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Slack LCD TV Market Means Cheaper Phones And Monitors
Shakrai writes "CNN and Business2 are running a story about the apparent failure of LCD TVs to make a major market impact and what it means for you. Specifically for us geeks it means cheaper cellular phones and laptops due to an oversupply of LCD manufacturing. Does this mean I can finally afford that 21" LCD monitor I've always wanted?"
the apparent failure of LCD TVs to make a major market impact and what it means for you. Specifically for us geeks it means cheaper cellular phones and laptops due to an oversupply of LCD manufacturing.
Hmmm, oversupply of lcd manuf due to lack of interest in lcd tv's? Sounds like it means that cell phones with 15" lcd's will be on the market soon. Now you can really see how crappy your cell phone camera is.
"it means cheaper cellular phones and laptops"
"Does this mean I can finally afford that 21" LCD monitor I've always wanted?"
You really want a cell phone or a laptop with a 21" screen?
Wouldn't a phone with a 21" display be a bit cumbersome?
On the other hand...
"What's that in your pocket?"
"Twenty-one inches of pure happiness! Want to see it?"
Of course, I just got a $7,000 loan for a friggin' wedding.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
For years now we've been hearing that increased production volumes and market competition would drive down prices (oh, like the compact disc market?). Needless to say that the price drops have been less than phenomenal.
As a funny aside, a recent episode of the hilarious Scottish TV comedy Still Game had Winston shopping for LCD televisions. After finding that they cost about £2000 more than the £80 he expected, he mail-orders one of those DIY projection TV kits, which summarily sets his living room on fire.
I need the real estate provided by a 19in CRT running at 1600x1200. A 17in LCD at 1280x1024 just doesn't cut it
you are forgetting the first rule of lcd purchasing... why buy 1 when you can get 2 for twice the price!
Why not set up dual monitors if space is what you want. You can get an nvidia gpu for $50 that lets you use dual monitors (even in linux) very easily, and you won't ever go back. It's great to be able to read data from one page while working on another instead of shuffling windows around all the time.
:(
But now I want 3 monitors
Well, you don't have to do it all at once. Take a ten dollar note, drop it on the monitor. Then pick it up and drop it again. After 100 times dropping the 10 dollar note, you've dropped $1000 on your monitor.
However, CRTs are much better suited for this, since they are not so easy to miss on dropping.
I'd recommend against dropping coins, because if they fall into the monitor, they might cause a short circuit. But then, if they can actually fall into the monitor depends on the monitor and the coins.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
That is why you zap the display with some ESD before you ship it back.
ZAP! lots of dead pixels!
Corps HATE losing money.
Right, because individuals just LOVE to lose it.
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Nicely said ... ... PS, go back through Slashdot and read the article about how to secure one's posessions in college and check if the same guy told the dude to just ignore his computer and go screw every girl on campus instead.
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