the screens at home grow and those of the cinemas are turned off

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2023-05-14 01:25:46

14/05/2023

Updated at 03:21h.

We never spent so much on TVs. Children growing up in the 1980s and 1990s had to hear from their parents that money was spent on other things. before televisionn which, moreover, had modest dimensions.

Until 1996, CTR televisions (with tube) and their screens could not be more than 82 centimeters diagonal. And since 2007 the size and number of pixels have not stopped increasing: in 2012 came the ‘Smart tv.’ and now is the time for 4K whose sales, according to the consultancy Gfk, increase by 11% each year. Although it may seem contradictory, it is a fairly economical consumer option.

THE PRICE OF TELEVISIONS, INCREASINGLY AFFORDABLE

«The sale of 4k televisions grows by 11% each year, according to the consultancy Gfk»

As Esteban Agulló, a sociologist specializing in Social Psychology, explains to this newspaper, “the price of large-inch televisions is very affordable, especially since they are quickly displaced by others with better features.” The latter joins the change in the type of family spendingA: Households reproduce the consumption habits of an “increasingly digitized and individualistic” society.

When analyzing the evolution in the number of spectators to movie theaters and the popularization of large screens, a rinversely proportional elation: as the televisions grew, the projectors were turned off.

The great andsports events, such as the World Cups or the Olympicshave been decisive when deciding on a new television model, according to market studies by Samsung, the largest television provider in Spain.



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