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They will, ultimately, be significantly cheaper, for one reason - freight. TVs ship in big boxes, full of styrofoam - you’re limited on how many you can fit in
by madaxe_again 4y ago
They will, ultimately, be significantly cheaper, for one reason - freight. TVs ship in big boxes, full of styrofoam - you’re limited on how many you can fit in a standard container, and they’re expensive and fragile to ship the last leg to the consumer. They take up warehouse space, and are often a two-man lift for larger models.
Being able to ship a TV rolled up in a tube will be revolutionary.
See also: mattresses.
- maxander 4y agoIs this true? Flat rectangles pack more efficiently than tubes. With mattresses, afaik, the big difference was vacuum-packing reducing overall volume, not shape.
- algorias 4y agoSeems true, because about 80% of the volume of a tv or monitor box is padding. Padding scales with surface area, not volume, so it could be reduced by a ton.
- brianwawok 4y agoThe total cost to ship a TV is like $20. Cost to add curves is like $500. Not even close to mattering.
- madaxe_again 4y agoThe total cost to ship it where? From Korea to the end user in the US? Or from New Jersey to New York? Much more of the cost of goods is transport than you might realise, and you pay per TEU, not per kg - so a container mostly filled with air is an expensive proposition. You also assume that the technical cost will be constant - it rarely is, and I see these products as a tooling step towards making thin film displays that can be packed with vastly improved density.
- tyrfing 4y agoThat's about right for a 40" TV for domestic ground shipping, maybe a bit low. It's more than that to ship it from China to California, and larger sizes will hit breakpoints that significantly increase shipping cost.
- brianwawok 4y agoShipping from China can be cheaper than shipping from California to NY.