Pricing for Sony's 2010 3DTVs revealed at JR.com

We've been eagerly waiting for some US pricing info on Sony's upcoming 3DTVs, and while SonyStyle still shows only a grim "notify me," JR.com is listing pricing information for the LX900, HX900 and HX800 series LCDs. As usual, preorder pricing on sites like this can shift, but at the moment $1,799 nabs a 40-inch LED edge lit XBR-40LX900 with integrated 3D emitter, WiFi and face-tracking, all the way up to the 60-inch version at $3,779. The HX900 (LED backlit) and HX800 (LED edge lit) are both "3D capable," requiring a separate emitter plus the requisite glasses to get down with the extra dimension and falling in somewhere in between in terms of price. The ship date is only mentioned as "coming soon," but at least now you know how many pennies to roll up before heading out to the store some time this summer.


[Thanks, Ali]

[FORDY Posted Apr 3rd 2010 5:58PM]

Sounds reasonable.

[fivehole Posted Apr 3rd 2010 10:15PM]

They could sell them for five hundred dollars and I wouldn't buy it because it's 3D.

[reallynotnick Posted Apr 3rd 2010 10:40PM]

@fivehole
How dumb are you? I'll gladly spend $500 on any of those models and enjoy watching my 2D content on it.

[fivehole Posted Apr 3rd 2010 11:10PM]

@reallynotnick
Simply fact toadstool, I hate 3D and won't give them benefit of a 3D sale. 3D is just a money grabber and will be dead in less than two years.

[glennS Posted Apr 3rd 2010 11:57PM]

3D is a fad. It is a fad that keeps coming back since the 1950s, but it is still a fad. People think it is cool, try it a few times, and then the novelty wares off. This time will no different, except that some people are going to end up stuck with 3D TVs that will get used for 3D programming maybe a couple dozen times at most. Of course, I could be wrong, so I'm going to invest in the companies that make aspirin, 'cause 3D gives a lot of people headaches.

[centauro74 Posted Apr 4th 2010 9:58AM]

The samething a lot people said about bluray, everybody at the beging talk about the DVD looks as good, they said that bluray wasn't gonna
last 2 years, and look where are we now, beacause you don't like it, doesn't mean everybody don't. Just keep it to yourself, Sony is not pushing you to buy it.

[scottietohottie Posted Apr 4th 2010 10:12AM]

3D TV's are the next step. The reason the fad keeps dying is cause people either cannot afford or bear to look stupid. Next lose the monitor have just a base prjector with 360 viewing. Then fully link it with motion control and heay presto ultimate gaming, working (like in iron man, think of that in a structural engineering office) and one hell of a experience watching tv! It's all just around the corner we are watching it unfold.

[engeek Posted Apr 4th 2010 10:45PM]

@scottietohottie Perhaps a few more years but right now the "next big thing" is just an expansion of an existing technology: HDTV. Look up UHDTV or Ultra-Hi Vision. 22.2 channels o audio and 2 32-(or something ridiculous like that)speaker arrays flanking the screen. 32-MP res. (as compared to "Full-1080",s 2MP res.) and they've already archived a handful of movies at this res. such as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind."

[maythetechbewithyou Posted Apr 4th 2010 8:31PM]

Until the Veritcal Interlaced without Glasses Tech comes out (like the Nintendo 3DS will have) I am not interested in upgrading and shelling out $150 for each pair of glasses.

[Scarabaeus Posted Apr 5th 2010 6:15PM]

Wait, they are still allowed to advertise them as "LED HDTV"??? I thought they had to use "LED-Backlit LCD HDTV".