{"id":4727,"date":"2012-04-24T16:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:49:24","slug":"why-are-30-lcd-monitors-still-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/why-are-30-lcd-monitors-still-so-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are 30&#8243; LCD Monitors Still So Expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/philg\/2012\/04\/23\/why-are-30-lcd-monitors-still-so-expensive\/\">Philip Greenspun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/philg\/2012\/04\/23\/why-are-30-lcd-monitors-still-so-expensive\/\"><p>Five and a half years ago, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/philg\/2006\/10\/20\/dell-30-monitor-down-to-1279-the-perfect-swim-goggles\/\">a posting <\/a>marveling that the Dell 30&#8243; LCD monitor was selling for $1279. My HP-brand 30&#8243; monitor seems to be flaking out, so I was considering replacing it with another Dell (my six year-old Dell monitor is still going strong). What&#8217;s the latest price from Dell? <a href=\"http:\/\/accessories.us.dell.com\/sna\/productdetail.aspx?c=us&amp;l=en&amp;s=dhs&amp;cs=19&amp;sku=224-9949&amp;~ck=baynoteSearch&amp;baynote_bnrank=3&amp;baynote_irrank=0\">$1299<\/a>! With LCD TV prices on a constant downward trend, how is it possible that the 30&#8243; computer monitor remains stuck at over $1000? It is just that nobody wants this size?&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/Newegg.com\">Newegg.com<\/a> sells 27&#8243; name-brand monitors (e.g., Samsung) for $300, but it would be hard to give up the extra size and resolution to which I have become accustomed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Granted the current models are much better IPS displays, but I still find this surprising. I&rsquo;m using a 5-year-old Dell display that also seems to be flaking out. I keep thinking some new product or price change will signal that it&rsquo;s time to replace it, but that hasn&rsquo;t happened yet. You&rsquo;d think that, with Xcode 4 and Aperture, Apple would have some interest in producing displays larger than 27 inches. Now I think we may see a TV first.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Greenspun: Five and a half years ago, I wrote a posting marveling that the Dell 30&#8243; LCD monitor was selling for $1279. My HP-brand 30&#8243; monitor seems to be flaking out, so I was considering replacing it with another Dell (my six year-old Dell monitor is still going strong). What&#8217;s the latest price from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}