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Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:55 am to OysterPoBoy
I shudder to think how much I paid for my 58” Plasma TV. In today’s dollars, probably equal to $6-8K. :facepalm:
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:02 am to DiamondDog
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New tech may be around the corner.
I truly don't need more tech. If you made my OLED TV any clearer I would have no idea. Not sure the human eye can really detect anything better. Also, I absolutely love the Smart TV interface. And it's 75" and still very light, relatively, so I can swivel it on the mount as needed with ease. I don't want nor need anything else in a TV.
shite, the "crappy" TCL 55" 4K smart TV I put in my kids' playroom is a great TV and it was like $200 on Amazon on Prime Day. That is INSANE to me. That TV, if sent back 20 years in a time machine, would be worth thousands and thousands of dollars
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:05 am to Dicky
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Yeah you can get a 60” tv for $300 or you can get a good 60” tv for $1500.
Most of the market just wants the biggest piece of shite they can find and are perfectly happy with it.
Man, the "pieces of shite" are still really good options for almost everyone. A real cinephile or tech nerd, I get needing or wanting something outrageous, but if I put an OLED and a $300 Amazon TCL TV next to each other I doubt my wife or kids would notice any difference.
Now, user interface on the smart TV is important to everyone I think.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:05 am to OysterPoBoy
My first HD TV in 2007 was a 32” Sharp LCD for $999
I thought I got a great deal
I thought I got a great deal
This post was edited on 1/24/25 at 9:06 am
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:10 am to OysterPoBoy
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Did someone crack a code that was holding us back.
The code is in your post.
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I can get an 85 inch for like $600.
The market still conflates the best TVs with being the biggest of TVs. That they are roughly about the same beyond that.
You get into TVs of that size with features like fully array OLED, HDR, and 4k and you are now back in the thousands of dollars.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:29 am to OysterPoBoy
tv's are the only thing getting cheaper it seems
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:35 am to OysterPoBoy
First flat screen i bought was 48" and over $3000. I just bought a 72" on sale from best buy for $499
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:40 am to OysterPoBoy
What is considered the best picture today? The LG OLEDs?
You have to think we have reached the point of diminishing returns on picture quality. Does it get any better and if it does, who will notice?
You have to think we have reached the point of diminishing returns on picture quality. Does it get any better and if it does, who will notice?
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:41 am to diat150
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tv's are the only thing getting cheaper it seems
Anything that can be robotically mass produced with a lot of competitors gets cheaper except cars for some reason.
This post was edited on 1/24/25 at 9:42 am
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:41 am to fr33manator
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Remember when it took 6 people and 6000 bucks in 2000s money to move a 60 inch?
When HD technology first came out, I bought a 36" Sony Trinitron tube model. Holy frick! That thing must have weighed a full ton.
Back then I was in the best physical shape of my life and could barely lift it. No way I could do it today.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:43 am to Stinger_1066
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When HD technology first came out, I bought a 36" Sony Trinitron tube model. Holy frick! That thing must have weighed a full ton.
Back then I was in the best physical shape of my life and could barely lift it. No way I could do it today.
I had the same TV. The first HD video I remember was Shrek and was amazed at the picture quality.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:43 am to GumboPot
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And I bought my 77" LG OLED for almost $5K like three years ago
Dumbass
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:51 am to The Baker
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Those industries suffer from some type of nash equilibrium where competition is suppressed. either by illegal cooperation or corporate consolidation gone wild where there are shadow monopolies.
I had no idea that I would bump into Mr. Economist Big Brain on page one.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:51 am to Volvagia
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The market still conflates the best TVs with being the biggest of TVs. That they are roughly about the same beyond that.
You get into TVs of that size with features like fully array OLED, HDR, and 4k and you are now back in the thousands of dollars.
But do you really need every feature? Some are sort of noticeable to some people, and maybe for your "main" tv that you watch movies and big games on that has attached sound system, etc I get it. But bedroom TVs, sunroom TVs, patio TVs, etc. these cheap options are fantastic.
I got sold on the "deep blacks" on my OLED tv and honestly I don't give a shite about it now that I own it (except for really dark episodes of Game of Thrones and Band of Brothers, etc). I end up watching more TV on the cheap TV in my sunroom.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:52 am to OysterPoBoy
The difference now is that low quality TVs are easy to produce, so you have a lot of garbage in the lower price range, then ridiculous new tech at the higher price range. That $600 85-inch TV is likely trash.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:53 am to Locoguan0
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That $600 85-inch TV is likely trash.
For someone that grew up in the 80s, I think we've lost sight of what "trash" really is when it comes to TVs
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:54 am to OysterPoBoy
We got a Toshiba 46 inch shortly after we moved into our house over 15 years ago. It was like $1,200, LCD, and the largest one we could fit in the cabinet we had. 4 years ago I got a 50 inch 4K Samsung for around $300. 2 years ago I got a similar model in a 43 inch for the bedroom for just over $200. Picture quality is way better on the newer ones and the prices keep going down. I also remember splurging on a BluRay player that would also stream from the very few streaming services that were available 15 years ago. I think everything back when was 1080, and some of the streams were 720 or 480. I think we paid over $300 for that. Now you can get a 4K Firestick for $35 and it has a ton of apps.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:00 am to theunknownknight
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And I bought my 77" LG OLED for almost $5K like three years ago
Dumbass
I feel like it. It was the G4 version too which is the most expensive version with refresh rates designed for gaming and I don't even play games...lol. It's currently selling for $3,499.
I had to buy a TV at the time because the 52" Samsung I bought right after Hurricane Katrina was losing its picture. I had that Samsung for almost 15 years.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:05 am to deltaland
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That’s why older appliances were well built and it was common to simply repair them when they broke rather than replace.
I remember as a kid driving home in the backseat of our Vista Cruiser and seeing at least three or four TV repair shops on the way. I haven’t seen a TV repair shop in at least 20 years.
Remember, Spicoli's dad had an awesome set of tools because he was a TV repairman! I guess his dad is out of work now. He's probably an influencer/blogger.
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