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$90,000 103in HDTV

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-a-little-excessive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Found this review of Panasonic's 103in plasma. Not only is the screen itself massive, but the price tag comes close to $100,000! I guess if you can afford a room big enough to house it, you can afford the TV. "

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  1. Commercial Products by redelm · · Score: 3, Informative
    This mostly looks like a commercial product for a convention hall or stadium. There are much bigger ones, usually based on discrete RGB LEDs. One local store has one about 15' (180") diagonal.

    1. Re:Commercial Products by neoform · · Score: 2, Informative

      What a waste.

      You could buy a Texas instruments DLP projector (the types you'll find in new digital movie theaters) for that price, not to mention the size of the screen would be capable of being much larger than 103"..

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  2. For the US-centric... by UserChrisCanter4 · · Score: 4, Informative

    a couple of things to remember here:
    1) $90,000 is the price after currency conversion and VAT (UK's 17.5% "Sales tax"). Without VAT, the TV is $78,000 in a pure currency converted price.
    2) This is only the price with a currency change. Some products don't fluctuate much, but many things are ridiculously expensive in the UK when compared against the same product in the US. Judging by the pricing on the UK Top Gear, for example, cars are often $10K-$15K more for the same product. Computers are a little more reasonable, but you can still find a huge difference. The 30GB iPod (US $250), for example, is $355 US dollars at today's rate.

    It is refreshing to see a jumbo plasma TV that isn't a low-res, corporate boardroom model, though. I only wonder how much juice this thing sucks down.

  3. Pythagoras by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 2, Informative

    Convention Hall: maybe. Stadium, no.
    At 2:1 aspect ratio this comes in right around 8' X 4'. Not for big events.
    (a 103" diagonal is *very different from a 180)

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  4. Power Consumption by frostilicus2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you were wondering (this is Slashdot, after all), according to the manufacturers specs, this beast consumes 1500W (!) of power. Any ideas what a comparable CRT would consume?

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  5. Japanese price by MZGuy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw a Panasonic 103" 1080P TV when I was in Japan in the end of March. According to the price tag it was named TH-103PZ600, and cost 5,600,000 Yen, which would be about 47000 USD. I have a photo of the price tag right here if you want to look for yourself. With that kind of outrageous difference in price, I'd go get it from Japan if I were in the market for that TV.

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    1. Re:Japanese price by GauteL · · Score: 2, Informative

      "With that kind of outrageous difference in price, I'd go get it from Japan if I were in the market for that TV."

      Not to rain on your parade, but this may not be entirely practical with a 103" Television. I can foresee a whole host of problems that the mega-rich which this is marketed towards, may rather want to pay $40000 to avoid. I assume the US price, like the UK price, also comes with a whole team of professional installers, cranes and the like.

      From the review the television is 220 kilograms or 350 kg if you are using the heavy duty stand.

  6. Re:Not as big as Frank's... by Megane · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quick math on Frank's TV: if it's 4:3, 2000 inch diagonal would be 1200 inches (100 feet) high. Widescreen 16:9 would be 720 inches, or 60 feet.

    Basically, Frank's TV is the size of a drive-in theatre screen.

    This post has been a public service of the Federal Useless Consumer Knowledge Statistics Department

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