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In the US, this Trinitron was priced at $40,000 in 1989 (or about $100K today, adjusted for inflation)

Technology has come a long way and certainly some electronics have dropped in price heavily despite the fact that some tend to constantly complain about today’s prices. Now you can buy a Sony film production grade reference monitor for $34K. The BVM-HX3110 in case anyone is curious.

 

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Technology has come a long way and certainly some electronics have dropped in price heavily despite the fact that some tend to constantly complain about today’s prices. Now you can buy a Sony film production grade reference monitor for $34K. The BVM-HX3110 in case anyone is curious.

I think there's a price bracket that Sony was targeting then, which never really went away. In the meantime, there've been super large plasmsa and now OLED displays in roughly that price range.