LG predicts flat-panel TV price drop
July 20th, 2007At Christie’s auction house in New York, LG Electronics yesterday held a major unveiling of…DTV converter boxes?
Um, no.
Instead, LG’s new premium LBX series of LCD HDTVs took center stage, with 1080p resolution on LG TruMotion 120-Hz flat panels of 42, 47 and 52 inches.
The new line is called “Opus.” It’s Opie Taylor’s Christian name, apparently, and they’re as sick as we are about Viacom’s refusal to release the show in the HD format that Mayberry deserves. Or something like that.
But here’s something LG actually said: Consumers can expect flat-panel TV prices—at least some of them—to drop further this year. LG executive Michael Ahn
…mentioned that last year’s industrywide flat-TV pricing erosion, which ranged anywhere from 30 to 40 percent, could recur in some, but not all, segments of the business at a 20-to-30-percent rate, “because LCD prices are stable now, and some segments are going up.”
The Opus LCD TVs feature a redesigned pedestal base, which is LG’s response to, as TWICE puts it, “the growing lifestyle trend of placing large flat-panel TVs on tables and cabinet tops, rather than mounting them on walls.”
Is that a “lifestyle trend,” or are TVs just getting too darned big?