| bdbdbd said: @HappySqurriel: When you move out on your own (well i did move in with my, that time girlfriend, today my wife), you have to buy some furniture. Beds, sofas, TV:s, DVD:s etc. Since the widescreen TV:s fit the same pricerange with 4:3, you propably look a bit further in the future (my 28" widesceen was a bit less than 500 Euros, when 4:3 TV, that would have fit for my needs was about 420). I don't personally know anyone, who would have bought 4:3 TV, after moving on their own after 2000 (well bigger than 20"). Of course, it changes regionally. And by "kids" i was meaning kids, who live with their parents, and have their own room with small TV. @Sqrl: You're right. But that wasn't the thing that surprised me. The thing what made me surprised was, that the people who have their Wiis online, propably are people who are more interested or more aware in technology than the average. And this group, which is above the average, is the group, which, in bigger propability than others, have widescreen TV. |
2000?
2000?!?!?
In 2000 to about 2003/2004 the only widescreen TVs that were really available were high end TVs ... The Sony Wega was the widescreen CRT of choice and off brand wide-screen CRT TVs did not really show up until the main brands started to dramatically lower their CRT offerings. After that the occasional off-brand LCD-EDTV would show up at about $1000 and be widescreen; it wasn't until about 2005 that you really started to see well known companies offer widescreen TVs that were affordable.
My world view may be warped but I have always seen the standard approach to buying a TV by most people was to choose the largest TV that was in their price range; most people who just moved out would likely pick a TV that was under $500 which would have (up until recently) given them a 27 to 34 inch 4:3 CRT or a 20 inch (or smaler) 16:9 LCD EDTV.
