"Giant TVs on track to be next big thing" by Anne D’Innocenzio | Associated Press July 02, 2014
NEW YORK — Americans increasingly are replacing their once-enviable 50-inch TVs with even bigger screens. Think 65 inches and up.
People are snagging big screens — pushing sales of them up 50 percent in the past year while overall TV sales have faltered. As prices fall, hardcore TV watchers and video gamers are finding affordable sets that a few years ago would have been playthings for wealthier people.
See? The luxuries of life do trickle down.
Jarvis Jackson, for instance, plans to spend up to $1,500 for a 65-inch TV with Internet capability. Jackson, who lives in Birmingham, Ala., said he’ll scale back on dining out and postpone other purchases to make room in his budget.
‘‘You definitely can tell the difference between a 55-inch and a larger-size TV,’’ Jackson said. ‘‘To get the right TV is important, especially when football season is coming up.’’
Man has got his priorities in line, yeah!
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The advent of flat screens and high-definition television prompted a rush to upgrade a decade ago, but things like 3-D TVs have failed to entice buyers in recent years.
See: Is Your TV Watching You?
The bigger the screen? Might not be the best buy after all.
But experts say Ultra HD is a simple enough upgrade to gain widespread adoption in the next few years.
Honestly, I'm sick of the new$paper acting as a pimp for bu$ine$$ interests with their constant promotions.
While overall TV sales have dropped as much as 10 percent annually since 2010, big-screen TVs have become the fastest-growing category....
TV sales are dropping because Americans have no more money. It's all being vacuumed up to the top 1%, and that's where it has all gone. $orry.
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They want you to go to Target to get one?
Odd how the NSA spying seemed to go nowhere in solving a case that has dropped from the radar, huh?
UPDATE: Millions of Americans installing 'perfect spying device' in their own living rooms: Amazon Fire TV monitors and records your conversations
(NaturalNews) Amazon.com is building the CIA's new $600 million data center, reports the Financial Times. (1) At the same time Amazon.com is building this massive cloud computing infrastructure for the CIA, the company is also shipping millions of Fire TV set-top devices to customers who are placing them in their private homes. I have one myself, and it's a terrific piece of hardware for delivering Prime video content. In fact, in terms of its usability and specs, it's far superior to Roku or Netflix-capable devices. Fire TV is, hands down, the best set-top video delivery device on the market today.
But the Fire TV device was engineered from the start to record your voice, upload it to Amazon's servers -- now being expanded to the CIA -- and link those voice recordings to your identity.
There's even more to this story....
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