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...Three years later, Gale's living room is still dominated by an old picture-tube clunker. He routinely stops in Best Buy and Circuit City stores to compare prices, but the model he craves, a 45-in. (114-cm) cutting-edge liquid-crystal display (LCD) TV, has a $7,000 price tag?twice what Gale is willing to spend. "These things are still prohibitively expensive," Gale laments...
...That's because the Asian consumer-electronics companies that dominate the flat-panel industry are building too many factories too fast. A glut is in the offing, and while prices have already been falling, more rapid declines are expected. Consulting firm iSuppli Corp. estimates that a 37-in. (94-cm) LCD TV that now retails for more than $4,000 will cost half as much in 2006 and is likely to be less than $1,000 by 2008. Plasma TVs will also see prices decline. A 42-in. (107-cm) plasma set that costs on average $2,700 today will...
...Lofty prices have kept the market for flat-screen TVs small so far. Plasma technology dominates in supersize TVs at 40 in. (100 cm) and larger, but plasma will hold only 2% of the U.S. TV market this year. More consumers buy LCD TVs, which are available in a wider range of sizes, but they still only account for less than 10% of the market. Dropping prices will change that, especially with LCD TVs, which manufacturers are gearing up to churn out the fastest. By 2008, 1 of every 3 TVs sold will be an LCD, according to iSuppli...
...sets sold, retailers often tack on higher margins. Prices will also be brought down by competition between LCD and plasma screens. At very large sizes, plasma screens?which use electrically charged pixels of gas to create a picture?are cheaper than LCDs, and at sizes over 50 in. (127 cm), your only choice is plasma. But LCD technology, which involves creating a picture by passing light through charged crystals, is catching up. This month in Japan, Sharp wowed the crowd at a technology expo by unveiling a Ferrari-red 65-in. (165-cm) LCD TV, the world's largest. Prices...
...Several other models are standouts: the Rio Forge ($139 for 128 MB, $169 for 256 MB or $199 for 512 MB) is a 7.5-cm-wide, disk-shape player with a rubberized rim and a slot for adding up to 1 GB of extra memory. JetAudio's iAudio U2 is one of the only flash players with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and comes in a jazzy red ($149 for 256 MB) and cool blue ($199 for 512 MB). And the upcoming Rocbox ($160 for 256 MB) from Roc Digital, a new company formed by hip-hop and fashion mogul...