CES 2008: The 37" 1080p LCD Demise

As follow-up to a recent post, I stopped by Westinghouse’s CES booth earlier today and spoke with the company’s PR representative. He confirmed what I’d earlier suspected; the company was EOL’ing its 37" 1080p LCD TV and focusing its 2008 1080p attentions on 42" and larger displays. Granted, to some this degree this decision was probably driven by Darwinist factors, i.e. the inevitable diagonal dimension upward climb over time, prodded by competitive one-upmanship pressures such as Panasonic’s absolutely silly 150" diagonal plasma display.

But Westinghouse’s PR guy also inferred that the company’s 37" 1080p display hadn’t sold too well. Could it be, perhaps, that the LVM-37w3’s higher pixel count (1920×1080 native) wasn’t sufficiently eyeballs-discernable by enough folks at enough average viewing distances to justify its higher price tag versus alternatives (such as my Syntax Olevia 237T) based on the more common 1366×768 pixel 37″ panel? Methinks so.