<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442402500080_8199" dir="ltr">A markup of 3X over cost was pretty typical, I think. Considering the low volumes, you're essentially selling engineering.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442402500080_8198" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442402500080_8197" dir="ltr">$50K @1956 = $438,672.79 @2015</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442402500080_8191" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442402500080_8192" dir="ltr">The price on video recorders has certainly come down. And now they record HD. And make phone calls!<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442402500080_8193" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442402500080_7580" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442402500080_7578" href="http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=50000&year1=1956&year2=2015">http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=50000&year1=1956&year2=2015</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442402500080_7471"><span></span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 3:34 AM, Scott Thomas via QuadList <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div class="yqt0104484169" id="yqtfd07357"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv6412491907"><div><div>According to the Emmy TV Legends Interview with Ray Dolby that I just watched a couple of days ago...</div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/ray-dolby#">http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/ray-dolby#</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>$50,000.00 in 1956 money</div><div>He said the cost to manufacture, minus the development costs was around $17,000.00</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Pretty good investment on Ampex's part. </div><div><div class="yiv6412491907yqt0104484169" id="yiv6412491907yqtfd79476"><br clear="none">On Sep 16, 2015, at 03:12 AM, Tim Stoffel via QuadList <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv6412491907yqt0104484169" id="yiv6412491907yqtfd17735"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="yiv6412491907msg-quote"><div class="yiv6412491907_stretch"><span class="yiv6412491907body-text-content"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv6412491907_stretch"><span class="yiv6412491907body-text-content">______________________________________________<br clear="none">Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Send QuadList list posts to <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br clear="none">Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt0104484169" id="yqtfd35918">______________________________________________<br clear="none">Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Send QuadList list posts to <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com" href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br clear="none">Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>