The price gap has widened - has the quality?......

[admin_exported]

The gap used to be around £300, maybe £500, between the cheapest and the dearest certainly when I bought my 42'' px70

now........Samsung 40'' premium £1800 vs a good budget 40'' sony EX403 £500

Thats £1300 for a few LED bulbs and an up rated chip!!

I suppose if everyone keeps buying........................

 

[Anonymous]

Good point John. Obviously people can spend their money how they want to but personally I would not spend more than a grand for a TV.

Looks like the manufacturers have forgotten about the credit crunch!

 

[Andrew Everard]

And yet there's a global shortage of LED-lit display panels - funny old world, eh?

 

[Anonymous]

ive currently got around e4500 worth of av kit sat in front of me , if i bought similarly specced gear 4 years ago , it would have probably cost 3 times that , and wouldnt be as good , thats surely progress , pound for pound ?

 

[Anonymous]

Andrew - I thought likes of Sony,Toshiba and Panasonic (and possibly others) had moved their manufacturing plants from the UK to Eastern Europe in recent years in order to lower their costs?

I appreciate that technology has moved on but LED and 3D seems to have given the manufacturers an excuse to ramp up the prices of their new models considerably.

However, as you state, people are obviously buying them!

 

[chris hollands]

Shortage of LED screens eh, must be why im waiting what seems like forever for my new one!!

My first big flatscreen was a fujitsu 42" plasma , paid £4500 about 8-9 years ago for it and the picture quality was totally appalling in comparison to todays current screens. That to me tells me progress has been made ,not only in quality but in pricing as well.

 

[matthewpiano]

There has always been a pretty big price gap, certainly for the last 2 years or so. 18 months ago there was a big price difference between a 46W4500 (approximately £1700) and a 46X4500 (approximately £3500), for example. There was a clear performance difference between the two models but was it £1800 worth?

As with hi-fi, cars and most other things, the law of diminishing returns sets in after a certain point.