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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ncar!csn!raven!rcd From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) Subject: Re: An overview of 17" monitors Message-ID: <1992Sep1.061343@eklektix.com> Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado References: <rcpt.715301018@rwb.urc.tue.nl> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:13:43 GMT Lines: 16 Amongst a lot of other information, rcpt@urc.tue.nl asks: > Will 17" monitors soon become affordable? My $0.02 (sorry, don't know the exchange rate) is *NO*. I've been watching monitor prices over the past 1.5-2 years. THe inescapable conclusion is that they are not changing *at*all*. You'll see a little bit of motion, but it's really negligible...for example, a Sony 1304 has dropped less than $100 in price in the last year. I don't know just what it is that keeps monitor prices so high. (Conspiracy theorists, this is your invitation!) But the prices are entirely inelastic, and unlike all other equipment in the same market, improvement has been minimal-to-nonexistent. -- Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado Cats!