This post might be one of the most intelligent things (dumbed down) that I've read here. It can/should be taken one step further. If you're a middle aged baw who established himself as a money producer you have been able to see and feel the economics of TV technology. Members of GenX have seen the big TV/projector craze of the 80s and then the ground shaking move to digital. SD big screens bottomed out in the late 90s and I know a lot of people who rushed out on Black Fridays to buy such "great deals". As HDTVs became the norm we saw the Avatar effect that pushed 3D TVs for 5 years until TV content producers stopped creating content. Then we have had 4K which had a very quick early adoption to being the standard for quality/reliable name brand. Now the big thing coming is 8K which is one of the cornerstones of the next gaming system generation. Meanwhile in a month you don't have to wait in line for days just to get a $400 big screen HDTV. You can get those doorbuster prices somewhere weekly.

I think the best comparison is also something our generation has had a front row seat to watch. The leaded-unloaded-ethanol laced unloaded-e85-hybrid/electric change over the past 35 years. That whole movement has been almost exclusively steered by the EPA/environmentalists, corn industry lobbying, and liberals with their GD Prius boxcars which oftentimes are billboards for the Bernie crowd. I shake my head at non-ethanol gas now being a boutique product. This despite the fact that ethanol isn't exactly the greatest thing for combustion engines. That means on a macro level the environmental savings are minimal. They are eaten up by the need to replace cars earlier. This creates more pollutants in the supply chain from material gathering to transporting new cars to dealers around the world. As with ozone issues, there's always a drawback to what we humans think is best for the planet. (If you want to hear an amusing discussion of this go lookup George Carlin's segment about it.)