Why aren't LCD prices falling?

WinkOsmosis · Mar 13, 2004

For Christ's sake! 15" LCDs are still $400, 17" are still $500. Prices are the same as they were two years ago!

Kadarin · Mar 13, 2004

I blame the mysterious "Them" for this. It's a conspiracy.

milagro · Mar 13, 2004

interesting...two years ago the stock market was still sucking as was the economy and jobs situation...hmm

ed21x · Mar 13, 2004

15'' are about $250, 17'' are around $350-400. You just have to know where to look

WinkOsmosis · Mar 13, 2004

Originally posted by: ed21x
15'' are about $250, 17'' are around $350-400. You just have to know where to look

Hot deals on crappy LCDs don't count. Analog LCDs shouldn't be made but they are, so they count

.

ThisIsMatt · Mar 13, 2004

The market isn't saturated enough. People are still buying them at high prices.

PliotronX · Mar 13, 2004

LCDPEC dictates prices. Every so often you hear of "shortages of LCD panels" and the prices creep up. The 15" KDS monitor I got for my secondary system last year is $30 more expensive now and that's not because it's out of production.... the Samsung 172X that I had my eyeball on went up $18 yesterday (Friday) alone.

Kadarin · Mar 13, 2004

Originally posted by: PliotronX
LCDPEC dictates prices. Every so often you hear of "shortages of LCD panels" and the prices creep up. The 15" KDS monitor I got for my secondary system last year is $30 more expensive now and that's not because it's out of production.... the Samsung 172X that I had my eyeball on went up $18 yesterday (Friday) alone.

See? It's "Them", I tell you! "They" are behind this, and "They" must be stopped!

PliotronX · Mar 13, 2004

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: PliotronX
LCDPEC dictates prices. Every so often you hear of "shortages of LCD panels" and the prices creep up. The 15" KDS monitor I got for my secondary system last year is $30 more expensive now and that's not because it's out of production.... the Samsung 172X that I had my eyeball on went up $18 yesterday (Friday) alone.

Click to expand...

See? It's "Them", I tell you! "They" are behind this, and "They" must be stopped!

I've got extra tin foil hats if'n you need one. Keep your head low when you hear the black helicopters.

upsciLLion · Mar 13, 2004

There have been so few hot deals (read: NONE) on good LCDs lately it's enough to make a grown man weep.

Dell needs to have a sale on the 1901FP soon.

Lonyo · Mar 13, 2004

LCD TV's are one part of the problem.
Lower success rate for them, and larger panels, uses up the available resources to make crappy TV's when us geeks what cheap monitors.

IGBT · Mar 13, 2004

People are buying em like krazy..costco had a few pallets of 17" lcd tv's and they were gone in a weekend at 799.99..go figure...

MrDudeMan · Mar 13, 2004

i hate lcd tvs...they dont even look good

darkeneddays · Mar 13, 2004

My 21-inch Hitachi CRT that is the size and weight of a Yugo has been begging for the prices to fall for 2 years.

I'd have thought they would have gone down by now considering the vast amount of businesses that are moving from CRTs to LCDs. I've seen at least 8 companies around here that have made the switch.

Zugzwang152 · Mar 13, 2004

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: PliotronX
LCDPEC dictates prices. Every so often you hear of "shortages of LCD panels" and the prices creep up. The 15" KDS monitor I got for my secondary system last year is $30 more expensive now and that's not because it's out of production.... the Samsung 172X that I had my eyeball on went up $18 yesterday (Friday) alone.

Click to expand...

See? It's "Them", I tell you! "They" are behind this, and "They" must be stopped!

:Q

kyutip · Mar 13, 2004

I second that I hate LCD TV too. I think it's the most overated thing out there.

DurocShark · Mar 13, 2004

Originally posted by: darkeneddays
My 21-inch Hitachi CRT that is the size and weight of a Yugo has been begging for the prices to fall for 2 years.

I'd have thought they would have gone down by now considering the vast amount of businesses that are moving from CRTs to LCDs. I've seen at least 8 companies around here that have made the switch.

A Yugo's smaller and lighter...

My company is in the process of switching... Corporate gets 17" Viewsonic crap and everyone else gets 15" Viewsonic crap. All analog of course.

Until LCD's start appearing in thrift stores, the market isn't saturated enough. Prices *have* fallen. On the wholesale side, that is... The LCD is the biggest single cost in a laptop. Now you can find $700 lappys new. That tells me that it's people PAYING high prices for LCD panels that's keeping the prices up.

Shoot, $200 for a crappy 15" LCD USED is common now.

Ness · Mar 13, 2004

LCD prices are the same because people keep buying them at the current price.

Why the hell would anyone lower the price when they know they will sell as it is?
The only lower the shite ones because they know they won't sell without a price drop.

Jumpem · Mar 13, 2004

Demand is still high and they are all being bought up at current prices. Why would a company lower the prices? It'd be a bad business manuever.

0roo0roo · Mar 13, 2004

15" are sh*t for desktop now, but u see, laptops suck up supply. theres no excess, so price doesn't drop. market for lcds is growing, from lcd tv's, to touch screens in cars etc, they need ever more, so they can really charge whatever until the market is saturated.

Koing · Mar 13, 2004

My 23" LCD is cheaper now then I bought it 13months ago.

It would be nice if they were cheaper and the guy who made the point of lcd's in laptop has a very good point.

Koing

StageLeft · Mar 13, 2004

I won't buy one until they're pretty cheap. I have a large desk, and the cheap ones blow donkey nuts for fluid motion, so why would I bother? I'd rather a 20" old school monitor than a smaller LCD, especially if it's cheaper. But, I still have a $150 17" I bought almost 3 years ago and I've no intention of getting rid of it.

MrDudeMan · Mar 13, 2004

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I won't buy one until they're pretty cheap. I have a large desk, and the cheap ones blow donkey nuts for fluid motion, so why would I bother? I'd rather a 20" old school monitor than a smaller LCD, especially if it's cheaper. But, I still have a $150 17" I bought almost 3 years ago and I've no intention of getting rid of it.

/agree

i do have a 19" LCD that i got last year, and i love it. it was $700 and plays games like a champ. i have been wanting another for a while now, but i am not going to buy a second one until the 19's are at down to sub 500 prices.

however, LCDs should never be incorporated into the TV market because they look terrible. i am yet to see a pretty picture on an LCD TV. it looks like an analog computer monitor on interlaced refresh rate. not to mention the price tag...

TitanDiddly · Mar 13, 2004

:beer:

fredtam · Mar 13, 2004

Originally posted by: ness1469
LCD prices are the same because people keep buying them at the current price.

Why the hell would anyone lower the price when they know they will sell as it is?
The only lower the shite ones because they know they won't sell without a price drop.

Yep that and a perfect flat panel ie. no dead pixels is hard to produce which means you are probably paying for more than one when you buy an LCD.

Why aren't LCD prices falling?

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