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YOUR MOTHER (or wife) IS RIGHT Exactly my point Kevin: prices should have migrated down much more quickly, just as they now have with TV, computers and other facets of the technology. For example, I'm seeing great deals on very large screen HD TVs right now, similarly with computers of all types. Frankly, I just can't see where the great expense lies building these beamers, particularly since the common industry sources (in China) for much of the technology seem pretty darned cheap! In such a mature environment (for the technology), it is odd, even suspicious--do we have some moles here?-- to see the occasional respondent defending hi prices; what sane consumer ever acted this way?! Presently we are perceiving an artificially created price point and so Iacknowledge an opportunity for extravagance rather than value.

Disclosure: at the time the above remarks were posted the author had an interest in lower prices.