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IPads Soon to Cost More Than Large-Screen TVs: Chart of the Day
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Television prices have fallen so much that a typical set will soon cost less than an Apple Inc. iPad that’s less than a tenth the size.
The CHART OF THE DAY shows average prices of 42-inch liquid-crystal-display TVs in the U.S. will probably fall 10 percent to $599 this quarter from a year earlier, and slip to $578 by the end of the year, according to Santa Clara, California-based research firm DisplaySearch. IPad tablet computers are sold for $499 to $829 in the U.S., with Apple offering the Wi-Fi only, 32-gigabyte version for $599.