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Price Per Square Inch for TVs by size (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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] 50 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd be easy

an unexpected correlation

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, I stand by it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Righteous!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

... Yeah ofc, right. Right?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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

does anyone use their native smart TV UI anyway?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

Outside sarcastic internet forums? Probably, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days 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 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days 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 4 days ago

I do.

I use the Jellyfin and Netflix apps mostly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days 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] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days 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] 7 points 4 days 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 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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] 1 points 4 days 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] 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Now filter by display technology.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

What about the nits man

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You could also move the TV closer to the sofa.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How many square inches does that get me?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

You bastard, You made me try calculating it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days 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] 2 points 4 days ago

Apparently 75" is the sweet spot right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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