LCD cheapness.

I got an email from a (to remain anonymous) wholesaler today advertising volume (and not-so-volume) pricing of 17″ LCD screens, and was slightly shocked at how cheap they had become. I’ve been watching the prices fall in recent times along with everyone else, of course, but hadn’t bothered to check what the volume pricing was doing, and recently had fallen behind even on off-the-shelf (“retail”) pricing.

Enough ranting about not much: The single-unit price is now $295 ex. GST (Australian dollars, of course), with volume discounts kicking in at 20+ offering savings of $5 per unit. Is this reflecting increased LCD production? I’d imagine so… given that this is very rapidly approaching the price of similarly sized CRT models.

At this stage, I’m predicting the price difference between the two technologies will become negligible sometime mid-2005, production capacity permitting. Exciting stuff!