Why are LCD monitors so expensive?

[Xenon14]

And why do several inches difference amongst LCD monitors cause a tremendous price increase?

 

[VBboy]

Because the demand has been relatively low, and according to a business formula that drives up the prices. Due to higher demand, prices went down (and so did the manufacturing costs).

Some analysts predict that the prices will rise soon, but I think they are full of it.

 

[TunaBoo]

Very hard to manufacture. They have millions of pixles and subpixles. If even a few die, the monitor is trash (unless they sell it at a discount).

 

[Justin218]

A lot of companies find a few dead pixels very acceptable. In fact, most do.

 

[VBboy]

Most companies have a policy where a LCD (or is it TFT? ) is not considered defective unless it has more than X dead pixels and there is less than N inches between them. In other words, you could buy an LCD which will have a dead pixel in each corner and in the center, and you won't be able to return it based on the "defectiveness" claim.

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

<< Why are LCD monitors so expensive? >>


Because they are so wonderful,I will never go back to a CRT again

 

[VBboy]

JohnnyKnoxville,

No kidding, they work beautifully with a CGA card and a 50-Mhz DX2.

 

[Shmorq]

Going from a 15&quot; to a 18&quot; LCD monitor results in about a 50% increase in the surface area of the display. Therefore, it's much touger to make an 18&quot; display that has virtually no dead pixel.

 

[tekker]

give them time they already dropped huge amounts in price.