60k for a tv...hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah, suckers!!!
It's for people who have more money than brains.
That’s a down payment on a nice little house; or even a couple of cars for some families.
Re: a $60,000 price point.
We upgraded to a 4k OLED a few years ago. Night and day difference for older eyes. The showroom had one tv, a large size, that put everything else to shame. It was an 8k OLED; I forget the price, but it was well over $20,000.
I was incredulous enough to inquire about it, starting with the obvious, “who buys something like this?”
The salespeople were quick to emphasize that they showed that model simply to demonstrate the technology. There was (is?) virtually no 8k content. The showroom model was playing a special demo disk also designed to show off the technology. 4k streaming isn’t yet the standard, and we’re along way from graduating to anything approaching the 8k standard being being commercially available except maybe in various hothouse applications. I wonder if directors and cinematographers are starting to play with it in the editing rooms, even if they release commercial content at lower resolutions.
What does a long time translate into nowadays in this sector? Five years? Ten years? Or will this simply be too much, an upgrade for which no one but the very wealthy will pay?
They had already gotten word, however, on next year’s model, which was expected to be $8-9,000 cheaper. I’ve not been back in a showroom since then.
20 years ago a 65 inch HD TV was over $40,000. This is normal for emerging technology. In 1993 I saw a ¥20,000 orange plasma 35 inch monitor at MacExpo in San Francisco. These things are real - more or less - as new tech that will come down to consumer level eventually if the market of buyers approves and demands it. I expect this one will make it.
It will be for sale at Best Buy for $999 in two years. I’ll wait.
To some people, spending $60K on a TV is like one of us spending $5 on a cocktail in a bar.