>I am talking about the cost of manufacturing, not the selling price.
>The cost of pressing a silver VCD with or without data is around USD 0.5,
>while a blank CD-R is around USD 0.75.  For CD-R, you will need to burn
>data to the disk with extra cost.
>
>Maybe the CD-R you get is made in Singapore, and those silver VCD is
>imported, hence the price difference.

i don't think there are any cd-r manufacturor here in singapore..... 
hmmm .... not to sure :)


>My question still stand.  LD is popular only 2 years before VCD ?
>In Hong Kong, LD is around 7 years before VCD.

as far back as i can remember , LD already existed before 1992 ... 
but VHS was much popular then.