costs of LCDs screens currently and speculation
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38-Inch LCD Panels
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Current pricing is about $800-1200 for 15" screens. $3500-4500 for 18" screens. So combining four 15" screens would get a 30" screen at about the cost of current 18" screens. Plus the cost of the integration work and components. Have not found prices for the many 10-13" screens that are on most laptops but would guess at prices in the $200-400 range. Assuming that they want to charge $1000-2000 for the integration pieces initially it makes more sense to stick with larger screens. Another factor is how much the integration costs scale up with larger numbers of screens. Probably it should be that much more costly to integrate without a seem as the large screens that are in stores that do have many screens and visible seems. After they get the cost of integration down then they move onto integrating smaller screens.
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Current pricing is about $800-1200 for 15" screens. $3500-4500 for 18" screens. So combining four 15" screens would get a 30" screen at about the cost of current 18" screens. Plus the cost of the integration work and components. Have not found prices for the many 10-13" screens that are on most laptops but would guess at prices in the $200-400 range. Assuming that they want to charge $1000-2000 for the integration pieces initially it makes more sense to stick with larger screens. Another factor is how much the integration costs scale up with larger numbers of screens. Probably it should be that much more costly to integrate without a seem as the large screens that are in stores that do have many screens and visible seems. After they get the cost of integration down then they move onto integrating smaller screens.