There are inflation and cost-of-living squeezes happening all over the place, but one of the (relatively) bright spots for this has been affordable TV prices – due to continuing LCD price drops, the potential for super-cheap TVs towards the end of this year means that people trying to keep their budgets low might still be able to get a great new 4K TV within their price range if they need one.
Except that might turn against one part of the market, apparently. A report at Digitimes says that Chinese LCD panel manufacturers (which are a huge portion of the market, though certainly don't have a monopoly on it) are looking at raising the prices of 32-inch TV panels next year.
In the case of both younger and older people, we're talking about those who are most likely to be on an inflexible income – fixed pensions, or the generally inadequate wages that so many teens and young adults receive these days.
So a potential rise of the price of the small TVs that are most useful to these people would be a blow, right when they'll also be bitten by rising winter energy bills.
