So basically you're probably going to be waiting about 7-10 years before you get one? Maybe a couple of years earlier as you may end up with an LCD one rather than OLED.
The reason I suggested £3k was because that's a far more realistic price they will reduce down to in the next few years without waiting for another year for them to get rid of old stock. Our 3K plasma was bought about 7-10 years ago just as HDTV's were being released and plasma prices were becoming consumer level. I think that'll be about 2-3 years for a 4k OLED screen. With the timescale of older TV technology I think high end 4k panels becoming around £1k will be some time around 2020. Depends if you want to wait that long of course!
well the D8000 in the living room was only bought a year ago, it will be replaced most likely when it dies in 10-20 years time, that's how we normally upgrade the living room tv, when the old one dies.
the GT50 was only bought a few month's ago for the bedroom, it will be replaced in 5-10 year's time;
when i can get a 60" or bigger top end 4K panel for less than £1K.
the bedroom tv is usually replaced every 5-10 years as that is where i do 90% of my viewing.
also buying EOL models is the smartest way to do things, it's why I got both my tv's so cheap.
put it this way, when I got the D8000 the budget was £1200, but rather than up the budget to £1400 and get a GT50, we got the D8000 for £769, sure the GT50 is a better tv but no way is it £630 better (nearly double the price). So i underspent by over £400 of the original budget (huge savings, yet still got a top end tv).
So then I waited until this year and got the GT50 for the bedroom for £799, basically I ended up with a D8000 and a GT50 for roughly the same price the GT50 would have cost on it's own a year earlier.
imo you are an idiot not to consider EOL models, especially since new models are released every year, therefore brand new tv's depreciate 50% on average within 1 year on their brand new costs, second hand would be even more, probably like 60-70% depreciation within a year.
im talking top end models here not the lower end stuff.
basically the mass produced top end models you can buy today will be available in 8 months time for nearly half the price brand new.
if you were spending £40,000 to buy a brand new decent 3 series, yet someone told you if you waited 8 months, you could get the exact same car, brand new for £20,000 what would you do?
spend £40,000 now or buy the EXACT same thing 8 month's later for £20,000?
