I can't imagine what that's referring to (the $2,000) Probably the 40" 400 lb. monster Sony display referenced in the article. If I had the space and the cash I'd love that thing.
Sony PVM monitors (pro video monitors) and BVM series (Broadcast video monitors) are *HOT* with the retro gaming community. They oogle over the RGB inputs, and higher attention to quality on the sets over the consumer models. Part of it is probably the hunt, that I'm sure many of the classic computer collector folks can relate to. That picture of the guy in the shop with the cube TV. That Cube TV makes me drool! It's a PVM-2530 or something. It's just so cool looking with the frame around the back of the TV making it perfectly square. I will be getting a 20" version of it that does not work in a few weeks to repair. I used to own the 25" version but sold it, it had arcing flyback or some other issue that I didn't understand at the time. Over in arcade land, it's actually not that hard to find people that are repairing the 19" - 25" 15khz arcade monitors. China reproduces flybacks for the popular sets like the Sanyo 20EZ, Wells Gardner K7000 series and Electrohome G07s. People swap picture tubes with curb find TVs when the tubes are bad or have massive burn in. The BIG arcade issue is the later arcades that used medium res (25khz) and VGA (31khz) monitors that were of poor quality. There aren't the replacement parts, the control systems were custom ICs and often time readable schematics aren't available. Those are failing left and right. China doesn't make 4:3 ratio LCDs and the services that cut LCD panels down are expensive and the drive electronics from 16:9 sets where the panel is physically cut are unlikely to be able to place the image properly on the cut screen. These are the machines that will suffer the most I think. I think my friend who comes with me to VCF has one of these. Holy crap, that's like half a bitcoin... here are your high dollar Sony TVs (these are Sold listings... ) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-BVM-D24E1WU-Trinitron-Color-Video-Monitor/1731... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-BVM-A20F1U-Trinitron-Color-Video-Monitor-w-BKM... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-24-BVM-D24E1WU-Low-Hours-Retro-Gaming-Broadcas...