I'd be very surpised if GRE, as a scanner manufacturer, bounces back from this.
You simply can't release some vague press release blaming the sudden and unforseen loss of you manufacturing plant and then just go 'offline' or underground for 6 months and then expect to bounce back.
The longer GRE stay quiet about this, the worse they are making it for themselves and the less likely they are to be back IMO.
People shouldn't underestimate the costs of producing a product like the PSR-800 or 900.
It typically costs a million $'s plus to tool up and bring a product like this to market. That is a hell of a lot of scanners that you have to sell, just to break even. Assuming the company makes $100 profit on each scanner sold, you would have to sell 10,000 scanners, just to recoup your R&D & tooling costs before you even started to make a profit.
I would be very surprised if GRE sold more than 3000-5000 of the PSR-800's.
However, bring a product to market, with some kind of manufacturing flaw, say a plastic fascia that looks like crap after a week and requires you to ship a replacement to every second owner and that $100 profit starts to dissapear very quikly.
Bottom line:
Producing digital scanners in particular, is a huge gamble for any manufacturer. Not only do you have to recover your own R&D costs, but each scanner sold has DVSI digital vocoder licensing fees that have to be paid. You have to incorporate these licensing costs into the price of each scanner sold, but at the same time, if you make the unit cost too high, you risk making them too expensive for the average Joe.
Like I said before, depending on profit margins, I would expect manufacturers of a digital scanner have to sell between 7,000 & 10,000 units to break even.
Why do you think Uniden is being so slow at releasing new models after the 396XT and 996XT? It has nothing to do with not having new ideas or technology on the drawing board or even at the prototype stage and everything to do with having to first sell enough of your legacy models to actually show a modest profit before you take that huge gamble again..
In the current economic environment, I would be very surprised if any manufacturer released a new 'digital' product because the chances of re-couping the R&D&T costs any time within 5 years is highly doubtful.
I would be pleasently surprised if I were wrong though