#inflation #technology #consumerism #electronics
🤔 Ever noticed how everything seems to be getting more expensive these days? From groceries to gas prices, it feels like the cost of living just keeps going up. But there’s one item that seems to defy this trend: televisions. 📺 They keep getting bigger and cheaper, leaving consumers scratching their heads in confusion.
The Price Paradox
🏷️ The price of everything is on the rise, thanks to inflation, supply chain disruptions, and increased demand. 📈 But when it comes to TVs, the opposite seems to be happening. You can now get a massive 65-inch smart TV for the price of a smaller model just a few years ago. 🤯 So why is this happening?
Supply and Demand
💡One reason for the declining cost of TVs is the fierce competition in the electronics market. With so many manufacturers vying for consumers’ attention, prices are driven down as companies try to outdo each other with better features and lower costs. This healthy competition benefits shoppers, who can now afford high-quality TVs at a fraction of the price they used to pay. 💸
Technological Advancements
🌟Another factor contributing to the affordability of TVs is the rapid pace of technological advancements. 🚀 As technology improves, manufacturers can produce larger, more efficient TVs at a lower cost. This means that consumers can enjoy a more immersive viewing experience without breaking the bank. 🛋️
The Future of Television
🔮 As TVs continue to get bigger and cheaper, it raises the question of how this trend will impact the future of entertainment. With the rise of streaming services and smart TVs, consumers have more options than ever before when it comes to watching their favorite shows and movies. 📱 This shift towards a more personalized and convenient viewing experience is likely to drive further innovations in the television industry.
Conclusion
🤗 So, next time you find yourself marveling at the latest TV deals, remember that the price of everything may be going up, but TVs are one exception to this rule. With competition driving prices down and technology pushing boundaries, consumers can enjoy a cinematic experience from the comfort of their own living room without breaking the bank. 🛒📺
Whether you’re a tech enthusiast or just a casual viewer, the affordability of modern TVs is something to celebrate. Who knows, maybe one day we’ll all have massive screens in our homes that cost less than a night out at the movies. 🎬🏡
It’s cuz companies advertise the things you are buying on them. It’s just a portal to selling you more. The more realistic, the brighter, the more enticing… the better.
Only cause advertising on them is getting easier and easier.
The smart TVs do. They are watching you pick your nose.
what about bombs? the pricings been going down recently (don’t ask how i know this)
That was a notable theme in *The Running Man*.
True, also much more poorly made.
My samsung from 15 years ago was still running fine when I gave it away a year ago.
The news ones we have are all pieces of crap. Never again.
That’s the only thing keeping the official inflation rate down
As technology ages the cost of production usually goes down. So it’s more like the prices of TVs haven’t changed, but you get more for your dollar.
I remember paying about $400 for a fairly large (for the time)TV back in the late 80s. And $400 will still get you a fairly large TV today, but it’s a lot bigger, and thinner, than that old TV.
Turn them into cars & housing!
The advertising machines with built in snooping software is getting incentivized to install in your home? You don’t say.
With that in mind, now realize that TVs are part of the equation when calculating inflation.
Now think back on all the people that told you “the inflation is only 6% duuurrrrr”
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There’s a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.”
–Trip Hawkins (founder of Electronic Arts but stood down in 1994)
Bicycle prices are down in a very big way. Sales of 35 to 40% off are common, and I saw some pretty nice ones at Costco for an additional $1000 off a few weeks ago. The whole industry is under a big oversupply crunch right now.
In Mexico, the president gave a free tv to every poor family that needed it.
It’s the tool with which they control the masses.
You’ll get them as cheap as possible.
Walmart just bought out Vizio so that they can have better targeted adds. TVs are add machines, Roku just reported a couple million in loses in their hardware division, and several billion in profit from their adds.
because they are selling the data that is recorded by the tv of what you are doing
Finally I get to say this!
After buying TV’s in the 70’s up until recently, I’ve been getting bent over on them. I figured it was decades of us buying those 900lbs boxes of boredom, that brought the cost down.
You’re welcome
Signed: financially ruined due to heavy old tvs. 😂
TVs actually got a bit more expensive in 2023 vs 2022 for the same specs
You can’t subsidize the cost of gas or groceries by attaching tracking and ads to them.
