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Originally Posted by frozenchief
Just off the top of my head, I'd say:
low taxes on TVs
No government subsidies
Few government regulations and those largely relate to safety
Cut throat competition
Generally a pretty good recipe to get better quality and lower prices. I mean, look at computers or jeans or many other goods. We've seen this pattern throughout history in products such as air conditioning or household appliances. Adjust for inflation but compare what you can get in a stove today compared to the stove of 1980. World of different in quality and options and yet they are cheaper. Pocket calculators came out in 1972. They cost hundreds of dollars. Now? They're an app that comes with your cell phone.
Anybody remember getting a phone from the old Bell store? You couldn't buy them. You had to rent them. They had about 8 models. FCC loosens regulations and now who even has a landline? Or airline flights. There are undoubtedly still issues with airlines but Carter de-regulated air travel and the cost of flights started dropping like a stone. Airlines are indeed heavily regulated for safety but not for cost of flights and airlines have a lot more flexibility in setting routes and schedules.
Interesting overview on inflation over the last 50 years documenting how prices in real terms have dropped:
https://www.aarp.org/money/budgeting...years-ago.html
It's getting time for me to update our TV but we run ours through a receiver and the receiver is not built for 4K (It's a Denon so it's got great sound but it's also about 15ish years old). So I will have to get not only a new TV but also a receiver. And I don't really want to spent that money on that right now. |
The TV should have an HDMI or Optical Digital Out which you can run to your Denon. You will only need the one source selected on the receiver, which will make it super easy.