xhonzi said:

theprequelsrule said:

I am so happy to hear so many of you will be buying 3D TVs. That will hopefully drive the price of non-3D TVs down to a level I am willing to pay for it!

Could be. There's about $5 worth of cost to a TV manufacturer to support 3D. What I think we'll see is that 3D TV prices drop to where 2D prices are and then they'll stop making 2D only TVs. If you buy a new TV, it will support 3D, and you can just ignore the feature if you 'd like.

Just like how they don't sell B&W TVs anywhere or tube TVs. Newer TVs didn't make those older TVs cheap (at least, not for very long) they just made them non-existant.

A better comparison would probably be 1080p vs 720p. The over abundance of 1080p models didn't really make 720p cheaper- at least not for more than a couple of months- it just made 720p obsolete about a certain size. You can't really go looking for 50" 720p sets at some discount below 1080p sets. They just don't exist.

Or maybe back in the day when getting a DVD player or a receiver that could process DTS was a real luxury. Now all of them have it. They were initially priced high, the price came down, and they merged with the "non-luxury" line.