Cheap entertainment will pacify an empire filled with inequalities.
“So long as the colosseum stands Rome shall stand with it but when the Colosseum falls the world will fall” ~some ancient benedictine monk
Electronics in general get cheaper for what you get, wherever it’s size or power. Sure the flagship devices are expensive, but a few years down the line the mid range devices are just as good for a lot less money.
Smart TVs are total garbage. Absolutely bullshit. My grandpa spent $2000 on one and had to bring it to my house to install the software to make it be a god dam tv since he didn’t have WiFi.
My current smart tv sucks. It takes 20 seconds to be able to switch to a HDMI channel because of all the ads. It needs to be power cycled once a week to get the sound working again. It displays ads over my Xbox every time I used Netflix, saying ‘the tv can play this but worse, just press *. Piece of shit. It’s the worst tv I have ever owned. Smart TVs, especially Roku, are fucking garbage. I wish dumb TVs were on sale again. This is the single most disappointing thing i have ever owned. Fuck smart TVs. They are nothing but poor performance and ads out the ass. Fuck Roku. Fuck smart TVs. Double fuck Roku smart TVs. Pieces of straight garbage. And now they want to display ads when I pause my Xbox games. Triple fuck Roku smart TVs. Quadruple fuck Roku smart TVs. I’ll keep going if y’all let me…..
Depends on the TV. Yeah you can get a Toshiba Fire TV for $200 but it’s absolute trash. Nice TVs still cost a premium, Samsung is charging $8,000 for the QN900D right now
Wasn’t it Fahrenheit 451 when everyone just watches “TV” on their walls?
What’s the more likely outcome? 451 or 1984?
Books are loaded guns?
Or
Ignorance is strength?
Eventually 8K TVs will come out and the cycle will start again
Will we eventually be able to move into our TV’S?
And the quality is incredible, not just the resolution, but an OLED looks gorgeous and they are not crazy expensive
They’ve reduced the amount of glass in them like 90% from CRT days, so they weigh a fraction of what they used to and are that much cheaper to ship, and the manufacturing process has become really well-honed and streamlined. Also, the smart TVs that have ads in the menu are being subsidized below what their MSRP would be otherwise, because they’re buying your info.
And shittier. I remember like 2012, a nice TV with a Roku on it was responsive, easy to use. Now my TV takes three business weeks between me pressing a button and it doing the thing. It’s so exhausting navigating apps and having all these ads on the home screen and then I accidentally hit Amazon instead of Hulu and now I have enough time to go do laundry and scrub my toilet before it goes back to the main menu so I can shave another 4 fucking years off my life just trying to watch it’s always sunny in eat my ass. I’m exaggerating, but I have words to share about this topic.
Interesting how things that can placate the masses are getting cheaper… Like TVs
The bigger it is and better resolution the more they can sell to us what we see on screen.
If you actually look into it, all technology has actually gone down in price tremendously since the 1950s when you actually compare them directly.
A low end computer is actually cheaper today then a state of the art computer in the 1990s. This is despite the lower end computer being several orders of magnitude more powerful in every way.
Also, a budget car today has most of the features that luxury cars had in the 1950s, with extras. The price of an apples to apples car is cheaper today than it was in the 1950s. The reason why cars feel more expensive is because marketing has moved the goal post and changed demand in order to increase prices. A rear camera, Apple car play, satellite radio capability, and many modern safety features didn’t exist in the 1950s. For this reason, you are paying more for a car today than in the past. But the cost for the equivalent of a 1950s car would probably only be about $2000-5000 without those extra features.
Apparently this comes down to the big sheets of glass they can make, previously they were maxed out at a size that allowed 42”, then 55”, then 65” TVs to be made with minimal waste, as that main sheet increases in size and there are new sizes that can be made with minimal waste, that becomes the new size you see everywhere. The panel is the only part that scales with size too so a good portion of the parts (compute units, I/O etc) don’t change at all or are simply the new version at a similar price (at scale), so they don’t need to increase price on that for a bigger TV. There are always outliers but you know how we seem to go through periods where one size rules the market? Thats apparently why.
And then like everyone else has said, they’re advertising tools so yes that is one of the few markets where we see genuine competition and a race to the bottom with prices, the way things are meant to be, not the blatant “market price” price gouging we see in most industries today.