However, laser-disk players cost significantly less than personal computers.
These players might cost $25 million or more a season.
Such players would probably cost the Mets a pick in the annual amateur draft.
"The idea is guaranteed income for the owners because players now cost so much."
When the format arrived in 1996, players cost $1,000.
They don't seem to realise that decent players cost money.
Each competitor says its player will cost around $500.
The player will cost £400 and the discs £15 each.
A couple of years ago the players cost $800 and we were a rich man's format.
The player who cost $170,000 to sign in 1989 now costs $1.3 million.