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Petition to tv makers (your thoughts about that)
mlalena:
There are still companies selling 3:4 monitors and they will sell them for years to come.
Some panel makers have dropped the 3:4, but there are a couple selling 1 (maybe 2) models at that aspect ratio.
The problem is that they are less desired, so the markup from both the panel manufacturer and integrator are both higher.
Some companies (like mine & even some arcade companies) continue to manufacture products with integrated monitors where it is cheaper to buy the overpriced 3:4 monitors than to redesign an existing product for a cheaper widescreen monitor. There will be a market for 3:4 monitors for a very long time, but the prices will continue to go up. As an example, there are vendors selling 20" monitors that work with with a long dead product from my previous company for $2,500. A used keyboard goes for $1,200.
For new product development, both my company and arcade companies are designing new products that use the newer cheaper widescreen monitors, but even then you have to pick between 16:10 or 16:9. For MAME, you have to decide if the 3:4 is worth the price of the authentic arcade, or should you just go with the widescreen realizing that newer arcade games are widescreen anyway. I have the PC version SF4 on my system and it looks great on the widescreen monitor.
DJ_Izumi:
--- Quote from: mimic on January 02, 2010, 08:57:53 pm ---The only way an "idea" like this can work, is YOU get the cash to PAY a factory to make these 10,000 monitors for you, and YOU sell them, (since you are the one so sure there is a market). That's how it works in reality.
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...$50 000 profit is peanuts to an electronics manufacturer. That's what it costs to pay just two employees at a Sony Style store for a whole year. In 2008 Sony LOST 2.8 billion dollars, you think they or any other electronics manufacturer would care about a project that would bring in a measly $50k in profit? One of their engineers likely costs more per year than that, and they'd rather have that engineer working on something a hell of a lot more profitable.
Gatt:
--- Quote from: mimic on January 02, 2010, 08:57:53 pm ---I was talking about 50K pure profit, large or small company I don't think 50K is a chump change for any one. Profit is profit, if you walk away from profit, then you're lazy.
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The thing is, it's not going to be profit.
For this to happen they'd first have to retool the factories, they're currently setup to cut the panels in 16x9 so they'd have to redo all of that. They'd then have to do a number of prototypes attempting to correct the problems that then occur because the bulbs they have are designed to illuminate a different area and will generate unacceptable images. While they're doing this they have production lines effectively idled, reducing the number of 16x9 TV's they're making, in order to create these 4x3's. So not only are they spending time and money to change over to produce them, they're losing money in sales they could've had by producing the 16x9's. So what ends up happening is that these 4x3's will have to be priced to not only include their production costs, they'll also have to have their research costs priced in, and then have the costs of the lost sales of 16x9's priced in. So in short, these things would end up exorborantly expensive, many times the price of a 16x9.
Unfortunately, there really is no upside at all for them.
Blanka:
Guess it's going to skip the LCD era. But when OLED matures, 4:3 will be readily and cheeply available, since they just can cut the sheets or tile bigger ones from smaller ones. Just wait....
Weird thing is beamerland. While every one moves to 16:9, beamerland is still 4:3 for 99%. 800x600 is still the major resolution for beamers.
FrizzleFried:
The reality of the situation is that even if you had 10,000 units PRE SOLD... the cost to re-tool their manufacturing line would certainly exceed any profit margin they may see. 4:3 is dead. In the land of TV... it's the Edsel...
PS: This is an arcade enthusiast website and you've managed to convince a total of ONE person (Blanka)... you have a long road ahead.
PPS: LCD sucks... if you really want to do something for this hobby, get Wells Gardner to start producing 19" CRTs again.
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