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Originally Posted by AdultPornMasta
A few inventions which were at the time of introduction said by many to be of no value to the public at large:
The telephone.
The automobile.
The steamship.
The steam train.
The airplane.
Radio.
Electricity.
The light bulb.
The phonograph.
The telegraph.
The talking movie.
The microwave oven.
And last but far from the least, the home computer.
The list could go on and on.
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Nothing on that list was invented to resell owners of existing tech a pointless upgrade though.
That's the thing you're missing.
Everyone had CRT TVs. They'd buy a new one once every ten years. If it wasn't broken, even longer.
So sales were flat.
Then flat screens came out and the market responded well and began replacing their CRTs. Then the market had finished replacing their CRTs, so the sales fell dramatically.
So, in order to sell more TVs to people that already had perfectly fine TVs, they "invented" putting 60 year old tech into TVs. Idiots bought them, thinking it was good. It wasn't good. It was a gimmick. Hardly any content, stupid glasses, etc etc.
HTH explain it to you.