Flat panel prices in free-fall
posted Nov 25th 2005 11:12AM
We already sort of expect electronics prices to just keep falling and falling, but PC World has the goods on just how much prices on flat panel displays have plummeted this year. In case you haven't been paying close attention, it turns out that prices have dropped a ridiculous amount over the past 12 months, mainly because of firece competition from budget labels like Syntax and Westinghouse. According to Displaysearch, the price of a 32-inch LCD TV will hit almost $1500 this quarter, down from $3000 a year ago, with the price of a 42-inch plasma sliding from just north of $4000 down to about $2500 over the same time period. Prices will continue to go down next year, but not quite as quickly as they did in 2005. Translation: if you've been holding out on buying a new flat panel, it's finally a good time to buy.
Walmart just sold out a 42-inch plasma for $997. Of course it was an obscure brand black friday door buster offer, but hey, it was a 42-inch plasma for under a grand!
They also have it online:
Viore 42" Plasma EDTV w/ Integrated ATSC Digital Tuner
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=4257460
finally I see these plasma's that look amazing going for a price much closer to what I can afford.... finally
I'm look at the samsung #HP-R4252 which just looked amazing in the store at sears.... but it's even cheaper on ebay.... 2999 at sears, 2059 on ebay.... now that's big...
wonder how much it would be if I could get it wholesale, like if I was the store... wonder how much they pay for it... If anyone has info or knows the price or how to get it at that price please do tell?
To me thats' the best plasma ever so far... I have not seen nothing come close to the picture quality of that thing. It's amazing - non digital cable in HD need not apply because this baby is only for the big dogs.
XBOX360 must look amazing on that thing... I would love one of those for my room.. hook up computer to it... Oh my god... I would be in heaven...
Take a look at them for your self - http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=samsung+%23HP-R4252&category0=
my ipaq rx3100 series pda came with microsoft windows media player 9 (wmp9).
HP included an "upgrade web site" to upgrade to wmp10
Now that I want to upgrade.....the HP site does't have the upgrade available
And forget about HP helping(no help from them).
How do I upgrade my ipaq rx3100 series pda to microsoft windows media player 10?
Was there a problem with Wmp10 upgrade and the HP people don't offer it anymore?
Doesn't plasma + game console = burn-in?
Ah, the true reason they are in free-fall is because both LCD and Plasma technology is soon to be obsoleted by a superior yet more affordable technology in development by Canon, namely, SED. The first products based on SED will hit the market in 2006. Learn more here: http://www.canon.com/technology/display/
Prices are going up as well as down. Sharp just introduced a 65 inch direct view LCD (Sharp Aquos LC-65D90U), available for a mere $15 to $20 thousand.
http://www.sharpusa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,1572,00.html?sid=MTS05&attr=Model_LC-65D90U
Wow, this SED stuff looks great. I wonder how responsive it is though. It does seem to have the potential to be much more responsive than LCD.
Claiming SED will make LCD, PDP obsoleted soon is highly premature. People say the same thing for PDP to LCD before they came out - look how many years passed by and LCD is still going strong? Remember the buzz for OLED? What about LCoS? Where are they now? Don't be surprised to see the first batch of 42" SED carrying a MSRP of $8,999. I am pretty sure LCD & PDP will enojoy another couple years' strong go till at least 2010.
The SED technology, IMHO, will be the best. It takes all the pro's of the CRT tubes combined with the form factor and power efficiency of the LCD into one box. CRT picture is the standard and SED conbines the best of all worlds and is an evolution of the best display TV out there.
You guys are both right. PDP is done because the conbination of SED, LCD, and OLED will kill it off in the future.
LCD will probably be much lighter in weight and will be very useful in different types of applications so it won't go away.
OLED is facing the same limitations that LCD had back in the day: producing large screens. Its still being heavily invested in (ie. Sony).
BTW, I last read on this site that the SED is tenatively going to be priced at the same price point as the Plasmas. No official word yet so the jury is still out.
Just got back from Fry's...bought a 20 inch Emprex LCD for $247 and a 32" Emprex LCD HDTV for $697 (Yes I was there at 3am).
Canon"s and Toshiba SED's will first shipout witn 50" & 55" televisions.
If you extend the line, they will be free around 2008 :-)
I bought the Pioneer PDP-4350SX( integrated input/output) for $2800 at the beginning of the month from tweeter.
I paid £2500/$4000 for my first 42inch Plasma and that was 2 years ago, now one at $1500 is much better than the one I brought then, things keep changing.
The response time for SED is around the 1ms mark at the moment, and it's definately superior to LCD/plasma tech (4ms best LCD at the moment). The only potential blip on the horizon is PhOLED, which has an even faster response time, is cheaper to produce and has the potential to produce more vibrant colors, it just depends on whether they can fix Blue OLED lifespan issues in the coming months. I'd guess that prices for old tech screens will bottom out once SED/OLED enter the scene.
NED's the way to go - nano emitive display - being developed here in Phoenix samples have been shown off and it looks like 42" units could be as low as $600 within two years. absolutely beautiful and easy to mass produce. i own a 105 room hotel and would like to replace all my tv's with 27" lcd's however, and now that they're hitting the $600 range, that time might be just 'round the corner.
When experts happen to release a report rigth at the beginning of the holiday shopping season, saying prices won't fall in the future like they have in the past, then you can rest assured that prices will get CRUSHED next year.
Remember, there's a lot of current-tech inventory, and next year will see many new types of high-end plasmas and LCDs. They want to make sure they squeeze every last penny out of current fabs before the new ones come online.