[mythtv-users] HDHR and Cablecard

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Buhrmaster" <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>

> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 16:27, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>
> wrote:
> .....
> > I wonder what the price on the 6 tuner model will be.
> 
> <conjecture>
> 
> Well, I would expect the "consumer" version to be just
> slightly less than double the 3 tuner model until the
> demand is reduced (anything else means SD is leaving
> money on the table). So, street price of ~$400 seems
> like a good guess.
> 
> Note that SD also was going to offer a rack mounted
> 6-tuner version for home theatres. My guess is that
> that one will be more like $1000 list to pay the 100%
> markup for "home theatre qualified" models.

My understanding is that the Rackmount will be the *only* 6 tuner
model, and the markup won't be "because it's home theater", it will be
"because we manufacture only 5% as many of them".

People don't understand how steep the S-curve is on quantity
manufacturing pricing...

Cheers,
-- jra