Posted on 09/08/2012 2:13:50 AM PDT by Libloather
Sony’s 84-inch LED TV with 4K resolution costs $24,999, ships in November
By: Raymond Wong | Sep 6th, 2012 at 11:35PM
As if there was any doubt Sony’s (SNE) giant 84-inch 4K resolution LED TV would be expensive, Sony has finally priced its upcoming XBR-84X900 TV. The flat screen with a whopping 3840 x 2160-pixel resolution and integrated speakers will sell for $24,999. While Sony will start taking preorders for the TV beginning Thursday, September 6th, it won’t actually be available until November.
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It depends on what you're into. I'm a huge fan of classic films. I can't see enjoying Ben-Hur or Lawrence of Arabia on a square 22" standard def TV.
$25k would buy me a brand new replacement car. Or I could sit at home letting my body and brain rot. My last TV was pretty crummy and landed on the curb 13+ years ago, never to be replaced.
Plus, most people are still using the TV to watch reruns of Gilligan’s Island or some similar drivel.
Who needs to see that the newsreaders roots need to be touched up or that the quarterback missed a spot when he shaved this morning?
And who has space in the house for an 84” TV? For the average home, a TV that big would be uncomfortable to watch because the viewer would be sitting way too close.
Same here. We shopped for our first HDTV about a year and a half ago. I wanted a LED back lit screen with a decent refresh rate, about 42 inches. The 3D sets were being pushed but I just couldn’t see it. I looked at a number of the 3D’s and thought it was mostly a distraction. We watch movies mainly for the story. Those with great special effects but lousy stories are always avoided. As for sports (the wife and I watch a lot of baseball and football)the LG 47” we bought on sale will suffice for a very long time. The funny part was that it took me about a year of steady browsing before I made a purchase. Since then I have had no desire whatsoever to go into an electronics store (much to my wife’s relief!)
Like so many things , if you easily afford it, you don’t worry about the cost. Of couse movie addict that i am would like to see a movie on one. Wonder if Best Buy or similar retailers will have display model. Hi there to you both. Will we see each other this campaign cycle?
Americans will get into physical fights to own one of these larger mass hypnosis devices soon enough.
The end of October I will be taking vacation to work on the campaing.
Hope to see all of the old gange then.
Essentially, that's all they are now.
Nobody. Best you can get right now is 1080p
My brother is TV cameraman. He shoots pro NBA basketball, NFL football, etc. He says that they broadcast all games in 720 HD as 1080 takes up too much bandwidth.
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The people who make profits and can afford those prices are the ones who make it affordable for us.
Panasonic TH-85PF12U from specs apporox. 260.2 lbs
Samsung SyncMaster 820TSn-2 1915.0 x 1230.0 x 500.0 mm / 75.4 x 48.4 x 19.7 inches (WithStand) / 140 kg / 308.6 lbs
If you don’t trust the specs, go try to lift one.
I agree, the smaller 42-55” units are featherweight.
So now you can really enjoy that red 4 being placed on the black 5! ;^)
Last year, after years of seeing others with the flat screens, We finally got rid of the 36” CRT TV we had.
Yeah, we too had an extra TV cabinet (now a kids closet), too small for the 52” we got.
Now its got internet, you can watch from computers, etc.
and 1080p resolution means movies look like ... movies. around $1000. The CRT TV I bought 12 years earlier cost around $600 or so.
Here’s the thing: That Sony CRT TV was perfectly servicable and is now ‘junk’ because of technology. What we have now can last 15 years probably (LEDs last a long time).
I guess I know what we will buy in 12 years. It will be something like this 84 inch.
The electronics companies have to keep making something better or they wont have anything to sell.
The finest in pictorial rendering of absolute tripe and rubbish!
Broadcast HDTV comes in two flavors. 720p and 1080i.
720p sends 60 whole frames per second and looks better for video with a lot of motion. 1080i sends 60 half frames per second and looks sharper if there is little motion.
Although, they both can be artificially bit starved, 720p and 1080i should both use about the same bandwidth.
If your brother is shooting video for ABC or Fox, they broadcast everything HD in 720p not just sports.
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