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Price Per Square Inch for TVs by size (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is mostly useless, except to justify buying a bigger TV. However, I did learn:

  • For most popular high end models, the 65 inch models are cheapest / sq inch (e.g Sony A95L, Samsung S90D, LG G4). For most others, it's the 75 inch models.
  • TCL S551F 55" scores the lowest ($0.17/sq inch)
  • The lowest scoring OLED is the Samsung S85D ($0.55/sq inch)
  • For 100 inches, Hisense QD7 is the cheapest ($0.37/sq inch). For 85 inches, it's the TCL S551F ($0.22/sq inch)

Graphs by brand

Prices taken from Amazon, rest of the data from https://comparetvprices.com. Models are from 2022-now.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If screens were only about size, I'd be easy.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd be easy

an unexpected correlation

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, I stand by it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Righteous!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you hard?! We're talking about TV sizes, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

... Yeah ofc, right. Right?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless they're priced by if they have built in ads or not, it's useless.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

does anyone use their native smart TV UI anyway?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Outside sarcastic internet forums? Probably, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

LG and Samsung have been caught uploading screenshots of your HDMI inputs too, so it's not like it's any better

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

As long as the TV doesn't have internet access, it can't do much with it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

which you can opt out from and/or just not put your TV on a network.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Most people do.

Mine's just old enough to not have ads but new enough to have apps for plex and other services I use. Next one is going to be disconnected and have some flashable Android box connected to it. Or even just Apple TV as that's still better than most native UIs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I do.

I use the Jellyfin and Netflix apps mostly.

[–] Hawk 1 points 3 months ago

I don't, I'm not sure if I'm in the minority. I just plug in my laptop or cast my phone (jellyfin or any other misc streaming service).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want a 3 axis chart of price, size, and number of ads in the UI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I doubt this will hold up now that they're owned by Walmart, but I've gotten exactly zero ads on Vizio panels since I first bought one in 2017. I have two at the moment and they're both effectively dumb displays with no network access.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Now filter by display technology.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Display technologies are a bit confusing, but this should give you a general idea: https://imgur.com/a/PhTFNZ2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And the type of HDR they support. I got lucky finding a philips a couple years ago that just supports all types so I don't have to worry about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Mine supports none, so I also don't have to worry about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

What about the nits man

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could also move the TV closer to the sofa.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How many square inches does that get me?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You bastard, You made me try calculating it!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There's not much point in optimizing completely for price per inch, but when I bought my TV in 2013 I plotted this, and discovered a pretty sharp hockey stick in the graph at 70" and above. So I got a 65" TV. If my graph had looked pretty straight like yours I'd probably just get the biggest that is practical for the space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

yeah you'd have to get a rear projection DLP to get a bargain at that screen size back then. around 2010 i picked up a 73" DLP for less than a grand at costco, but i used some lucky discounts, or it would've been 1100 or so on sale.

most people don’t like those bulky TVs though, even back then. or even have room for them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My SO wants a bigger screen, and I was thinking of a 65", but maybe I'll consider a 75" instead since it seems like a sweet spot for value.

I've also debated getting a projector. It's in a basement, so I can get a blackout curtain for daytime use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Same thing for 100 inch models now. Maybe it'll flatten out in a few years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I followed a roughly similar process but the flow was more like, "Here's a 65-inch TV on sale, let's bump up our 48."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

At least in the case of the Hisense TV I got for my grandparents, a "glitch" with accessibility controls (makes directional inputs unresponsive or multi-press at times) just so happens to make remapping the sponsored remote buttons impossible, as well as breaking the most common method of changing the system launcher, so screen size alone isn't everything.

Although Hisense still tries to reinstall sponsored apps after I delete them, using Launcher Manager to set a custom launcher that allows for the hiding of unwanted applications and channels made it much more usable for my grandparents.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to redirect YouTube voice input commands to SmartTube Next, so if I ever replace it, that'll be a factor in my decision too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Here, it's not demand vs. suply. It's demand only, that drives the prices.

Wait, isn't that a sign for collusion?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Nothing to see here, just capitalism working as intended...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Apparently 75" is the sweet spot right now.

[–] Hawk 1 points 3 months ago

Informative post, thanks. I think a boxplot would have worked better here.