The price ratio between comparable LED and incandescent holiday light strings is now between 2 and 2.5 to 1. Incandescent holiday lights probably have about two to three years of life left as a product.
The white LED strings look very nice and I definitely agree that white incandescent strings have a very short market life left. But the colored LED strings which are sold at Home Depot and similar merchants in the USA have very different colors than the incandescent strings.
I personally find the colored LED strings to have very unpleasing colors compared to incandescents. I've tried a few different "brands" (in quotes as the brand is mostly meaningless afaict) of LED strings and all were not to my liking.
