[tokai]

Televisions literally feel in price every year for 40 years.

[philistine]

That's like the one outlier in a sea of slow price increases over time.

[jakeydus]

It's also because television producers found alternative revenue streams that allow them to sell the TVs for less while still making more. If you look for a TV without all of the adware/bloatware/spyware you can see the true cost of a TV in 2026.

[anthonyrstevens]

This was a thing before those axes you're grinding even existed.

[girvo]

They are one of the few tech segments that is still doing so, and that’s mainly down to “smart” TVs being able to get revenue in other ways.