Why are DVDs sold in much larger packages than CDs, even through the two types of disc are exactly the same size?
It's all about historical origin.
CD cases were made in such a way so that racks on which vinyl discs had been displayed were wide enough to house two rows of CD. So it would be attractive to consumers that there was no need to replace a vinyl shelf for a new CD one.
The same thing happened concerning DVDs, which appears at the time when VHS format was popular. It was easier to sell a DVD in a sleeve that would fit for the same racks as VHS than in a smaller one.
The same thing happened concerning DVDs, which appears at the time when VHS format was popular. It was easier to sell a DVD in a sleeve that would fit for the same racks as VHS than in a smaller one.
And it is like that up to today.
But if DVDs were in smaller 'peckeges' that would save money wouldn't it?
ReplyDeleteonly theoretically because big 'packeges' make more possible that people would like to replace VHS into DVD because they wouldn't have to buy new shelf for DVD's.
ReplyDeleteSo that companies had income of selling more DVD which calculating was more than from saving material making smaller packeges.
Does it make sense what I've just wrote? :)
Maybe then but NOW, who has VHS?
ReplyDelete