I Have Seen the Future

[billroper]

Katie had a Daisy Scout outing in Glenview today. After I dropped her off, I headed over to Abt Electronics, the theme park of appliance stores, that was almost next door to the site of the outing. And I shopped.

I didn't buy anything, although there were a few things I considered.

But, oh my, the televisions!

I had seen the new Sony 4K panel at another store. But Abt had 4K panels from many manufacturers. There was a $24,000 85 inch Sony 4K panel. However, that price was dwarfed by the $40,000 85 inch Samsung 4K panel. I'm not sure what made the Samsung panel that much pricier than the Sony, but they both looked magnificent.

Then there was the curved screen OLED TV also from Samsung. It was a 55 inch set with a normal HD resolution and another magnificent picture. It was a relative bargain at $9000.

None of the TVs came home with me, although there was a Samsung plasma set that tried hard. But we have enough TVs right now.

And magnificent TVs will only get cheaper. :)

Comments

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Yowser.

I haven't even gone flat-screen yet. Though I do most of my TV watching on the computer, and it's a flat screen. IIRC, the 90 lb. behemoth in the living room is only 5 inches larger than my 27" iMac.

[billroper]

We have a pair of DLP sets (where the only problem is that the older set has no HDMI inputs) and a fairly inexpensive Samsung plasma set in the living room that replaced the similar-to-your-behemoth set that used to be in there. The plasma set looks much smaller. :)

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

I cannot even begin to wrap my head around the concept that a TV would cost more than a car! We have a SHARP HDMI 46" which cost about 1600 in stores, back then, but since I work for SHARP, we got it for 860. It does the job just fine :)