Why are TV LCDs so much more expensive then computer moniter LCDs?

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: Dijay

Originally posted by: BoberFett
Here's one: Ouch!

13" LCD TV for $800? I think that's what the original poster was wondering about. That's not widescreen or special in any way. And it's only 13".

LOL.....the sad thing is you KNOW someone bought it. Makes me wanna search them out and slap each and every one of them haha

Hell, for $800 you could buy a cheap PC bundle with a 15" flat panel and throw a TV tuner in it. Voila! Bigger screen than the Sharp and a computer on top of that.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Dijay
"BTW, you can get computer LCD monitors that are widescreen too, without a TV tuner and with no analogue inputs besides VGA. "

I know. samsung makes a nice widescreen 17" LCD. (the 172w I think) But I want it to do 3 things.

1. computer moniter
2. TV
3. be able to hook my xbox and ps2 up useing progressive scan. <----and unless there is a video card that can do this for me for somewhat cheap...I'd rather just buy the LCD that can do it all.





"All of the lcd TVs that I've seen have been HDTVs with HDTV tuners "

sorry but thats hard for me to believe. I'm pretty sure most of them say "hdtv ready", meaning you can connect a hd sorce to it. But you can do that with all HDTV so pretty much all of them are HD ready. (just like any computer moniter is with a hdtv tuner.

Here you go


$825

 

[zephyrprime]

Prices are outrageous now but I'm sure they'll drop a pretty big amount before the year is out. This is just speculation on my part.

 

[Mustanggt]

I have only seen one that was a sony for $1000 at bestbuy 17 incher Looks much nicer than regular LCD as far as picture quality.

 

[Quickfingerz]

the equipment needed to convert an analog tuner signal to a digital LCD signal is quite complex and therefore requires more complicated hardware

 

[jagr10]

Why would anyone buy a plasma tv anyways (unless you're filthy rich)? I read that the gases burn out on plasma tv's after so many thousand hours or after 5 years.

 

[Dijay]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Dijay
"BTW, you can get computer LCD monitors that are widescreen too, without a TV tuner and with no analogue inputs besides VGA. "

I know. samsung makes a nice widescreen 17" LCD. (the 172w I think) But I want it to do 3 things.

1. computer moniter
2. TV
3. be able to hook my xbox and ps2 up useing progressive scan. <----and unless there is a video card that can do this for me for somewhat cheap...I'd rather just buy the LCD that can do it all.





"All of the lcd TVs that I've seen have been HDTVs with HDTV tuners "

sorry but thats hard for me to believe. I'm pretty sure most of them say "hdtv ready", meaning you can connect a hd sorce to it. But you can do that with all HDTV so pretty much all of them are HD ready. (just like any computer moniter is with a hdtv tuner.

Here you go


$825

cool thanks but ummm.....thats the same TV from my quote earlier in this thread....

Originally posted by: Dijay
Now this is what I'm talking about....

17" widescreen tv/moniter LCD hells yeah

for $850...not too bad



or this samsung for $1400 thats pretty much the same thing.....I think

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Dijay

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Dijay
"BTW, you can get computer LCD monitors that are widescreen too, without a TV tuner and with no analogue inputs besides VGA. "

I know. samsung makes a nice widescreen 17" LCD. (the 172w I think) But I want it to do 3 things.

1. computer moniter
2. TV
3. be able to hook my xbox and ps2 up useing progressive scan. <----and unless there is a video card that can do this for me for somewhat cheap...I'd rather just buy the LCD that can do it all.




"All of the lcd TVs that I've seen have been HDTVs with HDTV tuners "

sorry but thats hard for me to believe. I'm pretty sure most of them say "hdtv ready", meaning you can connect a hd sorce to it. But you can do that with all HDTV so pretty much all of them are HD ready. (just like any computer moniter is with a hdtv tuner.

Here you go


$825

cool thanks but ummm.....thats the same TV from my quote earlier in this thread....

Originally posted by: Dijay
Now this is what I'm talking about....

17" widescreen tv/moniter LCD hells yeah

for $850...not too bad



or this samsung for $1400 thats pretty much the same thing.....I think

$25 is $25


Still, many of the TV LCDS are marketted as that, TVs, but this one is a very profficient PC display...not to mention its Component-input capabilties.

 

[Gosharkss]

Originally posted by: Dijay
you can get a 15" LCD for $250 to $400.......but if you buy one that is just ment to be a TV....it could cost over 1k.

I've heard people say its because the quality is much better, but I'm not sure I believe that.

Has nothing to do with quality, in fact the panels are the same as the ones in computer monitors. The reason LCD-TV?s are more expensive is because they are a TV.

The U.S. government charges much higher duty and taxes on home entertainment devices than they do computer or business electronics. This is why you see many companies selling the TV tuner separately from the display. This way they can import at the lower duty and tax rates. However this required the TV tuner to be installed by the end user. The ones that I have seen are quite simple.

LCD technology and Plasma to a lesser degree make poor TV?s read my article on LCD TV's

 

[Dijay]

"The U.S. government charges much higher duty and taxes on home entertainment devices than they do computer or business electronics. "


I heard this too from a sales man (reason I wasn't sure if I believed him)




"but this one is a very profficient PC display...not to mention its Component-input capabilties. "

awesome feature if you have a xbox, gcn, or ps2