Mitsubishi's 65-inch Laser TV prototype Revealed! Overpriced? - Page 3

I am disappointed in the lack of details from the CES demo. It appears that they were just showing prototypes, while real products are still a long way off. The dancing girls in the gizmodo photos were tacky and shouldn't have been needed if the product itself was impressive. And if the real products are not priced LOWER than comparably sized flat panels, then I don't think they will sell.

The following article also raises questions about Arasor:
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/TVs_And...9N8B6D6?page=1

I'm hopeful that laser TV can live up to it's promises, but I remain skeptical at this point.

i am excited about the technology , very unhappy with the price. todays times all anyone cares about is the mighty dollar. what a shame.

no dought i want one of these and have been waiting for one , but for me just like lcds if it is too exspensive i wont buy. instead i will give my money to samsung and get one of there led rp tv's. i hope mits doesnt go the sony way and try to rape all the consumers with their overly priced ******** products.

Huge letdown. No model details, uncertain release date and from all accounts the price is going to be a major joke (same price as a similarly sized plasma or LCD? Give me a break). Adding a laser lightsource adds 3000 to the price of a DLP? I was expecting a premium, but nothing like that.

If that is the case why even bother?

Wasn't there talk of laser TV at least 2 CESs ago? I know I have seen articles from last year at a minimum. I have to agree with most of the others here. This was rather disappointing. Sony dropped the 70" RP SXRD, laser TV is going to compete in the flat panel price range and the newer DLP technologies are not going to make it in until 2009. It looks like I need to change my plans.

I was hoping to hear about some RPTV larger than 73" this CES. It doesn't look like that is going to happen either. My room won't allow for a front projector, maybe a short throw projector? I may just have to settle for watching a 65" TV from 15' away.

Other than pricing and thickness, it sounds like they have a winner on their hands. Of course either of those could reduce this technology to nothing more than an electronic Edsel.

I think the bigger of the two (and the real killer) is price. If they price this above 65" LCD, I fear it's gonna be dead before it arrives.

It seems 65" LCD lists for $19,999 (NEC LCD6520), $7999 - $9999 (Sharp Aquos LC-65D64U and LC65D93U), $6999 (Olevia 265TFHD) and The current 65" Mitsu DLP (WD-65833) lists for $3999.

As for street prices, LC-65D64 (LCD) is around $5600 -30% discount, and the WD-65833 (DLP) can be had for $2600 a -35% discount. Not sure where this quote puts the price... "and will retail over the price of current LCDs. ". This would seems to indicate it will list for something like $7500-$10500, that would put the street price between $4900 and $6700 if it follows current Mitsu DLP pricing. Not going to shake up the playing field at that price.

Maybe this pricing quote is based on the this from Mitsu's vice president of marketing, Frank DeMartin, "This year, 73 is the new 65". Could they mean the 73" laser DLP will sell for morethan the current 65" LCD? I know... doubtful.

they need to get a 73 inch out at sub $4,000 in price in order to really compete. or keep it at the same price as the 73833. i'll buy it for sure, any higher than that and its too costly. i think its very late in the game to sell such a set at a high price, this isnt the 80's to mid 90s. i mean come on look at the 9mm deep kuro with infinite an contrast ratio thats coming in 09. and the thin flat screens that are coming out this year.

I noticed that Mitsubishi launched a site specifically for their laser tv line. You can register for updates when they become available. So far there's not much content, just alot of "Coming Soon"s here and there..

http://believingisseeing.tv

So far I'm extremely dissapointed in all the latest news. I'm wondering if maybe Mitsubishi's kinda "shot themselves in the foot" with hese new sets. They spent all these years coming up with this new technology, and all this money. Maybe theyre coming to late to the table with it to be able recoup all that time and money spent. So to compensate theyre having to raise the prices of the set's much more than they had maybe planned due to all this, and as a result of this, they loose their appeal that they worked so hard to achieve. I mean come on, people primarily choose RPTV's due to their affordability in the larger sizes. If you sell em at much higher prices than what people are used to paying, you could lose a large share of the consumer market.

But so far there's been no official pricing and release dates, so let's just all hope for the best that all this talk is a bunch of speculation

Maybe they meant current LCD RPTV technology. I don't see how Mitsubishi can brag about it costing less than current DLP to produce and then say it will cost the same as a 65" flat screen LCD (7-10K). The only other explanation and I think is probably the case here is that the Lasers are not ready for mass production and the supply will be extremely low in the beginning. This Laser DLP from Mitsubishi has been delayed quite a few times and it still won't be hitting stores until Fall 2008. There is clearly a production issue and the high price might reflect the small number of sets that will be available.

At least compare apples to apples. The laser tv is 65 inches, not 70. Compare it to a 6-7 thousand dollar tv.

I don't understanf why you are now speaking of a very big price, considering that the news on the first post is : $2,197.00 USD for the 65inch Mitsu.
Several month ago Mitsu spoke of a price of around 2000USD...
and the laser has always been presented as a way to lower the price a the display device.

Regards
Nicolas

^^^^^ I agree. Yeah, I may choose a different type at 2200. But where are you getting these 6k-7k figures from?

OK, so there is 2 différents sources for a estimated price. Around 2000$ from one source and "over the price of current LCDs"...
Perhaps we can wait to sell a real and official annoucment BEFORE speculating more. Some are speaking of 6000$, some of 30000$, why not 1 millions...
...we will see.

regards
Nicolas

Yes I know, there is a lot of new tech, which were supposed to be less pricy than old tech, and which are not. We will see. Personnaly I'm more waiting a DILA/Laser front projector.

You have to admit than the source "over the price of current LCDs" could mean a lot different thing.

Regards
Nicolas

Mitsubishi has always been a preminium brand thats been targeted to the upscale consumer.

Offering a preminium priced, high tech, laser powered, 3D capable, big screen TV...

fits their marketing profile.

Prices should fall, after the first year's production, but expect early units to be expensive. Hhmmm... you might also expect a few gremlins with the early units too.

Personally, I would wait for the 2nd generation... before jumping.

Sound and Vision speculates that the 65" Mits laser set will retail for $5,500.

Article here.

Other details. Laser to last life of set. (20 years mentioned!?) Less than 10" thick. Wall-mountable.

If true, that's a yes please from me.

they had 2 or 3 different 65 inch laser sets

one was the normal one
the 3d on was the diamond (obviously)

any news from ces on the mitz 3d bluray player yet?

That's been Mit's SOP... since they first offered crt/wide screen projectors back in the early 1980's.

Diamond has been their "Preminium Level" offering additional "Bells & Whistles".

Like with entirely new car models... any brand new HDTV technology will have "teething problems"... and Mit's been famous lately... letting their customers do the "Beta Testing".

And that's as good as we've got in this here thread.

most articles said they had one 3d set on display (and usually mits has multiple models of each size) i guess maybe all are 3d, but the diamond will have realD processing and 240hz