Hello! 
I'm just curious why this is?
You can buy "digital picture frames" for 10-20 USD at any Wal-Mart or Target. These screens are larger than those found in any head-mounted display - and yet any head-mounted display that uses a reasonable resolution (for movies) will cost at least $800. I'm not even talking stereoscopic here - just a head-mounted 2D display with a resolution of at least 720P.
What makes them so expensive? Surely they don't sell nearly enough to justify the high price point, if it all boils down to "supply and demand"? Were they to price them lower, they could capture the market of people who want a "big screen experience" but haven't the room for a big screen (which is my situation), much in the way that audiophile headphones (between $300 and $1,500) can approach a very good speaker system for those people who cannot install/utilize a speaker system due to their circumstances of living quarters.
I just don't understand how scaled-down LCD screens could result in such high costs, especially considering how many scaled-down LCD screens are in use in various applications these days. I'm curious whether there's some technical issue I'm clueless about.
Or maybe I'm wrong and there are some low-cost options of which I'm simply not aware?
Anyway, thanks for reading.
I'm just curious why this is?
You can buy "digital picture frames" for 10-20 USD at any Wal-Mart or Target. These screens are larger than those found in any head-mounted display - and yet any head-mounted display that uses a reasonable resolution (for movies) will cost at least $800. I'm not even talking stereoscopic here - just a head-mounted 2D display with a resolution of at least 720P.
What makes them so expensive? Surely they don't sell nearly enough to justify the high price point, if it all boils down to "supply and demand"? Were they to price them lower, they could capture the market of people who want a "big screen experience" but haven't the room for a big screen (which is my situation), much in the way that audiophile headphones (between $300 and $1,500) can approach a very good speaker system for those people who cannot install/utilize a speaker system due to their circumstances of living quarters.
I just don't understand how scaled-down LCD screens could result in such high costs, especially considering how many scaled-down LCD screens are in use in various applications these days. I'm curious whether there's some technical issue I'm clueless about.
Or maybe I'm wrong and there are some low-cost options of which I'm simply not aware?
Anyway, thanks for reading.
