Over at the NY Times thay are awash with figures showing how we consumers are balking at the big screens and instead, are buying the hi-def TV’s at 32″ or smaller. The figures all show that some manufactures are having are time time selling the 50″ of larger, though this could change as we approach the holidays. But is it so hard to believe that consumers are going for the smaller screens? The article also states:

With the switch to digital broadcasting next year, consumers have upgraded aging TVs, but have done so by buying smaller, more affordable models.

“We had expected a shift to moderate screen sizes, but we did not expect overall volumes to increase that much,” said Paul Gagnon, an analyst at DisplaySearch.

Samsung remained the leading TV manufacturer. Its share of the flat-panel TV market rose to 18.9 percent, from 14 percent in the first quarter.

There are a bunch of figures showing ups and downs for most manufactures, who’s in first, who sells the most LCD’s and who sells the most Plasma televisions. But there is one thing that is missing from the figures.  The reason why people are buying smaller TV’s is that the stimulus checks we got were way to small. How were consumers supposed to buy a 50″ or larger TV with a lousy $1200?

So my recommendation to McCain and Obamba is to have the next stimulus checks be in the $2400 range. This would ensure that we consumers get to buy a BIG TV from a well known company.

What do you think? Should our next stimulus checks be bigger? I bet I already know the answer to my own question.

Comments welcome.

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