We've reported several times on CD-R manufactures increasing their prices and today Ritek has said that prices are likely to rise again in March of this year. According to Gordon Yeh, CEO of Ritek, a price rise would depend on demand:
Ritek has gradually shifted its focus from CD-R discs to DVD+R and DVD-R discs. It has a 79% share of the smaller DVD+R market and 20% share of the larger DVD-R market, according to Yeh. DVD-R now has a bigger market than DVD+R. He commented that demand for the formats has developed slower than they had been expected. Ritek hopes to achieve a combined 40% worldwide market share for DVD+R and DVD-R discs this year. |
However, Yeh expects the CD-R disc market will survive even as recordable DVD discs become popular since CD-R discs are mainly used for data recording. Recordable DVD discs can be used in consumer product recording, such as DVD players, and have 6.5 times more storage space than CD-R discs.
According to the article CD-R manufacturer CMC Magnetics has also been rumoured to plan to raise CD-R disc prices to US$0.20 per unit.
Source: DigiTimes
