"Jerry G." wrote in message
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As the sales of these monitors increase, and the technolgy improves,
the production costs will also decrease.

But how much of those savings will be passed on to the customer?

In a few years, the purchase
price for an LCD monitor will be much lower than that of the equivelent
CRT type.


Here in the UK a new 19" CRT monitor can be had for around £100 ($150-ish?).
I really can't see 19" LCD monitors getting much cheaper than that.
Manufacturers have to take other factors than production costs into account
when pricing, and will usually set prices at what they think they can
reasonably get for them.

They will certainly be much cheaper to store and transport, so there'll be
some cost savings there, but it seems after many years of TFT production,
manufacturers still whine about a large number of rejects on production runs
keeping costs up. It makes one wonder if they'll ever get it right.

Dave