'Intel Inside' Comes To Flat Panel TVs

New Scientist ^ | 1-4-2004 | Celeste Biever

[blam]

Consumer electronics of this nature is a brutal business...I would keep an eye on my Intel stock price.

[goldstategop]

If they can cut the price of a flat screen plasma TV down to $500, Intel stands to make a huge profit.

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[ken5050]

What are they gonna do with all those old, giant, projectio TVs?..you know, the ones that are the size of VW and take jup 2/3 of the den...are they gonna dump them in the ocean, like old railroad cars, to make a man-made reef?

[Arkie2]

Hey! Stop talking about my TV that way!

[Bikers4Bush]

Don't ever buy a plasma screen, the quoted life is some BS that would supposedly last 7 years but in reality their only getting 3 years out of these things.

There have been some nice advancments in LCD that have seen the sizes increase and the benefit is that the bulbs can actually be changed. Not so for plasma, once it's dead it's dead.

[ken5050]

I was gonna get one a few years ago, when I thought the jets might make the Super Bowl, but my old lady had a cow..no way, she said..now, I'm glad I waited....

[truthandjustice1]

"like old railroad cars, to make a man-made reef?"

Small condos for the homeless?

[ken5050]

Nah..they've thrown the cartons away already..

[billbears]

If they can get down to under $2000 for some of the larger ones they stand to make a huge profit. Admittedly the prices have fallen but I'm not going to pay $1,000 for a 17 inch flat panel

[discostu]

Hollow them out and rent them as studio appartments.

[Arkie2]

Mine is actually a Sony flat screen and only 5 years old so I'll stick with it for several years to come. By that time I expect to get a killer deal on the latest plasma screen. ;^)

[hopespringseternal]

I was looking at TVs the other day. It was depressing. The stuff above a couple of thousand looks amazing. In fact, it makes the lesser TVs that are reasonably priced look downright lousy.

My current television is dying, I just hope it lasts long enough for the prices on the next generation stuff to drop to a reasonable level.

[goldstategop]

Moore's Law says that everything gets cheaper and better. By the time it wears out, the new model will be cheaper and better than when you originally bought it. Same with flat screen TVs.

[BrooklynGOP]

I got a DLP projector and couldn't be happier. Takes up *NO* space, weighs 3 lbs.

[ken5050]

I've been looking seriously for a few months....I think Gateway is gonna try and buy market share, as well as try to save its ass, by dropping prices on theirs real soon..they've got a huge marketing campaign on now, and in a few months, before they startto introduce the new models for the Xmas season, they'll be a 20-30% price cut.......

[Bikers4Bush]

That may be so, but I'm not willing to pay $5,000 for something that will wear out in 3 years.

[Petronski]

So, will Intel have two versions of their tv products? You know what I mean, one version that works beautifully and one stamped Celeron that only does 70% of the job?

[azcap]

I don't understand all the people last year lining up to buy 6 and 8 Thousand Dollar flat screens. I want one too but I can wait two years for the day when I can buy a same or better set for $400. Don't any of these people have a clue how consumer electronics development and pricing works? DVD players are $35 and LCD computer monitors are $200. Flat TVs will be no exception.

[Bikers4Bush]

Did you mount it to the ceiling? I'm considering doing something like that with a Fujitsu projector only down side being I'll need to buy a few spare bulbs for the future and they aren't cheap at $400+ each.