Sueballs lobbed at Tosh, Samsung and LG over 'optical disk cartel'

Seems to me..

That these companies also control the LCD et al panel market - i.e. if it's possible they're doing it with optical media it's highly likely the same is true of panels.

You need to make what people want

I stopped buying HP optical drives because they did not support DVD-ram, and kept disconnecting in Linux.

Sorry, HP, it's not a cartel at thier end - it's overpriced mundane products at yours!

You can buy a Samsung, 24x, DVD rewriter for £14.99.

That's a real machine with moving parts, a motor, electronics, optics, etc.

If they're running a cartel they sure aren't doing it for a profit.

Surely the whole point of an anti-competitive behaviour is to create artificial profit? DVD-ReWriters have been at £12-15 for around five years and that could just be the bottom line before it becomes unprofitiable as oppossed to some clandestine attempt to wrangle out extra profit.

Don't see why Acer should get anything out of it, since it's us the end consumer that has paid if there was any price fixing. Acer will have just passed on what ever price they paid for the components.

It like bitching well if we'd have got it cheaper we'd have made more profit, but if you'd have got it cheaper, you'd have sold your products cheaper, since you wouldn't know that you could have sold them for more.

"... as any fule kno ..."

Finally, a story written in Queen's Norfolk ... :-)

A norfolk bumpkinny wumpkinney ...

LG

"As any fule kno, LG Corporation used to be called Lucky Goldstar before it fell victim to the name-abbrev'ing craze of the late 2000s."

I think they changed it to LG so the unwashed masses would not realize that it was the same company that made the crappy Goldstar junk.

Disk media, not the drives?

Yes, the drives are cheap, but what about the media? The article doesn't hit you over the head with clarity, but this one statement gives me the impression that the lawsuits are about the price fixing of the optical disk media:

"As reported by Bloomberg, the HP lawsuit, filed in Houston, claims the three CD, DVD and Blu-Ray ***optical disk makers*** operated an effective cartel..."

ok for the corporations

What about us.. i have paid between £25 and £1000.00 for these devices over the last 20 years or rather they are making the rich even richer why not help the consumer for a change who made them rich.

I really do not care about dvd`s nowadays while we have plenty of storage for mounting them and less and

less reason to spend so long wasting money and time on single use media.

Maybe we need someone to look into the monopoly the dvd rewriting people have secured themselves.

Goldstar cheaper, not necessarily bad

My two Goldstar amber mono/HGA monitors are still working to this day, long after the overpriced Princeton and IBM displays packed it in. =Why= I'm still using two HGA displays is beside the point. ;)