Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Karsten, Eileen" <kars...@mx.lakeforest.edu> To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> Subject: [Videolib] Blue Ray Questions Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2013 4:03 pm We have some Blu-ray players. In the future, when we have to replace a player, the college is planning to purchase mulit-region Blu-ray players. The college recently purchased one for my office. What keeps me from purchasing Blu-rays is the price difference? On average (for our library), a Blu-ray costs $10.00 more than a DVD. We calculated that if we had bought all Blu-rays last year, we would have cut our media budget by roughly two-thirds. Lake Forest College has a very small media budget and every dollar counts. Eileen Karsten Head of Technical Services Donnelley & Lee Library Lake Forest College 555 N. Sheridan Road Lake Forest, IL 60045 kars...@mx.lakeforest.edu<mailto:kars...@lakeforest.edu> 847-735-5066
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