Tuesday, May 18th 2021
Fancy Your Hardware? TV Pricing Sees 30% Increase, Could Escalate Further
We've all been beating dead consumer horses for a while now in most product areas that require semiconductors to operate - and that applies to almost anything, really. Whether CPU shortages from the AMD camp, GPU shortages from both AMD and NVIDIA, increasing prices of storage due to a new cryptocurrency boom, scalpers left and right on the most recent PC and console hardware, shortages on semiconductors for car manufacturers and technological companies like Bosch... It's a wild ride in the semiconductor world right now. And if you were looking at upgrading your media-consumption living room with a fancy new TV, you will also have to cope with increased pricing now, and perhaps further price climbs and shortages in the future.
Market research company NPD has said as much in its most recent market analysis; they've concluded that Smart TV prices have already increased 30% comparatively to the first months of 2020. The price increases are expected to hit anything with a screen - whether smartphones, TVs, laptops, or any other product that has to take up a portion of the world's panel output. This is the market correcting itself when it comes to the supply/demand equation - increased demand post-COVID-19 and global supply chain issues have set up a series of network effects that have led manufacturers to increase product pricing according to demand, passing on additional supply costs on to the customer, and simultaneously attaching the highest possible profits on the existing (and insufficient) supply. It's highly unlikely that this semiconductor supply shortage will see a turnaround throughout 2021.
Source:
CNBC
Market research company NPD has said as much in its most recent market analysis; they've concluded that Smart TV prices have already increased 30% comparatively to the first months of 2020. The price increases are expected to hit anything with a screen - whether smartphones, TVs, laptops, or any other product that has to take up a portion of the world's panel output. This is the market correcting itself when it comes to the supply/demand equation - increased demand post-COVID-19 and global supply chain issues have set up a series of network effects that have led manufacturers to increase product pricing according to demand, passing on additional supply costs on to the customer, and simultaneously attaching the highest possible profits on the existing (and insufficient) supply. It's highly unlikely that this semiconductor supply shortage will see a turnaround throughout 2021.
53 Comments on Fancy Your Hardware? TV Pricing Sees 30% Increase, Could Escalate Further
I wonder whether more smartTV will try to migrate toward lower end chipset with legacy process node?
No one questions price increases right now apparently. Glad I don't need anything for the next few years.
Just got a new LG G1 77 inch for MSRP, won't be getting a new TV before 2025+
Hopefully MicroLED is ready by then.
However, Panasonic make much better remote controls ... so if you can get one, get a Panasonic OLED.
C9 vs CX vs C1, barely any difference here. Only G series got the new OLED Evo panel.
C9 had everything you wanted back in 2019; HDMI 2.1, 120 Hz, VRR 40-120, Gsync, ALLM etc. LG was 1-2 years ahead of everyone else this year.
C series is now considered mid-end, like B series. A is entry level. G and up (OLED Evo panel, with +20% peak brightness) = high end. C series are still great and pretty much destroys all other LCD TVs, but it's not part of LGs high-end line anymore.
You are paying a huge premium for Panasonic and design is pretty bad overall and they are much worse for gaming etc (input lag, features and issues here). Their RMA sucks badly in europe (probably worse in US, a market they vanished from) and software issues are sometimes never fixed. They outsourced their LCD line and will probably soon outsource their OLED line as well. It's not a huge market for them, hence the price. They can't compete, so they price their TV very high. Very few buy them as a result. Good TVs for movies and series, bad overall for gaming especially. You buy a TV based on how the remote is? It's not like Panasonics remote is better than Sony.
I'd get LG G1 or Sony A90J. Best in Class OLEDs overall today. C1 and A80J good too but many OLEDs are good then.
Gpu price increase? Damn Miners!
Cpu price increase? Miners again!
Hdd and ssd? You guess it! MINERS!
Tv price gone up? MINEEEERSSSS!
Anything with a microchip? *hyperventilate breathe* All Miners!!!
Haven't seen any major increase yet locally. OLED's are priced the same as they were before and they're often on promos. Sony VA's also cost the same.
I also noticed that the Roku stick is significantly faster than the TV itself....what a joke. What kind of crap hardware do they actually put in these TVs where a tiny Roku stick is almost twice as fast. I have a hard time believing these TV companies are having troubles getting and using any kind of decent hardware to run these "smart" TVs.
What the F' do you guys expect when the Fed just keeps printing money?
stupid enoughwilling to pay thousands to get it.I'm currently running on a 50$ 960 2GB too and idgaf about the newer cards unless I get at least the same performance per watt + performance per buck combo
If you buy the fastest car...or a 'supercar' in general (RTX 3080/90 + 6800XT/6900XT), the price hick-up may be justified! But throw that shit into low-end/mid-tier (best selling products), and you'll be facing backlash from the peers who used to consider brand new GPUs in that $$$ range.
Cash in, cash out...but sooner or later they'd be burned out