MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to JAY EMRIE:

 MR> "JAY EMRIE" bravely wrote to "GREG MAYMAN" (19
Aug 03  21:06:00) 
 MR> --- on the heady topic of "WATTS UP? KILOWATT-HOUR M"

 GM> -=> about "WATTS UP? KILOWATT-HOUR M" on 08-15-03  21:00.....
 GM> JE> Nope, it would be my opinion that digital is considerably less
 GM> JE> expensive to produce than a motor clock.

 GM>Hmmm... maybe. Digital still sells at least as expensive as
 GM>battery powered motor clocks over here.


 JE> Then digital is grossly overpriced there or motor clocks are
 JE> grossly under priced. Virtually all battery powered clocks I see here
 JE> are not motor driven but are electronic.

 MR> Depends what is meant by digital or by motor driven. For example a
 MR> purely digital clock would have a quartz oscillator and an LCD
 MR> display. A semi-digital clock would have a quartz oscillator with
 MR> an impulse motor needle movement. Around here one can buy either
 MR> type "Made in China" for the *same* retail price. It's the line
 MR> powered clock movements, large digit LED displays, and large
 MR> backlit LCD's that are now expensive.

I guess that just proves that the selling price is more a function of the
marketing aspects of things than it is of what's inside the unit,  more
than otherwise...

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