I can't help but compare these discussions with the initial reaction to color TV in the 50's. The early sets were bulky, expensive and ran quite warm. There was a lot of reluctance to shift to this new medium especially with the retailers. The engineers had done a splendid job in adding the color TV signal to the B/W signal without increasing the bandwidth. There was also some reluctance to shift from the analog TV signal to digital a few years ago, but we know how that turned out. New technology has a way of winning out eventually no matter how we feel about it.
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