tried to cut cost yet still keep a higher standard with their new-and-improved F1 burners. TOO LATE.
Even though I've read the F1 is a great machine ... didn't fly.
Why should Joe blow off the street pay twice or three times the amount when he/she could get a johnny saw buck burner from someones garage in Philadelphia <gr> which will do the basics.?. Face it,most folks just want to make copies of whatever. Only a small percentage want or care about top notch quality cds,dvds etc. Those shoot for the much higher machines. Can you see the 'void' here? No money to be made.
I've a strong feeling that Lacie and perhaps lite-on might be following suit (if not already) right behind Yamaha.
Concerned. Well yes.
I've a yamaha receiver that is at least twenty five years old. I pulled it out of the box the other day and hooked it up. STILL works great! Way out dated but....
You bet I grabbed a .... errr .... few yamaha burners when the price was right Rob.
Fact is I have a lead on another new one and this weekend might pick it up.
Figure by the time they bite the dust,I'll be ant food any ways or cds will be out dated.
Besides, I can always sell them down the road.
Besides two: I've 6 - one hundred verbatim spindles+ to use up.
Care to ask how many eight tracks I had at one time.
OR how many antilog cells phones, VCR players.
