Why are widescreen TVs so much more? (1 Viewer)

[NickSchmidt]

I don't get it. Widescreen TVs are sometimes thousands of dollars more expensive and a lot of times they're smaller. Why is it so much more to make a rectangle instead of a square?

 

[Neil Joseph]

The price has been coming down compared to when they first came out. It probably is simple supply and demand, plus factor in a newer generation of product.

 

[Chet Hayes]

It's not the shape of the screen. These sets are either HDTV ready or some have the HD tuner built in. It's definitely more expensive to build a tube and electronics that have 1080 lines of resolution vs 480. A good example is PC displays, the higher the resolution, the more it costs.

The prices will continue to drop as the volume manufacturing efficiencies increase.