What is more, with performance ever improving and prices ever falling, the cost of Video Networks' infrastructure should drop rapidly.

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Camera enthusiasts who can bear to wait a few months will see those prices drop rapidly after the first of the year, Kane said.

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When semiconductors enter an oversupply, their prices rapidly drop and tend to remain there without much recovery, if any.

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In Washington, where as much as 10 inches had been forecast, the storm did little but drop harmless snowflakes that rapidly melted amid warmer-than-expected temperatures.

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