Plextor Bails Out of Consumer Market

[kenja]

"No more Plextor consumer drives - parent company pulls plug" According to a Japanese website. http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/No-more-Plextor-consumer-drives---parent-company-pulls-plug.html
I'll withhold my editorial comments regarding Plextor but this is another step in the homogenization of the optical disc drive market.

[kenja]

No official word yet but here is an update http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Plextor-drives-continue-to-be-available-but-how-many.html

[mjc]

I've suspected this for a while, because several models of Plextor drives have been 'outsourced'...they've been made by other companies.

[PrntRhd]

When optical drives became commodity items, the price Plextor could charge crashed. It is hard to sell optical drives for $300 when others are selling them for $40.
So Plextor outsourcing others' drives and putting their label on them is no great stretch.