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Post by TW on Dec 5, 2008 8:09:16 GMT -5
I have a feeling this article is pretty much on the money. The prices on HDTVs has been inflated according to some experts. We're talking dramatic price changes. tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/108089 |
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Post by mag7ue on Dec 5, 2008 8:28:20 GMT -5
I read somewhere - I wish I could remember where - that there's a lot of overstock on flat-panel TV's and monitors right now, which will be leading to lower than usual prices, at least for the next few months. Who knows if it will last...it kind of reminds me of computer memory 7-8 years ago, when it dropped drastically, then went back up, then came back down again for good.
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Post by TW on Dec 5, 2008 8:42:23 GMT -5
I agree. It sounds like that's what's about to happen. If you visit the stores, there are dozens of "new players" with their names on TVs out there, that we've never heard before. From what I gather, some of them are off-shoots of the panel manufacturers, who are now finding it difficult to sell their panels to manufacturers. It seems so strange with Westinghouse in the picture for monitors/HDTVs, with the LCD technology. But I have a 19" Westinghouse monitor for my computer, which I bought two or three years ago for about $140, and we have a 19" HDTV from Westinghouse in our spare bedroom, and that was only about $250 at Sam's. It's only 780i at 60hz, but that's all it has to be. It's not a heavily used TV. We've been watching the Vizio larger screen TVs, waiting for a good 1080i, 120hz, to drop in price, so we can get one with a quicker refresh rate. Great for football games, etc.  Right now, the 42" Vizio with what we want is about $1,000. More than we want to play, or honestly, can afford. |
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Post by croxeye on Dec 5, 2008 9:30:33 GMT -5
man get 1080p, hehe... but seriously those prices should be coming down soon, I often find it amazing on how stores and companies try to post these ridiculously high prices on us. We bought our big screen Vizio on Black Friday and got a HUGE deal on it. The TV was like 40" 1080i at 100 hz for about 500 bucks. We ended up buying three of them and sold the other 2 on Ebay for a profit |
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Post by packerconvert on Dec 5, 2008 15:33:24 GMT -5
SAme thing happened with VCR's and DVD players when they first came out.
Businesses banking on the big bucks for the new fandangled techno crap and when interest dies down..prices drop.
I have been smart enough not to buy an HDTV cause I knew this would eventually happen.
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Post by TW on Dec 5, 2008 15:43:41 GMT -5
Blu Ray is hanging on up there at cost. It will drop soon. I remember when we bought our first VCR. There was a battle going on between the VHS and Beta formats. We researched it for months in magazines, until we decided that it was obvious VHS was going to win. Then we bought our first unit. That was over 20 years ago, and the price of that unit was over $500, which was big bucks in those days. We'd go to this place that rented videos, and they had maybe 100 to 150 of them, and that was it. As time went on, the numbers grew, but it was a big thing to rent a video for the weekend. Before that, when we lived in Texas, and were in an area that didn't have cable TV, we had a special antenna installed on our roof where we could watch a "special channel." They carried movies on it. I think they had 4 movies they rotated each day. None of them were too new, or too special. I think that cost us something like $30 a month. Lots of money for very little. But remember this. We also were looking at buying a satellite dish for about $10k just to watch the Packer games! That was 26 years ago.  |
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