Profits on DVD players down to a buck a machine

Apparently the DVD business has gotten so tight that manufacturers in China are only able to eek out profits of a mere dollar per player these days, with the average price for a player made in the Guangdong province just $40.80. They also mention that a full thirty Chinese DVD manufacturers went out of business during the first six months of this year, though we can't decide whether the crazy part is that there were so many bankruptcies or that there must literally be hundreds of companies over there making DVD players.