| SteveKishi said: First of all it wasn't OLED's that he was talking about, it was LCD's. I can see them coming down in price sometime by the end of next year, where they are affordable to the average consumer. They are already half of what they use to be 2 years ago, that is comparing 20" and 26" tv's. I use to see 26" tv's selling for 800-$900 two years ago, now they are ranging between $400-$500. Plus with the whole digital switch in February next year (2009), I think LCD sales will increase which we will see prices starting to fall, because demand will be up. |
That is correct, I'm not necessarily saying that the organic crystal LCD displays will be dirt cheap ...
I do think that the large pannel OLCD displays (60 inch or larger) will take a position in the market which is currently being filled by large pannel LCD displays, meaning that they will be out of the price range of the typical consumer but reasonably affordable (as a guess, somewhere between $2500 and $5000). What this does is push the bigger and better TVs of today down into a more affordable position because they can not compete in the same pricerange as the OLCD ...
What this means is that the 40 inch 1080p LCD HDTV that is currently selling for (roughly) $1000 will become less expensive and possibly be rebranded (most of the odd brand names are manufactured by the big brand companies) ... In a lot of ways the move will be similar to what happened to the EDTV LCD displays when HDTV LCD dispalys really hit the market.
