cheap DVD players!

I was watching an episode of an American sitcom last night, I can’t remember what it was called, but that’s not the point, the father in law had won some money at bingo and the couple were trying to scam money from him by breaking things around the house and taking more money than they needed to replace the object. Towards the end of the show the guy decides to break the DVD player, his reason was “It’s a machine that plays movies with lasers and a shiny disk, we could tell him it costs one million dollars!” of course that sounds stupid to us, after all, you can pick up a DVD player for less than an average days wage now, but what we often forget is that even 15 years ago one million dollars would not have been able to buy you a DVD player. In the past 10 years the price of this technology that not even the richest person alive could have bought 15 years ago can now be bought by college students with a part time job.