So, today I was at the local recycling depot to drop off some cans and bottles and mixed recyclables and witnessed the following while i sorted things. A guy pulls up in a big pickup truck that had a very large (60" or so) old-school CRT tv in it and couple guys that worked there helped him unload it and put it in the household electronics scrap pile. While they were doing this i overheard one of the guys that was helping ask "does this still work?", owner says "yeah, just isn't worth anything anymore", helper says "yeah, looks just like my old TV, I paid $3500 for it back in the day, haha".
And this would be why i don't buy the latest and greatest stuff, especially when its purely for entertainment purposes