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 used to own a 5700 XT, but sold it when I saw prices hike. I used the difference of what I paid and what I got for it to buy a 1650. I'm just as happy as I was with the 5700 XT.
We are finally feeling the full impact of being shut down for nearly 2 years, plus taiwan droughts.Find me a decent OLED monitor and I'm game.
But I meant more any OLED monitor at all. It'd be a start... wish the industry would get on that.
Edit: Here is an example of a 2 GB 960 running Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p (with minor scaling) with above 30 fps average. Sure, there are a couple of dips, but this was recorded with a dual-core Pentium that's basically pegged at 100% usage.
The game runs like pure garbage using a 960 even on lowest settings
Just like all newer games do
You simply cannot pump 6+ trillion into the economy in a few months and expect everything to remain stable.
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The actual economists are pegging the math of it's inflationary impact at around 6%
I currently have a Panasonic plasma (50” VT50 series), and if the TV market stays like that, my next OLED (or MicroLED) TV would be a Sony. I am in a niche, I know that, since streaming (which I really don’t like from an audio and video quality standpoint vs. a very low compression BD rip) is used by nearly everyone with a smart TV, and streaming is at most the base dolby for bandwidth reasons.
I still went with LG G1 tho, considered the Sony alot but wallmounting on the G1 is next level, zero gap and so thin
As for your videos, 1080p 30 fps in Cyberpunk is something PS4 users could only dream about. Are you saying the PS4 is garbage, and should never be used for gaming?
Not to mention that there is option for resolution scaling too, which when cleverly used, doesn't take away much from the image quality, but gives you better framerates. With any 4-core 8-thread CPU and a tiny bit of resolution scaling, the 960 is perfectly capable of 40 fps average which I find absolutely fine. Or maybe it's just me, having grown up with a 300 MHz Celeron MMX and an honestly rubbish S3 ViRGE 4 MB.
Sub 100% resolution scaling and 30 fps is not something I would ever enjoy or accept in a PC game, so... I guess we are too far apart. I'd never accept 30-40 fps just like I would never accept 1080p gaming.
What I'm saying is, there is a difference between wants and needs, and there's nothing wrong with it. If you can afford 4K gaming and/or super high framerates, go for it. But it's clearly not the standard, especially with the current state of the GPU market. ;)
LG is still considered the best ALL-ROUND OLEDs. Sony and Panasonic has some tricks for movies but loses in gaming and general feature-support.Well yeah, but 1080p at low preset with 30 fps is something you can get from a PC found at the landfill pretty much. I will probably never understand, I would rather NOT BE GAMING than play games at 1080p with 30 fps using LOWEST POSSIBLE SETTINGS. Games will look and play like pure trash. Immersion completely gone. Experience ruined.
You make me green with frog envy. I have a B9 55".
A little JayzTwoCents that I totally agree with (although it's a 980 this time around):