Mitsubishi Prices LaserVue at $7K

By Nick Mokey September 9, 2008

Mitsubishi Prices LaserVue at $7K

For those of you who gawked at Mitsubishi’s LaserVue television at this year’s CES in Las Vegas and wondered how much it would cost to get one for the living room, the time has finally come for that moment of reckoning. Brace your wallets, this one’s going to hurt. Mitsubishi’s first 65-inch LaserVue televisions will retail for $6,999.

While that’s quite a ding to the bank account, it’s not entirely out of line with what other manufacturers are charging for LCD and plasma sets in that size range. Although the 10-inch deep laser sets won’t have quite the svelte form factors of their cousins, they do boast superior color reproduction that will allow them to display 200 percent of the color gamut viewable by humans. They’ll also use about a third the electricity that plasmas use, and half of what LCDs use.

Mitsubishi made the announcement on Monday, but kept silent on the price of the 73-inch model that will follow the smaller model. Although previous press releases have cited a fall release date for the first set, Mitsubishi still hasn’t sketched in a more definite release date.

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