4K TVs Continue To Rise Despite TV Shipments Dropping

[SickBeast]

If it were a small difference in price I would agree with you.  However for me here in Canada the next cheapest 55" 4k TV is a Vizio at Costco for $900 and it doesn't have HDMI 2.0.  So I would have paid more than double for a better brand name.  Not only that but Vizio is also a budget brand.  A Sony or Samsung would cost even more.

The Sonys and Samsungs undoubtedly have a better picture and more features, however that is only worth so much to me.  It's certainly not worth double to triple the price.

You don't have to believe me.  I'm telling you that this TV has a great picture.  You seem more interested in prestige and status, wanting to brag about your TV at the water cooler.  All I care about is price/performance and I could care less about smart features.  My $25 Chromecast takes care of that and my HTPC blows away any smart platform out there.

You do realize that we have the exact same position on this matter, right?

You: Willing to spend $320 on a 55" 4K tv, not the size or quality you would buy if you were Trump.

Me: Willing to spend $2000 on a 65" 4K tv , not the size or quality I would buy if I were Trump.

Does our decision imply one of us has more or less money than the other? No, could well just be differences in how we choose to spend the money we have. I could afford to buy the biggest OLED, but I don't, maybe the same for you.

My only point was there is a reason that tv costs $320, and the reason is it delivers that much less quality or performance. If it did not, the tv would cost in line with the other tvs at other price points because RCA isn't in business to give away tvs and the others couldn't charge so much more if RCA was as good.

Same as the HiSense discussion and Yaris vs Silverado discussions.

The problem is that it doesn't work that way. Once you get into the more expensive TVs like the Sony you bought, you pay thousands extra to get maybe a 10% better product. So no, you don't always get what you pay for. The same goes for cars. Luxury cars are nicer than economy cars, however you get *far* more value when you buy an economy car. Economy cars like the Civic are loss leaders; the manufacturers don't even profit off them. That should tell you something. I could go on and on. An i7 CPU performs maybe 15% faster than an i5 but it's 50% more expensive. Hopefully by now you get my point. You don't always get what you pay for. You have to do research before you buy something and then make a decision. In the case of my TV, I read online on the Avsforum and saw that pretty much everyone that bought one was very happy with it. I knew exactly what I was getting into before I bought it.