From Gizmodo.com:


http://gizmodo.com/5025045/wait-to-buy-hdt...et-even-cheaper

Another good time will be towards the end of the year when folks finally start to pick up on the broadcast flag for analog TV ending.

If you have a large living room, you may also want to keep your eyes open for 60 and 62 inch TV's. Manufacturers are finding that many consumers wont buy them due to the size, opting for a 52 inch instead. Checking the catalogs you will see a notable lack of 60 inch TV's. As these get older the makers will want to get rid of them. I suspect football season will see some drops in price as well.

SJ

Meh. Like all sonsumer electronics, as volume economics takes over, the prices will generally tend to drop.

My last TV set cost me $400 in 1992, and I thought that was a great deal for a quality 20" set. (It was, too. It's still working great, and most similar sets were selling for $525 or so.) Now it's easy to find something similar for $120. Taking onto account the 16 years of inflation, the difference is staggering. In terms of pay, I paid a half month's take-home pay from my summer job for that TV. It's now something that a McDonald's burger-flipper can earn in 3 days.

Of course, not even a McDonalds burger flipper is going to 'settle' for a 20" CRT standard-def TV, now, right? Those are the small TVs that are being stuffed into rec rooms and kids' bedrooms now.

LCD prices in general are dropping quickly. At this point, I think that the price on big screen TVs is overinflated, and it won't be long before someone starts bringing a lower markup product to market, which will make high def TV sales a volume market.

I suspect that you'll always be able to wait 'another month' for the prices to come down. I treat it the same way that I treat computer equipment. Buy what you want when you can afford it, and don't look back. The next week you could get something bigger and faster for cheaper.

They still cost more than my last car.
Which I bought last week.
Maybe i'm just cheap?

That's pretty much what I say about buying technology too. When I first set eyes on the Pioneer Elite PRO-FHD1, like no TV I had ever seen, it carried a price tag worthy of its level of performance; $8,000. That was September of 2006. Now (less than 2 years later) you can find that baby for under $5k, still a lot of money, but that is one unbelievably sweet panel. It has such a great black level that you really can't tell if it is turned on or not; it's that good.